Why are some people so unbelievably evil?

LauraMax

LauraMax

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Yesterday someone in my town tied a dog to the back of a Fedex truck. The driver didn't realize it until after she'd gone a couple of blocks. When she did realize it, instead of calling for help she untied the poor thing & left it on the side of the road. Fortunately someone saw her & did get the dog help.

So right now he's at the vet with serious abrasions & what they're calling "glove removal" (I'm sure you can figure out what that means & the very thought makes me sick to my stomach & brings tears to my eyes). The town just paid $2K for his care & I expect there will be more bills in the future. Naturally my first reaction was to want to bring the dog home when it's ready so I could nurse it back to health, but I'm already nursing one sick dog & it's just not possible. That said, I will do everything in my power to make sure this dog is healed & finds a good home.

No dog license so we can't prosecute whoever did this terrible thing. Our AC officer will, of course, be contacting Fedex & may very well issue a summons for animal cruelty.

I just don't understand people. If you don't want a dog, can't you just tie it to a tree? Why the back of a truck? Or was it just some sick, sadistic a**hole? Not to mention we do have a no-kill shelter & the town is 2 freakin square miles, how hard would it be to drop the dog there? And how in the heck can that driver live with herself knowing she could've helped the poor thing & instead just dumped it on the side of the road?

This is something that will haunt me for a long, long time.
 
Laura, I hear you. I like to watch Animal cops on the animal channel, but I have to be in the right mood. It's very sad to see the way some people choose to treat animals. Here in Minneapolis a guy killed a litter of puppies , snapped their necks, because he was mad at his girlfriend. What the....?!
Unfortunately, there is nothing that we can do to stop these people, other than prosecution and donating money to the ASPCA to help these poor animals. Oh, and to also turn in the people that are doing this when we see it happening.
I had a neighbor across the street from us that dh was friends with. I didn't care for him that much. Anyway, he told me one day that they used to own 2 dogs at different times. No one in the family would take care of them, so one of them he drove into the city and left on a corner! The other he left in the middle of a field out in the country!! I was so discusted by him telling me this, I never went back over to their house when dh would go.
It's just unbelieveable what some people think is ok when it comes to treating animals a certain way.
Give your doggies a hug and kiss and be glad that they have you. Maybe that will help you feel better.

Kathy
 
I really hope there's a special level of hell for people who do these kinds of things to animals.

When I am feeling particularly unmerciful, sometimes I think the punishment for the perpetrator should be the same thing s/he did to the animal. You know - tie them into a sack with a good size boulder and throw them in the water, etc.
 
I'm with you eminemz2. Same treatment. Thing is, if this is how these people are treating animals, it's also how their treating other people, their own kids, etc. I hope they catch the FedEx driver and he/she is fired, fined and whatever else they can do.
 
There is a link between animal abuse and abuse against humans. Quite frankly anyone who would do that to a poor animal deserves to be locked away forever. Anyone who sees such abuse and walks by it like that FedEx driver did is cold and heartless and deserves a nasty punishment...

A side note - if I were Fed Ex, I'd fire the driver who left the dog on the side of the road, if even from a purely economic standpoint - as a veteran customer service person I would much rather deal with customers upset with late deliveries then have my company associated with a delivery person who would untie and animal in such a condition and not do everything she/he could to save the poor thing. Finding the driver will be fairly easy...
 
People are horribly sick! Listen to what has been going on here since August...

WARNING...THIS MAY BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU TO HANDLE...READ AT YOUR OWN RISK...VICTIM HERE INVOLVES A CHILD!!! YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!




Last August mom goes to park w/4 little kids (ages 3 and under). She has a heart condition, has a seizeure and passes out. Mom wakes up, needs to go to hospital, learns they only have 3 of the kids. Entire community is searching for the 3 year old autistic boy with the mentality of a 12 month old(note, he was a foster child). Businesses letting people off work to help search for the boy pressumed to have wondered off. I almost went out but knew the story didn't seem **right**....like (foster) mom says two other people saw her with the 4 kids but no one was stepping forward and saying "Yeah, we were talking at the swings and she had 4 kids with her".

Fast forward about 2 weeks and officials learn the autistic boy was never with her. She staged the whole thing. I week before her "performance in the park" foster mom and foster dad had wrapped the boy up in a blanket, secured it with duct tape and put him in a closet. They left for the weekend to go to a family reunion, returned 2 days later to find him dead. They took his body out to the middle of no where, tried burning the evidence several times before dumping him in the Ohio River.

How is that for over the top sick and cruel!!!
 
Sarah,

Child abuse is so close to me as a adoptive mother of 3 abused children. I felt compelled to post one of my DS's similar story...thank God he lived.

My youngest DS was wrapped and taped up in a blanket as an infant and lived the first year of his life that way in a crib in a dark room, fed on occasion...when he was taken out of his crib he was kicked and beaten and literally had his entire body broken. His broken body was never seen by a doctor until the breaks were "old" and he was taken into protective custody. He never received enough nourishment to grow, actually the doctors have no explanation other than the grace of God as to why he lived. My son is "God's Will" (although we use a family spelling of "Wil".)

I pray for the safety, comfort and souls of all children in the world every night and literally shed tears. I have been close to so many cases of child abuse, not just my children.

I say all of this (not for sympathy for my children, they are now healthy, beautiful and loving) to please encourage each of you that on any occasion you encounter a child and your gut says "somethings not right here"...please report it.

BTW, Christine is right. People who abuse animals are usually abusers of humans.
 
Melody, wow, you are a very special person to help these children out.
Not to steal your thread Laura, but i wanted to share a sad story that haunted me and made me cry, made me bawl.
DH has got a different friend, not the one across the street. He was a grandfather until one day his grandaughter died of 3rd degree burns that she had gotten from being in a hot tub. It turns out, that this poor little girl had lived with her mother and her mother bf and was getting sexually abused. So, the father took her in only to have his gf physically abuse her and then finally knock her out and put her in that hot tub that killed her, while the father was out in the shed getting high. I believe that she was 7 years old when she died. I still get teary eyed over that. That poor little girl, can you emagine what she lived through? No child deserves that. Just like no animal deserves to have any abuse happen to them.
There is a lot of evil in the world. It's very sad.

Kathy
 
I have no idea. A 22 year old man in my hometown beat a 19 month old baby to death last week because he had a fight with the baby's mom.
There were bruises and puncture marks on the baby.
This man does not deserve to live IMO.
 
Hi Kathy, (sorry Laura for brief hijack)

Please don't think I'm "special" or "helped these children out". They are my sons and I believe they were born to be my sons. They experienced all they did within the first year of life for 2 of them and within 2 mos after birth for another. They are MY children and anyone would do the same for their children.:)
 
I will. The vet said today the dog is doing much better & will likely recover fully. Thank goodness--I'm still having this visual run thru my head of the poor thing being dragged down the road trying to stop the truck w/his paws.

I can only guess that the Fedex truck was not going very fast & didn't go very far before the idiot driver realized the pup was tied there.
 
Ok, then how about this, your children are very lucky to have you, as you are lucky to have them in your lives. :D

Kathy
 
Maybe we should all email fedex and ask them what kind of people they hire! It's bad enough that the sadistic jerk tied the poor dog to the truck, but the fedex driver should be thrown in jail, IMO. And I, too, believe that the way people treat animals parallels how they treat people. If I meet a person who doesn't care about animals, well, I jusst have trouble seeing them as a nice person, you know?
 
This is a horrible story. I hope the dog will be ok. Laura did you actually see this happen? If not, I really don't know if I'd be so quick to judge the FedEx driver. Maybe she was in shock. It's not everyday you realize you've just drug a dog down the street. Maybe she called someone when she got in the truck. Maybe she couldn't look at the dog because of how aweful she felt. Maybe she thought it was dead. Maybe she knew the dog and someone is doing things like this to scare her. Maybe she is crying somewhere about the whole thing and is devastated and can hardly function. Maybe she saw the person coming to get the dog and was relieved because she couldn't handle it. Or she might be a totally cold and calous person, how could we even know with out hearing her say. Sadly lot's of people don't do the right thing in a situation like this. They then go over and over it in thier heads of what they could have done differently.
Sorry just another way to think of it. The person that tied the dog to the truck needs serious punishment and so does the driver if she just didn't care at all about the poor dog.
 
I live in a rural area at an intersection. For a long time the animal shelter "in town" would not accept animals outside the city limits. So, people with pets that reproduced or that they didn't want anymore had to either 1. find new homes for the pets 2. take them to the vet and have them euthanized or 3. drive around and drop them off somewhere. Since I live at an intersection I have taken in a lot of strays - about 4 large dogs and 7 cats over 13 years time that I have lived here. Many died younger than they should. I wish people would go and have the pets euthanized instead of dropping them off to starve.

This thread includes really bad instances, but there are so many things that are not so horrid that commonly happen to kids and pets that sometimes it seems loving parents (of both!) are hard to find.

Here's a couple of points that have come to my attention the past few months: a family of 3 teens near me live in a trashed out trailer- really horrid living conditions . Nice kids, friends with my 2 teens. They are all SOOO smart. Straight A honor roll advanced classes the whole shebang. I have preached at them many a time while driving them to our church - telling them not to get knocked up, to make something of themselves, etc. The oldest boy is graduating this year and has decided to join the military. He definitely could have gone to school on scholarships but needs a vehicle. The thing is he has been working and probably made enough $ to get a small junker, but his folks have taken all the $ he has made. Last yr. he was eligible to go across the country and attend some scholastic medical school camp. His folks just blew the letter off. My pastor got some sponsors and he got to go on the trip. Our church ladies contributed about $400 so he could get some decent clothes to take. His mom told him later that since he got those clothes , he was going to have to pay for his sisters back to school clothes from his earnings! I could tell a lot more - like the other really smart girl that graduated last year and is now working at the dollar store and paying rent to her parents that don't work! She is smart enough to be a lawyer or doctor. UGH
 
Sunnyside--sorry, but I just can't see it that way. At the very least she should have called someone. Of course she was traumatized, but I just can't believe she would leave that poor dog on the side of the road without a word to anyone.

My boss actually wants to go even further than I do--he wants the driver prosecuted for "not having control of her vehicle." Evidently the law states that you should be aware of all angles of your vehicle at all times. Personally I think this is a little harsh--I know I don't walk around my car every time I get in & out of it. And neither does he b/c I asked him. But I do think there's an animal cruelty case there.

A little clarification--no, thank god I did not see it. We've also discovered it was a Verizon truck, not a Fedex truck. This of course will make it more difficult to track down the driver b/c it's easier to pinpoint a Fedex driver on a certain road at a certain time of day since they drive specified routes, whereas Verizon trucks are all over the place at any given time. Of course whoever was on shift will be questioned but they'll probably deny any knowledge of it.

And naturally we'll never find the sadistic scumbag who left the dog in the first place. I agree w/the rest of you, I would love to tie him/her to the back of my car & drag him/her through town for a couple hours, preferably on vacant roads at top speed.
 
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