Sublette County Sheriff K.C. Lehr has received more than 7,000 emails about a Wyoming man who reportedly captured and tormented a wolf before killing it, he told Cowboy State Daily on Wednesday.
Some of those are threats.
Lehr said people in his office, as well as Sublette County and Wyoming Game and Fish Department personnel, have been receiving threats — including death threats — stemming from Daniel, Wyoming, man Cody Roberts’ reported capture, torment and killing of a wild wolf in late February.
Yea, fuck him - he's just an ass.
People who grew up with him can probably attest to this.
I grew up on 10000 acres of farmland. My entire family were proud "poachers". I've seen some shit, including a bullet riddled bald eagle behind the barn.
Some of my earliest childhood memories were of my grandfather and deaf uncle chasing around coyotes like unhinged psychos with the dog waggon. Watching the greyhounds run them down, and tear them to shreads while they laughed and had a great time. Coyote pelts used to bring a lot of money as well.
Now, I never liked this behavior even though I was raised and forced to participate, but I certainly understand how these morons become this way. They mostly behave this way with predatory animals like wolves, coyotes, hawks, etc. Animals that kill all their chickens. Break their cattles, or horses legs and may or may not kill them. They take pride and satisfaction in ridding the earth of these "varmint".
Now I am mostly vegan, aside from my love of raising chickens, and eating their free range eggs. And I love all animals! But, I want to murder the fuck outta those rat bastard possums when they weasle their way into my henhouse at night, and I wake up to my babies feathers and caucuses splayed across the yard.
Sure, but I hope we can all agree that directly threatening this guy with death is not an acceptable response.
ya we should actually just kill him
I don't think anyone that enjoys torture in any form has a place in our society so I'm ok with it
No. People don't live in enough fear of society anymore and it fucking shows by society literally falling apart before our eyes.
Do you think in a village of 10 this behavior would have stood? Fuck no. They would have either corrected the behavior early on or just cast him out of society to live alone and die alone.
Scum like him deserves permanent suffering, and any piece of trash defending him deserves at least a tenth as much.
It's not about what he deserves, it's about how we choose to punish him. He probably thought the wolf "deserved" torture. You want to stoop to his level?
We killed all the Nazis.
Unfortunately no, but we absolutely should have.
No we didn't. We were at war with them, and killed just enough of them to force their surrender. Thereafter the remainder were not rooted out and murdered, although many were tried for their crimes. Many fled and were more or less allowed to do so. Some were adopted by the US in operation paperclip.
Paradox of tolerance garbage doesn't work, stop using fallacious reasoning. Fucking up a psycho who tortures animals doesn't make you a worse person. Quite the opposite.
This has nothing to do with the paradox of tolerance.
I just don't want any part of a justice system that includes "fucking up psychos" just because they're assholes who probably deserve it.
Societies the world over moved past that type of revenge based / satisfaction owed justice system a few hundred years ago.
I admire your naivety about the reasonability of an average Lemmy user.
Yeah I didn't realize this was the "pro death threat" community. I'll see myself out before someone claims I'm defending a POS animal torturer.
You're the voice of reason here. Don't let the mob bully you away from what you know to be true and moral. Sometimes the majority are all wrong.
Nope, I don't agree.
Yeah, torture is a far better punishment.
Oh yeah. He’s been a bully for a looooong time to be smiling that hard in that photo, possibly even a sociopath.
Can't imagine a non-sociopath would do something like that to another living creature.
Honestly surprised he’s not a cop
Yeah when I was reading that quoted blurb, i was definitely assuming they were gonna say he was a cop.