Straight Male / 48
My neighbor is a real asshole. He abuses animals and probably abuses people too but I have not seen him do that.
The first time I simply found a dead cat in my back yard. I didn't think much of it. Occasionally one finds dead animals in one's yard. I just buried it and forgot about it. Until a few weeks later when I heard gawd awful howling late at night that lasted for several minutes and ended in a loud yelp. I rolled over and went back to sleep. The next day I saw a dead torn up dog a few feet over the property line in his back yard. I figured some other animal had gotten to it so I didn't think much of it. I forgot about that as well until a few weeks after that I was in my backyard at eleven o'clock at night. It was very dark in my back yard but he had his lights on. That's when I watched as he came outside and was holding a struggling cat. The animal was bound up with duck tape. He was carrying it by it's tail. It must have been in a lot of pain. My neighbor is huge and I'm not very brave so I just sat there frozen in fear watching as he took the cat by the tail and began bashing it into the trunk of the tree in his back yard. The poor animal screamed in pain then convulsed and finally stopped making sounds or moving. He then drop kicked it over his back fence into the neighbor that lived behind his yard.
It was at that point that I realized what was going on. This asshole was brutally killing animals, probably strays or neighbor's pets that had wandered into his yard. I wasn't sure what to do. Reporting him would mean admitting that I stood there and did nothing. But I'm just not brave. Reporting him also would do no good unless I had evidence which I didn't. So I formulated a plan to set him up. I knew it meant he would have to torture at least one more animal to death for him to get punished but it was the only way to prevent him from torturing and tormenting future animals. I set up several video cameras. Fortunately for me I worked for a security company at the time so I had access to cameras and recording equipment. Two of them were equipped with night vision. It was almost a month of nightly recording before he finally did it again. This time he did it while I was at work. When I got home and reviewed the tapes it showed him torturing two puppies. I could not tell the breed but they were definitely puppies and he was definitely torturing them. He flung them around. He bashed them onto rocks. He hit them with shovels. He covered one in alcohol and set it on fire and let it run around his and my back yard and the other one he broke it's paws and legs and slowly crushed it to death by dropping cinder blocks on it. Mercifully it only took two hours for the puppies to die.
I turned the tapes over to the cops the next day. A few days later he was arrested and was on the news. It turns out he just liked to torture animals and found them where ever his travels took him. At least none had belonged to any of our close neighbors but several had been wondering why they kept hearing screams at night and why they kept finding dead torn up animals in their back yard.
The guy got life in prison. The judge decided to sentence him to multiple consecutive ten year sentences the maximum possible for each incident they were able to prove he was the cause of. It added up to life for him.
The first time I simply found a dead cat in my back yard. I didn't think much of it. Occasionally one finds dead animals in one's yard. I just buried it and forgot about it. Until a few weeks later when I heard gawd awful howling late at night that lasted for several minutes and ended in a loud yelp. I rolled over and went back to sleep. The next day I saw a dead torn up dog a few feet over the property line in his back yard. I figured some other animal had gotten to it so I didn't think much of it. I forgot about that as well until a few weeks after that I was in my backyard at eleven o'clock at night. It was very dark in my back yard but he had his lights on. That's when I watched as he came outside and was holding a struggling cat. The animal was bound up with duck tape. He was carrying it by it's tail. It must have been in a lot of pain. My neighbor is huge and I'm not very brave so I just sat there frozen in fear watching as he took the cat by the tail and began bashing it into the trunk of the tree in his back yard. The poor animal screamed in pain then convulsed and finally stopped making sounds or moving. He then drop kicked it over his back fence into the neighbor that lived behind his yard.
It was at that point that I realized what was going on. This asshole was brutally killing animals, probably strays or neighbor's pets that had wandered into his yard. I wasn't sure what to do. Reporting him would mean admitting that I stood there and did nothing. But I'm just not brave. Reporting him also would do no good unless I had evidence which I didn't. So I formulated a plan to set him up. I knew it meant he would have to torture at least one more animal to death for him to get punished but it was the only way to prevent him from torturing and tormenting future animals. I set up several video cameras. Fortunately for me I worked for a security company at the time so I had access to cameras and recording equipment. Two of them were equipped with night vision. It was almost a month of nightly recording before he finally did it again. This time he did it while I was at work. When I got home and reviewed the tapes it showed him torturing two puppies. I could not tell the breed but they were definitely puppies and he was definitely torturing them. He flung them around. He bashed them onto rocks. He hit them with shovels. He covered one in alcohol and set it on fire and let it run around his and my back yard and the other one he broke it's paws and legs and slowly crushed it to death by dropping cinder blocks on it. Mercifully it only took two hours for the puppies to die.
I turned the tapes over to the cops the next day. A few days later he was arrested and was on the news. It turns out he just liked to torture animals and found them where ever his travels took him. At least none had belonged to any of our close neighbors but several had been wondering why they kept hearing screams at night and why they kept finding dead torn up animals in their back yard.
The guy got life in prison. The judge decided to sentence him to multiple consecutive ten year sentences the maximum possible for each incident they were able to prove he was the cause of. It added up to life for him.
