Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

Dog Thief Beaten to Death for Being Caught Stealing Pets
ChinaWire

A suspected dog thief has been beaten to death by residents of a Chinese village after being caught snatching their pets.

The man had allegedly been stealing dogs with two accomplices before being spotted by furious locals in the village of Baijun in southern China's Guangxi Province on Sunday.

The suspect was pronounced dead in hospital after doctors failed to save him.

The three men were accused of stealing dogs in the county of Baibo in Yulin.

Yulin, a city of around seven million people, holds an annual dog meat festival on the summer solstice.

Each year, thousands of dogs are cruelly killed, skinned and cooked with blow-torches before being consumed.

The newspaper released a video of the trio after they were said to be attacked.

They are seen in the footage lying in pools of blood when a policeman checks on them.

Moments later, one of them is able to sit up while the other two remain on the ground.

Dozens of locals gather around the three men and condemn them for their behaviour.

They are heard saying: 'What else can't you do? Why do you have to be dog thieves?'

Officers found several fake number plates, gloves, knives and other tools in a silver van. They were thought to have been used by the suspects to grab pooches.

The three men were arrested and taken to the hospital.

One of them died after being given emergency treatment. The other two sustained non-life-threatening injuries, it is understood.

Police in Bobai were investigating the case.

It is estimated that 10 million dogs are slaughtered for meat in China annually.

People in some other Asian countries, such as Vietnam and South Korea, also have the tradition of eating dogs.

Dog snatchers often drive a van and use a lasso to catch pet or stray dogs.

Toxic darts are sometimes used too. In those cases, the thieves would go back to the location to collect the dogs' bodies after they are poisoned.

Dog theft is particularly common in southern parts of China, including Guangxi and Guangdong provinces.

Thieves can often evade legal punishment due to lack of law enforcement in the country.

Therefore, pet owners often take matters into their own hands and penalise suspects themselves.

The Yulin Dog Meat Festival takes place every year on the summer solstice. Hundreds of dogs are trafficked across China to the city of seven million people for the controversial event

Last November, a suspected dog thief in Meishan, Guangxi, was flogged in public after being caught stealing pets by villagers.

In February last year, another suspect was brutally attacked by residents of Fengshun. It was reported that the man sustained multiple fractures and the tendons on his hands were severed.

One month earlier, a woman was tied to a gate and beaten by angry villagers in China after being spotted killing a dog using poisonous darts.

Police have urged the public to contact them instead of punishing suspected criminals with violence on their own. Any offenders could face criminal charges too, according to officers.

Idaho

The justice systems have been hogtied and made ineffective. Eventually outrage reaches a tipping point.

There is an unspoken social contract that forms the basis of all criminal justice systems which basically says ‘we will give up our individual natural right to protect ourselves and our property to the collective appointed by the people for that purpose, in exchange for being kept safe to a high standard. When those standards drop to a low level, as has happened in so many places, outrage tips over into action.

Governments should publicise these stories wide and far as an additional layer of deterrence.

Would I engage in vigilante justice? An armchair answer is NO. But who of us knows for sure where our hearts would take when the social contract breaks down.

ACP45 Loc: Rhode Island

Excellent response. This would have been the post I would have written, but you took the words right out of my mouth.

billy a Loc: South Florida

Thanks for your foreign correspondence,Canuck...
This will eventually get to our Second Amendment, so I'll kick it off.
Steal and eat my Foo-Foo, I'll throw you a beating. Threaten me or my people,I'll shoot you. Graveyard dead.
If law enforcement gets there in time, you go with them. However...
And I,among others,consider my right to protect my life and property God-given, NOT government-given,and only He can take that from me.

Big dog

Personally, I think they are barbaric third world cretins that should be radiated with extreme doses of gamma rays. Eating a dog is nothing less than canibalism. Bare in mind, their “civilization “ has been around for thousands of years, yet they never managed to invent the fork. A billion semi sapient primates eating soup with 2 sticks. DISGUSTING.

waltmoreno

I’m with you. And unfortunately law enforcement’s response time is usually too long if they bother to respond at all. So vigilante justice is necessary.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

While I personally find the idea of eating dog distasteful, I hesitate to judge...

Hindus feel the same way about cows...
Buddhists the same way about all life...

China has had the fork for thousands of years... They prefer chopsticks... It has to do with the tradition of eating front communal dishes...
They eat soup with spoons...

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

This is a great answer...

Wish I could add to it

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

I am in agreement Billy...

Law enforcement is rarely about protection (in my experience) and usually about investigation after the fact...

My pooch is fifteen this coming January... The only time I've ever gotten into a physical altercation over here was when someone idiot kicked her...

kikorikid

In the early seventies, one Sunday morning I saw my youngest Brother
wearing a nice Paul "Bear" Bryant hat. I asked,"Hey Bro, were did you
get the hat?" He replied, " Last night I went to the concert and saw
a guy kick a Dog so I beat his ass and took his hat." I said, Nice hat Bro!

tbutkovich

The moral of the story: “Don’t own a fat dog!”

tbutkovich

If you own a Chihuahua, your safe!

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

Cheers to your bro

amadjuster Loc: Texas Panhandle

How many Chihuahuas does it take to make stew?

Saspatz007 Loc: The goat sheds

I live in a rural area where the police are 15 minutes away at top speed. Darn straight I have guns. Try not to kill them. Lawyers are expensive. So far I’ve been lucky.

Caught a local kid once stealing grain from the barn. Because this is a rural area, everybody knows everybody. So I knew his family was in difficulty. Put him to work mucking out. He ended up working at a Walmart. Working for us helped his family and once they were on their feet again he saved up for a car. Finally he left for the job at Walmart.