Posted on 09/15/2019 12:13:39 PM PDT by NorseViking
Almost as much time as an Affluenza sufferer who paid big bribes to get their kid into prestigious schools but I’ll bet his jail won’t be nearly as nice.
While I personally approve of jail time for stupidity, Im not sure taxpayers are well-served by such a public policy.
I cannot say this strongly enough. There is something seriously wrong with people who will do this to an animal.
The punishment was far too lenient.
Florida Man strikes again!
Cowardly little man.
Chum the waters and set them a-swimmin’ or maybe drag them from a boat, like they did with the shark.
If they did such things to animals, what might they do to people?
What is wrong with these people, that they would commit such acts & then put them on social media for everyone to see?
They should’ve also been made to pay a heavy fine & many, many, MANY more hours of community service taking care of critters to make up for these crimes.
Next thing you know they’ll throw someone in jail for shooting a rattlesnake.
I don’t think we have a shortage of sharks.
My thought exactly. I know I am in minority now but thought a jail term for it is too much. Although it doesn’t make these gentleman good guys.
My thought exactly. I know I am in minority now but thought a jail term for it is too much. Although it doesn’t make these gentleman good guys.
Agreed.
...perform 250 hours of service at an animal shelter...
I’m sure he’ll treat the animals great!!
It’s like making a child molester do tutoring for 250 hours.
But a shark killing people was/is okay?
I know they don't have a spinal cord like fish, but Chefs drop live lobsters in boiling water.
I agree that wanton emotions show lack of character, but can we at least confine the penalty for cruelty to mammals that have a nervous system like our's?
I myself have bludgeoned a snake to death when my only handy tool was a stick.
It may have been stupid, but hardly a crime deserving jail sentence.
drag a shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo,
go to jail, doo doo doo doo doo doo,
drag a shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo,
go to jail!
There was a time, still around after I was born, when one of the most powerful societal controls was shame. When you have a society without shame, then the only available punishments come from government control, or taking the law into one’s own hands, neither of which tend to end well.
Benac, the animal abuser, just happens to be the son of a local County Commissioner.
Hence, the light sentence that was reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor.
There is never a reason, much less a good reason to treat even the most vicious of animals cruelly. It proves them better then we as they kill to sustain themselves, not for the pleasure of killing.
That said I’m curious as to the moral, and mighty social media allowing the video while they ban, cancel, censure conservative media. Quite curious.
I saw the footage of them laughing and grinning in court. If I were the judge and saw that I would have slammed them with the max sentences and fines possible. Affluent, arrogant, scumbags.
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