Pony set on fire

Wolfe Tone

Malnourished pony set on fire in Keady, County Armagh

A pony has been set on fire in Keady, County Armagh.

The incident, in the Annvale Road area, was reported to police at about 2120 BST on Thursday.

A member of the public put the flames out and tended to the pony until a vet arrived. The pony was malnourished and suffered burns.

The vet who treated it said it might be able to recover from its wounds, but it was too early to say.

"He was tethered on the side of the road, he did not have a chance to make his escape," Rebecca Cooper said.

"Hopefully the pony will make a recovery, but at this moment we will not be able to say how much damage was done.

"It is a lovely little pony, very quiet and docile, with a lovely temperament."

Police said its injuries would have been much more serious but for the actions of the person who quickly put the flames out.

"This was an horrific incident where an already malnourished animal was subjected to horrendous treatment," PSNI Inspector Nigel Graham said.

"I would like to thank the community member who treated the horse for their swift actions and quick thinking.

"We are very keen to trace the owner of the horse and we would also like to speak to a number of youths who were seen in the area around the time of this incident."

What sort of sick fcuk would set a pony on fire? The poor thing.

Scumbags should be send to jail for a long time for stuff like that(or have nasty things happen to them), wrong on every level. They must be seriously messed up in the head to do something like that to a defenseless animal.

Why are punishments for animal cruelty so lenient? Bet if the culprits are caught they will be let go with a slap on the wrist.

AudreyHepburn

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

What sort of sick fcuk would set a pony on fire? The poor thing.

Scumbags should be send to jail for a long time for stuff like that(or have nasty things happen to them), wrong on every level. They must be seriously messed up in the head to do something like that to a defenseless animal.

Why are punishments for animal cruelty so lenient? Bet if the culprits are caught they will be let go with a slap on the wrist.

I don't honestly understand the mentality of people who do things like this to defenceless animals.

This case reminds of the case where a firework was lit and given to a dog. It blew of the dogs bottom jaw and needless to say the poor creature had to be put down.

This kind of thing just sickens me.

Wolfe Tone

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

I don't honestly understand the mentality of people who do things like this to defenceless animals.

This case reminds of the case where a firework was lit and given to a dog. It blew of the dogs bottom jaw and needless to say the poor creature had to be put down.

This kind of thing just sickens me.

Oh jesus I remember seeing the picture of that in the paper. As a dog lover (no not like that) I have to say it brought tears to my eyes.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Holy ****. If I got my hands on that person, Id gladly do time in the clinker.

Outkast_IRE

Every effort should be made to find these scum, it doesnt matter if it was kids or adults behaviour like these needs the harshest punishments on the books as its a pure indication of a troubled mind.
Mental institution for life imo.

tan11ie

It's totally disgusting!! unbelievable how evil and cruel some people are.

dave1982

Sicking ****,****ers like this get away it.Thats the problem courts should jail these assholes.

Can't understand why would someone put a animal on fire.

If it were up to i set fire the ****er who done this,then jail him

Fremen

A vegetarian friend of mine once pointed out that if you get outraged by cruelty to animals, you would do well to look at where the food you eat comes from.

annascott

They should be declared either evil and go to prison or mad and go to a mental hospital. Unfortunately, if caught they will probably only get a fine and a ban on keeping animals... I don't understand either why the law is so lenient. On the plus side - at least they will be on trial in the North where the law might be a little less dismissive of animal crime than it is here...

liah

Sociopaths. Unbelievable.

Guarantee that a few years down the road, they're not going to be hurting just animals anymore.

tan11ie

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

Oh jesus I remember seeing the picture of that in the paper. As a dog lover (no not like that) I have to say it brought tears to my eyes.

Yeah I was nearly crying when I heard that, sick b*****ds! Ill never understand how anyone could do something like that...pure evil.

Yakult

Some scumbag probably robbed it and then tried to burn it out like they do with most robbed cars ponies.

later12

Jesus if they would behave in that sort of violent fashion toward a harmless pony, how would they confront their enemy?

Well, probably by recoiling, ironically.

What a cowardly and inhumane cabal we live among.

cocokay

sick f*cking b*stards. this sort of stuff makes me sick to my stomach. if i ever had kids & they were doing sh!t like this i'd ASK for them to be locked up. it just doesn't bear thinking about, animals are not protected enough anywhere. i'd love to get my hands on the scum who do this kind of stuff. all i can think about when i hear these kinds of stories is my dogs & what i would do if anything happened to them :mad:

Mr Benevolent

My ass was on fire this morning too.

Tubsandtiles

This sort of behaviour honestly deserves serious jail time :mad:

Pauleta

The sick people who did this should be in a mental institution. You dont do something like that for "a laugh". They WILL kill people and kill animals in the vilest manners. The PSNI should have catching these people as a high priority as they are a severe danger to the public.

Badgermonkey

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

What sort of sick fcuk would set a pony on fire? The poor thing.

You're on record as supporting the disappearance of mother of 10, Jean McConville, shot in the head and buried beneath a beach in Co Louth.

Just sayin'.

Ruu_Old

Something serious wrong in the head of individuals who are abusive to animals, only a matter of time before they end up doing similar to humans. I think they take things out on animals first because they can't do anything back.

Agricola

It has to be the result of a really fúcked up upbringing. You would think anyone would feel sick at the thought of doing this to an animal. I suppose if you have zero respect for human life, you wont have any for that of an animal.

Da Shins Kelly

Lock them up.

Snappy the Moose

Typical UK prícks.

thomasj

What has happened to our younger generation?

All this on top of the donkey that was hanged from a tree, cats burned on bonfires, the horse in finglas that they tried to set alight the swan with its beak blown off and off course that poor dog.

These same idiots would have been in town over the weekend/friday rioting just because it suited them. Who do you blame? The parents? Tv? Games?

Whatever it is, it doesnt bode well for this country if these are our future!

liah

thomasj wrote: »

What has happened to our younger generation?

All this on top of the donkey that was hanged from a tree, cats burned on bonfires, the horse in finglas that they tried to set alight the swan with its beak blown off and off course that poor dog.

These same idiots would have been in town over the weekend/friday rioting just because it suited them. Who do you blame? The parents? Tv? Games?

Whatever it is, it doesnt bode well for this country if these are our future!

There's sociopaths like this in every generation. Just seems more prominent because we have instant news now.

tayto lover

A few years ago someone shot a crossbow bolt through the neck of a swan. The poor thing was photographed still trying to rear her 5 cygnets with the bolt still in her neck. The vet couldn't get near her as she was protecting her young. Anyone who would ill-treat animals would do the same to humans. Sick people.

Kess73

No doubt there will be people in the area where those that set the pony on fire are from who will try to play it down and defend the scum, or try to deflect it as being an attack on the name of that area.


There was a pony in Moyross in Limerick that had a bunch of local scum hit it over and over with a stolen car for "fun"


Animal welfare condemned the act of those that did it on local radio and also spoke of how they could not get to the still alive animal until the Gardai arrived as more local scum had arrived and wre pelting those trying to put the horse down with rocks.


Within twenty minutes of that radio interview there were people from that area phoning in to condemn animal welfare and anyone else who had complained about the treatment of the pony and tried to make it all out to be some slur on the good name of Moyross, and not one of those people would condemn the horrific injuries done to the poor animal.

I cannot speak for Dublin, but I can speak of what the Limerick Animal Welfare report on the frankly scary amount of cases of animal torture and cruelty that they come across in Limerick, and it seems to be a similar story in pretty much every county in Ireland.

But the scum that do this sort of thing get no real punishments if caught and know they can get free legal aid to get out of things.

A bit like how they know they can commit other crimes and have free legal aid if caught.

Duckworth_Luas

Fremen wrote: »

A vegetarian friend of mine once pointed out that if you get outraged by cruelty to animals, you would do well to look at where the food you eat comes from.

Why? What have chips got to do with a pony being set on fire by thugs? I hope you told your sanctimonious pal to give themselves an uppercut.

nlgbbbblth

Fremen wrote: »

A vegetarian friend of mine once pointed out that if you get outraged by cruelty to animals, you would do well to look at where the food you eat comes from.

Your friend is full of sh*t.

AudreyHepburn

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

Oh jesus I remember seeing the picture of that in the paper. As a dog lover (no not like that) I have to say it brought tears to my eyes.

It broke my heart, especially since at the time I was reading it my own pooch was sitting near me.

If anyone ever went near him....well I could not be held responsible for my actions. Assuming my Dad and brother didn't get to them first

I always wonder if thats what a person is willing to do to an animal, what would they do to a person who got on their bad side?

gosuckonalemon

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

What sort of sick fcuk would set a pony on fire? The poor thing.

Scumbags should be send to jail for a long time for stuff like that(or have nasty things happen to them), wrong on every level. They must be seriously messed up in the head to do something like that to a defenseless animal.

Why are punishments for animal cruelty so lenient? Bet if the culprits are caught they will be let go with a slap on the wrist.

That'd be them there Nordies hay..

AudreyHepburn

Fremen wrote: »

A vegetarian friend of mine once pointed out that if you get outraged by cruelty to animals, you would do well to look at where the food you eat comes from.

Firstly I will support your friend's right to not eat meat for moral reasons to the hilt.

But I do think sometimes these people sort of miss the point with these comments.

Wolfe Tone

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

It broke my heart, especially since at the time I was reading it my own pooch was sitting near me.

If anyone ever went near him....well I could not be held responsible for my actions. Assuming my Dad and brother didn't get to them first

I always wonder if thats what a person is willing to do to an animal, what would they do to a person who got on their bad side?

After I read it I just had to go and fuss over my dog... Its incomprehensible, a dog just would not understand, poor innocent yolk. You can just imagine them throwing it and the dog thinking it was fetch or something... sick.


If anyone did that to my dog I'd put them in the ground.

AudreyHepburn

liah wrote: »

There's sociopaths like this in every generation. Just seems more prominent because we have instant news now.

Well that's alright then :rolleyes:

nlgbbbblth

thomasj wrote: »

These same idiots would have been in town over the weekend/friday rioting just because it suited them. Who do you blame? The parents? Tv? Games?

Just blame the idiots themselves. Why complicate things by absolving them of personal responsibility? Saying that television and games cause this conduct is lazy and irresponsible tabloid thinking.

Pace2008

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

Your friend is full of sh*t.

Ya think? If an animal is treated well and slaughtered painlessly, I think it's not so bad.

If you are eating animals or the produce of animals who have lived miserable lives, I'm not sure you're in such a position to get up on your high horse. You can say this act was senseless and unjustified, and at least an animal killed for food was killed for a reason, but do you think animals give a **** if their killing is justified or no, if it's for the greater good? **** no, that's just ridiculous anthropomorphism and a transparent attempt to make us all feel better about ourselves.

ColeTrain

Reading something like that reminds us what kind of people we have in our society. The fu*ker should be strung up.

Wolfe Tone

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

Just blame the idiots themselves. Why complicate things by absolving them of personal responsibility? Saying that television and games cause this conduct is lazy and irresponsible tabloid thinking.

Actions like this are so abhorrent that people want to believe that there must be something that warped the people responsible, to feel that such behavior is not natural, rather than accept, as I do, that some people are sadistic fcuks and thats just the way they are.

Irish Guitarist

I don't think parents do enough to teach their children to respect animals (probably because the parents couldn't care less about animals themselves).

A while ago I saw a little scumbag spitting at a swan. The mother was standing right beside him. I shouted at the scumbag to leave the swan alone and the mother said "he's just giving the swan bread". I had seen what was going on from twenty or thirty feet away but the mother who, was standing right beside him, claimed to not know what was going on. I had even heard him saying to his sister at the top of his voice "he's eating my spit".

That's obviously not as serious as setting a pony on fire, but if someone doesn't stop him from treating animals like this he'll end up doing far worse.

Duggy747

If a sick fùck can do this to a defenseless animal then there wouldn't be much to drive them to do something violent to another human being.

You can't blame things like TV or video games or whatever, it absolves them of personal wrong doing and shifts the blame onto somewhere else completely different. There's things like their parents / enviornment they grew up in but it still shouldn't make excuses.

The scum should be tethered up and set on fire, see how funny it is then.

TheZohanS

Police are reporting that a Honda Civic was seen speeding away from the crime scene.

tayto lover

ColeTrain wrote: »

Reading something like that reminds us what kind of people we have in our society. The fu*ker should be strung up.

By the balls.

thomasj

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

Just blame the idiots themselves. Why complicate things by absolving them of personal responsibility? Saying that television and games cause this conduct is lazy and irresponsible tabloid thinking.

im certainly not absolving blame from these idiots because of tv/video games they are solely responsible for their actions. I meant to say what have these people thinking this way?

These yiung muppets are multiplying theyre in their late teens early twenties, and they think its good craic ti break up bus shelters throw stones at cars and hurt these poor animals. Theyre multiplying and these incidents are m

AckwelFoley

People.

Just another reason to hate them

AudreyHepburn

I would love some-one to explain to me what possible enjoyment could be gotten from watching an animal suffer? I mean what sort of person can stand there and laugh at an animal in flames/beaten/blown apart by fireworks/hung from a tree etc etc. What kind of mind comes up with something like that?

Unfortunatly not the sort that would have the intelligence to use Boards to explain themselves.

Kylo Ren

Duggy747 wrote: »

If a sick fùck can do this to a defenseless animal then there wouldn't be much to drive them to do something violent to another human being.

Yeah but isn't that like saying if someone can eat an animal then there wouldn't be much to drive them to eat another human being?

liah

thomasj wrote: »

im certainly not absolving blame from these idiots because of tv/video games they are solely responsible for their actions. I meant to say what have these people thinking this way?

These yiung muppets are multiplying theyre in their late teens early twenties, and they think its good craic ti break up bus shelters throw stones at cars and hurt these poor animals. Theyre multiplying and these incidents are m

Childhood neglect is the far more likely answer than tv or videogames. They probably grew up in shit homes and nobody bothered to teach them right from wrong and instead unleashed them for the rest of society to have to deal with.

That, or they're born sociopaths, in which case I don't think much can be done there.

AckwelFoley

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

I don't think parents do enough to teach their children to respect animals (probably because the parents couldn't care less about animals themselves).

A while ago I saw a little scumbag spitting at a swan. The mother was standing right beside him. I shouted at the scumbag to leave the swan alone and the mother said "he's just giving the swan bread". I had seen what was going on from twenty or thirty feet away but the mother who, was standing right beside him, claimed to not know what was going on. I had even heard him saying to his sister at the top of his voice "he's eating my spit".

That's obviously not as serious as setting a pony on fire, but if someone doesn't stop him from treating animals like this he'll end up doing far worse.

White cat.


White Kittens

steddyeddy

The FBI reseacrhed many case of animal cruelty and found that many people who commited cruely on animals went on to do the same to humans. Wheter people care about animal welfare or not is missing the point. Someone who does this to an animal is sixk and needs help.

WhiteRussian

Fremen wrote: »

A vegetarian friend of mine once pointed out that if you get outraged by cruelty to animals, you would do well to look at where the food you eat comes from.

Your vegetarian friend is a tool. Eating animals is part of nature. There are humane ways to kill animals.

pragmatic1

Hope whoever done it has a hard life.

steddyeddy

liah wrote: »

Childhood neglect is the far more likely answer than tv or videogames. They probably grew up in shit homes and nobody bothered to teach them right from wrong and instead unleashed them for the rest of society to have to deal with.

That, or they're born sociopaths, in which case I don't think much can be done there.

+ a thousand. Many cases of animal cruelty have been linked to instances of child abuse.