cruelty
Are You Better Off Kicking a Cat or Killing a Pedestrian in New York?
Tom Scocca · 09/30/14 01:40PMJapan Executes Prisoners Without Letting Them Know When They'll Die
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 12/14/13 03:30PMDad Charged with Cruelty Made Injured Kids Walk a Mile After Car Crash
Gabrielle Bluestone · 11/17/13 05:15PMApp Encourages Children to Torture an Insect and Control Its Body
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 11/09/13 11:58AMChildren love to tear bugs limb from limb. Eventually, however, the rush of sadism gives way to the pity one has for the lifeless form crumbled beneath their hands. The fragility of life, the small plane between being and nothingness has been revealed to the young individual and they turn to the heavens and reflect on the next few decades of struggling to accept their demise... Or they forget all that and strap on an electrode and control the insect's body through a cell phone App.
Restore Your Faith in Inhumanity: See Adults Steal Baseballs From Kids
Tom Scocca · 09/26/13 02:17PMArrests Made in Chinese Toddler Death
Lauri Apple · 10/23/11 04:20PMTwo people have been arrested for the hit-and-run death of Wang Yue, the Chinese two-year-old left to die in the street. No word on what the formal charges are; police used the now-infamous surveillance footage to identify the suspects. As much as we dislike how camera'ed up and Big Brothery our public spaces have become, we're glad this particular incident was captured on video. [Washington Post]
The Chinese Toddler Left in the Street to Die Has Died
John Cook · 10/21/11 11:51AMHer name was Wang Yueyue. She was run over—twice—in a crowded market in Fushan, China, last week as at least 17 passersby drove, walked, and bicycled by without lifting a finger to help her for almost ten minutes. Chinese officials announced today that she has died of her injuries, just as those 17 people intended.
Two-Year-Old Hit-and-Run Victim Left to Die in Street in China
John Cook · 10/17/11 11:32AMLast week, a two-year-old girl wandering in the street in a market in Foshan, China, was hit by a van. The driver stopped for a moment and continued on, rolling over the girl again with the van's rear wheels. Over the course of the next seven minutes, as she lay in the street bleeding, 17 passersby walked over and around her—one truck ran over her again—without helping.
Collapsing for 10 Minutes Perfectly Normal Elephant Behavior, Says Circus
Seth Abramovitch · 08/10/11 09:49PMSarah — a 54-year-old Asian elephant performer in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus with a known history of poor health — was filmed by animal rights activists collapsing onto her side as she boarded her boxcar after a performance in Anaheim, Ca.
Michigan Doctor Seeks Justice for Cat Shot With Arrow
Lauri Apple · 05/15/11 04:45PMTeen Arrested for Killing Little Brother's Hamster
Hamilton Nolan · 03/09/11 05:10PMThe American Idol Contestants' Enormous Dream Mansion
Richard Lawson · 03/09/11 04:01PMWhat's an extra cruel way to tease the American Idol finalists with wealth and fame only to tear the dream out of their hands one by one until no one is left? Put them in a seriously huge, $100,000/week rental mansion, so they can feel like kings and queens (mostly queens) for a day or two before they are sent tumbling, so so far, back down to miserable wannabe obscurity.
Woman Caught on Video Throwing a Cat into a Garbage Bin
Matt Cherette · 08/23/10 03:06PMThis is truly sick: here's surveillance footage from outside of a school in Coventry, England that shows a woman walk up to a cat, pet it for a few seconds, and then pick it up/throw it into a garbage bin.
Some People Give Their Kids Really Shitty Names
Ravi Somaiya · 02/26/10 07:17AMWhen Cutting Your Dog's Balls Off Isn't Mean Enough
Hamilton Nolan · 02/03/10 10:56AMWe're All Still Cruel at Heart
Sheila · 12/19/08 01:12PMDog-Starving Artist Just Gets More Unpopular
Hamilton Nolan · 04/15/08 01:27PMHave you signed the petition against Guillermo "Habacuc" Vargas yet? He's the Costa Rican artist whose latest big exhibition featured him tying up a starving dog "without food and water under the words 'Eres Lo Que Lees' - 'You Are What You Read' - made out of dog biscuits while he played the Sandinista anthem backwards and set 175 pieces of crack cocaine alight in a massive incense burner." Some reports say the dog starved to death during the display; the gallery director says that's not true. Either way, Vargas is not a popular man with animal lovers. By now, more than a million people have signed a petition (you can sign here, if you're so inclined) urging that he not be allowed to recreate the work, and the cause continues to draw media coverage and generate new outrage. But the artist calls his opponents hypocrites. His defense, and a video of the exhibit in question (which is pretty heartbreaking), after the jump.
'Times' Iraq Horror: 'Blackwater Shot Our Dog'
Pareene · 12/18/07 03:20PMPrivate security firm and deadly, answerable-to-no-one mercenary army Blackwater was involved in yet another shocking display of deadly gunplay in Iraq. Just months after Blackwater guards shot 17 civilians in cold blood on the streets of Baghdad, they SHOT THE NEW YORK TIMES'S DOG. Which, wow. The New York Times had a dog? And Blackwater just... shot it? "State Department investigators have made two follow-up visits to the Times compound to investigate the shooting of Hentish [the lovable, and no doubt absolutely adorable dog belonging to the Times]," according to Reuters.
New York Times in Iraq: "Blackwater shot our dog" [Reuters]