Man using gun to beat dog fatally shoots self

The State ^ | January 25, 2003 | By THE Associated Press

[Gamecock]

Winchester, Va -- A man trying to beat his dog to death with a gun was fatally wounded when the weapon apparently went off accidentally, police said.

Raymond Poore Jr., 43, called his wife Debbie at work Thursday and told her their dog had bitten him and he intended to kill the animal, police Capt. David Sobonya said.

The wife came home about 6 p.m. and found her husband unconscious, with a number of dog bites and scratches. Emergency medical personnel discovered that Poore had been shot. He was pronounced dead at Winchester Medical Center.

Sobonya said Poore must have beaten the 30-pound Chinese shar-pei with the butt of a rifle-shotgun when it discharged. He said the stock of the weapon, a .22-caliber rifle barrel atop a .410-gauge shotgun barrel, was broken and there appeared to be blood and dog hair on it.

The dog, a female named Bailey, was destroyed Friday morning by Frederick County, Va., animal control officers at Debbie Poore's request. The couple had gotten the dog from a friend about eight months ago.

Debbie Poore, a food service employee, said her husband had a history of sparring with the dog. "But I kept telling him, 'You shouldn't play rough with her,'‘" she said, declining to comment further.

Raymond Poore was convicted last year in Fauquier County of receiving stolen property, was sentenced in April to 12 months in prison and was released early, according to public records. He had several misdemeanor convictions in Fairfax and Spotsylvania counties.

[Gamecock]

Stop the contest, this guy should win this years Darwin Award!

[logic101.net]

Sounds like we are better off without this idiot.

MARK A SITY
http://www.logic101.net/

[Gamecock]

True, but it seems that idioys provide the most amusing examples of how to exit life...

[felinesforever]

The dog bites probably came after the beating, too bad the guy is dead, but He must have been a brutal monster. Their were other ways to handle the dog. The guy sounds like a mental midget! If the dog was having a fit or something, why not just shoot it since He had a gun, that would have been more merciful than a beating. >^..^<

[Kewlhand`tek]

you are suppose to shoot the dog not beat it with the gun. sounds like gun abuse to me

[South40]

Already posted

[billhilly]

As a boy growing up in Western Kentucky some said that we lived so far back in the sticks that we didn't get the Grand Ole Opry until Monday morning. Surely the Associated Press gets to South Carolina more quickly than that.

This story was posted about three days ago. $;^)

[Cultural Jihad]

Is the search function broken??
1st post: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/828985/posts
2nd post: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/829349/posts

[Cultural Jihad]

Haha! And a 3rd post.

[Hugin]

Let me be the first on this thread to nominate him for a Darwin Award.

[South40]

Not broken....just unused.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Let me be the first on this thread to nominate him for a Darwin Award.

You're the second.

Stop the contest, this guy should win this years Darwin Award!

1 posted on 01/26/2003 10:24 AM PST by Gamecock
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[Cultural Jihad]

Well, sometimes the title of the article is different in different publications, and it requires a little bit of sleuthing to ascertain whether it is here or not already. I myself have been snookered thusly once or twice.

[South40]

Perhaps so.

But I did a search before I posted mine and used the word "dog", as was present in all posts.

No such posts were found.

Pretty simple, really.

[South40]

The culprit.

[Cultural Jihad]

As I read between the lines, the man probably received bites in self-defense to begin with.

[Gamecock]

Is the search function broken??

I think so. I searched for dog twice...didn't get a single hit. I was suspicious because I read the article last night, and was amazed no one else had posted the article by noon today....

[Orion78]

Grandfather

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Equally Entertaining...

[Happy2BMe]

"As I read between the lines, the man probably received bites in self-defense to begin with."

What!? Self-defense against an attacking dog is now against the law too?

[Cultural Jihad]

Yes, I noticed that, too. I wonder is a three-letter word is just too small to search on. No matter, we all try the best we can, I'm sure.