@ David sometimes on the iPhone’s and probably other phones, if your scrolling along and scroll over the thumbs downs it counts, didn’t happen to me today as I’m more careful now but it has happened by accident, however I’m sure there are people out there with little else to do, only try and annoy other people for there amusement, but most could be just pure accidents!

No they shouldn’t, they should have themselves set on fire. Then jailed.

Wouldn’t you love to know who could possibly red thumb a statement like yours or the one above? How could anyone have issue with it? Would the red thumber like to come forward and explain?

David, do not feed the troll…

I knew that was what you meant. And it’s a well known fact. Awfully sad. My sister has a dog with no tail where some kids tied a rocket to its tail at Halloween few years ago. Sick people out there.

True, see:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs

One of the more disturbing things I have read on the net.

Tom, there are three common behaviors that are associated (though not always) with psychopaths and specifically serial killers- Animal cruelty, arson and bed wetting. It’s known as the McDonald Traid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macdonald_triad There was a spate of attacks on cats in Cobh some years back and also in North Cork on ponies. The people who perpetrated this are without a doubt severely disturbed and do pose a real risk to society. The risk is that they will get desensitized to the pain that they are inflicting and seek other ways to increase their “thrill”. This can lead them to evolving onto human targets such as children or adults as hurting them gives the offender a greater sense of power and control. Hopefully whoever witnessed this act or knows about it will alert the police because if someone like this was in my community I would be seriously worried, actually not worried, scared.

@ Colm, it’s mad, some people will always see their kids as their little darlings, no matter what they do!

I think we can all agree that people who get their jollies harming animals and who think its ok to do that, who see nothing wrong with it, the sort of person who may actually enjoy it will progress to harming people in later life. I won’t go into details but I’ve known such a person, he went on to commit a murder. It’s not fiction, it does happen.
I agree that most people, teenagers included would be disgusted by this act, at least I hope so, but to say they come from difficult homes is making excuses for them even before they’ve been identified. Everyone has problems, we all have a cross to bear but that is no excuse to do this. I agree that they need help, but I suspect we differ on what that help may be, the problem is that when kids do things like this or other things they get put on “schemes” and everything is given to them. What about the ordinary decent kids who never put a foot wrong? I’ve seen kids who’ve done everything you could imagine, from drugs, robbery and joyriding and they get everything, even foreign holidays (they needed a break) while the ones who did nothing can only look on saying “what am I doing wrong?” Incidentlly the offenders almost always repeatedly offend so these schemes don’t work while costing the taxpayer a fortune. I have no problem if a wayword teenager wants to change their ways to offering them every chance but I believe there has to be a carrot and stick approach, as things stand the gurriers get the carrot for doing exactly what they want while the ordinary decent kids are excluded and so get the stick. Right, thats my rant over with, I feel better now.

One extreme to the other. You do like to be controversial. Doncha.

@Dave_G._Gotmley_II You obviously didn’t notice my earlier comment re my sister’s rescue dog. I also have had 2 rescue dogs and 3 rescue cats over the past 15 years. Pa is a wind up merchant.

I have happily nailed several flags to posts and will stand by anything I put my name to. And for the record any post I make I put my name to and have never used any made up silly names.

It’s fine as it’s a pretty emotive article and does make the blood boil but I won’t follow up on your suggestion thanks.

@Sinead. I’m sorry you felt the need to remove @Dave_G._Gormley_II comment. It wasn’t really that bad. Just a rush of blood to the head I’d say. I appreciate your leaving it in to give me a chance to respond tho. But as I’ve said before I’m well able to defend myself.

The prevalence of psychopaths in society is about 1% with a study in the City of London showing 3% at the top level of corporations. Banks and government spring to mind. Interestingly enough the Irish Prison Service does not recognize the term “psychopath”, instead offenders as classed as having Severe Anti-Social Personality Disorder.

That’s because essential psychopathy was removed from the DSM, and broken down into sociopathy, antisocial behaviour disorder and narcissistic personality disorder.. This all ignores psychopathy (but don’t get me started on the APA and the DSM. The most unscientific diagnostic manual in history)

The figures I read was 4-6% of the population to be psychopathic. But this probably covers all the branches of psychopathy – from the “ordinary” psychopath (narcissism and the scale involved) to the homicidal maniac..

We may be a first world country – but it doesn’t mean that everyone is civilised sadly..

You must be a fair bit of a pr1ck to try and make a joke out of this incident.

Cretin

Some lovely kids you seem to have there, lets hope you raise them with some decent morals. Let me ask you, would you be comfortable allowing those who did this to baby sit for you, someone who sets fire to animals, listens to their cries, watches them in agony and laughs? No, People who make fun of things like that, there’d have to be something wrong with them, right?