From: scgeoff@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (GEOFF ELLIOTT)
Subject: Re: Dog murdered using train (longish) (disgusting)
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Date: 10 Apr 1992 07:53 EST  

In article <485@alden.UUCP>, sgr@alden.UUCP writes...
>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.
>--
>ah, Ah, AH--CHOO!  Excuse, please.  My .sig has a .virus today.
> 
>    Stan Ryckman   sgr@alden.UUCP
>(Mailing hint: don't use "From:" address above!)


I'm not a religious person by any means, but I sincerely believe that 
whatever force created humans made a serious mistake.

Those jerks ought to be tied to the tracks and have a train doing about
5 miles or so an hour run over them, followed by another one doing about
10 miles an hour.  Then we'll see if they laugh any more or not.

What kind of evil would possess people like that?

It makes me ashamed to be human.




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