Tuesday, June 08, 2004
You Can Lead A Horse To Water...
Anyone who knows me knows that I adore and love animals. In fact, I’m quite often much more fond of them than I am of many humans, so it enrages me to no end when people abuse animals. What angers me almost worse than that is that many of these people get extremely light sentences or fines when they should be serving along the chain gang as far as I’m concerned.
As the years go on, I’ve noticed that the punishments are getting a wee bit harsher. Here in beautiful Texas a judge has handed down one hell of a slap in the face to the guilty party and I am delighted.
A Taste Of Her Own Medicine
A 28 year old......female.....was found guilty of animal cruelty in regards to her two horses. She gave them no food nor shelter for four months.
So, the judge has decided that not only will she spend 30 days in jail, her prison cell will have enlarged photos of her horses, in their condition, so that she will get to look at them all day long and never forget why she’s behind bars in the first place.
Oh....but it gets better.
The judge has also ordered that this disgusting waste of flesh will also survive for three days on bread and water alone.....to let her get a taste of what hunger really feels like.
I personally know what hunger feels like.....it’s excrutiating so I’m ecstatic that she has to endure this. I hope it hurts, I hope it keeps her up at night with the pain, I hope she gets major headaches and I hope it makes her feel sick.
That story was the first thing I read today so you’ll understand when I tell you that it was a wonderful beginning. Then I had to go to work and it was raining outside but not very much and I didn’t take time to read my weather alerts, (was too busy laughing with joy at this woman’s sentence), so I was unprepared. I began my long, gimpy limp fest towards work and about half way there, the clouds exploded and dumped their buckets over us.
I was soaked. And I loved absolutely every minute of it.
Some people weren’t loving the rain today however. Flood watches are in affect, another county got a tornado and in downtown Houston, The Roof Of A Building Collapsed under the weight of the rain.
I have seen more rain in this town than I ever did in Seattle. When it rains here, it fricken RAINS! Knowing this, I guess I just don’t understand why there isn’t better drainage, why flat roofs aren’t updated instead of allowing the water to just sit there and build weight and why on EARTH these people in this city have no idea how to drive in it.
When you have 2 inches (or more!) of water on the road, that is not the time to slam the accelerator. It means put your headlights on so everyone ELSE can see you, slow down, BACK OFF! the bumper in front of you and settle down!
Ah well, I’m just going to sit back and imagine horse abuser shivering with fatigue, curled up in a corner of her cell, maybe rewarded with hallucinations as her horses stare at her, bore their eyeballs into her soul, day in and day out, night after night after night, their eyes, constantly following, threatening to eat her bread and drink her water, pawing at the cell floor with their hooves, neighing menacingly, maybe they’ll even start talking to her like Mr. Ed! Maybe she’ll go insane! Oh I hope so! That would be justice.
<--- Here Endeth The Lesson
