Registered: Aug 2000
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look at these people, walking around being stupid

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Woman charged with animal cruelty for piercing ear of rescued deer

HARRISONBURG, Va. - A woman who tried to improve upon nature was ordered to pay the veterinary bill for a fawn whose ears she pierced.

An animal-cruelty charge against Bettie Phillips was suspended Tuesday after she insisted she meant no harm. Phillips, 54, of Hiddenite, N.C., found the 2-month-old deer near a highway in western Virginia on July 3 as she drove to visit her daughter in Harrisonburg.

Later that day, she and her daughter pierced its ears by pushing the posts of two small cross-shaped earrings through the thin flesh of the deer's ears about one-half inch from their tips.

Police found the deer two days later in the back of Phillips' Ford Explorer while the two women were shopping. It was slightly dehydrated and its ears were inflamed and infected, said Ned Gentz, chief veterinarian at the Wildlife Center of Virginia.

The animal was treated with antibiotics and released into the wild on Aug. 20.

"I thought it would be pretty," Phillips said at the time. "You can get a little kid's ears pierced. What's the difference between a person's (ears) and a baby deer's?"

She and her daughter, Gerry Rae Beckner, 33, pleaded guilty Tuesday to transporting wildlife without a valid permit.

Judge William Heatwold ordered Phillips to pay $250 to the Wildlife Center and ordered Beckner to do 20 hours of community service.

Cruelty charges against both will be dismissed if they stay out of trouble for six months.

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BAH!

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stupid humans

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Nanaimo, BC
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Yeah. Take your pets to a piercing parlour, like everyone else. Pfft.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: NH
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For some reason the first thing that popped into my head when I read that was the 'dead' deer waking up in the backseat of the car in the movie "Tommy Boy".

That was funny.

Richard: No way that just happened.
Tommy: I've seen some crazy stuff in my time, but that... was... AWESOME!!! Oh, sorry about your car, man.

Yeah, never pierce a deer's ear. thats wrong and stuff.

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That was my mom.

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That made me giggle like a schoolgirl.

"What harm could it do?"

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Registered: Jul 2000
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sorry but i have no sympathy for those idiots

"i thought it would be pretty" damn i would love to punch those stupid rednecks in the temmple

how can ppl be this dumb?


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Did they try giving it a perm while they were at it?

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Denver
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Fuckin' bucketheads.

Somebody should poke some dull mall rings thru her ears without benefit of a gun or proper needle.

Crosses even.
Morons.

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stupid cunts. what a bunch of fucking morons.

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Originally posted by Shadow23:


Crosses even.
Morons.

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yah I noticed that

I guess mebe they thought it was a christian deer

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Originally posted by Postmodgirl:
Phillips, 54, of Hiddenite, N.C., found the 2-month-old deer near a highway in western Virginia on July 3 as she drove to visit her daughter in Harrisonburg.

Police found the deer two days later in the back of Phillips' Ford Explorer while the two women were shopping. It was slightly dehydrated and its ears were inflamed and infected, said Ned Gentz, chief veterinarian at the Wildlife Center of Virginia.

The animal was treated with antibiotics and released into the wild on Aug. 20.

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she found a fawn that was obviously separated from it's mother somehow, shoved it the back of her explorer, pierced it's ears, then took it shopping.

stupid is too kind a word to use for people like this.

grrrrr.



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