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kiknkorea
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 Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 11:54 pm Post subject: Mom forced son to kill hamster |
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WARM SPRINGS, Ga. � A Georgia woman is in jail after police say she forced her son to kill his pet hamster with a hammer as punishment for bad grades.
The sheriff of rural Meriwether County told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Thursday that the 12-year-old boy told his teacher about the killing. The teacher reported it to the Division of Family and Child Services, who contacted police.
Sheriff Steve Whitlock said 38-year-old Lynn Middlebrooks Geter of Warm Springs faces one charge each of animal cruelty, child cruelty and battery. |
And I thought Korean parents were harsh!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100122/ap_on_fe_st/us_hamster_hammer_death |
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Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
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| Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 12:56 am Post subject: |
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| That's nothing compared to Richard Gere. |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 2:22 am Post subject: |
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| People do this kind of stuff all the time. Now some softies feel like they can intrude into the homes of others because they think something they didn't see happen is wrong and insensitive. Shame on the teacher for being so nosey. |
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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 7:20 am Post subject: |
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| Now some softies feel like they can intrude into the homes of others because they think something they didn't see happen is wrong and insensitive. Shame on the teacher for being so nosey. |
Perhaps you do not think animal cruelty is wrong, but it happens to be a crime, as is getting a minor to participate in one.
I generally am a big supporter of privacy, but this case is over the line. |
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NovaKart
Joined: 18 Nov 2009
Location: Iraq
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| Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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| I think it's kind of odd. Mice are generally considered pests and I doubt someone would be charged with animal cruelty for killing one. But a hamster because someone keeps it in a cage and feeds it is a pet. Seems like a thin line. What the mother did is really cruel by forcing her son to kill a pet so I would consider it child abuse more than animal abuse. |
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darkjedidave
Joined: 19 Aug 2009
Location: Shanghai/Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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I used to have a corn snake and would give her live feeder mice. She would bite them so hard sometimes their eyes would pop out. I would have given here a hamster if they weren't so pricey 
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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| NovaKart wrote: |
| I think it's kind of odd. Mice are generally considered pests and I doubt someone would be charged with animal cruelty for killing one. |
I think if they did it in this fashion, it would be treated the same way by the courts. It's not actually illegal to kill animals, just to kill them inhumanely. This is why things like having your dog put down at the veterinarian are legal.
Killing pretty much any mammal by hammering it to death would probably draw court scrutiny. It's creatures like spiders that a double standard would probably be applied to. I doubt killing a tarantula spider with a hammer would draw much attention. |
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banjois
Joined: 14 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Not saying I approve, but a hammer's a pretty quick and painless way to kill a hamster. |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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| banjois wrote: |
| Not saying I approve, but a hammer's a pretty quick and painless way to kill a hamster. |
With a distraught, unwilling child doing the hammering, I'm not sure I'd take this for granted. Animals can be pretty resilient too. |
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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 7:21 am Post subject: |
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| I doubt killing a tarantula spider with a hammer would draw much attention. |
Tarantulas can be magnificent creatures. Don't you dare kill one unless you have a very good reason, such as self-defense. |
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Deep Thirteen
Joined: 18 Jun 2009
Location: Swamp Land
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| Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 8:39 am Post subject: |
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Hammer her a few hard times I say.
Strange lately these cases; there was another mother from NY who forced her kids to abuse pets in the news the other day. |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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| bacasper wrote: |
| Fox wrote: |
| I doubt killing a tarantula spider with a hammer would draw much attention. |
Tarantulas can be magnificent creatures. Don't you dare kill one unless you have a very good reason, such as self-defense. |
I didn't say otherwise; I'm quite an arachnophile myself. All I said was that I doubt a court would take it very seriously from an animal cruelty perspective. It seems to be pretty much limited to mammals, and perhaps large reptiles or birds (though I've never heard of it). Arachnids and other smaller creatures are pretty much without legal protection of any kind. |
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Sergio Stefanuto
Joined: 14 May 2009
Location: UK
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| Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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| A Georgia woman is in jail after police say she forced her son to kill his pet hamster with a hammer as punishment for bad grades. |
Blimey. Hell hath no fury, eh? Clearly, the poor child has recieved an extremely questionable parenting, probably contributing greatly to his poor grades. |
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