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Post by renoman on Jul 18, 2007 8:12:32 GMT -5
Feds: Falcons QB, cohorts executed pit bulls that failed fight tests JULY 17--NFL star Michael Vick was indicted today on a federal conspiracy charge for his alleged role in a dog fighting venture that operated from a Virginia property owned by the Atlanta Falcons quarterback. A copy of the indictment, filed today in U.S. District Court in Richmond, can be found below. The 27-year-old Vick, whose nickname is listed as "Ookie" in the indictment, allegedly established the Bad Newz Kennels in early-2001 in Smithfield, Virginia. It was this property, for which Vick paid $34,000, that the star athlete and his codefendants used as the "main staging area for housing and training the pit bulls involved in the dog fighting venture and hosting dog fights." [/b][/i] www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0717072vick1.html
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Post by RapunzeL on Jul 18, 2007 18:53:56 GMT -5
I hope they throw the book at him......and a jack hammer......and a Chevrolet! You know he's going to claim that he was merely "putting the dogs down," so they didn't suffer. As for the dog fighting business, itself, I imagine he'll trot out some half-baked theory about it being a "cultural thing," just like cock fighting in Mexico. If he can watch an animal suffer for enjoyment, it's a small leap that he probably relishes watching humans suffer as well. Wouldn't wanna be his girlfriend, when he's having a bad day.
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Post by okayplayer on Jul 19, 2007 11:08:23 GMT -5
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Post by xiØn on Jul 19, 2007 11:32:33 GMT -5
I suspect this will end with a GIANT check to the Humane Society.
Maybe a whole years salary.
Then perhaps a 1 year suspension next season.
He will still play this year though. And EVERY stadium he attends will be picketed by animal rights activists.
Gonna be a circus.
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Post by richie on Jul 19, 2007 13:35:13 GMT -5
Hang, drown or burn his sorry a$$ just like he did to the dogs. He's a pice of scum along with the rest of the idiots he was involved with. I'm sure someone will find a way out of this for him.
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Post by renoman on Jul 20, 2007 21:10:26 GMT -5
He is going to die a horrible death!
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Post by xiØn on Jul 21, 2007 10:44:26 GMT -5
WTF ever happened to innocent till proven guilty ?
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Post by jdabler on Jul 21, 2007 12:48:15 GMT -5
That's only in a court of law, X... Sadly, in the court of public opinion, there is no such standard...
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Post by mrskramer on Jul 22, 2007 10:27:48 GMT -5
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Post by goliath on Jul 22, 2007 12:40:02 GMT -5
Need I remind everyone that these were LANDSHARKS!!! For crying out loud thats all these things are good for fighting and dieing. Oh and attacking small children and bitting off half their faces.
Teah lets feel sorry for these dead mongral dogs now. Please who gives a shit.
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Post by renoman on Jul 22, 2007 19:00:19 GMT -5
Well then G, lets just all go crazy, I know HOW, you wanna let me go crazy on people that offend me??? PLEASE ANSWER!!!
JIM
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Post by goliath on Jul 22, 2007 21:10:57 GMT -5
Well then G, lets just all go crazy, I know HOW, you wanna let me go crazy on people that offend me??? PLEASE ANSWER!!!
JIM Don't know what this is about but screw it RENO go crazy if you want I could give two shits. If me saying something about some dogs that everyone knows are fcuking retarded inbreed pieces of garbage offends you too bad. If you feel the need to go of then go off. Did Vick break the law yeah and he should be punished. I could care less about those dogs though. The entire breed should be executed to the brink of extension fcuk they should all be destroyed.
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Post by renoman on Jul 22, 2007 21:44:52 GMT -5
Where does it STOP? I could take bad dawg a lot further, and I do not need to go furver!!!
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Post by jdabler on Jul 23, 2007 9:49:20 GMT -5
I've got no love for Pit Bulls. Don't like 'em, don't wanna be near 'em. Am I reacting to a stereotype painted by the media? More than likely. While I don't like the breed, it is WRONG to do what Vick allegedly did - filing their teeth down to razor sharpness, electrocution, putting glass in their fur to keep them constantly irritable. That's just wrong. You can't make a dog violent and then scream that the breed is bad.
And, since he's been indicted, I think the Falcons should suspend him (with pay, why not?) until everything is finalized. If he's found innocent, he gets to play. If he's found guilty, he's gone. Done. Period. but, I don't think it's right to sentence him to anything since an indictment is NOT a statement of guilt. Lots of innocent people get indicted on circumstantial evidence quite regularly (or so I read).
BTW - You do realize that Golden Retrievers (purported to the one of the most gentle breeds) have attacked people, too, right? And German Shepherds. And Labs. And.. And... But, you never hear about them (or rarely).
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Post by okayplayer on Jul 23, 2007 13:05:19 GMT -5
I don't think the breed matters, what he did was wrong.
Chicken fighting is wrong, anytime you have to animals fight till their bloody death, you deserve punishment. That's what he may get.
We'll just have to see
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