Post by Andrea on Aug 24, 2010 18:51:25 GMT -4
British woman throws cat in the trash, caught on video
www.vancouversun.com/news/British+woman+throws+trash+caught+video/3437371/story.html
Seriously?
And it's NOT a crime? i can't agree with that one.
And it's not like she doesn't know it's wrong if she was looking around making sure she wasn't going to get caught!
www.vancouversun.com/news/British+woman+throws+trash+caught+video/3437371/story.html
Pitching a cat into a garbage bin has landed a British woman under police protection, while animal lovers have gone online to skewer her publicly.
The woman was identified by the London Sun as bank worker Mary Bale, 50.
The newspaper's headline on Tuesday screamed "Cruel cat woman named and shamed."
On Saturday, a woman was caught on a closed-circuit television camera caressing the cat's head and looking around as it walked near her on a wall in Coventry.
Moments later, the woman opens the hinged lid of a large green bin, tosses the cat inside, and then walks away.
The cat, a four-year-old pet named Lola and owned by Stephanie Andrews-Mann and her husband Darryl, was discovered by its owners some 15 hours later, covered in its own feces and urine.
The couple started a Facebook page called Help Find The Woman Who Put My Cat In The Bin. As of Tuesday, there were more than 15,000 supporters.
Some of the comments range from anger to extreme hatred, threatening the woman with death and dismemberment.
One reader said he would " . . . brutally murder her and then mail off pieces of her to both catfood companies and her own family."
But John Hennesy's comment was more typical, saying he " . . . would like to put her in a bin for 15 hours and starve her fat ass of food."
Police officers are on duty outside Bale's home. She was questioned by animal protection authorities on Tuesday, but there was no immediate word on what came from that meeting.
Police said they could not charge her because no criminal offence had been committed.
A spokesman for animal rights organization PETA said they process some 300 cases of severe animal cruelty each week.
Martin Mersereau, directs PETA's emergency response division, told Postmedia News from his office in Washington that authorities should "throw the book" at the perpetrator.
"This landed on my desk this morning and we're horrified," he said. "The sadists, bullies and cowards who do this pose a threat to the community," he said, adding those who hurt animals are often cruel to other humans.
On a cautionary note, he said pet owners need to take steps to protect their animals.
"The vast majority of cases we deal with involve animals that were outside and unattended," Mersereau said. "This would have been avoided had she been inside. We wouldn't let our children wander around."
The woman was identified by the London Sun as bank worker Mary Bale, 50.
The newspaper's headline on Tuesday screamed "Cruel cat woman named and shamed."
On Saturday, a woman was caught on a closed-circuit television camera caressing the cat's head and looking around as it walked near her on a wall in Coventry.
Moments later, the woman opens the hinged lid of a large green bin, tosses the cat inside, and then walks away.
The cat, a four-year-old pet named Lola and owned by Stephanie Andrews-Mann and her husband Darryl, was discovered by its owners some 15 hours later, covered in its own feces and urine.
The couple started a Facebook page called Help Find The Woman Who Put My Cat In The Bin. As of Tuesday, there were more than 15,000 supporters.
Some of the comments range from anger to extreme hatred, threatening the woman with death and dismemberment.
One reader said he would " . . . brutally murder her and then mail off pieces of her to both catfood companies and her own family."
But John Hennesy's comment was more typical, saying he " . . . would like to put her in a bin for 15 hours and starve her fat ass of food."
Police officers are on duty outside Bale's home. She was questioned by animal protection authorities on Tuesday, but there was no immediate word on what came from that meeting.
Police said they could not charge her because no criminal offence had been committed.
A spokesman for animal rights organization PETA said they process some 300 cases of severe animal cruelty each week.
Martin Mersereau, directs PETA's emergency response division, told Postmedia News from his office in Washington that authorities should "throw the book" at the perpetrator.
"This landed on my desk this morning and we're horrified," he said. "The sadists, bullies and cowards who do this pose a threat to the community," he said, adding those who hurt animals are often cruel to other humans.
On a cautionary note, he said pet owners need to take steps to protect their animals.
"The vast majority of cases we deal with involve animals that were outside and unattended," Mersereau said. "This would have been avoided had she been inside. We wouldn't let our children wander around."
Seriously?
And it's NOT a crime? i can't agree with that one.
And it's not like she doesn't know it's wrong if she was looking around making sure she wasn't going to get caught!
