[Truesonic]

Guy throws dog off bridge, posts video on the internet, gets caught

http://www.news.com....708-401,00.html

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INCENSED internet users have united to catch a man who threw a helpless dog off a busy bridge.

A Lithuanian man was filmed by friends joking that "dogs can fly" before throwing the dog, the Daily Mail reports.

The footage was then posted on the internet, initially sparking outrage on Lithuanian websites before spreading across the world.

Footage of the incident shows the man carrying the dog - which appears calm in the man's arms - to the side of the bridge.

The video also shows a friend filming the incident on a mobile phone, all laughing as the offender prepares to throw the dog.

After checking that no traffic is around, the man walks to the side of the bridge and calmly throws the dog.

Heartbreaking footage shows the dog hitting the ground before yelping in pain and appearing unable to move.

According to the Daily Mail, the dog miraculously survives the fall, with vets later treating it for internal injuries.

The Mail reports that as footage of the incident spread across the internet, Facebook groups and online forums united to catch the offender.

They posted photos of the man, with local police recognising the offender.

The man, identified by the Daily Mail as Svajunas Beniuk, eventually handed himself into police, who later issued a statement to internet users thanking them for their help.

The offender now faces animal cruelty charges.

Not posting the original video but you can find it if you look it up.

Being the dog lover I am I'm saddened by this but happy the dog survived. How much faith in humanity did you lose this time guys?

[Sheepish]

I didn't lose any faith in humanity since I had none to begin with.

Anyway it's a sickening thing to do and I'm glad the dog is still alive.

[Arbiter]

My faith in humanity went up by 9000!

No, seriously. I can't believe people have this much... Sick desires in themselves. What did he hope to accomplish?

In all honesty, my faith has now gone into the negatives. I believe that people can be sick, and this doesn't surprise me on the sickometer.

I have heard and seen far worse.

[Shockhog]

I was going to post something sarcastic about my faith in humanity, but it seems Arbiter has already beat me to it.

So I'll just further point out that this is stupid and wrong. More emphasis on stupid because:

1. He broke the law
2. He threw a living animal off of a bridge
3. He posted the whole thing on the internet.

Way to go, funny man.

[RaeLogan]

I won't watch it... I refuse...

I'm an avid and extreme animal lover (not a vegan or all PETA, but I care...). I grew up with pets ranging from cats to dogs to turtles to chickens to fish to birds to rabbits to hamsters and even cavies. I interact with snakes and lizards even, and even have a 90% success rate with rescuing critters from my cat's jaws. I've even taken care of formerly abused pets. Any form of animal abuse jus breaks my heart... Even if I don't know the animal at all.

I cannot even begin to fathom how someone can come to actually throwing a dog off a bridge. When a cement block barely missed my cat's foot when I was moving it, I freaked out. When my dog's ear got nicked by the scissors when trimming the hair around it (it grows long and can get matted if we don't), I cried and nearly had a panic attack (we've had her since 1999, and she's been my friend since I was 9. I feel bad if she's hurt under my watch).

When I was little, I was bullied by other kids bigger than me, and thier favorite choice of torment was to tie my other cat (he died when a truck hit him one night. The guy knocked on every door until someone could intentify my cat, and brought him to our house placed carefully in a shoebox. The fact the he had the good in him to not leave Tigger there until morning, and appologize deeply shows that there's some good still in the world.) to thier bikes by his foot and drag him through our trailer park. The parents never saw it, and my mom lacked solid proof to report it. So I was stuck watching him get hurt until they got bored. I couldn't do anything because I was much smaller than them, and scared. That resulted in my general paranoia about my pets. Those kids are long gone now, but I still get paranoid...

To know that someone could hurt an animal for amusement, that hurts. The only shows on Animal Planet I never watch is those ASPCA shows, because it's always a sad story of sick, injured and dying animals neglected by humans. Sure, there are somehappy endings, and others are accidents, but it's too much.

I almost failed Physiology because of the cat discecting part. Yes, the cat was dead. But I felt wrong having to look what's in it. I refused to do the actual cutting, but I did the written test. Then I made sure to dispose of the cat the respectful way (as in carefully and as if it was mine.), but it didn't help that the rest of the classmates were tkaing the faces apart after the class segment, using them like masks, and crushing the bones, thinking they were funny. The teacher was so disappointed with them. And the kids just laughed when I freaked out when one of the cats looked just like my cat that had died of a corn allergy months prior. They put my cat's name on the tag, and kept trying to draw my attention to it.

Then, as I'm sure you heard, my dog Jak was a rescue off the streets. His fur was burnt off and he was obviously abused in one way or another because he shows signs of fear and agression towards moving feet, shoes, hands reaching behind his head, anything moving quickly to him, and reaching under him. He hides his face, and burrows himself under blankets and curls up aganst me, shaking if he got scared. He's even got nightmares. All because someone did something to him.

For a couple weeks, each one of our cats returned home wtih a twisted or sprained ankle after a new guy who moved in the nieghborhood told us he hated cats, and warned us to keep them away. Seriously? We and our cats were there first, and our cats had already owned that territory with the feral populace. What could or cats do that justifies a spiral fracture to the foot?

But, from reading that report, I'm at least happy that the poor dog survived the fall, and I wish best of luck. Internal injuries are bad, and can leave lasting damage. Seeing any form of animal cruelty is a good glimpse of the real bad in a person. Only someone who is bad to the core could laugh and injure a creature that can't defend itself against them...

Now, I realize that it seems I might be all on the animals side, but I'm reasonable. Say that the dog had rabies and was lunging for the guys throat, and the only optioned it seemed for protection was to shove the dog off the bridge to save himself because he was about to get mauled.

Or maybe it was a wild dog and the dog was starving and saw him as food source...

Or the dog had a psycological problem and was dangerous.

But no. The guy was joking about dogs not being able to fly? That justifies throwing a dog off a bridge? Would he think it was funny if some guy was throwing him off a bridge to prove he can't fly? Does anyone realize that if an animal can feel pain, that we should respect that and all? An animal cries out because he's hurt, then he's a living creature that may be on the same emotional level as us. Sure, they can't talk like us, but they are evolved enough in the evolution chain that they can process the same emotions and feelings as us.

There is nothing humorus causing something physical damage.

(Sorry, I'm just sensitive about these things...)

[Nightwing]

It is a creature that thinks and feels. Doesn't matter if it can understand things to my extent or not. If it can feel and think kinda like me.... then it should not be forced to feel like we would feel being thrown off a bridge! Only scum do that and should be treated as such. Electric chair... gas chamber, i'm not that bothered. Die. All of you. Esp the guy on the vid.

[Dread Archon]

I've thankful and very relieved that the dog lived, but this man's crime is unforgivable. He's lucky he's in the custody of the police and I don't know where he is. He deserves nothing less than death; people such as him should not be allowed to live. His friends should die as well. How dare they condone and laugh at such behavior?!

I'm so offended and furious that I can't think of anything else to say. Filth such as them must be scoured from this planet.

[Blur]

Well, being the curious bastard that I am at these things, I tried to watch the video. But, I couldn't get myself to watch it to the actual part of throwing. It just didn't seem right. Seriously. Even in playing with the lives of animals, such as bullfighting, at least the bull has some chance of winning. This is just... Yeah.

It's disturbing to know that such a bunch of bastards live in the country just next to me. Though in the video I watched, they were called Latvians. And that offends me too, though less than throwing a dog off a frikin bridge.

[Aerospine]

Isn't bull fighting a bull agianst the human? Yeah the Bull only has a slim chance of winning even though he/she can snap a human like a twig *end sarcasm*

Anyway in all seriousness at this point I can't be shocked or angry anymore. This stuff happens so often you can practically bet the time of day when it will. Note that don't approve of those actions so don't call me heartless for seeming a bit uncaring. Though it is fortunate that the dog survived, and I just can't wish death upon these guys, nor do I really wish death on anyone regardless of actions, though I know they will get severely punished so that's that. Again sorry for seeming uncaring, but I just don't have anymore shock or anger for this.

[UFAlien]

I don't want to KILL the guy, but he clearly needs some sort of psychological help, and fast.

[Rune]

Psychological help, good idea Skaire. Perhaps he needs to be sat down and talk deeply about his past and problems..... from behind a shed........ to someone wielding a rifle. It's a good idea, it's just a shame that regret will be the second to last thing that goes through his head...

[Konacha]

Lets throw him off a bridge and see how he feels about it. This kind of stuff just makes me sick and feel like throwing up. I will tell you too that I've seen some really really sicking stuff in my time.

[Arbiter]

I have looked up more on this story, and am both saddened and disgusted at the end results.

http://www.ohmidog.c...lithuania-dies/

The dog, sadly, dies, but the man? If convicted, faces UP TO a year in jail.

Criminal Justice System = Fail.

This guy deserves the rest of his life in jail for this.

Well, that, or as some people have suggested, thrown off the bridge.

I'd rather have him drowned in sewer water however.

[RaeLogan]

:th_Cry1:

That poor dog! What did that dog ever do to deserve that?! You know that it must have been in pain up until he died, because he was thrown off a freaking bridge!

I think that guy should have a punishment equivalent to the effect of suffering he placed on that dog. Just because something isn't human, doesn't mean that there can't be justice for it.

Dogs have co-existed with humans as companions for longer than... was it writing or civilization? It was some important thing to humanity...

Anyway, dogs have been with us as loving companions and some go as far as to protect us to the extreme. I hear stories of dogs that pull people out of burning buildings, or even go into the buildings to alert the families before the fire flares up. Some dogs can detect seizures and will try and warn us. So dogs are even used as an extra set of eyes for people who can't see, and my great aunt who's deaf, had a dog (Queenie died of old age...) who protected her and even let her know when someone was at the door... Dogs are nothing short of remarkable animals. And all they want in return is to have love and safe place to live with you at.

To see that someone has violated one of the oldest of fellowships to make a joke is disturbing to me...

[HMYK]

That is disgusting, sometimes I hate people. That man should be shot. I get oversensitive when I read about animal abuse stories because when my aunt used to teach the kindergardens, she taught this one kid that took a cat, well I won't say the rest, but psychologists say that people who harm animals are more likely to do that to a human being.

[Rune]

Joking aside, it really does break my heart to see this happening. I'm sure he would have the fear of Bog in him when he too were thrown from such stomach-wrenching height. Simply because you can't hear an animal's screams or protests makes it okay to joke around and toss them from a height you wouldn't even toss garbage from? He complains this dog has been killing his mother's chickens, so he kills it? Didn't occur to.... I don't know, build a fence and enclose the area? Some people are just so desensitized by all this war crap and disgusting torment of others for their own amusement that I guess it just aids in turning their already warped minds into something monstrous. Unfortunately in this government, I'm not sure that they'll do something like order him to see a therapist or something. IF there's a chance to make this man change his ways, it would help. If not, at the very least it will help convict him in the future. I hope the men in jail are dog lovers too, give him a shanking.

[Didowe]

RaeSNOWgan, on 22 November 2009 - 10:23 PM, said:

I won't watch it... I refuse...

I'm an avid and extreme animal lover (not a vegan or all PETA, but I care...). I grew up with pets ranging from cats to dogs to turtles to chickens to fish to birds to rabbits to hamsters and even cavies. I interact with snakes and lizards even, and even have a 90% success rate with rescuing critters from my cat's jaws. I've even taken care of formerly abused pets. Any form of animal abuse jus breaks my heart... Even if I don't know the animal at all.

Did you grew up with a hedgehog?

Because I did :D ( I also grew up with a fox)


but that guys so evil too do that he needs to listen to a rickroll in a small room for the rest of his life

[Richard Ajax]

Can I say something please? OK, Good.

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I've thankful and very relieved that the dog lived, but this man's crime is unforgivable. He's lucky he's in the custody of the police and I don't know where he is. He deserves nothing less than death; people such as him should not be allowed to live. His friends should die as well. How dare they condone and laugh at such behavior?!

I'm so offended and furious that I can't think of anything else to say. Filth such as them must be scoured from this planet.

It would be a major understatement to say I am extremely disappointed in people like Dread Archon and Nightwing.

People that is going way too far into the extremes here. Yes, I am talking to you Dread, AND you Nightwing... yes you! And everyone else who thinks like that.

I would NEVER go as far as saying "that he doesn't deserve to live". This guy is human and I am rather glad that he is safe in the hands of authorites, AWAY from people like that.

And yes, I am strongly opposed to capital punishment.