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    07/31/09

    In reply to Suspected Cat Killer Asked Police For Deal
    I feel something wrong like disturbance in the force wrong if they give him a plea bargain. The guy needs help and 19 cats, with maybe more is a huge sign that something isn't right.
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    Image of eggwich del fiero eggwich del fiero
    07/31/09

    In reply to Suspected Cat Killer Asked Police For Deal
    Many serial killers have a history of killing animals, but not many people who kill animals go on to be serial killers. Let's get our venn diagrams straight, here. The same applies to juveniles involved in sexual offenses: kids who sexually offend are not sex offenders, they are kids who made bad decisions. To label them as future sex offenders is unjust, inaccurate, and self-fulfilling. If you want to start jumping the logic tree, just start arresting kids who've been sexually abused so they never have a chance to become abusers themselves. Slippery slopes, indeed.

    Is killing for fun wrong? Could kid use an intensive behavioral intervention? Are cats cute and do I like them? The answers to all these things are yes. Would I feel safer living by this kid than a 7 year old that drives around a 3,000 pound machine? Sure would.
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    07/31/09

    @eggwich of the hill people: I think the "future serial killer" assumption is based on him allegedly killing 19 cats (at least). This is no one-time shooting a pigeon in the park to see what it's like to kill something incident...
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    07/31/09

    @queensissy: He has issues, I'm not saying he doesn't, but to assume those issues will continue, and escalate, is irresponsible. There is a HUGE difference between killing humans and cats. I eat animals everyday, yet I don't plan on...

    Sorry for that last line, just playing the logical leap game.
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    Image of geckogirl geckogirl
    07/31/09

    @eggwich of the hill people: I understand what you're saying, but your initial comment isn't in response to anything specific here in the comments, so I'll take it as a random observation on some of the rest of the comments here.

    I don't care what he will do in the future, I care what he has done right now. Which is: to kill domestic animals. Killing an animal that was raised to be killed and then used as food (and hopefully with the rest of its body doing something marginally productive as well) is very different from torturing and murdering domestic animals which might have belonged to families (I'm not familiar enough with the case to know if they actually did) or should have at least gone to a shelter and been dealt with through legal channels.

    I don't think the issue here is if he will kill humans in the future but that he has done something abhorrent right now.
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    07/31/09

    @geckogirl: valid point, and fair enough. I just don't draw a line between animals raised for food and animals with which people form emotional attachments.

    And I think I've made the error of assuming that we were using the term serial killer to refer to the killing of humans. Apologies.
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    Image of BellaNotte BellaNotte
    07/31/09

    In reply to Suspected Cat Killer Asked Police For Deal
    I just keep thinking, this kid is 18. He's a baby. He wasn't born evil. How in the world did he turn out this way?
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    Image of colormeroutine colormeroutine
    07/31/09

    @BellaNotte: First of all: 18 is not exactly a baby
    Second of all: some people genuinely are born evil. Sociopaths are more often born than made
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    Image of mbprice mbprice
    07/31/09

    In reply to Suspected Cat Killer Asked Police For Deal
    Just to put it out there, people like this also usually suffered some sort of domestic abuse themselves. Not to mitigate his responsibility, of course, but it just goes to show that this cycle of violence usually goes back pretty damn far.
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    07/31/09

    @mbprice: I know violence creates violence. But do serial killers generally come from abuse? Because these killings seem to follow a sociopathic serial killer pattern to me that suggests something beyond a history of abuse.
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    07/31/09

    @mbprice: A very good point. People like this do not just pop up out of nowhere. There is often a history of abuse or trauma, as well as biological/genetic factors. It's not as simple as a guy waking up one day and deciding to kill cats.
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    07/31/09

    In reply to Suspected Cat Killer Asked Police For Deal
    Can we say Serial Killer in Training? (Well, he already is a serial killer, just not of humans).

    Also, this is why I'm glad to live in a state where animal torture is now a FELONY.

    http://www.animallawcoalition.com/animal-cruelty/article/346
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    07/31/09

    In reply to Suspected Cat Killer Asked Police For Deal
    This is one of those instances in which I preface my desire with "I'm usually not a violent person, but....." and then reveal my desire, which is to tie this piece of excrement to a pole and then heave bricks at his face until he's dead. I realize that this brand of violence is what you'd call extreme, but I simply cannot stomach the thought of a thing like this being allowed to continue breathing. This is also one of those instances that makes me want to just give up on humans altogether and go live in the woods with a menagerie of pets.
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    07/31/09

    @..now it's just Aesop's Foibles.: I would also like to add that I am not having a good day and that's why my latent humanity-hate is pouring out. Apologies.
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    Image of eggwich del fiero eggwich del fiero
    07/31/09

    @..now it's just Aesop's Foibles.: The proper preface would be "I like to pretend I'm not a violent person, but..."
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    Image of theovercoat theovercoat
    07/31/09

    In reply to Suspected Cat Killer Asked Police For Deal
    What disturbs me the most is how smug he looks in his mugshot.
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    07/31/09

    @theovercoat: I've said this before, but I'm betting that's a license pic. The blue background especially makes me think so.
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    07/31/09

    In reply to Suspected Cat Killer Asked Police For Deal
    This kid needs to get some serious mental help now, before he starts killing people. I hope they put him in jail for a loooong time, but he better undergo some intensive counseling, too.
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    07/31/09

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    Don't worry kid. You have a bright future in the NFL.
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    07/31/09

    In reply to Suspected Cat Killer Asked Police For Deal
    Casper the Bus Cat now has a passport and is taking his travel plans to Florida to kick this utter shit square in the balls.
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    07/31/09

    In reply to Suspected Cat Killer Asked Police For Deal
    You don't really like jail? Huh. Well I'm pretty sure cats don't like being skinned, and pet owners don't like having their beloved pets killed by a punk-ass sociopath.
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    07/31/09

    @bluewine: Dude, jail sucks. You know, unless it's for something 'violent'. Which doesn't include torturing animals.

    Insight into the mind of a sociopath, right there.
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    07/31/09

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    Justice will be served.
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    07/31/09

    @save jinger:

    You really have a jpeg or a gif for everything. And I love you for it!
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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    07/31/09

    In reply to Suspected Cat Killer Asked Police For Deal
    I don't really like jail...

    Oh, but jail will love you, pretty boy.
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    07/31/09

    In reply to Suspected Cat Killer Asked Police For Deal
    Sociopath.
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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    07/31/09

    In reply to Suspected Cat Killer Asked Police For Deal
    As long as I can tell you about the cats that I did, you can get rid of the others?

    Someone has been watching entirely too much Law & Order. Throw the book at him, Danno.
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    Image of J.D.Regent J.D.Regent
    07/31/09

    @NefariousNewt:Even though this is obviously very serious I had to laugh at "I'll give you one or two cats if the rest of them disappear."
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    07/31/09

    @J.D.Regent: It sounds like a person trying to imitate a sociopath more than it actually sounds like a sociopath, but if he really killed those cats....sociopath
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    07/31/09

    @J.D.Regent: Definitely dialog of someone trying for a bit part on The Sopranos as an FBI informant.
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