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Yesterday I got a horrible, horrible assignment. Not because it was boring, cliche or a P.R. ruse from some local business. Not because there were no photos to be had or something else that plagues daily work. It was horrible for the simple fact that it reminded me of how cruel and totally fucked people can be. I have wondered this often, or rhetorically asked Julie, and likewise I have heard her ask the same question, “Why are people so fucked up?” How can they do the things they do to each other or animals? And how can they be so callous, so unaffected by their own lack of humanity or wanton disregard for life in general? How can they be so bloody cruel?

At this point you may be asking, “What is he on about now?”

Yesterday, one of the reporters and I went out to Clinton to meet with a 17 year old kid, named Giovanni, whose 2 year old racing quarter horse had been brutally attacked the previous morning. The horse was in its own stall among twelve other horses that Giovanni and his father own. Someone broke in and beat the shit out of their race horse. They then took a broken garden tool with a hook on the end and stabbed the horse in the ankle, ripping tendons and rendering the horse incapable of ever racing again. Giovanni said that the veterinarian could stick his finger all the way into the hole someone had torn into the flesh of the animal and feel for himself the torn ligaments and severed tendons.

So there you go people. Maybe you can answer this for me. “Why in the bloody hell are people so cruel, so fucked up?”

The first photo is the one that ran on A1 today. Click on the photo for more.

Here is the link to the story if you are interested.

As always: questions, comments, complaints and concerns are appreciated. Thanks for looking.

Cheers,

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