This is just disgusting... Teens take part in "coon bashing" on rural roads.

[TheMightyFavog]

http://greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20090408/GPG0101/90408119/1978


Driving along dark country roads and using a high-powered spotlight, the group spies a hapless animal meandering along the shoulder.

Armed with baseball bats and clubs, the teens leap out of the vehicle and attack the animal, clubbing it to death. As proof of the kill, the teens take pictures of their quarry in order to accumulate points in this twisted game.

This game of “coon bashing” is being played out along rural roads in Dodge and Columbia counties, law enforcement officials say.

On Friday, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources officials — acting on a tip received by the Dodge County Sheriff’s Department — apprehended a group of Beaver Dam High School students and their friends on suspicion of “coon bashing” near Pardeeville and Rio.

Got a bunch of future serial killers right there.

[BOSSHOG]

1. In the afternoons

they call sean hannity up and tell him what a great American he is.

[grantcart]

3. and then they turn on Glenn Beck and weep at how America is becoming a dictatorship

[Orrex]

2. I have to confess that I'm a little bit relieved

When I saw "coon bashing" in the subject line, I was bracing for much worse.

[Voltaire]

8. Me too. . .

I was QUITE nervous there

[On the Road]

16. The Term "Coon Hunting"

was always a little ambiguous in the South.

[Captain Hilts]

18. Yep. nt

[asdjrocky]

36. Not to the coon.

[Ron Green]

29. I've seen "much worse" happen.

50 years ago in the rural South where I grew up, white boys would go "n_______ knocking," in which one perp in the back of the pickup truck wielded a long pole to whack a black pedestrian behind the knees as the driver overtook him on a rural road. I suspect there were blows to the backs and heads of the victims as well.

I sometimes relate this to someone who starts reminiscing about the Good Old Days.

[TwilightGardener]

4. That's not much worse than deliberately running over critters, which is the

state sport of Nebraska, after Husker football. Country people can be some sick, cruel pups.

[Blue Diadem]

15. yes they can. I've seen and heard of people doing that here too. n/t

[sufrommich]

5. Future serial killers. nt

[flvegan]

6. I'll say it again: Some people just suck.

[aquamarina]

What is wrong with these people?

Yesterday, someone posted a story about an ex-boyfriend who broke into the ex-girlfriend's house and killed her dog by cooking it in the oven and now this.

The amount of violence occuring in this country is almost too much to bear.

[Blue Diadem]

14. Our local news had a video and story about someone encouraging their dog to attack and kill a cat

They were trying to determine where it happened. I don't know where they got the video. I saw some of it, they posted the less graphic parts in hopes someone might recognize or know the area.

[KittyWampus]

7. how is it that a rabid raccoon hasn't bite at least one of this sick bastards yet?

[Sebastian Doyle]

11. Maybe one did?

It would make sense that a literally rabid freeper was behind such a thing.

[CoffeeCat]

9. Today's sociopaths. Tomorrows neocons.

This is just horrific.

Anyone who can do this, and not feel disgust and sadness--has been emotionally stunted.

[Echo In Light]

13. No, just 'normal,' "all American," sports lovin, beer swillin 'boys will be boys'

Just ask their families, girlfriends and school peers. They'll tell ya

[driver8]

22. I was an All American, sports lovin', beer swillin' boy...

and this would have never entered my mind, I can assure you.

These kids are fucking sociopaths.

[Dr Fate]

24. Same here- I'm a Georgia Boy. Torturing animals never entered into the picture. n/t

n/tn/t

[Echo In Light]

28. As was I, minus any sports fascination...and I saw plenty of this mentality growing up...

...in the midwest, usually among those who were considered the pillars of the community, the most popular in school, stars of the athletic team, etc.

My point is simple; given how many bullies and sadist shitbags I saw rise to the top of the social hierarchy in several schools between IA and IL in the 80s, I seriously doubt all of them were destined for serial killer-dom ... more likely climbing corporate ladders, and fulfilling middle management positions in the McJob indestroy.

[WildEyedLiberal]

33. Well, most sociopaths aren't serial killers

In fact, the vast majority of them probably ARE climbing corporate ladders.

These sick fucks are definitely sociopaths. No one else could so casually cause pain and suffering to a living creature.

[Echo In Light]

40. That's what I was alluding to: it's comforting to categorize 'them' as "serial killers"

When in actuality it speaks to something that's unfortunately more familiar in the pop culture/public mind. The ones involved with this type of animal killing are of the same mindset of those who invent hazing horrors in their schools and athletic teams - a classic example of how the supposed 'best' can show their true colors.

[doctor jazz]

46. Same here. Cow tipping was about as radical as we ever got.

;-)
Seriously though, if I ever saw somebody beating a little animal to death, I very well might give them some lead which when picked out of the body could be used as fishing weights.

[taxjustice51]

10. In fact, yes........

As I recall, cruelty to animals is a common thread running through serial killers.

[sinkingfeeling]

12. I'm sure they think of themselves as 'great hunters'. Disgusting. I spent my lunch hour

rescuing a small gray squirrel from my dogs. I plan to take the injured (lost most of its tail) animal to a wildlife rehabilitator this evening.

[Captain Hilts]

17. Disgusting. You can really judge people by the way they treat animals. nt

[Occam Bandage]

19. A much better story than I was fearing. nt

[bullwinkle428]

20. Future serial killers or future Presidents?

I guess it all depends on who their Daddies are!

[MineralMan]

26. You have a point. Didn't ** blow some frogs up reel good,

or something like that?

[Vidar]

45. There's a difference?

[driver8]

21. This makes me sick.

WTF is wrong with people that they would take pleasure in this??

How about a game called "redneck teen bashing"?

[Lance_Boyle]

25. "redneck teen bashing"

I think Gov. Palin is out to make that Alaska's new state sport.

[MineralMan]

23. Little shits! There are folks there in Wisconsin

who would stop and give those boys a bit of their own medicine if they caught them doing that. Sadly, they'd be the ones who got in trouble, rather than the boys.

Bring back the stocks in the public square for this kind of crap, I say. Put these shitheads in the stocks and put a bucket of rotten eggs where anyone can grab one and throw it at them. Leave them in there about 8 hours on a nice hot Summer day, then send them home to their mothers.

[Taitertots]

27. They should just be hunting them with dogs

I don't want garbage eating raccoons running around, spreading rabies, biting dogs, and spreading out trash. I don't see why hitting them with bats would be so much worst than hunting them with dogs or traps. I can't imagine a raccoon would be alive after more than one or two hits. So it seems fairly humane to the animal. At worst all they were doing was violating hunting laws by using a spot light, which may be legal in wisconsin while hunting raccoons.

[Ikonoklast]

35. Secure your trash. Or do you just leave it out in the open?

Solve the problem.

[Taitertots]

39. Hunting and trapping them

Solves the problem just fine. Keep their numbers at a reasonable level.

My trash is in the garage.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

30. Didn't Immanuel Kant say......

that one can judge the character of a person by the way they treat animals? I thought that was one of the tenets of his "Categorical Imperative".

[Ignis]

31. But-but-but...I thought hunting was a sacred sport!

:shrug:

[TheMightyFavog]

42. This is not hunting. It's killing.

Hunting is done per federal, state, and local laws and regulations, and the hunter gets some use out of the animal after harvesting it. (meat, hide, etc.) This is just plain killing for the thrill of it, contrary to all laws and regs, as well as a waste of natural resources.

These little shits should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

[Ignis]

43. And if the animals in question aren't covered by regs?

What's the difference then? :shrug:

I understand that hunters like to glorify the killing they do under the auspices of a sport, but you're not honestly presenting a "No True Scotsman" approach to deciding who gets to be called a hunter, are you? I've known several ("sport-")hunters who freely admit that they don't use the meat from the animals they kill.

[TheMightyFavog]

44. If there's no legal season for the animal in question, it's poaching.

Plain and simple.

[Ignis]

49. So poachers aren't hunters?

See again, No True Scotsman. :hi:

[maxsolomon]

51. Lots of hunting doesn't involve eating the meat

My sister's neighbors would regularly give her deer carcasses as their wives didn't like venison, but they loved to hunt & mount the heads.

i don't see a large difference between that and this.

[doctor jazz]

47. I feel terribly sorry for you if you think this shit has anything to do with hunting.

:grr: :puke:

[Ignis]

48. Hey, thanks! You're a swell guy.

Personally, I feel sorry for dimwits who think "ad hominem" is an alternate spelling for "rational debate."

[mymessageboardid]

32. Here is the maggot's Myspace page

http://www.myspace.com/433759127

What a shock to see the confederate flag :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[WildEyedLiberal]

34. A Rebel flag in Wisconsin

:eyes:

Rebel flags are stupid anywhere, but they're *especially* stupid in the North.

[sufrommich]

37. What is "white construction" and why would it pay

$250,000 a year? :rofl:

[Ikonoklast]

41. He builds snowmen.

Must only work in winter as an 'artiste'.

Just another dumb kid that thinks he knows how the world works.

[Blue Diadem]

38. What is going on. I read this and then read in LBN about a porch full of dead animals.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3822301

Caution for direct link: There is a picture there showing the animals and intestines that are draped around.

http://www.freep.com/article/20090408/NEWS06/90408048/College+newspaper+editor+finds+animal+carcasses+draping+porch

People are sick.

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