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Butchering a rabbit isn't illegal, but getting people to give you money
because the fear that you may do something they find objectionable is. Problem is, is what he's doing constitute enough fear to be considered extortion. Similar sites avoid the legal issue by stating somewhere on them that they are a joke. Terry "Sereena Nightshade via CatKB.com" wrote in message ... Hi, I've finally found this thread again... Anyway, as I said in my last out of place post, I really don't think this guy is going to eat Toby. He just knows that he can pry money out of people by threatening to eat the rabbit. The problem, as I see it, is that I don't think it is illegal to butcher and eat rabbits in the USA and most of Europe. In fact, there are breeds of rabbits bred specifically to be butchered. The fact that the guy states he will take the bunny to a butcher to get the animal slaughtered makes it certain that no legal branch is likely to respond to what this man is doing or saying he is going to do with Toby. It's sick, I agree, but I don't know how anyone could stop it. -- Message posted via http://www.catkb.com |
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On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 04:39:51 GMT, "Sereena Nightshade via CatKB.com"
wrote: I've finally found this thread again... Anyway, as I said in my last out of place post, I really don't think this guy is going to eat Toby. He just knows that he can pry money out of people by threatening to eat the rabbit. The problem, as I see it, is that I don't think it is illegal to butcher and eat rabbits in the USA and most of Europe. In fact, there are breeds of rabbits bred specifically to be butchered. The fact that the guy states he will take the bunny to a butcher to get the animal slaughtered makes it certain that no legal branch is likely to respond to what this man is doing or saying he is going to do with Toby. It's sick, I agree, but I don't know how anyone could stop it. It's a fake, like the National Lampoon cover of 30 years ago: "Buy this magazine or we will shoot this dog." Check snopes.com for more details. For one thing, Snopes reports that when you attempt to use PayPal it tells you the client is not accepting payments. |
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I'm not sure if asking for money to not do something (something legal) that
people find appalling is illegal -- honestly I don't know. I'd have to guess that it is not illegal. If he were scaring people by saying he would come and hurt them or their pet if they did not give money it would be illegal. If he were saying that he would kill the rabbit in some manner that was considered inhumane it would also be illegal to do both that and to ask money to not do it. Honestly, I was stalked for years by a truly deranged lunatic and I found out the hard way that things, which are even illegal and other things which are not but could or should be (blackmail attempts and extortion specifically), can too easily be slanted by the perpetrator allowing the perpetrator to get away with it. Sick as Toby's owner (if we can call this guy an owner) is I doubt he is doing anything here that anyone can get him in trouble for. I think it's sad that people are giving him money though. According to the site, when I looked at it, he has reportedly received about $20,000 so far. Another problem is that if he is rewarded for this sick stunt (i.e. by getting the money) he will likely try this or something worse in the future and probably get away with that too. Moreover, who's to say that even if this freak-o gets his $50,000 (or whatever he is demanding) that he won't simply demand more or else again. I tend to wonder if he's breaking any Internet laws? Is he authorized to do this on the site that he's on or something like that? -- Message posted via http://www.catkb.com |
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I just thought of something -- something that probably won't work, but here
it is: Has anyone considered contacting rabbit rescue and perhaps other small animal rescue (i.e. other rodents) people? They might have some ideas about what could potentially be done. Another thing: The save Toby guy is probably getting off on the misery and distress he is causing others. Perpetrators are like that and this guy is probably a perpetrator of some kind (i.e. the more normal mind does not purposely try to make a profit through the fear, horror, misery, distress, etc. of others in real life situations). -- Message posted via http://www.catkb.com |
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