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Pippi
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Username: Pippi
Post Number: 608
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 2:19 pm: | 
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I know I frequently ask this question but....WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE??
Wal-Mart workers charged in cat shooting
Managers suspended pending investigation
EVANSVILLE, Indiana (AP) -- Two Wal-Mart employees who police say followed a manager's orders to shoot and kill a stray cat have been charged with felony animal cruelty.
The men, both assistant managers at the Supercenter, were arrested and released after a court appearance Wednesday.
Christopher Anderson, 29, and Jeffrey Hardin, 21, told police the store's manager ordered them to get rid of the animal that was living in a storage trailer behind their store.
All managers potentially involved in the incident have been suspended without pay pending an internal investigation and could be fired, said Wal-Mart spokeswoman Sharon Weber.
"We were outraged when we learned of this incident. This kind of action is completely inconsistent with the way we do business," she said.
A truck driver who reported the incident said he saw store employees placing what he believed to be a dead animal in shrink wrap a day after he heard workers joking about shooting the cat.
Store manager Darrel Weitzel told police he had told some of his employees to get a gun and get rid of the cat after attempts to coax it from the trailer failed, according to a police report.
Anderson and Hardin were scheduled for a hearing January 4. |
mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 4437
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 2:33 pm: |
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Pippi,
Maybe they were just hungry? |
themp
Citizen
Username: Themp
Post Number: 1329
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 3:07 pm: |
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I wish it were legal to kill cats, because there would be a lot fewer cats around here right off the bat, I'll tell you that much. |
Chris Prenovost
Citizen
Username: Chris_prenovost
Post Number: 205
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 3:24 pm: |
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I work in the construction business.
The jobsite trailer I occupy has at least six wild cats living in the floorboards. They come out at night and eat the lunch leftovers from the garbage cans. They also do a rather complete job of controlling the local rodent population. We rarely see them during the day.
And no one on this jobsite would ever harm them. |
Dave
Moderator
Username: Dave
Post Number: 4849
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 3:26 pm: |
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Guns: aisle 7
Ammo: aisle 7
Shrinkwrap: aisle 3 |
Bobkat
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 7131
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 3:54 pm: |
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To be honest I am kinda surprised that it is illegal to kill feral cats, especially in a state such as Indiana. |
jeffl
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Username: Jeffl
Post Number: 907
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 7:27 pm: |
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I just love the responses to this thread. I'm thankful that MOLers aren't horrified by this item while such real horrors are happening in the world every day.
Imagine the outrage is it was a widdle biddy doggie. There would be nationwide protests. |
aquaman
Citizen
Username: Aquaman
Post Number: 229
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 7:36 pm: |
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Hey Jeffl -
Aren't you a mental health helper or sumtin'?
There's so much sorrow in the world right now, maybe people (MOL's included) can't spread it equally.
Cut them some slack boy-o |
jeffl
Supporter
Username: Jeffl
Post Number: 908
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 8:23 pm: |
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I wasn't criticizing, I was applauding the responses. Pippi, my apologies. Didn't mean to mock you in any way.
Aquaman, pretty heavy thoughts, boy-o. |
flugermongers
Citizen
Username: Flugermongers
Post Number: 329
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 11:14 pm: |
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jeffl,
A cat is a loss. Shooting a cat is murder. What the dillyo? |
jeffl
Supporter
Username: Jeffl
Post Number: 910
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 31, 2004 - 8:29 am: |
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My apologies to all who were offended. Time for me to take some time off from MOL. Have a Happy New Year all. Peace. |
Michael K. Mc Kell
Citizen
Username: Greenerose
Post Number: 500
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 31, 2004 - 9:20 am: |
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I recently picked up a 2 week old kitten at a job site. This poor thing was on deaths door and is now doing very well and a little pain in the butt.
I agree that animals can become a problem but would never condone this action.
I'm not a "tree hugger" or "activist" but the scum that did this is lucky that I didn't wittness it.
Happy New Year |
greenetree
Supporter
Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 3583
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 31, 2004 - 10:53 am: |
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Oh, I dunno, Mike. Sometimes, I wish these scum were seen by people like you & me. It would save the cost of the trial to tax payers.....
Jeff- as with the tsunami/pre-school sale comparison on another thread: I think that people can feel horror/compassion/anger/empathy/etc. for many events at once. It may create emotional overload, but so goes the human heart.... |
themp
Citizen
Username: Themp
Post Number: 1331
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 31, 2004 - 11:29 am: |
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In beach towns, they capture the feral cats under the boardwalk, neuter them, and then release them to live under the boardwalk again. I think that's nuts. Cats are non-indiginous to America, and the take a very hight toll on birds (though I admit, they keep mouse/rat/squirrel populations down). Given that we have a huge, very cruel, mechanized meat industry in this country, and that the average American eats 180 pounds of meatand fish per year, it sometimes seems silly to get so upset about animal control measures.
I had a raccoon taken out of my attic, and they killed him/her (per NJ law). I felt a little bad, but what are you going to do? |
flugermongers
Citizen
Username: Flugermongers
Post Number: 335
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 31, 2004 - 1:35 pm: |
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It's not nuts at all. That helps control the population in that area. And, a lot of cats are indigionus to America, so I'm not sure what you're speaking of there... |
themp
Citizen
Username: Themp
Post Number: 1339
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 31, 2004 - 1:42 pm: |
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Felix domesticus. |
themp
Citizen
Username: Themp
Post Number: 1340
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 31, 2004 - 1:44 pm: |
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...aint. |
extuscan
Citizen
Username: Extuscan
Post Number: 408
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 31, 2004 - 1:44 pm: |
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I worked at a supermarket during college and the store kept a .22 in the office for shooting birds in the store. The manager would make sure the female employees never found out... he'd make any in the area of the bird go to lunch and when the girls came back the bird was gone. Eventually, after I stopped working there, a female employee found out and made a big stink. It was front page news....
http://www.newhampshire.com/articles/showularticle.cfm?id=33575
--John |
Catastrophe
Citizen
Username: Cat
Post Number: 61
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 31, 2004 - 2:25 pm: |
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Those •••••••• should get the death penalty. And I'll pull the damn switch.
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Cathy
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 667
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Friday, December 31, 2004 - 3:51 pm: |
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Hey cat, I'm with you.
I share a household with a former feral kitten who is now a big fat happy indoor cat who would be most pleased to serve as official observer to the procedure. And a former dumpster-diver, forced into that way of life by her previous human house-mates who cruelly abandoned her, who will write up the story for the newspapers. |
Michael K. Mc Kell
Citizen
Username: Greenerose
Post Number: 503
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 31, 2004 - 4:15 pm: |
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I've lived in my fair share of apartments and thank every stray cat for killing the rodents.
Racoons and the like are a danger to humans, not cats. |
musicme
Citizen
Username: Musicme
Post Number: 917
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 3, 2005 - 11:27 am: |
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Speaking of cats,
I have a lovely nuetered Tom with an easy going personaility that has come to my house from my mom. She is 80 and can no longer can take care of him and would like me to find a home for him. Any takers or am I going to have to take him to Walmart?
Please drop me a line at night.mares@verizon.net.
Love to hear from you. |
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