VP Cheney violates Texas Animal Cruelty Law (misdemeanor)

[rpgamerd00d]

http://www.ddaf.org/beyondviolence/statutes/tx/

Texas
42.09. Cruelty to Animals

(a) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally or knowingly:
(1) tortures an animal;
(2) fails unreasonably to provide necessary food, care, or shelter for an animal in the person's custody;
(3) abandons unreasonably an animal in the person's custody;
(4) transports or confines an animal in a cruel manner;
(5) kills, seriously injures, or administers poison to an animal, other than cattle, horses, sheep, swine, or goats, belonging to another without legal authority or the owner's effective consent;
(6) causes one animal to fight with another;
(7) uses a live animal as a lure in dog race training or in dog coursing on a racetrack;
(8) trips a horse;
(9) injures an animal, other than cattle, horses, sheep, swine, or goats, belonging to another without legal authority or the owner's effective consent; or
(10) seriously overworks an animal.

(b) It is a defense to prosecution under this section that the actor was engaged in bona fide experimentation for scientific research.

(c) For purposes of this section:
(1) "Abandon" includes abandoning an animal in the person's custody without making reasonable arrangements for assumption of custody by another person.
(2) "Animal" means a domesticated living creature and wild living creature previously captured. "Animal" does not include
an uncaptured wild creature or a wild creature whose capture was accomplished by conduct at issue under this section.
(3) "Cruel manner" includes a manner that causes or permits unjustified or unwarranted pain or suffering.
(4) "Custody" includes responsibility for the health, safety, and welfare of an animal subject to the person's care and control, regardless of ownership of the animal.
(5) "Necessary food, care, or shelter" includes food, care, or shelter provided to the extent required to maintain the animal in a state of good health.
(6) "Trip" means to use an object to cause a horse to fall or lose its balance.

(d) An offense under Subsection (a)(2), (3), (4), (9), or (10) is a Class A misdemeanor, except that the offense is a state jail felony if the person has previously been convicted two times under this section.

[MrModerate]

1. I'm not really fond of lawyers, either . . .

But I wou;dn't go so far as to call them "animals."

[rpgamerd00d]

2. ROTFLMAO! I mean the 70 pheasents he shot prior to the lawyer ! :)

[Sydnie]

4. Wasn't that in Pennsylvania not Texas? n/t

[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. Rimshot!

:thumbsup: :rofl:

[bliss_eternal]

3. So it's not legal to hunt quail in Texas?

:shrug:

[rpgamerd00d]

6. These ones were domesticated, made unfraid of humans, and ,,

... then released simply to be shot.

[bliss_eternal]

7. Just when I think

Cheney couldn't possibly be more evil than I originally thought...
:grr::mad:
Those poor animals. :cry:

[rpgamerd00d]

8. His evil knows no bounds