Dec 20

Can we please find and kill whoever is sick enough to do this?


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December 18th probably started off well for Annie, a Golden Retriever (maybe not her real name) in Western Minnesota.  It’s hard to know exactly, but I’d like to hope that she woke up that morning, she got herself something to eat, maybe did her business, got a nap in, and do whatever else it is that dogs do on a daily basis.

Her day didn’t end so well though.  Seems that some jackass decided that it would be fun to shoot her and leave her for dead in a snowbank.  She lay there clinging to life after being shot twice in the neck and stomach.  Luckily, some good samaritan came along, lifted her out of the snowbank and got her to a hospital.  After stabilizing her as best they could, she was transported to the University of Minnesota, where she underwent several surguries to fix her abdomen, esophagus, diaphragm, and ribs.  She’s been given a 60 to 70 percent chance to live, and if she does pull through, will have many special needs for the rest of her life.

I am truly outraged at us as humans when I hear about things like this happening.  And I don’t know why every time I hear about stuff like this, I still get stunned. The total apathy some people have for the life of animals so close to us as humans, namely cats and dogs, our pets, is appalling.  I get that not everyone understands the human/pet bond, but even the biggest dog-hating people I know wouldn’t stoop to levels such as this.  I really hope they catch the sick sonofabitch that did this and shoot him or her and leave them for dead in a snowbank somewhere.  And I hope no good samaritan stops by to help.

This whole scenario, of course, assumes that the shooter was a random person who saw a dog and thought it would be fun to shoot it.  If this were the act of Annie’s owner, then I would just be completely speechless.  That reaches a level of cold-heartedness that isn’t even on my radar.

Read the complete story at the Minneapolis Star Tribune

Annie after surgery

Annie after surgery

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Nov 28

Another one for the “WTF is wrong with people?” category…


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Gotta love Black Friday.  People getting up at insane hours on their days off to go be a good Capitalist and purchase vast quantities of things that they probably don’t need, all while jockeying for that last parking spot and fighting the crowds of other shoppers doing that same thing.

Apparently, in Long Island, Wal-Mart shoppers do more than just fight with each other – they prefer to try and kill the clerks as well.  Once in a while, they are successful, like at today’s 5AM opening of the Valley Stream Wal-Mart.  Incredibly, only one person was killed when the frothing-at-the-mouth group of shoppers blew the front door off its hinges and trampled workers inside.  One 34 year old clerk lost his life, one was injured, and a pregnant mom-to-be was also hurt in the melee.

Guess they just had to be the first ones to get their hands on the newest piece of crap that Wal-Mart was hawking.  Wonder if they will still think it was worth the stampede when they find out that the shoddily-made toy/gadget that they just had to have falls apart in 3 weeks.

I just have to ask again and again, every day when I read the news, “What the eff is wrong with people?”.

And another take from my buddy Alan, who shares the same sentiment.

Sad update: The pregnant woman lost her baby.  The story just gets better.

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