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Man suspected of abusing cat found dead
Billings Gazette ^
| February 4, 2010
| Tristan Scott
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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TOPICS: Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: cat; catcruelty; garybassett; mercythecat; missoula; suicide
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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.
To: myknowledge; martin_fierro; Constitution Day
Dangling modifiers doing bad things to catz, or something.
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posted on
02/04/2010 4:04:08 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
("Contrary to what politicians expect us to do, let's stop and think. " ~Thomas Sowell, of course)
To: myknowledge
He was most likely scared of prison & mentally ill.
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posted on
02/04/2010 4:04:42 PM PST
by
pandoraou812
(time to dump tar & feathers on DC!)
To: myknowledge
The animal was later euthanized.
*sorrow* :*(
I believe to the depths of my heart that there is a special place in hell for people who hurt animals this way. :*(
I would bet the bank that somewhere there's a human body buried on that property...
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posted on
02/04/2010 4:05:08 PM PST
by
pillut48
("Stand now. Stand together. Stand for what is right."-Gov.Sarah Palin, "Going Rogue")
To: myknowledge
I think there were other issues there. He sounded very unstable.
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posted on
02/04/2010 4:05:47 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
To: myknowledge
What a sad soul. Animal abuse - pet abuse, especially - is a sign that the person has some deep, deep issues going on.
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.
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posted on
02/04/2010 4:05:49 PM PST
by
Yossarian
To: myknowledge
World’s closed.
Enjoy your hell.
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posted on
02/04/2010 4:06:32 PM PST
by
happinesswithoutpeace
(We are unable to transmit through conscious neural interference.)
To: myknowledge
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posted on
02/04/2010 4:10:02 PM PST
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
To: myknowledge
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.
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posted on
02/04/2010 4:10:08 PM PST
by
LostInBayport
(2010 - The Second American Revolution. The first shot was fired 1/19/2010 -- here in Massachusetts!)
To: pandoraou812; Tax-chick
He was most likely scared of prison & mentally ill.Is this modifier dangling, too?
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posted on
02/04/2010 4:15:46 PM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
(governance is not sovereignty [paraphrasing Bishop Fulton Sheen].)
To: myknowledge
I’m sorry, but humans, especially ones not found criminally liable for anything, are worth more to God than any animal.
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posted on
02/04/2010 4:15:58 PM PST
by
ConservativeMind
(Hypocrisy: "Animal rightists" who eat meat & pen up pets while accusing hog farmers of cruelty.)
To: myknowledge
GOOD!!! I hope he burns in Hell!!!
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posted on
02/04/2010 4:16:48 PM PST
by
Ronin
To: the invisib1e hand
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.
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posted on
02/04/2010 4:18:19 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
("Contrary to what politicians expect us to do, let's stop and think. " ~Thomas Sowell, of course)
To: Tax-chick
For the record, I think its terrible that the cat was abused, and that the man killed himself.That's beside the point.
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posted on
02/04/2010 4:20:05 PM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
(governance is not sovereignty [paraphrasing Bishop Fulton Sheen].)
To: myknowledge
Not everyone’s qualified to be a human. It takes not only the accident of birth but also some effort.
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posted on
02/04/2010 4:21:11 PM PST
by
Dumpster Baby
(Truth is called hate by those who hate the truth.)
To: Tax-chick
maybe we oughts to ping JR to have his techs build some kind of “dangling modifier” checks into the HTML?
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posted on
02/04/2010 4:22:06 PM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
(governance is not sovereignty [paraphrasing Bishop Fulton Sheen].)
To: Dumpster Baby
this post, your frname, and the tagline have pretty much redlined my “deep thoughts” meter.
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posted on
02/04/2010 4:23:13 PM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
(governance is not sovereignty [paraphrasing Bishop Fulton Sheen].)
To: LostInBayport
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.
To: myknowledge
A sad tragedy all around.
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posted on
02/04/2010 4:36:01 PM PST
by
valkyry1
(cant)
To: Yossarian
And Gary Bassett will have no one else but himself to blame.
To him, abusing Mercy the cat was venting out the anger.
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posted on
02/04/2010 4:38:37 PM PST
by
myknowledge
(F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
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