Gary Bassett, Mercy's owner, must have felt so badly ashamed for abusing this poor 4 month old kitten and then took his own life.
Posted on 02/04/2010 4:01:42 PM PST by myknowledge
MISSOULA — A Missoula man is dead after police attempted to serve an arrest warrant at a home where a kitten was found severely abused earlier this week.
Officers arrived to serve an arrest warrant at 2419 38th St., shortly after 1 p.m. today, but the man inside would not come to the door.
The warrant was for aggravated animal cruelty charges related to the case of the abused 4-month-old kitten found at the home Sunday night after neighbors reported screams coming from the residence.
A Missoula police officer talked to the man inside the home on the telephone before approaching the house this afternoon, but the man would not come to the door.
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Gary Bassett, Mercy's owner, must have felt so badly ashamed for abusing this poor 4 month old kitten and then took his own life.
Dangling modifiers doing bad things to catz, or something.
He was most likely scared of prison & mentally ill.
I think there were other issues there. He sounded very unstable.
It's a shame that this guy couldn't manage to man up, take the consequences, get help for his problems, and lead a life that God would be proud of.
World’s closed.
Enjoy your hell.
These little animals are trusting, helpless and friendly. To then abuse them as described in the articles on this case....I can’t describe it as anything but true evil. Mental illness, hard luck, bad childhood...blah blah blah. This comes from the darkest, most vile place and there is no excuse for it.
Is this modifier dangling, too?
I’m sorry, but humans, especially ones not found criminally liable for anything, are worth more to God than any animal.
I hope he burns in Hell!!!
Compound predicate adjectives ... but the pronoun’s antecedent is unclear.
For the record, I think it’s terrible that the cat was abused, and that the man killed himself.
That's beside the point.
Not everyone’s qualified to be a human. It takes not only the accident of birth but also some effort.
maybe we oughts to ping JR to have his techs build some kind of “dangling modifier” checks into the HTML?
this post, your frname, and the tagline have pretty much redlined my “deep thoughts” meter.
Reasons are not always excuses. I tried to explain that to my kid the other day. A really sweet girl tried to explain why a friend was “cutting” herself and he ended contact with her because he said she was defending the girl. I told him that might not have been the case. I can tell you why we are all deserving of hell, but that doesn’t excuse our actually being guilty of sin. We all belong in hell, and there is an individual reason for each of us. The cruelty to the animal is a symptom, and the diagnosis is not a reason for forgiveness.
A sad tragedy all around.
To him, abusing Mercy the cat was venting out the anger.
Cruelty to animals is the sign of a sick, sick mind.
Taking his own life likely saved lives in the future- both animal and human.
“These little animals are trusting, helpless and friendly. To then abuse them as described in the articles on this case....I can’t describe it as anything but true evil. Mental illness, hard luck, bad childhood...blah blah blah. This comes from the darkest, most vile place and there is no excuse for it.”
Yup. At least the reprobate had the good sense to off himself and thus save the taxpayers the burden of having to care him for the rest of his life.
“I’m sorry, but humans, especially ones not found criminally liable for anything, are worth more to God than any animal.”
That’s a pretty broad assumption.
A sad situation all around. Prayers for God’s mercy on everyone involved, and may He especially have mercy for those here who would wish eternal damnation on anyone.
One Rehabilitated. Sadly, it’s only a small start.
Yep, the world is just full of lollipops and rainbows isn’t it? In case you haven’t noticed there is pure evil in this world. The hearts of most men may have evil tendencies, but for many they are just pure evil.
Abuse of dead cats probably has something to do with the Zombie Plague.
This story get weirder and weirder.
Part of the cats head was shaved (what the heck?), and he tried to drown her in the toilet. Then he loses his temper with the cat, and basically stomps her to death.
My gut tells me was shaving the cat for some creepy reason, and the cat didn’t like it, so at first he tried to drown it? silence it? in the toilet? and when the cat must have made its displeasure known, he lost his temper with it.
I have no idea what happened here, and I’m not sure I want to.
Explain this please.
Amen! You are so right!
We haven't even talked about the title of this thread yet.
No great loss. People with this kind of evil nature sometimes move on to incredible cruelties practiced on people. The world is ever so slightly cleaner now.
Life is like this sometimes. Did you now that Walmart has a tolerable wine (red, white, and pink!) for $2.50 a bottle?
Holy headache, Batman!
Not if you get pretzels, too. $2.12 for the 16 oz. bag of Snyder’s!
To wish that anyone spend all eternity in Hell is a pure evil all it's own, quite likely a far worse evil than even abusing kittens. Thankfully we all have the ability to accept God's redemptive mercy up until the instant of death, just like the man in the article had the ability to do so. We can't know whether he did or didn't before he died. That said, someone who would wish Hell on another person on a public forum probably hasn't accepted God's mercy himself. I humbly suggest that you start by praying the Lord's Prayer slowly and thoughtfully. I'll be praying for you.
There’s the old saying, “God have mercy on him, because I won’t.” In the end it’s up to God anyway despite of what we want.
I have no idea whether that saying is old, but it certainly isn't very Christian.
In the end it’s up to God anyway despite of what we want.
You have complete say over your own salvation. God loves us so much that in the end he will give us what we want, even if what we want is an eternity without him. By refusing to forgive that pathetic man in the article and wishing him to Hell, you may be well on your way to making that choice for yourself. We all need repent of our own sins, and we all need to forgive the sins of others.
So, it’s not only me that has a problem with the way that headline is written!!!
“To wish that anyone spend all eternity in Hell is a pure evil all it’s own, quite likely a far worse evil than even abusing kittens.”
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Yeah. That bothered me, too. I am sorry for the kitten but I’m more sorry for the people who rejoiced at this man’s suicide. It seems to me, the guy repented and felt great shame. I feel for his family, too.
Good riddance.
No, not just you. It’s a peculiar phrase.
The year of the Tiger gets it first taste of blood so it appears.
Yes, the picture that headline creates is not what the story is about. Poor writing skills to say the least.
We are now in complete agreement!
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