I find it telling that *if* it indeed happened the way he claimed, she called *the day before* and warned him. He had plenty of time to get the dogs to a safer location...
It doesn't say that the lady called and said she was burning down his barn, just that she was "putting him out of business." Burning down the barn was probably not what he expected.
Not that she tries to burn down his barn every year--just that she tries to put him out of business. There are a lot of other, more effective ways to try to put someone out of business. (Her barn burning approach obviously didn't work at all.)
I guess there's just not enough info in this third hand account to know the whole story.
Tries to put him out of business, which can be done legally in a variety of ways.
Arson may be a good way to get people to notice you, but I find it really hard to take an animal rights "crusader" seriously if the best way they can save the puppies is to light a fire that, uh, KILLS them.
What I am getting at is that if she has tried things before he should know by now that when she threatens she is crazy enough to mean it and he should take proper precautions.
Maybe this is the first time she tried something violent. Maybe all she'd done before is distribute angry flyers and picket. Don't you think if he had any indication she would actually KILL some of his dogs, he'd have done something? Even if he was only in it for the money, he definitely wouldn't have just let her kill a barn full of puppies he had invested time and money into
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Or maybe he could have, oh, you know, CALLED THE POLICE. Christ on a stick people. Stop getting all pisst and accusing me of making assumptions about what happened/could happen/might have happened, and then making just as many, if not more assumptions. Thank you very much.
Well, what would the police have done? They don't exactly have the resources to post someone at his property 24/7 because of some vague 'threat', and they can't arrest someone unless they have some evidence that they have already done something illegal or threatened to do something illegal. Threatening to put someone "out of business" is not illegal, as it is not a threat of immediate bodily harm or intent to commit some kind of crime. If she'd said "I'm going to burn down your barn full of dogs", maybe he'd have had a reason to call the police.
I'm not pissy, I'm just trying to understand why you seem to think this was preventable.
If she's tried things in the past, the police should at least have gone and had a talk with her, and he could have gotten a restraining order from the past events.
I'm just trying to understand why you seem to think this was preventable
Honestly, I don't think the byb is 100% honest, is all.
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I guess there's just not enough info in this third hand account to know the whole story.
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Arson may be a good way to get people to notice you, but I find it really hard to take an animal rights "crusader" seriously if the best way they can save the puppies is to light a fire that, uh, KILLS them.
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I'm not pissy, I'm just trying to understand why you seem to think this was preventable.
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I'm just trying to understand why you seem to think this was preventable
Honestly, I don't think the byb is 100% honest, is all.
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