Teen Taped Explosives To "Lucky" The Rabbit

[matcom]

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Lucky the rabbit is living up to her name, no thanks to her college- bound owner, who with his friends is accused of taping her to a powerful explosive and tossing her into a Castro Valley lake.

Luckily for Lucky, nothing blew up and her owner fished her out of the water because, he told The Chronicle, he didn't want her to drown.

But that didn't impress Alameda County prosecutors, who charged Nick Sigmon, an 18-year-old lifeguard at Lake Don Castro, and fellow lifeguard Paul Collins, 20, of Castro Valley with misdemeanor animal cruelty on Wednesday. Two other people present during the July 13 incident may also face charges.

"I think that a lot of people are judging us without knowing us at all," Sigmon said. "It's really bothering me."

Collins declined to comment Wednesday.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/07/29/BAGI17UUIL1.DTL

[GOPisEvil]

1. Uhhhh...you're the kind of asshole that would tape explosives to

a rabbit. I'd say you were a pretty fucked-up son of a bitch.

Edit - this is directed at the fucked-up SOB accused of this crime, not matcom (fucked-up SOB that HE is).

[matcom]

2. MOI? Fucked-Up?

not yet, its only 5 pm!

check in with me at 7! :D

[GOPisEvil]

3. Heehee!

Kerry and scotch - a nice combination. :thumbsup:

[Hawkeye-X]

4. Or * and coke.

Perfect combination!

[Hell Hath No Fury]

5. It's a damn good thing I'm not a judge....

cause I'd be sentancing him to the same treatment he gave that rabbit. :grr:

Wanna put firecrackers up some frogs butt? Leave a dog in a hot car with no windows rolled down? Here, why don't YOU try it and see how it feels....

[BlueJazz]

13. Yep, I know what you mean...Sister DU'er

I'd tell them "You better give your soul to God, cause your sorry Ass is mine"

[Book Lover]

6. I got several emails from the House Rabbit Society

on this one. Seems the case is a bit confusing, as the asshole who taped the M100 (according to the HRS's email) to Lucky then jumped in to save the rabbit after it appeared Lucky was going to drown. I suppose it was OK to anticipate the quick boom, but not OK to see the slow struggling of a drowning rabbit.

on edit: Spelling

[roguevalley]

8. I hope that rabbit is in someone else's home now. My god. I'm sick.

[Book Lover]

12. Don;t worry

Lucky is safe. There are many bunny foster homes here in the SF Bay Area, as well as an email newsgroup that spreads out info just like this. I must have gotten a dozen or so email about this incident; updates and calls to action (mostly calling the DA's office to pressure them to charge the accused.)

[AspenRose]

7. Shades of Bush * blowing up frogs.

That's just sick. Potential future predators, count on it. Everyone by now knows people who get off on hurting animals are just cutting their teeth to graduate to 'the big time.'

[ronnykmarshall]

9. Pictures of the bunny.

[MrSlayer]

10. What an asshole.

Only a complete kneebiting retard would do something like this and then be mad because people call him on his cruel idiocy.

[Aftershock]

11. We should tape explosives on their backs...

and throw them into a river and see how THEY like it! :grr: :mad: