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New scum of the week: Man burns police horse with cigarette

samzheresamzhere Posts: 10,923 Senior Member
In Austin, mounted patrols were helping quell a disturbance when a man in the crowd burned a police horse on the neck with a lit cigarette. Here's the link to the story:

http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news/216522671.html

I'll bet that he'll have plenty of fun in jail, huh?

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  • Big ChiefBig Chief Posts: 32,995 Senior Member
    Well, Horse Apples fer him.
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  • breamfisherbreamfisher Posts: 14,103 Senior Member
    That guy may be scum. This one takes it to a whole other level.

    Man sits on 10-month old son's head to make it go to sleep.

    http://www.news-journalonline.com/article/20130722/NEWS/130729937
    Meh.
  • orchidmanorchidman Posts: 8,435 Senior Member
    Pity the horse wasn't fully trained in self defense techniques...............

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  • samzheresamzhere Posts: 10,923 Senior Member
    Y'know, bream, seeing the pic of the guy, you gotta wonder why he's not been hired by some big company in the area for, oh, sales manager or something...
  • ilove22silove22s Posts: 1,539 Senior Member
    too bad the horse didnt bite or step on his foot.
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  • MississippiBoyMississippiBoy Posts: 819 Senior Member
    I agree. This would've been a satisfying end to that guy's night:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpLM393Uj0o
  • timctimc Posts: 6,684 Senior Member
    Need to get the horse, one of his buddies, tie the guy in between and the horses go their separate ways!
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  • horselipshorselips Posts: 3,628 Senior Member
    cpj wrote: »
    I can't wait to see the media uproar over this. It's just a cigarette burn on a freaking horse.

    I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and take that as sarcasm. Besides, I love the word "freaking." Watch me use it in a sentence!

    "I don't own a horse, but I do have a freaking dog."
  • timctimc Posts: 6,684 Senior Member
    cpj wrote: »
    No sarcasm at all. I figure the media and animal rights freaks will label this second only to the holocaust.

    All depends on what color the horse was!

    I can't believe I said that.
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  • breamfisherbreamfisher Posts: 14,103 Senior Member
    cpj wrote: »
    I can't wait to see the media uproar over this. It's just a cigarette burn on a freaking horse.
    Well, I see more uproar here over the horse than over some jackwagon sitting on his 10 month old son's head to quiet it down. You'd think the forum was populated by PETA members now...
    Meh.
  • SlanteyedshootistSlanteyedshootist Posts: 3,947 Senior Member
    The horse was a racist and staring at him malevolently.
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  • DoctorWhoDoctorWho Posts: 9,496 Senior Member
    I remember an actual case where a Police horse severely injured a woman biting here in the upper quadrant of her torso, I had interviewed the victim, the settlement was in the million dollar range, she had really great surgeons and lawyers.
    "There is some evil in all of us, Doctor, even you, the Valeyard is an amalgamation of the darker sides of your nature, somewhere between your twelfth and final incarnation, and I may say, you do not improve with age. Founding member of the G&A forum since 1996
  • samzheresamzhere Posts: 10,923 Senior Member
    cpj wrote: »
    I can't wait to see the media uproar over this. It's just a cigarette burn on a freaking horse.

    Media notwithstanding, most people are greatly offended by cruelty to animals. I know I am. Scum who deliberately harm animals are candidates for serious psychotic behavior later. These scum pick on animals who can't fight back nor complain to the cops. Besides, they're scum.
  • samzheresamzhere Posts: 10,923 Senior Member
    cp, just because some forms of animal abuse are embedded in culture doesn't make them right. Many horse owners geld their stallions humanely these days, and if they don't, they should consider how it feels.

    When I've taken my dogs or cats to the vet for treatment, they are always properly given pain suppressants, just like humans should be. Horses should be the same. Otherwise it's thuggish. We used to brand criminals, cut off their hands, etc. People eventually got smarter. Same for our animals.

    Even hunters or butchers despatch their animals as humanely as possible, hunters tracking a wounded deer to put it away, etc.

    Why does this seem so difficult to grasp?
  • agewonagewon Posts: 655 Senior Member
    samzhere wrote: »
    Media notwithstanding, most people are greatly offended by cruelty to animals. I know I am. Scum who deliberately harm animals are candidates for serious psychotic behavior

    Not far from me, a man walked into a crowded bed bath and beyond store, walked up to a woman and her 9month old baby, and stabbed her in the back 12 times.
    Two months prior, he was jailed overnight for adopting two cats and setting them on fire in their crates.
    My sister is a social worker, and when I asked her why this guy wasn't psychologically examined after that incident, she said that in the eyes of the state, if he is of no danger to himself or others, he has rights and cannot be detained. how's that for a broken system?
  • BuffcoBuffco Posts: 6,244 Senior Member
    Glad to know I'm not the only one that's a bit unmoved about this horse. Sure, the guy is a jerk, but it's just a horse.

    A cig burn on an infant would be a million times worse.
  • ghostsniper1ghostsniper1 Posts: 2,645 Senior Member
    cpj wrote: »
    Quick question, would you personally rather be burned by a cigarette, or have a rubber band placed around your balls and left there till your sack fell off? Or just have you sack slit open, and your nuts removed, sans any numbing medicine?
    How about being burned by a cigarette, or having a red hot piece of metal stuck against your butt and some symbol burned into your backside?
    Not true. I used to help my buddy on his dads farm and we would castrate the bulls to fatten em up prior to going to the slaughter house. We would lead them into the headshoot, hold their tail to their back (I'm told this numbs their rear) and friends dad would seperate the fellas, remove the innards, spray with an antiseptic/numbing spray and remove the excess. All with what seemed to be painless to the bull. We would drop their tail and release them from the headshoot into the barn.
  • BufordBuford Posts: 6,724 Senior Member
    Not true. I used to help my buddy on his dads farm and we would castrate the bulls to fatten em up prior to going to the slaughter house. We would lead them into the headshoot, hold their tail to their back (I'm told this numbs their rear) and friends dad would seperate the fellas, remove the innards, spray with an antiseptic/numbing spray and remove the excess. All with what seemed to be painless to the bull. We would drop their tail and release them from the headshoot into the barn.

    I'm sure it was a pleasant experience for the bull.
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  • BufordBuford Posts: 6,724 Senior Member
    samzhere wrote: »
    In Austin, mounted patrols were helping quell a disturbance when a man in the crowd burned a police horse on the neck with a lit cigarette.

    I hope the horse survives and has not been too traumatized.
    Just look at the flowers Lizzie, just look at the flowers.
  • samzheresamzhere Posts: 10,923 Senior Member
    cpj wrote: »
    Animal abuse?
    Lmao. Come say that to the farmers around here. But please, dont be eating a steak as you do, wouldn't want you to be seen as hypocritical.

    You're missing the point. I was talking about wanton and willful animal abuse, causing pain to an animal without morals or concern, just for grins, and this jerk did.

    I'm not talking about hunting or butchering or any other sort of animal husbandry that's conducted performed in a humane manner and for a legitimate reason. For example, I'm personally opposed to trophy hunting for just the trophy, like antler rack. In this single point I'm probably opposite the belief of most on this forum. But that's the only objection I have to hunting. Hunting to thin the herd or kill pests (I changed my mind on this about gopher shooting after members here told me of the problem they cause with stock getting their ankles broken), or for game, I'm fine with.

    But I'm NOT talking about animal husbandry, cpj, and I think you know it. A rational hunter doesn't take delight in seeing the deer or turkey or whatever die, per se. They delight in the shot itself.

    My post was about this scum willfully causing harm to an animal. That is a sin against God and against nature. It's a sin against God because we are suzerain for the earth and we are stewards of its bounty, and any assault against this for joy or fun or malicious delight is a sin. And for non-religious, it's a sin against nature, to upset the balance of life and to disrupt the spiritual harmony of life, just for some crude pleasure or spite.
  • BufordBuford Posts: 6,724 Senior Member
    Damn. All this over a horse and a cigarette burn. Folks are more concerned about animal cruelty than they are about child abuse. Says a lot about society.
    Just look at the flowers Lizzie, just look at the flowers.
  • Vic's ViewpointVic's Viewpoint Posts: 1,221 Senior Member
    agewon wrote: »
    Not far from me, a man walked into a crowded bed bath and beyond store, walked up to a woman and her 9month old baby, and stabbed her in the back 12 times.
    Two months prior, he was jailed overnight for adopting two cats and setting them on fire in their crates.
    My sister is a social worker, and when I asked her why this guy wasn't psychologically examined after that incident, she said that in the eyes of the state, if he is of no danger to himself or others, he has rights and cannot be detained. how's that for a broken system?

    So, how come he didn't go to prison (or at least the loony bin) for stabbing the woman? How is it he was walking around free two months later?

    No comprende.
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  • tennmiketennmike Posts: 27,457 Senior Member
    I used one of these on bull calves when they were about a month old.

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  • samzheresamzhere Posts: 10,923 Senior Member
    cpj wrote: »
    You are missing MY point, Sam.

    My point is, folks are riled up over a cigarette burn on a horse, yet pigs and cows have their nuts cut off sans any anesthetic, yet that is somehow OK...because its just part of farm life.

    Well, frankly, the animal castration without any anesthetic is not a very good idea, either. Isn't there some sort of spray that can be used quickly?

    But my point is that even so, this is done for a real reason. The guy burning the horse was just being pond scum, doing it for hatred of the cops, I'm guessing.

    Just because farm animals are put through pain doesn't give people the right to go around hurting them on a whim. That is a sin, I think.

    But I guess that some folks think it's okay, harming animals carte blanche, just because they can.
  • samzheresamzhere Posts: 10,923 Senior Member
    Buford wrote: »
    Damn. All this over a horse and a cigarette burn. Folks are more concerned about animal cruelty than they are about child abuse. Says a lot about society.

    Well, I'm not one of them, buf. I regard child abuse as one of the most evil acts that can be imagined, "Harm one of my little ones and it's better you have a millstone around your neck and be cast into the sea" or something like that.

    It's just that it's very well documented that people who harm animals for spite or pleasure are on track to become child molesters, rapists, murderers, the worst.

    And I still think it's a sin.
  • BuffcoBuffco Posts: 6,244 Senior Member
    Did you see the link breamfisher posted about the man who sat on a 10 month old's head to stop it from crying?

    I would personally burn a horse with an acetylene torch if it would stop that child from being harmed.
  • SirGeorgeKillianSirGeorgeKillian Posts: 5,463 Senior Member
    I'd rather take that torch to the man who was sitting on the child myself...
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  • BufordBuford Posts: 6,724 Senior Member
    I'd rather take that torch to the man who was sitting on the child myself...

    That would be a start.
    Just look at the flowers Lizzie, just look at the flowers.
  • coolgunguycoolgunguy Posts: 6,637 Senior Member
    Buffco wrote: »
    Did you see the link breamfisher posted about the man who sat on a 10 month old's head to stop it from crying?

    I would personally burn a horse with an acetylene torch if it would stop that child from being harmed.


    I agree Bryant, the guy who sat on the child to shush him is a psychopath. The guy who burned the horse is an eh-hole. HUGE difference. A PR24 to the head clears up the horse burning incident. For the psycho, you have to dig a little deeper...like six feet or so.
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