grrr: Likely `Random' Shooting Kills 1 Horse, Injures 2nd

[wakeme2008]

http://www.tampatrib.com/FloridaMetro/MGB96MFKFCE.html

Aug 16, 2005
Likely `Random' Shooting Kills 1 Horse, Injures 2nd
By HOWARD ALTMAN
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RIVERVIEW - Mulata is lying on her right side.

A swarm of flies buzzes around the horse's corpse. Her face is frozen in a grimace. Her legs are stiff with rigor mortis.

..cut..

According to the sheriff's office, a witness said that about 4:20 p.m. Sunday, the car turned off 66th Street, a country lane off Madison Avenue, and drove down a long dirt driveway running next to the fence that keeps the animals from wandering.

Someone inside the car fired five or six shots, one hitting Mulata, one hitting Francisco Danny. The vehicle then sped off.

The witness, who is not being identified, could not say who did the shooting or what kind of weapon was used. One neighbor, Vidal Gonzalez, says he heard a rapid burst of fire.

``I heard a whole bunch of shots like an automatic gun,'' Gonzalez says. ``It could be a rifle or a gun, but there were too many shots at the same time.''

..more at link..

[antigone382]

1. How awful. I don't understand how people can be so cruel.

Several years ago I remember hearing a story in Georgia about a Belgian mare who was hung by someone. She was pregnant, too, and the guy that owned her (seemed like just a sweet old farmer) couldn't think of any enemies he had who would do such a thing. I just don't understand how people can commit such random acts of cruelty towards innocent animals. :cry:

[ET Awful]

2. I certainly hope they catch the bastard.

The poor horses :(

This is just disgusting.

[KarenInMA]

3. That is so horrible!!

poor horse!!

:cry:

[xchrom]

4. oh yeah -- people are superior to animals.

in what universe?