NEWS: Dog Killer Doesn't Want to be Safety Pup

CULTURE: Dog Killer Doesn't Want to be Safety Pup

Robert M. Clark of Painesville, OH, shot his dog in the head. The Great Dane was bothering Mr. Clark on July 3rd, and neighbors testify to hearing the dog's cries followed by a shot. Clark pleaded no contest to a charge of animal cruelty and was sentenced to 180 days in jail.

I wonder why we don't charge murderers with "Human Cruelty." I'm not trying to be insensitive, but can't we just call it "Dog Murder?" Animal cruelty sounds a little misleading.

Anyway, moving along. Municipal Judge Michael Cicconetti reduced Clark's sentence to 30 days should Clark pay for the subsequent veterinarian bills that incurred when the Great Dane was rushed to the an emergency veterinary clinic where the suffering animal was put to sleep.

But now, Clark has the option of reducing his jail sentence to only 10 days, should he dress up as a dog mascot named Safety Pup and visit Painesville's 5 local elementary schools. Safety Pup teaches kids about traffic safety and drug abuse and other things elementary school kids need to know about.

Look both ways, and don't smoke crack! Lizards are our friends!

Clark, however, has opted to appeal the sentence. Perhaps he is shy and doesn't want to dress like a dog and get made fun by kids, because that's what's gonna happen. Until the kids put the blues clues together and realize there's a dog murderer in their midsts.

The real news is that Safety Pup's outfit is rad. Unfortunately, it is used to disguise dog murderers and other criminals. Doesn't someone want to do this job?

nothing short of a long prison sentence can be enough for killing an animal like that

He should be shot in the head...

A great Dane? Aren't they the sweetest dogs ever? What a chump.

this is close to home.
i want to go kick saftey pups ass.

10 days of jail for shooting a dog in the head? He should definitely have more and should have mandatory evaluations with a psychiatrist (at his expense). Something just tells me that normal, well-adjusted individuals do not try to execute other living things on a whim. Also, he shouldn't just have the option of paying the veterinary bills; he should be required to do so (with no easing of his sentence). The harm to the animal was his fault.

Ten fucking days and a few trips to an elementary school (do we really want that kind of person speaking to kids?) for something that heinous? Fuck that.

What a creep

People treat/kill animals in much worse ways than this every day and it is completely legal. If I post a news story every time a beagle is force fed some hot new artifical sweetner and has its throat slit for dissection, will there be the same kind of outrage?

If he can kill an animal that easily over nothing more being annoyed chances are more than likely he can kill a human just as easily over nothing more than being annoyed too. He should do a year in jail and 2 years community service working in a dog kennel. What a fuck face.

Fuck him. He should sit in the tank and rot

edited to say, I just had to put my dog down yesterday and I balled like a baby. Fuck this Guy. He should have to wear that outfit permanantly.

How does the quote go
Killing on animal is cruelty. Killing many is science.

??

Sad but true. More than sad actually.

Its humans with sentiments like THIS that scare me.

So, people say this guy was an heartless asshole creep for shooting his dog. I agree. However, isn't it a double-standard that eating meat (where the animals endure far more suffering than this dog did) is okay where shooting a dog isn't?

There is no reason to eat meat. Eating meat is just as heartess and mindless as this guy shooting his dog. Many know about the vegetarian diet, but few have the moral fortitude to embrace it.

So is it cruel? Absolutely.
Does this guy deserve a bullet through his head? If so, then a lot of us do.

why? Because we believe a dogs life is just as valuable (if not mroe so) than a human's?

I hope he gets sodomized in jail..a dog is defenseless , and that is just unforgiveable..also , i hope they would castrate him because he should not contribute genes to the future..i'm vegetarian , like that even matters..

*cringes*
*waits for backlash from omnivores*

I'm not mean to animals, but I've got enough sense to realize that they are just animals.

And many many dogs are killed for reasons just about as small as this guy's.

Your parents didn't take your dog to a farm to live. They fucking had the vet kill him. Deal with it. He got killed for shitting on the floor and because you were too lazy to put the dog out.

Why is it that we have bigger problems with people who kill dogs or cute deers but not people who murder thousands of ants or cockroaches by using insecticides? How is a dog any more important than bugs? Which animals matter? All of them? Or just the ones we can anthromorphize and project our human feelings onto?

Painsville Ohio, eh? The worst memory from my childhood (also in N.E. Ohio, btw) was the neighbor boy telling me "I had to shoot 'ol Duke this morning." I asked if Duke was ill. "Nope. Dad said he's too old to hunt anymore." Still gives me shivers.

oh fuck. edit button vs. reply button why the fuck can't I read? somebody put me down already.

Don't be cynical.
People die every second on the planet.
You can't of course be constantly crying for them.
Still, when you hear the news of an innocent life
taken for such a fucking senseless reason
you can't help feeling your blood stir and your heart break.
If you're human.
I can understand that your reaction
can come from overexposure to fake good feelings,
which is something we all experience,
in the media, in the movies,
in our daily politically correct life.
However, what is worse?
Feeling so much that feelings lose meaning
or losing the feelings altogether, skipping the first phase?
I bet you're intelligent,
don't fall for that.