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Re: True Story-Sad
Posted by Kitty.J on 10/06/05

On 2/19/05, los wrote:
> EDGEWATER, Fla. - A firefighter accused of biting
the head
> off a pet parrot at a party was charged with felony
animal
> cruelty Monday and placed on administrative leave.
>
> Lt. Bruce Coates, 34, was booked into the Volusia
County
> Branch Jail but was expected be released on his own
> recognizance after meeting with court officials
Tuesday, a
> jail official said.
>
> Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson said witnesses told
> deputies that the off-duty Coates was at a party
early
> Sunday when he took the Quaker parrot, valued at
$200, off
> someone else's shoulder, put the bird's head in his
mouth
> and bit it off.
>
> The parrot's owner later called the sheriff's office.
>
> Coates told deputies he had been drinking alcohol and
> could
> not remember what happened. However, he was
apologetic and
> offered to replace the parrot, Davidson told The
Daytona
> Beach News-Journal.
>
> Edgewater Fire Chief Tracey Barlow said Coates, with
the
> department since 1991, came to him Sunday and told
him
> about the incident.
>
> He will stay on leave with pay pending the outcome
of the
> investigation, Edgewater fire spokeswoman Jennifer
Smith
> said.

That should be called Murder. I believe if you kill a human
when you're drunk and if you kill a bird, its all the same-
taking life... He should have 1st degree Murder.

Posts on this thread, including this one

• True Story-Sad, 2/19/05, by los.
• Re: True Story-Sad, 2/20/05, by LindaC in OK.
• Re: True Story-Sad, 2/22/05, by Terra.
• Re: True Story-to Terra, 2/22/05, by MKay.
• Re: True Story-Sad, 10/04/05, by Amberly.
• Re: True Story-Sad, 10/06/05, by Kitty.J.
• Re: True Story-to Terra, 10/07/05, by Mickie/ To Terra.