GW just got a call from a co-worker. She was supposed to have another co-worker and his spouse over for dinner. She got a call from them and was told that they had brought their coon dog to a nearby dog park and someone shot the dog and killed him. No idea where the shot came from or who might have done it. Co-worker is distraught and now we are, too.
WTF way of thinking must you have to shoot a dog in a dog park? This is a public area in a relatively upscale town. Was someone shooting out their car window at any animal they passed? Did the dog seem threatening and they pulled out the gun they just happened to be carrying and shot him? Did the dog NOT seem threatening and they just shot him for the heck of it? What if there had been a child in the area? The dog had tags and he was in a dog park, so you had to know the owners were somewhere nearby. This was a friendly pooch and a sweetheart. What the hell is wrong with you that you shoot someone's pet in a place set aside for such pets and then just leave? I can't even imagine the mindset involved.
Animal abuse laws are way too lax. If you can abuse an animal or kill them and think it's okay, as far as I'm concerned you should be put away before you start attacking people, because you've already shown you have no regard for life.
Unfathomable ways of thinking (not intended to be political)
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Unfathomable ways of thinking (not intended to be political)
I just ordered chicken and an egg from Amazon. I'll let you know.
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Re: Unfathomable ways of thinking (not intended to be political)
That is awful.
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Sad pet stories make me crazy.
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Re: Unfathomable ways of thinking (not intended to be political)
It's called a psychopath. Most who kill people start with animals. 
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Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
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Re: Unfathomable ways of thinking (not intended to be political)
That is horrible! I can't imagine what the dog owners are going through. Thankful no one else was hurt. People like that need to be caught and punished!
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Re: Unfathomable ways of thinking (not intended to be political)
Where there any cops around?
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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Re: Unfathomable ways of thinking (not intended to be political)
I can't understand what makes people the way they are to do things like that. I'm really sorry for your friends. If that happened to our Piper, our family would be as devastated.
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Re: Unfathomable ways of thinking (not intended to be political)
Not that it makes it any less tragic (in fact, it might make it even so), but since they reported not knowing where the shot even came from, I wouldn't rule out stray gunfire. Even upscale areas have their fair share of guns and idiots...
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Re: Unfathomable ways of thinking (not intended to be political)
And idiots with guns.littlebeast13 wrote:Even upscale areas have their fair share of guns and idiots...
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War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
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War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
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Re: Unfathomable ways of thinking (not intended to be political)
This is horrible. One of the useful the local news around here does is, on a "slow news day" feature tortured animals & follow up on trying to catch the torturers. Sometimes they find them & they're charged.