Animal cruelty - crush videos - WTF?

[Michelle]

Watching the local news tonight and saw a story on this - they said the couple did this animal cruelty to several animals in order to make Crush videos, which are apparently fetish videos where people get off watching animals being tortured. What the hell is wrong with people?

www.khou.com/news/crime/Houston-pair-charged-with-torturing-puppy-to-death--166584426.html

khou.com
Posted on August 17, 2012 at 4:19 PM

Updated today at 6:51 PM

HOUSTON – A man and woman in Houston have been charged with a horrifying case of animal abuse.

Ashley Nicole Richards, 22, and Brent Wayne Justice used a meat cleaver to slash a puppy’s neck, cut off its tail and slice its leg, according to court records. The pit bull pup died.

Richards and Justice are charged with animal cruelty.

Charges were also filed against Richards this week in a 2010 animal abuse case. She allegedly killed a cat by slitting its throat and stomping its eye with her shoe heel.

The gruesome deaths were reportedly videotaped and posted online. Sources say there were also gruesome videos of other puppies, kittens, mice, rabbits and other animals.

Richards is being held on a bond of $40,000 for the two animal cruelty cases. The bond for Justice was set at $20,000.

Richards was already in trouble for a Fourth of July riot in Waco. After the annual fireworks display in downtown Waco, a crowd of about 400 people refused to leave and became hostile. They threw large fireworks and rocks at officers, according to KWTX in Waco. The melee lasted about 90 minutes before police used an armored vehicle and tear gas to break up the crowd.

Richards was charged with punching a female cop and resisting arrest.

[expatpumpkin]

This post should have come with a warning. I just can't. I sincerely hope these people rot in jail and then burn in hell.

[Michelle]

Aug 17, 2012 22:10:53 GMT -5 expatpumpkin said:

This post should have come with a warning. I just can't. I sincerely hope these people rot in jail and then burn in hell.

I thought the title was warning enough. Suggestions?

[mysterons]

I first learned about these videos when the Supreme Court took up the issue. Animal cruelty as a means to satisfy sexual urges is really high up on the list of fucked up things we've created as a species.

[Michelle]

mysterons - totally agree. I still have a what the F squinched expression on my face.

[EloiseWeenie]

I just don't understand how some people work. I want to vomit and cry reading that.

[expatpumpkin]

Aug 17, 2012 22:18:33 GMT -5 Michelle said:

Aug 17, 2012 22:10:53 GMT -5 expatpumpkin said:

This post should have come with a warning. I just can't. I sincerely hope these people rot in jail and then burn in hell.

I thought the title was warning enough. Suggestions?

In my wildest imagination I couldn't guess how bad the content was

Not your fault, but this type of cruelty just wasn't on my radar before... It's incomprehensible to me how anyone could do that to an animal or what type of person would actually want to watch it.

[marynjoe]

WTF is wrong with some people?

[mimosas]

Aug 17, 2012 22:58:29 GMT -5 expatpumpkin said:

In my wildest imagination I couldn't guess how bad the content was

Not your fault, but this type of cruelty just wasn't on my radar before... It's incomprehensible to me how anyone could do that to an animal or what type of person would actually want to watch it.

Ditto. I actually feel sick to my stomach and wish wish wish I could unread this. :-( :-( :-(

[sydney02]

I remember this from a couple of years ago. There were congressmen who actually voted against banning these videos. I found a link but I can barely think about it let alone read about it.
There are some people out there just too sick for this world. I can't handle shit like this.

blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2010/07/22/paul-broun-tom-graves-oppose-bill-to-ban-crush-videos-of-animals/

[Michelle]

Aug 18, 2012 1:19:57 GMT -5 Stan said:

Aug 17, 2012 23:57:18 GMT -5 sydney02 said:

I remember this from a couple of years ago. There were congressmen who actually voted against banning these videos. I found a link but I can barely think about it let alone read about it.
There are some people out there just too sick for this world. I can't handle shit like this.

blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2010/07/22/paul-broun-tom-graves-oppose-bill-to-ban-crush-videos-of-animals/

Ron Paul too. As a Ron Paul hater, I'd like to point that out, even if he is king of the libertarians, sometimes that means voting against bills that are aimed to stop stuff like this.

A lot of what Ron Paul represents is part of why I can't declare myself a Libertarian. He is still too socially conservative for me.

And yet what the fork - he is opposed to abortions but is ok with allowing videos like this, because THAT is overregulation?

I'm with bunnybean in that I would like to personally hurt these people. The lady was smirking in the freakin' mug shot they showed on the live broadcast of this. She has to be some special kind of sick fock to be the one hurting the animals. And for profit too?

In another post I mentioned that I'm not for the death penalty but I'm also not for prison being easy. This is the exact kind of situation that inspires that feeling.

When I read this I envison a prison system where violent criminals are subjected to the abuse they inflicted on their own victims. You're a rapist, you get raped. You're a pedophile, you get treated like a little child being victimized. You're an animal abuser who tortures poor creatures for fun and sick videotaping, you get the same done to you and then you get to watch the video.

Of course that would mean prison has no rehabilitative merit... but I don't think sick people like this CAN be rehabilitated.

Machiavelli out.