Andrea Rosebrock 
UPDATE 5/2/09 – Pitbull Burning Teens Finally Arrested!
Two pitbulls, one a recently pregnant and possibly nursing female and a male, were set on fire Saturday night in the Dallas, TX neighborhood of Pleasant Grove. Neighbors and children are still traumatized after witnessing the “fireballs” running down the street.
“I heard a whole lot of screaming, like a dog was crying. I looked out the window and saw a big ball of fire,” said Shun Hickman, neighborhood resident.
Neighbors rushed to help the dogs while others tried to chase down the teens, a 15 and 17-year-old that is believed to have set the dogs on fire before turning them loose in the street. Although the teens were gone by the time the police arrive, they were identified.
The two dogs were so badly injured that had to be euthanized.
The dogs were traced to an address where six other pitbulls were seized but no arrests have been made.
“One of these dogs, her face – it was practically burned off. It was just horrific, as bad as it gets,” said Jonnie England, Metroplex Animal Coalition. “They were in indescribable pain.”
Kids!! Again kids getting some kind of a sick thrill out of causing sufferig and pain. What the hell would make two teens set tow dogs on fire then release them into their neighborhood? The law needs to take a serious stand on this and show that animal cruelty is not a joke. Too many abusers getting a slap on the wrist is sending the message that people can get away it. I don’t give a damn if they are kids, kids do not do something like this, not normal kids. There is something seriously wrong with them that they think this is acceptable, a joke, funny!
Two dogs suffered incredible, excruciating pain. I only wish we could visit just a small amount of that on the scum that did this to them! Now that would be real justice!
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I read about this yesterday. It’s sickening.
Ya know, people are going to start getting sick of this and take the law into their own hands. Just like the Navy Seal in the other article who grabbed his gun at first thought. If stronger laws are not set in place, and/or the courts don’t hand out harsher punishments, people are going to start settling the score – BY THEMSELVES.
Andrea, I’ve never been a fan of vigilantism but when people keep seeing criminals getting away with murder, often literally, you have to wonder if in some case a little justice served up by the public isn’t deserved. I don’t advocate it but can see how it could happen. People are getting sick of being afraid and nothing being done about it. Criminals get more protection than victims. I love our country and believe in our rights but when something is black and white, people are going to be seeing red and combined with a lack of real justice, I have to agree, they may start settling scores themselves.
Deanna
Very good comment , but in the good old USA , most of these pukes would have a gun on them
Andrea and Deanna, I agree with both of you. God forbid, someone do something like this in my neighborhood, I would be in jail for using a baseball bat to the idiots who would do such a horrendous thing to any animal.
These two babies – RIP – no one will ever every hurt you again. And I am sorry you had to be the victims of the lowest scum of the earth. You did not deserve this treatment.
These kids should be tried as adults, and punished severly. If the parents of these two try to justify what they had done, they need to be penalized also. Here we go back to what type of parenting these two have had.
I wish I could get my hands on those two pieces of TRASH. They are old enough to know right from wrong so they clearly did it for their sick personal entertainment. I will show them what real pain is… I’d throw acid in their eyes and douse them in gas… then ask them to outrun my flaming lighter. Too bad the acid searing their eyes won’t get them far. They too will feel the most horrific pain before they perish into ashes!
AGAIN WHERE THE H*** ARE THE PARENT’S. I DO AGREE THIS 2 POS SHOULD BE TRIED AS ADULT’S & THE PARENT’S SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH CHILD NEGLECT.
The parents are working two or three jobs to support their kids. The chances are that it is a single woman with little marketable skills and too many kids. Stop asking where are the parents? Yes, the parents should be charged too, but then other parents will claim that is unfair to them. The kids hurt animals and animals are not important to the legal system or these families.
Wait a minute here Joan, who the hell here cares if the parents are working two or three jobs to support their kids? What about the rest of us, working our asses off – yes, two or three jobs ourselves, just to support our kids, be it two legged or four legged. I do not think any one here gives a rats ass if she is a single woman who has had too many kids, and no skills to get a good job. NOT OUR PROBLEM, AND NOT OUR FAULT By law, and if I am not mistaken, it is in all 50 states, parents, whether it be a single parent family or a two parent family, are responsible for their childrens’ actions until they are of legal age. Who cares what other people say, claiming unfairness. You know what is unfair? The fact that these two beautiful dogs had to be euthanized because of these a**hole kids. You tell me if you had a hard time looking at their pictures, and looking into their beautiful eyes, what the hell did they do to deserve to be set afire?
The hell with these kids and their parents. Yes, they should pay for what has happened to these two babies, AND they should never be allowed to own a pet or be within the proximity of any animal, because they obviously do not know anything about the LOVE OF THE DOG, and these jerks do not have any self respect, yes, I mean the parents and the kids.
You’ve got to be kidding me?! We should care because some parent has to work? We should care that some woman didn’t use birth control or self-control and now has “too many kids”? THIS should excuse egregious abuse and torture of innocent beings? I THINK NOT!!!
No, Joan, these kids AND the parents are at fault. BOTH should suffer the consequences and be eternally grateful that some of the folks on this list cannot get their hands on them and their psycho kids! They’re sickening and twisted at best and the parents most certainly are at fault! There are millions of kids being raised by hard working parents or a single parent who are not growing into vicious monsters…so, NO EXCUSE!!
How dare you stand up for this behaviour and try to not fault the parents?
Becky, thanks for your post. I was gettin worried that I took Joan’s post wrong. Now I know that I have not lost it!!lol
I fully agree with everything everyone here says.
As for myself, I don’t even have the proper words to describe how I feel or what I’d do to these two perps; it would not be good–for them. It would be great for animals and those of us who love them.
RIP, poor, poor babies; you ARE loved and cherished.
Scarlet, I know what you mean about not having the words, or at least the words you can actually use here. I get like that just about every day. It takes all I have to restrain myself from saying everything I feel and want to say. I just try to remind myself that I am better than the kind of scum that would do something like this. Sometimes it even helps. There’s nothing defenseless or innocent about these miserable cretins, that makes it harder.
Deanna
Deanna, I admire you precisely FOR your command of the language, among other remarkable traits you possess. (I’m afraid I’d have the “bad words” of a thesaurus worn-out, as I’m relatively unimaginative when I’m angry.)
Thanks Scarlet! Let me tell you something though, I really appreciate my readers and commenters more than I can even say because so many of you come to my rescue and say what I can’t. Many times when I finish writing, dissatisfied because I felt so held back, I just sit back and wait because I know that my friends will say what I didn’t but so badly wanted to.
D.
The filthy pieces of excrement that did this, shouldn’t be allowed to walk this earth!! All they are is human waste that are breathing our air! May those precious pups rest in peace!!
Now that the two teens have been identified and the law knows where they live, why have they not been arrested? The neighborhood should protest outside of the house, demanding justice! Show the faces of the boys, make sure the whole neighborhood and the high school is able to identify them. The teens pose a serious threat to the neighborhood, especially to the children living there. Setting dogs on fire as a joke shows sociopathic tendencies and makes the teenagers a threat to society. If nothing is done to the youth, if they experience no severe consequences, America and the boy’s parents have just created two criminals who will grow up to become murders and become a permanent drain on an already depleted economy. Us taxpayers will have to spend thousands to house and feed them as adults for many years.
Hey parents are you not disgusted and horrified by your sons’ behavior?! What punishment and consequences are you going to enforce, regardless what the law does or doesn’t do? Your sons have serious psychological problems that need immediate attention and counseling. If you love your sons get them help!
F****** B******* KILL THEM
“The law needs to take a serious stand on this and show that animal cruelty is not a joke. Too many abusers getting a slap on the wrist is sending the message that people can get away it. I don’t give a damn if they are kids”
My thoughts exactly
I agree with you all and really admire you, Deanna, for the tireless work you put forth every day to bring these horrors to our attention. It is a pitiful reality that this atrocities take place day in and day out throughout the world. What in the name of God has “humanity” come to?
I pray daily for the opportunity to get my hands on ALL abusers like this…they surely would pay a most excruciating price!! All you out there advocating for death and punishment would be quite pleased if I were the one dishing it out!
We simply MUST start lobbying our legislators and legal authorities to enact much stronger laws, with stiffer penalties of MANDATORY jail time and heavy fines. We MUST insist on prosecution without ridiculous standards of proof that are not required for any other violent crime. We MUST elect legislators who recognize the threat to society that animal cruelty brings and those who will stand up for these innocents.
Truly, we cannot remain silent or only bitch to those who believe like we do. We must act to change the laws and then demand enforcement. We lock people up longer for having a single joint than we do monsters such as these two for indescribable cruelty. I say bring on the vigilantes. I’ll gladly be one and mete out the justice these two so richly deserve. I’ll never stand by and let it happen…ever.
Becky, I too agree that we must get to our legislators and legal authorities. I have said and thought that for quite a long time. These enforcements have to be on a national level, and not just on a local one.
I have had it with people who can do any type of abuse to any animal, and to see them get a slap on the wrist is beyond my comprehension.
I will be in contact with some friends of mine who are attorneys, and see if we can get something started here locally, then push our legislators to the national level.
Susie, if you get something going, be sure to let me know so I can do whatever I can to help out and give at least a little publicity here. This is just a small site but there are people who listen and a lot of people who care and care deeply.
D.
Will do. The legal people I know are all animal lovers, and I will send them to this site to “read all about it” so to speak. One of my attorney friends is using me to help him adopt a puppy, which I will gladly be right there to find him and his family the right little pup.
Deanna,
You only think this is a small site. It truly is not. You get traffic from all over the world because your posts are regularly posted on Care2.com. Literally thousands read the news items you post AND act on them when given any direction such as providing addresses to which to write or numbers to call.
Susie…if you can post your idea here, we can all try to emulate it. Also, please do remember to vote for and support those politicians to whom this is an important issue. We cannot make the changes unless we have people willing to stand up and put forth our proposed legislation.
In fact, I ran for Congress in 2008 and will be running again in 2010 in part for this very purpose…to get some good, strong legislation passed at the national level. We CAN make a difference if we put good people in and then have good legislation ready to propose. Let’s do it!
Becky, I hope you win in 2010 – America needs a strong voice such as yours to fight for the animals.
I will contact them over the weekend, and hopefully we can get something started. I feel that if all of us who will do anything for dogs don’t start publicly being their voices, we will never see punishments for animal abuse laws become harsher.
I am always here on the site, so I will keep everyone posted as to what I can do here.
Thanks Becky! We all do our part and one of the most important first steps is to create awareness of the problems then people know and can take action. You are so right, just reading doesn’t do anything, just getting angry doesn’t do anything, it’s action that will make a difference.
D.
PS. I empathize with what it take to keep your reserve when it comes to thing kind of horror.
P.S. I’m quite proud of my reserve because I’m quite like Scarlett, normally, in my language usage regarding pieces of filth like these two!
Thanks, Susie! I hope I win, too, and might come back and hit you up for a donation to make it happen.
Go ahead Becky! You would be amazed at what I do for the dogs!!!!
The scum that did this deserve to be punished to the fullest extent of the law !!
This behaviour is getting to be all too common and needs to be stamped out NOW !
i would like to really set alight those two boys i want them to know what pain feels like,i really hope that they get what they deserve from the people that know them, show no mercy, they do not deserve any. what they did was evil
This brings back the memory of Mercy -:( ! There is no excuse – no animal should ever have to suffer at the hands of such criminals and that is exactly what these people are ! One needs to also look into the family lifestyle also when investigating animal cruelty – just as when authorities are called in for domestic violence and there are animals within the household, they should check for animal cruelty as well. The two are connected and violence against one should be treated as severely as the other ! “One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.” – Margaret Mead – Please read up on the issue at: The First Strike
That’s exactly what Jonnie England, who was intimately involved in the Mercy case, said too. And no, there is NO EXCUSE at all for anyone to inflict such horrible suffering and cruelty on another living creature.
D.
Is there not a petition going yet to make sure these pieces of crap get max punishment?
Everytime there is a Pit in the news that some dumb owner lets run loose and nips someone, it’s national freakin news, but when 2 soon to be Jefferey Dahmers torture a couple of Pits to the point of having to be euthanized, it’s like “Oh, how sad.” I am sick of it literally. My stomach is turning and I want to cry.
Let’s get something done. Who does the petition need to be sent to? I will start one today.
JUST GOOGLE DALLAS TX & IT WILL BRING UP ALL ABOUT DALLAS TX & WILL GIVE THE MAYOR’S OFFICE & ALL COUNCIL MEMBER’S NAME’S & OFFICE ADDRESSES. LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU GET ONE STARTED SO I CAN SIGN IT. I WOULD START ONE BUT HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO GET STARTED. IF YOU DO START ONE CAN YOU LET ME KNOW HOW TO DO IT SO I CAN SAVE IT FOR FUTURE REFERENCE. THANKS JANET MITCHELL
You can create an online petition on http://www.care2.com, http://www.gopetition.com or http://www.onlinepetition.com for free. Care2 has an article (this one) already posted about the story.
If you create a petition, please remember that the TARGET is either the legislators or prosecutors who you would like to take the requested action. It is NOT the folks from the community such as “animal lovers” who would be signing the petition.
Also, the more concrete, specific and professional sounding your petition, the more likely it is to be successful. You can add pictures (very recommended) and include space for comments. Ask for a specific action such as “prosecuted to the maximim allowable by law” and then, if possible, state what that maximim is.
If you do create one, please post it here and I’ll ensure it gets to both my network of rescuers AND posted on Care2.com
Thanks!
OMG….not again! Those poor beautiful Pits. I say we set them on fire and watch them run down the street. Through a crowd of people (you know, like a 4th of July parade), while everyone throws more fuel on the fire, little by little so they burn very slowly, very painfully, and I want to hear their screams and the crowds laughter needs to be loud and clear for them to hear like those poor dogs heard thier’s. God I despise anyone like this…….no matter the age! They must have some pretty lousy parents, the kind that would do the same and could care a less. Jail is not good enough…do the above….a parade for one and all to enjoy!
this is getting worse ! I blame our law makers- they have no back bone to give out just and right punishments! { vick got off easy} example] No animal should ever go through something so horrendous and cruel! Partly to blame is our USA allows animals to be tortured in the name of research & experiments and do not look at animals as a living breathing compassionet animal with feelings and a soul. { Psalm 74:19} people need to write & call Senators and Congress persons and hound them into supporting stern no loop-hole animal cruelty laws and fines and prison terms!
I am horrified at this, I can not believe that someone would actually do this, It doesnt matter how old they are they should get punished I say you should send them over to England to me and my partner and we will set them on fire and have a right laugh about it, it disgusts me that such a beautiful dog is banned over here (England) where there are people that would give them loving homes but instead they are given to bastards like that, what the fuck?
I totally agree with all the comments posted and fully endorce stricter punishments for these low lifes..however, i have a question, how do we treat the ppl doing animal experimentation in the name of science and those employees that work in slaughterhouses, not to mention the fur industry? It is evident that these ppl kill for a living, its their job!! How would you classify them? No animal should be abused or killed to satisfy human needs…Glad to be vegan!!
who ever set that dog on fire has some serious problems that is some hursh stuff and i dont think if that person got set aligtht i dont think they would like it
i hope that person gets punished no animal should be in so much pain to course it to die or to be badly injured !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOW that person has got some serious problems and i hope they get punished!!! dogs arnt for christmas they are for life and whoever has done this desevers to just be for christmas they are NOT for life. dogs need to respect us although we have to respect them what the f*** do they think they were doing that was a beautiful dog can you imagine a modle gettin burned they were both beautitiful and now they look and feel ill!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!even though dogs can act violant today maybe its for a reason. think before you do. Dogs can understand us by when we speak we may not understand them.
look how many people get hurt from their dogs who have bin and gone, wouldnt you feel the same if that hapened to your dog.
give a dog chances and a life.:(
I read these sick stories about the poor babies who have to suffer at the hands of insane people!! How much longer do these animals have to suffer? It’s barbaric!
I couldn’t stop crying thinking of the pain these poor babies had to endure at the expense of some sick POS for fun!
I wonder what kind of parents these kids have. What would make someone think that setting dogs on fire is funny?
Give me the kids and kerosene…I’ll show ya how to really laugh!!