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Letter from Animal Rights of Lithuania:
Since the 17th of November we have been receiving many letters from around the world on dog abuse case in Lithuania. We are grateful to all those who are concerned about this incident and we want to assure everyone that this case actually resulted in a significant resonance in Lithuania, and a person charged with this crime has already been identified, arrested and tried. His is sentenced to spend 8 months in jail. Such verdict is the first case in Lithuania when cruelty to animals is punished by imprisonment.
First of all, in many letters senders are accusing Valdas Baranauskas, but he is not the person in video! We have no information (apart from those messages) that he is somehow related to all this! We sincerely apologize Mr. Valdas Baranauskas for mentioning him in our text as possible re-publisher of the video. We were mistaken by incoming letters from all over the world.
The person with a dog in his hands is a 22-years old Svajūnas Beniukas of a small Seredžius town (district of Jurbarkas). The dislike of animals he appears to have is linked to infamous history of animal abuse in his family: just a two years ago his grandfather killed a cat by throwing it over to an aggressive dog. Unfortunately, he was fined 20 LTL (8,5 USD) only – Lithuanian laws in that sense are very mild.
Svajūnas Beniukas is well-known to local police. He is unemployed, drinks regularly and has been involved in many local conflicts – he is a known town roughneck. He previously was charged with theft in Kaunas and Jurbarkas districts. Regarding the dog abuse case, Beniukas in his defence said he had sought revenge on the dog after it was suspected of killing some of his mother's chickens.
The widely circulated dog abuse footage was most likely made during the weekend [November 14-15th]. For some time the dog was lying under a bridge. Then he was found by one man who took the dog to the police station, from where it was sent to medical treatment facilities at "Nuaras". Pipiras (so was named the dog, Lithuanian for Pepper) which was estimated to be around 4 years old was for a few days treated in animal care center "Nuaras", in Kaunas. Pipiras avoided serious bone fractures but had many injuries to internal organs - these were in severe contusion because of the high fall (over 20 meters). On the night between 21st and 22nd of November Pipiras died.
Pipiras is said to have been really fighting for his life until the last moment. Even after experiencing the awful abuse by Svajūnas Beniukas, Pipiras still seemed to have a belief in good people. His spirit is being carried on by thousands of people who were touched by Pipiras' fate.
Both "Nuaras" staff and we at Animal Rights Lithuania received numerous calls or emails from concerned people. They offered their assistance, many wanted to take care of Pipiras after it would recover (which, sadly, eventually never happened).
Clearly, penalties for animal abuse in Lithuania are too soft. Despite many known cases of animal abuse, the highest punishment given in the recent years was a fine of 300 LTL (130 USD) given to a woman who threw a dog out of a car. The police usually only warns ill-behaved people.
What are current laws on animal abuse in Lithuania?
* Cruelty to animals is punished by Criminal Code by community service, fines, arrest or imprisonment of up to 1 year (the latter one has barely ever been used).
* The poor animal care which leads to either animal death, falling ill or becoming crippled, may be punished by warnings or fines up to 200 LTL (86,5 USD).
* Repeated animal abuse leads up to 2000 LTL (865 USD) fine and confiscation of the animal.
However, due to this recent incident a tightening of sanctions has been proposed. D.Mikutienė, member of Lithuanian Parliament, registered the amendments to the Penal Code - if accepted, penalties for cruelty to animals will be much stricter. The act of killing, injuring or torturing an animal is proposed to be punished not only by public service or relatively low fines, but also by imprisonment for up to four years. Moderate crimes are planned to be punished by fines of up to 26'000 LTL (11'200 USD).
Am I the only one who thinks this sack of gak shouldn't ever be allowed to see the light of day again? He threw a dog of a bridge and was fined 8 frakking dollars!
I kept praying threwout the video that there was atleast water under it. Damn arse . Those kids should be neutered and know what it feels like to be treated like an animal. sometimes people like this make me think peta is right.
oh and endova your wrong. They ARE the lowest form of life on the planet.
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Boss_Salvage wrote:I was sincerely hoping he'd step back and get nailed by traffic. No luck.
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Okay. It took me a second to realize you were talking about the guy. For a split second, I thought you were talking about the dog, in which case I would have verbally curb-stomped you.
Then found your house and physically curb-stomped you...
Wow. Yeah, before reading the article I figured it was a bridge over water.
What was really bad is you could see the dog kick and hear it whimpering at the end.
Ugh. Made me sick to watch.
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Ok A.) thats wrong
B.) I have to read the Jungle, seen and interview about a show about slaughter houses, and now this. I think i am getting a message. And to top it of that words not fit for human ears exuese of a man is lithuanian and so is the guy from the Jungle. my creeped out and pisted off meters are done. Words can simply not express what should be done to that man.
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garret wrote:
oh and endova your wrong. They ARE the lowest form of life on the planet.
Gonna have to disagree. Child rapists are on the same level, IMO.
I would have to say that child rapists may just be a tad worse than animal abusers. Is this terrible, yes it is. Its the wanton destruction of a living creature, all the more gut-wrenching because a lot of people have dogs and have a strong connection to them, but I would hate this guy more if he threw a 4 year old toddler off the bridge instead.
Sorry, just my 2 cents.
Orkfantic wrote:Ok A.) thats wrong
B.) I have to read the Jungle, seen and interview about a show about slaughter houses, and now this. I think i am getting a message. And to top it of that words not fit for human ears exuese of a man is lithuanian and so is the guy from the Jungle. my creeped out and pisted off meters are done. Words can simply not express what should be done to that man.
I know what they should do, have the police arrest him, and use a police dog to do it.
get a pit-mastif mix to bite his nads off. I hope his jail sugar daddy finds he dropped the soap
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Ya know what you should do? Bring in a very simple, yet effective punishment for convicted animal abusers.
Whatever you did to the animal, gets done to you.
Simple isn't it. Once the first nine or ten people get burnt alive or thrown off bridges, I am sure people will think twice before abusing kitties.
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Hell, it worked didn't it? With laws like "If a judge tries a case, reaches a decision, and presents his judgement in writing; and later it is discovered that his decision was in error, and it was his own fault, he shall pay twelve times the fine set by him in the case and be removed from the judge's bench" do you think Judges would make as many mistakes as they do now?
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Gwar! wrote:Ya know what you should do? Bring in a very simple, yet effective punishment for convicted animal abusers.
Whatever you did to the animal, gets done to you.
Simple isn't it. Once the first nine or ten people get burnt alive or thrown off bridges, I am sure people will think twice before abusing kitties.
Buring Alive = Getting Burnt alive.
Throwing off a Bridge = Getting thrown off a bridge.
Bestiality = ... ?
Actually, this makes me feel bad. It's not really comparable, but on a calm day (literally no waves whatsoever) I once took my pet Jack Russel (Jack Jack ) out on my surfboard. He was a little nervous, but not really scared (he'd swam before, and we were only wading in the shallows.) Suddenly, a wave pops out of nowhere and knocks the whole thing over (me included). Poor guy got a good dousing. He's been scared of the water ever since.
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The thing that struck me was that there were at least two other people their filming the guy and laughing along with him. So IMO there are 3 sickos out there not just 1.
Gwar! wrote:Ya know what you should do? Bring in a very simple, yet effective punishment for convicted animal abusers.
Whatever you did to the animal, gets done to you.
Simple isn't it. Once the first nine or ten people get burnt alive or thrown off bridges, I am sure people will think twice before abusing kitties.
Buring Alive = Getting Burnt alive. Throwing off a Bridge = Getting thrown off a bridge. Bestiality = ... ?
Actually, this makes me feel bad. It's not really comparable, but on a calm day (literally no waves whatsoever) I once took my pet Jack Russel (Jack Jack ) out on my surfboard. He was a little nervous, but not really scared (he'd swam before, and we were only wading in the shallows.) Suddenly, a wave pops out of nowhere and knocks the whole thing over (me included). Poor guy got a good dousing. He's been scared of the water ever since.
Heres the one for bestiality:
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KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM
I would take a claw hammer to this man's face. Again and again and again.
Unfortunately, the article above is old (before his trial). If you read what was posted by Animal Rights Lithuania, you'll find he was only fined 20 LTL (8.5 USD) and the dog passed away on the night between the 21st and 22nd. He hasn't recieved justice yet, as he was not sent to prison for his actions.
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) out on my surfboard. He was a little nervous, but not really scared (he'd swam before, and we were only wading in the shallows.) Suddenly, a wave pops out of nowhere and knocks the whole thing over (me included). Poor guy got a good dousing. He's been scared of the water ever since. 
