From: sgr@ae-sun05 (Stan Ryckman)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.dogs
Subject: Dog murdered using train (longish) (disgusting)
Date: 9 Apr 92 19:42:29 GMT
Reply-To: sgr@alden.UUCP
Organization: Alden Electronics, Westboro, MA

The following probably requires little or no comment....

From the Boston Globe, Thursday 09 April 1992, page 1
(quoted without permission)

<                     Dog's Killing Stirs Outrage
<         Neighbors find men who allegedly coaxed pet onto tracks
<
<It was ironic that Brian Kearney -- a dog lover and an MBTA police K-9
<officer--and his German shepherd, Schultz, arrived first at the narrow stretch
<of Red Line train tracks in the Port Norfolk section of Dorchester early
<Tuesday evening.
<
<There, Kearney found a pair of little girls crying hysterically, near the
<body of a mutilated dog by the side of the tracks.
<
<Initially thinking he had come upon an accident, what Kearney leaned from the
<girls and other residents caused him to reel, first in revulsion, then
<in anger.
<
<"Three guys had gone out, got some beer, then deliberately put this dog
<on the tracks so it would be hit by a train," Kearney said.  "They did this
<right in front of the little girls.  These guys thought this was
<entertainment.  They thought it was funny.  In fact, when we arrested them,
<they were still laughing."
<
<Area residents, however, were outraged by the cruelty, and by the time Kearney
<and several other MBTA police officers arrived, a local posse had already
<begun tracking the suspects.
<
<"They were following them, pointing them out," said Kearney.  "Little kids,
<teen-agers, older people.  The community really really came out on this one.
<It's like when someone hurts a child.  When you hurt something that's
<defenseless, I think that gets to everybody.  People react instinctively."

[...names and arrest details of 3 suspects, ages 18, 18, and 21 omitted.
They were charged with cruelty to animals; two also with being minors
transporting alcohol; pleaded not guilty and were released to await
trial...]

<Jill McIntyre, 10, and her friend Rosaline Turay, 9, were playing in
<Rosaline's backyard, which is separated from the tracks by a fence,
<when they saw three young men throw the dog over the fence.  The tracks are
<hemmed in by fencing on both sides, so the dog was trapped.
<
<Jill and Rosaline said the young men used hand signals and called the dog so
<that it crossed back and forth between the two tracks.
<
<"It's so narrow up there that once they put the dog over the fence it was
<bound to be hit," said Joan McIntyre, Jill's mother.  "But these guys were
<deliberately talking to the dog, so that it would be in the middle of
<the tracks when the train came."
<
<The little girls were especially upset because the dog's owner, Terry Black,
<lives next door to the McIntyres and often let the girls play with the
<pet, a 9-month old Labrador retriever named Kelly.
<
<Kearney said one of the dog's legs was severed and much of its skin was
<ripped from its body by the impact.
<
<"The poor thing was really suffering," Kearney said.  "And these guys walked
<away, drinking beer and laughing."
<
<The Animal Rescue League of Boston responded, but the dog died en route
<to Brookline Animal Hospital.
<
<MBTA Police Chief John O'Donovan heard the situation develop over his
<police scanner and, sensing the trauma [sic] there, dispatched extra
<officers to the scene.
<
<"A lot of our officers were really upset by this," said O'Donovan.  One
<off-duty officer, William Fleming, heard the call over the scanner at his
<Lower Mills home and raced to the scene.
<
<Joan McIntyre said the girls were "absolutely hysterical.  Jill came running
<in here and she couldn't breathe."


The news on television last night also covered the story, and pointed out that:
        The dog had apparently been taken by breaking into a fenced-in yard.
        The owner had originally obtained the dog from a shelter.
        The owner was so upset that he would not be getting another
              pet for quite a while.
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ah, Ah, AH--CHOO!  Excuse, please.  My .sig has a .virus today.

    Stan Ryckman   sgr@alden.UUCP
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