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Fresno County sheriff's officials acting on several tips Wednesday tracked down 18-year-old Gabriel Quintero of Riverdale. Also taken into custody were two 17-year-olds and a 15-year-old.
All have been booked on charges of burglary and felony cruelty to animals.
Fresno Sheriff's Department spokesman Christian Curtice said he cannot release information about what prompted the killing of the chickens. He didn't anticipate any more arrests and said he did not know if the suspects had attorneys.
Investigators say the suspects pulled back a fence on Sept. 20 to break into a barn south of Fresno. Once inside they beat 920 chickens to death with a golf club and possibly another blunt instrument, investigators said.
The suspects were caught by detectives from a special Fresno-based agriculture task force, a sheriff's unit established to investigate farming-related crimes in the nation's leading agra-business county, with $5 billion in annual revenues.
More here: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/california-teens-arrested-920-chicken-deaths-25914123
valerief
(53,235 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,514 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)ReRe
(10,597 posts)Initech
(100,155 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,545 posts)1dogleft
(164 posts)see #17...we be smart
Initech
(100,155 posts)AndyTiedye
(23,500 posts)1dogleft
(164 posts)most likely serial killers and a soft hearted judge will release them because "they are really really sorry"
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)Volaris
(10,281 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)uppityperson
(115,681 posts)see what if anything was in their past as far as treatment of them also.
Playinghardball
(11,665 posts)How to cure a chicken-killing dog?
Do you know how to cure a chicken-killing dog? Now, you know you cannot keep a dog that kills chickens, no matter how fine a dog it is otherwise.
The way to do it is to take one of the chickens the dog has killed and wire the thing around the dogs neck, good and strong. And leave it until that dead chicken stinks so bad that no other dog or person will even go near that poor beast.
Thingll smell so bad the dog wont be able to stand itself. You leave it on there until the last little bits of flesh rots and fall s off, and that dog wont kill chickens again.
The Bush administration is going to be wired around the neck of the American people for four more years, long enough for the stench to sicken everyone. It should cure the country of electing Republicans. And at least the Democrats wont have to clean up after him until it is clear to everyone who made the mess.
*Molly Ivins of Creators Syndicate
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18028
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Maybe the suspects should have the chickens tied around their necks....if found guilty....
flamingdem
(39,342 posts)mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)Bet Colonel Sanders was pissed.
CrispyQ
(36,581 posts)~insert flip-the-bird smilie here.
Stainless
(718 posts)Just like some of the replies here on DU!
rocktivity
(44,588 posts)Divided by four, that should keep them behind bars until they're over 21.
rocktivity
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demmiblue
(36,921 posts)Or psychopaths.
Or both.
Legal or illegal, this how your proverbial sausage is made, folks. Sometimes crueler.
flvegan
(64,428 posts)Fuck you and your shit parents that "raised" you.
Thankfully, a "task force" likely on the lookout for "violent" activists armed with cameras were there to witness and potentially prosecute a real crime (though overlooking the crime of factory farming...an inconvenience, I'm sure).
RedCappedBandit
(5,514 posts)that children would learn this behavior.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)RedCappedBandit
(5,514 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)I forgot they use bats to kill livestock and sometimes have backhoe night when they swing the bucket and see if they can kill the cow in one hit.
RedCappedBandit
(5,514 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)That is what you started with-
You are the one drawing parallels when they don't exist. With that, I leave you with the greatness that is the-
ALL BACON BURGER!
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Maybe they simply internalized our collective disregard for the practices done on these farms, and acted from there...
RedCappedBandit
(5,514 posts)Gotcha.