There never was proof there weren't any WMDs. They may simply have been too well hidden. Saddam used them in the past on the Kurds, so I think the prudent thing would be ready for him to use them again.
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There never was proof there weren't any WMDs. They may simply have been too well hidden. Saddam used them in the past on the Kurds, so I think the prudent thing would be ready for him to use them again.
Cat tied to dumpster and left to die: B.C. SPCA
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B.C. SPCA says a box that was taped shut with a cat inside tied with zip ties was found in a dumpster in Pouce Coupe, B.C. (BC SPCA)
DAWSON CREEK, B.C. — British Columbia’s SPCA is asking for help in finding the person who tied up a cat and left it to die under a pile of garbage.
The society says a man collecting bottles behind a motel in Pouce Coupe, B.C., on Monday heard a soft mewing coming from a dumpster, then uncovered a box with the cat inside.
It says the box was taped shut and when the man opened it, he found a female muted tortoiseshell with her legs forced behind her neck and restrained with zip ties.
The man brought her into the South Peace SPCA, where staff discovered the cat had a microchip and her owner had already reported that Rosie was missing from Dawson Creek, 10 kilometres west of Pouce Coupe.
The SPCA says the case is a deliberate act of animal cruelty, and the group is looking for any information about why the cat was taken and how she ended up in the dumpster.
The society says Rosie has no lasting injuries or medical concerns.
Cat tied to dumpster and left to die: B.C. SPCA | Toronto Sun
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B.C. SPCA says a box that was taped shut with a cat inside tied with zip ties was found in a dumpster in Pouce Coupe, B.C. (BC SPCA)
DAWSON CREEK, B.C. — British Columbia’s SPCA is asking for help in finding the person who tied up a cat and left it to die under a pile of garbage.
The society says a man collecting bottles behind a motel in Pouce Coupe, B.C., on Monday heard a soft mewing coming from a dumpster, then uncovered a box with the cat inside.
It says the box was taped shut and when the man opened it, he found a female muted tortoiseshell with her legs forced behind her neck and restrained with zip ties.
The man brought her into the South Peace SPCA, where staff discovered the cat had a microchip and her owner had already reported that Rosie was missing from Dawson Creek, 10 kilometres west of Pouce Coupe.
The SPCA says the case is a deliberate act of animal cruelty, and the group is looking for any information about why the cat was taken and how she ended up in the dumpster.
The society says Rosie has no lasting injuries or medical concerns.
Cat tied to dumpster and left to die: B.C. SPCA | Toronto Sun
Man kicked swans in the head at Florida park: Cops
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This April 26, 2018 photo made available by the Orange County Sheriff's Office, Fla., shows Rocco Joseph Mantella under arrest. Police arrested Mantella after people at a park in Orlando, Fla., saw him kicking swans in the head. (Orange County Sheriff's Office via AP)AP
ORLANDO, Fla. — Police say they’ve arrested a 34-year-old Florida man after people at a park saw him kicking swans in the head.
An arrest reports says police were called Thursday morning to Orlando’s Lake Eola Park, which is known for its swans and swan-shaped paddle boats.
Muet swans glide in the glistening waters of Lake Eola Park a popular destination in Orlando, Florida. (JillianCain/Getty Images Plus)
Multiple people told officers they saw Rocco Joseph Mantella kicking swans “as hard as possible” as he appeared to practice karate.
The report says Mantella also kicked a sleeping duck.
The Orlando Sentinel reports one witness told investigators Mantella appeared to laugh when he saw her reaction.
Mantella was arrested on a cruelty to animals charge and remained in the Orange County Jail on Friday. Jail records don’t list a lawyer for him.
Man kicked swans in the head at Florida park: Cops | Toronto Sun
12 dead dogs discovered at South Carolina home; 14 rescued
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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Authorities have recovered a dozen dead dogs from a South Carolina home.
The Island Packet of Hilton Head reports that Beaufort County sheriff’s deputies went to a Hilton Head Island home on Tuesday afternoon after a call about dead animals.
Beaufort County Animal Control also seized 14 live dogs, which were taken to local animal hospitals. No information on their conditions was immediately available.
Authorities say the woman who lives at the home was read her Miranda Rights, but no information about any charges has been released.
The Hilton Head Humane Association says a woman who had stayed with the dogs’ owner called them for help after becoming concerned about her living conditions.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Police say they’ve arrested a 34-year-old Florida man after people at a park saw him kicking swans in the head.
An arrest reports says police were called Thursday morning to Orlando’s Lake Eola Park, which is known for its swans and swan-shaped paddle boats.
Muet swans glide in the glistening waters of Lake Eola Park a popular destination in Orlando, Florida. (JillianCain/Getty Images Plus)
Multiple people told officers they saw Rocco Joseph Mantella kicking swans “as hard as possible” as he appeared to practice karate.
The report says Mantella also kicked a sleeping duck.
The Orlando Sentinel reports one witness told investigators Mantella appeared to laugh when he saw her reaction.
Mantella was arrested on a cruelty to animals charge and remained in the Orange County Jail on Friday. Jail records don’t list a lawyer for him.
Man kicked swans in the head at Florida park: Cops | Toronto Sun
12 dead dogs discovered at South Carolina home; 14 rescued
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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Authorities have recovered a dozen dead dogs from a South Carolina home.
The Island Packet of Hilton Head reports that Beaufort County sheriff’s deputies went to a Hilton Head Island home on Tuesday afternoon after a call about dead animals.
Beaufort County Animal Control also seized 14 live dogs, which were taken to local animal hospitals. No information on their conditions was immediately available.
Authorities say the woman who lives at the home was read her Miranda Rights, but no information about any charges has been released.
The Hilton Head Humane Association says a woman who had stayed with the dogs’ owner called them for help after becoming concerned about her living conditions.
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Man who left 1,500 pigs gets life ban from owning, caring for animals
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April 26, 2018
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Pigs are seen in this file photo from April 2009. (Ryan Remiorz/THE CANADIAN PRESS)
By Michelle Ruby
SIMCOE — A former Norfolk County man who pleaded guilty in an animal abuse case that saw more than 1,500 hogs die last year at his farm near Frogmore was sentenced on Thursday to a lifetime ban on owning or caring for farm animals.
Benjamin Stein, 28, of Tavistock, also was ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution to the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and he was placed on probation for two years. He must also allow the OSPCA to conduct unscheduled visits to wherever he is living for the next 10 years.
Stein’s lifetime ban on owning or caring for animals includes those involved in a farming business.
“There’s nothing the court can do take away what’s happened,” said justice of the peace Barry Quinn in Norfolk County provincial offences court after accepting a joint submission for sentencing from the Crown, represented by Elizabeth Wade, and Stein’s lawyer, Ron Ellis.
“Some of you may have wanted Mr. Stein to be dealt with in a much harsher way,” added Quinn, addressing the body of the Simcoe courtroom, where several animal rights activists were seated. “He understands where he went wrong. He has mental health issues he has to deal with.”
Calling the case “sickening,” Quinn said that, if Stein had a criminal background or a history of previous animal abuse, sentencing “may have been dealt with in a different way.”
Last Jan. 18, Stein pleaded guilty to four counts of animal cruelty under the Ontario SPCA Act. They are: permitting an animal to be in distress; failing to provide adequate and appropriate sanitary conditions; failing to provide adequate and appropriate ventilation and failing to provide adequate and appropriate medical attention.
Members of KW Amimal Save and London Pig Save hold a vigil outside the provincial offences court office in Simcoe on Thursday prior to the sentencing of Benjamin Stein who earlier pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges after 1,500 hogs died at his fam near Forgmore last year. (Michelle Ruby/Postmedia) SunMedia
Representatives from the OSPCA visited Stein’s hog operation at 990 Norfolk Road 28, south of Frogmore, on Feb. 17, 2017, and were confronted with a nightmarish scene when they entered the finishing barn.
A total of 1,265 pigs were found dead, many of them victims of starvation and neglect. In one part of the barn, inspectors were forced to wade waist-deep in water, animal waste and hog carcasses. The smell was so putrid, inspectors were forced to cut vents into the side of the barn to air it out.
Emaciated hogs that were still alive looked sickly. Some survived by eating the carcasses of the dead hogs around them.
Veterinarians euthanized an additional 250 hogs on site.
Some hogs survived and were nursed back to health at facilities elsewhere.
Swaying nervously and choking back tears, Stein stood and apologized to the court.
“I am very sorry this happened,” he said.
Stein said he has been battling depression and anxiety for many years. The condition worsened after his first child was born and his wife was suffering from post-partum depression, he said.
Ellis said Stein’s downward spiral began when a toxic gas incident related to manure storage killed a number of pigs early last year. Ellis said Stein didn’t know how to react to this setback and fell into a depression.
Stein said he was planning suicide.
“That was it,” he said. “I didn’t want to keep going.”
When his brother showed up at the farm and saw the horrific scene, Stein said he grabbed a gun, went to the tractor and pulled the trigger. But the gun was old and rusted and didn’t fire.
Ellis said Stein was under pressure before the incident. An electrical fire in his hog barn in September 2016 didn’t result in any animals harmed but caused Stein “significant financial loss.”
When Stein happened upon the gas buildup situation in early February of last year, Ellis said “things began to unravel.”
“What he should have done is call for help but he had an inability to cope. He stuck his head in the sand.”
Ellis said Stein’s farm is now under power of sale and he and his family are living with his parents. Stein grew up a “farm boy,” whose ancestors have been working in agriculture in Oxford and Norfolk counties since the 1860s. Stein’s father and brother are successful hog farmers.
Ellis said the catastrophic animal abuse case has left Stein broke.
“There will be no assets for him to rebuild his life.”
Kitchener-Waterloo Animal Save and London Pig Save, who had representatives demonstrating outside the courthouse Thursday, collected 11,000 signatures on a petition presented to the Crown attorney’s office in Brantford last week demanding Stein’s sentencing include a lifetime ban on having animals in his care.
Mo Markham, spokesperson for Kitchener-Waterloo Animal Save, said she feels the ban imposed by the court didn’t go far enough.
“I really wish it had been on all animals,” she said.
Markham also questioned a system that allows “so many animals to be in one person’s care.”
She called Stein’s case a heinous crime that hasn’t generated as much attention as it should have because the animals involved were pigs.
“If it had been dogs or cats, there would have been a huge outcry,” she said.
The terms of Stein’s probation include accessing counselling and other services deemed necessary by his probation officer.
Quinn said that Stein needs to use that time to get counselling and consider a career in farming that doesn’t include animals.
– With files from Monte Sonnenberg, Postmedia Network
Man who left 1,500 pigs gets life ban from owning, caring for animals | Toronto Sun
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Pigs are seen in this file photo from April 2009. (Ryan Remiorz/THE CANADIAN PRESS)
By Michelle Ruby
SIMCOE — A former Norfolk County man who pleaded guilty in an animal abuse case that saw more than 1,500 hogs die last year at his farm near Frogmore was sentenced on Thursday to a lifetime ban on owning or caring for farm animals.
Benjamin Stein, 28, of Tavistock, also was ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution to the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and he was placed on probation for two years. He must also allow the OSPCA to conduct unscheduled visits to wherever he is living for the next 10 years.
Stein’s lifetime ban on owning or caring for animals includes those involved in a farming business.
“There’s nothing the court can do take away what’s happened,” said justice of the peace Barry Quinn in Norfolk County provincial offences court after accepting a joint submission for sentencing from the Crown, represented by Elizabeth Wade, and Stein’s lawyer, Ron Ellis.
“Some of you may have wanted Mr. Stein to be dealt with in a much harsher way,” added Quinn, addressing the body of the Simcoe courtroom, where several animal rights activists were seated. “He understands where he went wrong. He has mental health issues he has to deal with.”
Calling the case “sickening,” Quinn said that, if Stein had a criminal background or a history of previous animal abuse, sentencing “may have been dealt with in a different way.”
Last Jan. 18, Stein pleaded guilty to four counts of animal cruelty under the Ontario SPCA Act. They are: permitting an animal to be in distress; failing to provide adequate and appropriate sanitary conditions; failing to provide adequate and appropriate ventilation and failing to provide adequate and appropriate medical attention.
Members of KW Amimal Save and London Pig Save hold a vigil outside the provincial offences court office in Simcoe on Thursday prior to the sentencing of Benjamin Stein who earlier pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges after 1,500 hogs died at his fam near Forgmore last year. (Michelle Ruby/Postmedia) SunMedia
Representatives from the OSPCA visited Stein’s hog operation at 990 Norfolk Road 28, south of Frogmore, on Feb. 17, 2017, and were confronted with a nightmarish scene when they entered the finishing barn.
A total of 1,265 pigs were found dead, many of them victims of starvation and neglect. In one part of the barn, inspectors were forced to wade waist-deep in water, animal waste and hog carcasses. The smell was so putrid, inspectors were forced to cut vents into the side of the barn to air it out.
Emaciated hogs that were still alive looked sickly. Some survived by eating the carcasses of the dead hogs around them.
Veterinarians euthanized an additional 250 hogs on site.
Some hogs survived and were nursed back to health at facilities elsewhere.
Swaying nervously and choking back tears, Stein stood and apologized to the court.
“I am very sorry this happened,” he said.
Stein said he has been battling depression and anxiety for many years. The condition worsened after his first child was born and his wife was suffering from post-partum depression, he said.
Ellis said Stein’s downward spiral began when a toxic gas incident related to manure storage killed a number of pigs early last year. Ellis said Stein didn’t know how to react to this setback and fell into a depression.
Stein said he was planning suicide.
“That was it,” he said. “I didn’t want to keep going.”
When his brother showed up at the farm and saw the horrific scene, Stein said he grabbed a gun, went to the tractor and pulled the trigger. But the gun was old and rusted and didn’t fire.
Ellis said Stein was under pressure before the incident. An electrical fire in his hog barn in September 2016 didn’t result in any animals harmed but caused Stein “significant financial loss.”
When Stein happened upon the gas buildup situation in early February of last year, Ellis said “things began to unravel.”
“What he should have done is call for help but he had an inability to cope. He stuck his head in the sand.”
Ellis said Stein’s farm is now under power of sale and he and his family are living with his parents. Stein grew up a “farm boy,” whose ancestors have been working in agriculture in Oxford and Norfolk counties since the 1860s. Stein’s father and brother are successful hog farmers.
Ellis said the catastrophic animal abuse case has left Stein broke.
“There will be no assets for him to rebuild his life.”
Kitchener-Waterloo Animal Save and London Pig Save, who had representatives demonstrating outside the courthouse Thursday, collected 11,000 signatures on a petition presented to the Crown attorney’s office in Brantford last week demanding Stein’s sentencing include a lifetime ban on having animals in his care.
Mo Markham, spokesperson for Kitchener-Waterloo Animal Save, said she feels the ban imposed by the court didn’t go far enough.
“I really wish it had been on all animals,” she said.
Markham also questioned a system that allows “so many animals to be in one person’s care.”
She called Stein’s case a heinous crime that hasn’t generated as much attention as it should have because the animals involved were pigs.
“If it had been dogs or cats, there would have been a huge outcry,” she said.
The terms of Stein’s probation include accessing counselling and other services deemed necessary by his probation officer.
Quinn said that Stein needs to use that time to get counselling and consider a career in farming that doesn’t include animals.
– With files from Monte Sonnenberg, Postmedia Network
Man who left 1,500 pigs gets life ban from owning, caring for animals | Toronto Sun
Veterinarian accused of smuggling liquid heroin inside puppies extradited to U.S.
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This 2005 photo provided by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials shows puppies rescued from a farm in Colombia destined for use by a U.S. veterinarian working for a Colombian drug trafficking ring.U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration via AP
NEW YORK — A veterinarian pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to U.S. charges that he turned puppies into drug couriers for a Colombian trafficking ring by stitching packets of liquid heroin into their bodies.
Andres Lopez Elorza appeared in federal court in Brooklyn after being extradited from Spain, where he was arrested in 2015 on a U.S. warrant. He was ordered held without bail.
Lopez Elorza, 38, who also goes by Lopez Elorez, became a fugitive in 2005 when authorities arrested about two dozen suspected traffickers in Colombia.
Before he fled, the defendant had “gained some notoriety” from accusations that he was part of a barbaric scheme that turned an undetermined number of puppies and dogs into “animal couriers” by stitching packets of liquid heroin into their bodies, Assistant U.S. Attorney Nathan Reilly told a magistrate judge on Tuesday.
This 2005 photo provided by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials shows puppies rescued from a farm in Colombia destined for use by a U.S. veterinarian working for a Colombian drug trafficking ring. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration via AP
It is believed that the dogs were sent on commercial flights to New York City, where the drugs were cut out of them, authorities said. Investigators believe the puppies would have died in the process, but it was unknown how many were involved.
“Over time, drug organizations’ unquenchable thirst for profit leads them to do unthinkable crimes like using innocent puppies for drug concealment,” James J. Hunt, head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York office, said in a statement.
U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue said: “Dogs are man’s best friend and, as the defendant is about to learn, we are drug dealers’ worst enemy.”
Ten puppies were found during a 2005 raid on a farm in Colombia, DEA officials said. Five ended up running away, three died from infection and two were adopted, including one that became a drug-sniffing dog for Colombian police, officials said.
Lopez Elorza was born in Colombia but claims Venezuelan citizenship, authorities said.
His attorney, Mitch Dinnerstein, declined comment on Tuesday.
Veterinarian accused of smuggling liquid heroin inside puppies extradited to U.S. | Toronto Sun
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This 2005 photo provided by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials shows puppies rescued from a farm in Colombia destined for use by a U.S. veterinarian working for a Colombian drug trafficking ring.U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration via AP
NEW YORK — A veterinarian pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to U.S. charges that he turned puppies into drug couriers for a Colombian trafficking ring by stitching packets of liquid heroin into their bodies.
Andres Lopez Elorza appeared in federal court in Brooklyn after being extradited from Spain, where he was arrested in 2015 on a U.S. warrant. He was ordered held without bail.
Lopez Elorza, 38, who also goes by Lopez Elorez, became a fugitive in 2005 when authorities arrested about two dozen suspected traffickers in Colombia.
Before he fled, the defendant had “gained some notoriety” from accusations that he was part of a barbaric scheme that turned an undetermined number of puppies and dogs into “animal couriers” by stitching packets of liquid heroin into their bodies, Assistant U.S. Attorney Nathan Reilly told a magistrate judge on Tuesday.
This 2005 photo provided by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials shows puppies rescued from a farm in Colombia destined for use by a U.S. veterinarian working for a Colombian drug trafficking ring. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration via AP
It is believed that the dogs were sent on commercial flights to New York City, where the drugs were cut out of them, authorities said. Investigators believe the puppies would have died in the process, but it was unknown how many were involved.
“Over time, drug organizations’ unquenchable thirst for profit leads them to do unthinkable crimes like using innocent puppies for drug concealment,” James J. Hunt, head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York office, said in a statement.
U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue said: “Dogs are man’s best friend and, as the defendant is about to learn, we are drug dealers’ worst enemy.”
Ten puppies were found during a 2005 raid on a farm in Colombia, DEA officials said. Five ended up running away, three died from infection and two were adopted, including one that became a drug-sniffing dog for Colombian police, officials said.
Lopez Elorza was born in Colombia but claims Venezuelan citizenship, authorities said.
His attorney, Mitch Dinnerstein, declined comment on Tuesday.
Veterinarian accused of smuggling liquid heroin inside puppies extradited to U.S. | Toronto Sun
'MAKES YOU SICK': 11 cats found in plastic bin
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May 4, 2018
Updated:
May 4, 2018 8:57 AM EDT
Cats found in a plastic bin outside Elliot Lake on Tuesday, May 1, 2018. (Facebook video screengrab)
ELLIOT LAKE — Provincial police and the OSPCA are investigating after eleven dozen cats were found abandoned in a plastic bin north of Elliot Lake.
Three adult cats and eight kittens were found in the bin, which was placed between two dumpsters on the side of a rural road outside the northern city.
The bin was secured tight with the message “HELP US” on it, according to Janie Coulis, the wife of the man who found it.
Police say the animals required immediate medical attention and were taken to a local vet.
An Ontario SPCA spokesman says seven of the kittens survived, two of adult cats were dead and the third was euthanized on the recommendation of the treating veterinarian.
“The three adult cats that died were all female and tortoiseshell in colour and two were the mothers of the kittens that were found,” Melissa Kosowan said.
Kosowan said one of the kittens was approximately seven months old and the younger kittens were from of two litters — one litter approximately three weeks old and the litter approximately five weeks old.
The OPP has assigned forensic and crime scene investigators to the case, and the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is also investigating.
Anyone with information is asked to call police, Crime Stoppers or the OSPCA’s animal cruelty hotline.
Const. Phil Young, the OPP’s community safety and media relations officer, said the story “almost makes you sick to your stomach.”
“This many cats, in a small tote bin, with the lid on, on a hot day — it’s a bit of a recipe for disaster,” he said.
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‘MAKES YOU SICK’: 11 cats found in plastic bin | Toronto Sun
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May 4, 2018
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Cats found in a plastic bin outside Elliot Lake on Tuesday, May 1, 2018. (Facebook video screengrab)
ELLIOT LAKE — Provincial police and the OSPCA are investigating after eleven dozen cats were found abandoned in a plastic bin north of Elliot Lake.
Three adult cats and eight kittens were found in the bin, which was placed between two dumpsters on the side of a rural road outside the northern city.
The bin was secured tight with the message “HELP US” on it, according to Janie Coulis, the wife of the man who found it.
Police say the animals required immediate medical attention and were taken to a local vet.
An Ontario SPCA spokesman says seven of the kittens survived, two of adult cats were dead and the third was euthanized on the recommendation of the treating veterinarian.
“The three adult cats that died were all female and tortoiseshell in colour and two were the mothers of the kittens that were found,” Melissa Kosowan said.
Kosowan said one of the kittens was approximately seven months old and the younger kittens were from of two litters — one litter approximately three weeks old and the litter approximately five weeks old.
The OPP has assigned forensic and crime scene investigators to the case, and the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is also investigating.
Anyone with information is asked to call police, Crime Stoppers or the OSPCA’s animal cruelty hotline.
Const. Phil Young, the OPP’s community safety and media relations officer, said the story “almost makes you sick to your stomach.”
“This many cats, in a small tote bin, with the lid on, on a hot day — it’s a bit of a recipe for disaster,” he said.
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‘MAKES YOU SICK’: 11 cats found in plastic bin | Toronto Sun
If you can't afford the $120 to have a cat fixed, you shouldn't have a cat.
Don't they have free spaying and neutering in ON?
Don't they have free spaying and neutering in ON?
KILLED FOR BONES: 54 lions killed on South African farm
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May 4, 2018
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May 4, 2018 8:33 AM EDT
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JOHANNESBURG — The killing of more than 50 lions on a South African farm last week has led to increased scrutiny of the country’s policy allowing the annual export of 800 skeletons of captive-bred lions to meet demand in Asia for bones.
Reinet Meyer, senior inspector for the SPCA in Bloemfontein, says the animal protection group is preparing to file a formal complaint alleging abuse by the farm’s owner and foreman.
Meyer says she saw two lions that had been kept in transport crates for several days, which she described as “totally unacceptable.”
She says a total of 54 lions were killed at the farm over two days.
The killing of captive-bred lions is not illegal in South Africa if permits are in order. Conservationists say enforcement is weak.
KILLED FOR BONES: 54 lions killed on South African farm | Toronto Sun
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JOHANNESBURG — The killing of more than 50 lions on a South African farm last week has led to increased scrutiny of the country’s policy allowing the annual export of 800 skeletons of captive-bred lions to meet demand in Asia for bones.
Reinet Meyer, senior inspector for the SPCA in Bloemfontein, says the animal protection group is preparing to file a formal complaint alleging abuse by the farm’s owner and foreman.
Meyer says she saw two lions that had been kept in transport crates for several days, which she described as “totally unacceptable.”
She says a total of 54 lions were killed at the farm over two days.
The killing of captive-bred lions is not illegal in South Africa if permits are in order. Conservationists say enforcement is weak.
KILLED FOR BONES: 54 lions killed on South African farm | Toronto Sun
Three men accused of raping 9-year-old girl as mom smoked meth in garage found not guilty
SALT LAKE CITY — Three men accused of raping a 9-year-old Utah girl while her mother was smoking methamphetamine in a garage were found not guilty Wednesday after their lawyers argued they couldn’t be convicted without physical evidence.
Prosecutors said the girl’s clear, harrowing testimony that the three grabbed and assaulted her after a 2016 Easter-egg hunt in rural Utah should be enough to convict them. Uintah County attorney Mark Thomas pointed to testimony that helped convict comedian Bill Cosby in his sexual-assault case.
But the defence argued that without any blood, hair or serious injuries, the jury couldn’t be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt. Attorneys said the child, now 11, was copying a story fabricated by her paranoid mother, who was angry at a former boyfriend who was a defendant.
“If everything that she was saying was true, there should be some kind of physical evidence or injury to her,” said defence attorney Bryan Sidwell.
The jury of five men and three women deliberated for about three hours before reaching the verdict.
Defendants Larson RonDeau, 38, Randall Flatlip, 28 and Jerry Flatlip, 31, were held in custody to face additional charges, though some may be thrown out after the acquittal on rape and sodomy counts.
The case provoked outrage in the town of Vernal, about 170 miles (274 kilometres) east of Salt Lake City.
The girl testified that she went with her mother, who wanted to visit a friend from jail, to the house where the three men were staying in 2016.
She said the three men brought her to a back bedroom and assaulted her after she fell asleep on a couch, and returned her there after it was over. When her mother got back from the garage, she found the girl upset with her Easter dress askew. She insisted on going home.
She didn’t initially tell her mother about the assault because the men threatened to kill her, prosecutors said. The mother called police when she confided in her about two days later.
Thomas said Wednesday that prosecutors went to court with the best evidence available.
“We present cases to the jury that we believe that we have sufficient evidence. Then it’s up to the jury,” he said.
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Prosecutors said the girl’s clear, harrowing testimony that the three grabbed and assaulted her after a 2016 Easter-egg hunt in rural Utah should be enough to convict them. Uintah County attorney Mark Thomas pointed to testimony that helped convict comedian Bill Cosby in his sexual-assault case.
But the defence argued that without any blood, hair or serious injuries, the jury couldn’t be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt. Attorneys said the child, now 11, was copying a story fabricated by her paranoid mother, who was angry at a former boyfriend who was a defendant.
“If everything that she was saying was true, there should be some kind of physical evidence or injury to her,” said defence attorney Bryan Sidwell.
The jury of five men and three women deliberated for about three hours before reaching the verdict.
Defendants Larson RonDeau, 38, Randall Flatlip, 28 and Jerry Flatlip, 31, were held in custody to face additional charges, though some may be thrown out after the acquittal on rape and sodomy counts.
The case provoked outrage in the town of Vernal, about 170 miles (274 kilometres) east of Salt Lake City.
The girl testified that she went with her mother, who wanted to visit a friend from jail, to the house where the three men were staying in 2016.
She said the three men brought her to a back bedroom and assaulted her after she fell asleep on a couch, and returned her there after it was over. When her mother got back from the garage, she found the girl upset with her Easter dress askew. She insisted on going home.
She didn’t initially tell her mother about the assault because the men threatened to kill her, prosecutors said. The mother called police when she confided in her about two days later.
Thomas said Wednesday that prosecutors went to court with the best evidence available.
“We present cases to the jury that we believe that we have sufficient evidence. Then it’s up to the jury,” he said.
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Three men accused of raping 9-year-old girl as mom smoked meth in garage found not guilty
SALT LAKE CITY — Three men accused of raping a 9-year-old Utah girl while her mother was smoking methamphetamine in a garage were found not guilty Wednesday after their lawyers argued they couldn’t be convicted without physical evidence.
Prosecutors said the girl’s clear, harrowing testimony that the three grabbed and assaulted her after a 2016 Easter-egg hunt in rural Utah should be enough to convict them. Uintah County attorney Mark Thomas pointed to testimony that helped convict comedian Bill Cosby in his sexual-assault case.
But the defence argued that without any blood, hair or serious injuries, the jury couldn’t be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt. Attorneys said the child, now 11, was copying a story fabricated by her paranoid mother, who was angry at a former boyfriend who was a defendant.
“If everything that she was saying was true, there should be some kind of physical evidence or injury to her,” said defence attorney Bryan Sidwell.
The jury of five men and three women deliberated for about three hours before reaching the verdict.
Defendants Larson RonDeau, 38, Randall Flatlip, 28 and Jerry Flatlip, 31, were held in custody to face additional charges, though some may be thrown out after the acquittal on rape and sodomy counts.
The case provoked outrage in the town of Vernal, about 170 miles (274 kilometres) east of Salt Lake City.
The girl testified that she went with her mother, who wanted to visit a friend from jail, to the house where the three men were staying in 2016.
She said the three men brought her to a back bedroom and assaulted her after she fell asleep on a couch, and returned her there after it was over. When her mother got back from the garage, she found the girl upset with her Easter dress askew. She insisted on going home.
She didn’t initially tell her mother about the assault because the men threatened to kill her, prosecutors said. The mother called police when she confided in her about two days later.
Thomas said Wednesday that prosecutors went to court with the best evidence available.
“We present cases to the jury that we believe that we have sufficient evidence. Then it’s up to the jury,” he said.
More:Three men accused of raping 9-year-old girl as mom smoked meth in garage found not guilty | Canoe
The Mother should forfeit the girl, she's clearly unfit.
Well- the idea of giving killers some sort of decent existence came into play when a life sentence really was FOR LIFE! Convicts were easier to handle if left fat and lazy! A certain amount of decent treatment made for less violence in jails- some of the old jail house riots were truly murderous!
And one may ask: "who cares if convicted felons kill each other off"? I say we all should! It is one thing for us to look at Paul Bernardo or Clifford Olsen and say: "these killers are hopelessly broken and can never be safely released so maybe it is more merciful to execute them- just send them back to their maker"!
But there is the point- it is our choice- based on what is most humane and decent! If we allow convicts to impose their own rabid justice then we end up with the most vicious and least deserving killers in charge of our jails since they will kill off all the weaker convicts! This is not any justice I recognize! If we want Bernardo dead- and I think he ought to be- then we should have the courage to do it for ourselves and not leave the job to some back stabbing thug!!!
Sadly- LIE-berals have- as usual- taken a small and logical fact and blown it up into INSANITY- as they seek to buy votes at any price!
It is LIE-berals who have so little respect for democracy or the rule of law- who decided to allow convicted criminals and inhabitants of lunatic asylums to vote in our elections!
It is LIE-berals who seek to win over the votes of people related to hard core convicts- as if such family bias does not matter!
It is LIE-berals who told us we should permit illegals to vote in our elections- after all illegals "live here" too!
It is LIE-berals who created the "catch and release" legal system!
It is LIE-berals who refuse to focus on any sort of sensible prison policy! What are our prisons for anyway?
LIE-berals refuse to permanently lock up dangerous criminals for our protection.
LIE-berals refuse to punish convicts so they will be scared straight and will not re-offend.
And LIE-berals have demonstrated they have NO CLUE how to rehabilitate criminals.
And it is LIE-berals who refuse to deport foreign born criminals.
At what point should we conclude that LIE-berals are ACTIVELY WORKING AGAINST MAIN STREAM CANADA?
Now would be a good time for that conclusion!
Here is an example of the GOOD JOBS that LIE-berals are working hard to create- FOR THEIR PALS!
Italian policeman who clocked in for work in his underwear is sacked- Alberto Muraglia became unwitting symbol of Italy's problem with absenteeism
By Nick Squires, Rome. 12:29PM GMT 25 Jan 2016. Telegraph News.
A policeman who became an unwitting symbol of Italy's ingrained problem with absenteeism has finally been sacked, four months after he was covertly filmed clocking on for work in his underpants and then heading back to bed.
Alberto Muraglia was able to punch his time card wearing only a pair of Y-fronts and a saggy T-shirt because he lived in a flat above his office, in a council building in the Italian Riviera town of San Remo.
The grainy black-and-white image of the portly municipal policeman clocking on has become a symbol of Italy’s struggle with the thousands of “fannulloni” or slackers in its public administration. On occasion Mr Muraglia could not even rouse himself from his bed and instead sent his wife or young daughter to stamp his card on his behalf.
After being exposed by a covert police investigation in October, along with dozens of other council employees who clocked on then headed to the shops or the beach, Mr Muraglia has been sacked by the town council. But he has vowed to appeal the decision, even enlisting royalty in his fight to be reinstated.
For 20 years he says, he worked as a summer deckhand-cum-cook on a yacht for Albert II, who was King of the Belgians until he abdicated for health reasons in 2013 in favour of his son, Philippe.
"I’ll admit, I was a bit sloppy. I made a mistake, but I swear I was on duty nonetheless" stated Alberto Muraglia
The former king has emailed him to ask him about the furore. “He said that he would continue to have faith in me,” said Mr Muraglia.
“My apartment, where I live with my family, is in the same building as my office and the timecard machine. “When I punched my time card in my underwear I had no idea that I would expose myself and the council to such a bad image.”
(I say its OBVIOUS that this guy SKIPPED the I.Q. portion of the police exam!)
He claimed that he was being made a scapegoat for the dozens of other council employees who had, for years, also bunked off work. More than 40 are being investigated for skiving (apparently `skiving` is Euro-slang for goofing off when you should be working) and half a dozen have been sacked.
“I will pay for this, but it should not just be me. My attire was not suitable, I admit. But I didn’t mean to do anything bad. I was the security officer for the building and that’s where I live.” He said he had enlisted lawyers and was determined to get his job back.
(Yeah-its his ATTIRE that is the main trouble here!)
Just because he turned up to work in his underwear did not mean that he could not do his job, said his lawyer. “One time, dressed in his underpants, he managed to foil a robbery – he ran out into the street, pistol in hand, and arrested the crook,” said his lawyer Alessandro Moroni.
His dismissal may have taken months, but it counts as an exception – in most cases, public officials accused of wrongdoing do not lose their jobs.
Last year, nearly 7,000 council employees were investigated for disciplinary matters but only 227 lost their jobs.
The centre-Left government of Matteo Renzi is trying to reform Italy’s outdated labour laws and make it easier for employees, in the private sector at least, to hire and fire lazy staff. “People who show up, stamp their cards and then skive off need to be punished,” Mr Renzi said earlier this month.
(Yeah-that’s clever! It’s the Hogs that ALWAYS get the big money and the govt is going to solve its fiscal troubles by attacking the private sector that has the least power and least money INSTEAD of going after the BIGGEST PIGS FIRST!)
“We’ve seen crazy stuff, like the person in San Remo who clocked on in his underpants. They are destroying the credibility of the great majority of public officials who work hard.”
(I feel obligated to point out that simply showing up on time does NOT constitute HARD WORK-especially when employee Hogs who did show up then spend the rest of the day LOAFING the shade, plotting ways of gaining new entitlements!)
Marianna Madia, the public administration minister, said: “We want to assert that whoever defrauds the public administration must be suspended within 48 hours and the procedure by which they are dismissed should be speeded up.”
(I say: OH GREAT-they want to suspend these clowns-on FULL PAY NATURALLY-while city and Union Hogs spend YEARS wrangling about what to do with the Hog! And of course some NEW HOG will have to be hired to replace the suspended one! Gee....there is a REAL COST EFFECTIVE SOLUTION! I don’t know what that sort of legal wrangling costs in Italy but we in Toronto DO KNOW-thanks to a Toronto Sun column of a decade back that in Toronto it costs THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS A DAY to argue this stuff-and that is without adding ten years worth of inflation to the bill! AND it typically takes a year or more to wind up such a union matter!)
(I am thinking there might a logical and REAL EASY to understand reason why Italy is BROKE?)
From: thetelegraphnews
