"Ban Fighting Dogs" <none.TakeThisOut@none.com> wrote in message
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> http://www.tribnet.com/news/local/story/4500259p-4478122c.html
>
> Mom can't believe dog that attacked girl released
> ADAM LYNN; The News Tribune
>
> The mother of a 7-year-old Tacoma girl attacked by a pit bull is outraged
> authorities haven't confiscated the animal.
>
There was a time in the Middle Ages ...when animals were held accountable to
the same laws as men, and could be brought into court, tried, and sentenced.
http://www.firth.com/filmdis/thotp/thotp-part1.html
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The judge declared:
"We, in detestation and horror of the said crime, and to the end that an
example be made and justice maintained, have said, judged, sentenced,
pronounced and appointed, that the said porker, now detained as a prisoner
and confined in the said abbey, shall be by the master of high works hanged
and strangled on a gibbet of wood near and adjoinant to the gallows and
place of execution."
The year was 1494; the place, a French monastery. On trial was a pig,
interred for the crime of having "entered a house and disfigured a childšs
face, wherepon the child departed this life". The presiding judge was Jehan
Levoisier, licentiate in law and grand mayor of the church and monastery of
Saint Martin de Laon of the order of Premonstrants. The punishment;
execution.
Child-killing swine were apparently a regular medieval hazard. There are
numerous accounts of pigs being strung up on the gallows as a deterrant to
potential wrongdoers.
One sixteenth century jurist made his reputation at the bar defending the
provincešs rats. Bartholomew Chassenee was able to successfully argue that
first, more time was needed to notify so many rodents of the trial date, and
second, that they could not possibly attend trial when to do so would put
them at risk of confronting their mortal enemy, the cat.
In Toulouse, in medieval France, a man was charged with having sex with his
donkey. The man was hanged. But the donkey was spared, after impassioned
pleas convinced the court that she was not a willing or compliant victim.
In 1906 in Switzerland, a man was killed and robbed by Scherrer and his son
"with the fierce and effective cooperation of their dog". All three
murderers stood trial, but while both men received life sentences, the dog
was condemned to death.
An example [should] be made:
http://www.abc.net.au/animals/program4/factsheet1.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/animals/program4/transcript.htm
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NOT ONLY WERE INSECTS, reptiles and small mammals, such as rats and mice,
legally prosecuted and formally excommunicated, but judicial penalties,
including capital punishment, were also inflicted upon larger quadrupeds.
Numerous extracts from the original records of such proceedings are given,
and also a list of the kinds of animals thus tried and condemned, extending
from the beginning of the 12th to the middle of the 18th century, and
comprising in all 93 cases. The culprits consist chiefly of flies, snails,
worms, rats, pigs, cows, dogs, mules, etc.
The culprits are a miscellaneous crew, consisting chiefly of caterpillars,
flies, locusts, leeches, snails, slugs, worms, weevils, rats, mice, moles,
turtle-doves, pigs, bulls, cows, cocks, dogs, asses, mules, mares and goats.
Only those cases are reported in which the accused were found guilty.
A merciful judge granted the culprit be slightly singed then strangled
before being committed to the flames...Sometimes brutes were doomed to be
buried alive.
ANIMALS HAVE BEEN EVEN PUT TO THE RACK in order to extort confession.
IN 1266, AT FONTENAY-AUX ROSES, near Paris, a pig convicted of having eaten
a child was publicly burned by order of the monks of Sainte Genevieve...The
sow was dressed in man's clothes and executed on the public square. As if
to make the travesty of justice complete, the sow was dressed in man's
clothes and executed on the public square near the city-hall at an expense
to the state of 10 sous and 10 deniers, besides a pair of gloves to the
hangman.
BRUTES AND HUMAN CRIMINALS were confined in the same prison and subjected to
the same treatment. Thus, Toustain Pincheon, keeper of the prisons of our
lord the king in the town of Pont de Larche, [acknowledges the receipt,]
through the hand of the honourable and wise man, Jehan Monnet, sheriff of
the said town, of 19 sous 6 deniers tournois for having found the king's
bread for the prisoners detained, by reason of crime, in the said prison.
BUGGERY WAS UNIFORMLY PUNISHED by putting to death both parties implicated,
and usually by burning them alive. The beast, too, is punished and both are
burned, says Guillielmus Benedictinus, a writer on law, who lived about the
end of the fourteenth century. Thus, in 1546, a man and a cow were hanged
and then burned by order of the parliament of Paris, the supreme court of
France. The beast, too, is punished and both are burned.
A bitch, his accomplice, was sentenced to be knocked on the head by the
executioner of high justice and "the dead bodies of both to be burned and
reduced to ashes." Killed before his eyes were a cow, two heifers, three
sheep and two sows, all partners in his brutalities. It is furthermore
added that if the said Guyart, who seems to have contumaciously given
leg-bail, cannot be seized and apprehended in person, the sentence shall, in
his case, be executed in effigy by attaching his likeness in painting to the
gibbet.
IN THE CASE OF JACQUES FERRON, who was taken in the act of coition with a
she-ass at Vanvres in 1750, and after due process of law, sentenced to
death, the animal was acquitted on the ground that she was the victim of
violence and had not participated in her master's crime of her own
free-will. The animal was acquitted on the ground that she was the victim.
IT IS RATHER ODD that Christian law-givers should have adopted a Jewish code
against sexual intercourse with beasts and then enlarged it so as to include
the Jews themselves. The question was gravely discussed by jurists, whether
cohabitation of a Christian with a Jewess or vice versa constitutes sodomy.
http://www.aarrgghh.com/no_way/clawClaw.htm
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http://www.ragz-international.com/midintellectual.htm
> Diana Inskeep said her daughter, Emily, required surgery after the
> 2-year-old dog, named Zeus, clamped down on the girl's left arm and "shook
> her like a piece of meat" after she got off the school bus Friday.
>
>
> Instead of seizing the dog, animal control officer Kim Larrison released
it
> to Inskeep's neighbor, who had been looking after the dog on the day of
the
> attack.
>
>
> "I was stunned," Inskeep said.
>
>
> The neighbor, Cheryl Cooke, then gave the dog back to its owner, with whom
> it is serving out a 10-day quarantine mandated by the Pierce County Health
> Department.
>
>
> A spokesman for the Tacoma-Pierce County Humane Society refused to say
> Monday where the dog is being held, saying the case is under
investigation.
>
>
> Spokesman Tom Sayre said Larrison had no choice but to turn the dog over
to
> Cooke. Under state law, dogs are considered personal property and can't be
> seized without due process, Sayre said.
>
>
> "We are extremely concerned about the safety of the community and
especially
> children," he said. "But we have to follow the law."
>
>
> The City of Tacoma contracts with the Humane Society to provide animal
> control services inside the city.
>
>
> Inskeep said her daughter might need physical therapy to help her regain
> full movement in her arm.
>
>
> Plus, the dog already had a reputation for aggressiveness in the
> neighborhood before it bit her daughter, she said.
>
>
> "He killed a neighbor's cat just a few weeks ago," Inskeep said.
>
>
> A veterinary technician who saw the attack and helped get Emily to safety
> said she believes Zeus should be killed.
>
>
> "I see a lot of dogs. Dogs will bite when they're scared or threatened.
This
> was an unprovoked attack," said Lorraine Snyder, who was driving by when
she
> saw the dog charge Emily from behind and clamp onto the girl.
>
>
> "I know people will say pit bulls get a bad rap. But whether it was a pit
> bull or a Chihuahua, this was an unprovoked attack. Honestly, it needs to
be
> euthanized."
>
>
> Snyder said Zeus lunged at her after she came to Emily's aid and later
tried
> to bite firefighters who responded to the scene.
>
>
> Sayre said the Humane Society's chief investigator has made the case his
top
> priority and might recommend that Zeus be declared legally dangerous
should
> he find evidence the attack was unprovoked.
>
>
> Such a recommendation would kick off a legal process that ultimately could
> require the dog's owner to turn Zeus over to authorities or agree to abide
> by stringent conditions to keep the animal.
>
>
> They include muzzling the dog when it is outside, housing it in a sturdy
> enclosure with both a floor and a roof and taking out $250,000 in
liability
> insurance on the animal, Sayre said.
>
>
> "We are doing anything we can under the law," he said. "We should come to
a
> conclusion rather quickly on this one."
>
>
> Cooke said she feels awful about what happened but said Zeus normally
isn't
> dangerous. He accidentally got out Friday while she was watching him for a
> former roommate, she said.
>
>
> "He has never shown any aggressiveness," said Cooke, who has two young
> grandchildren who have been around the dog. "He barks sometimes, yes,
> because the kids in the neighborhood tease him."
>
>
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