USDA Reports ‘Bad Newz’ on Michael Vick
November 21, 2008 by David Kindervater
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If you’re feeling sorry for former NFL player Michael Vick, a USDA report surfaced today to remind everyone what a thug he is. A 17-page report, filed back in August by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and released today under the Freedom of Information Act, said in-part:
- Vick placed pets in the ring against pit bulls owned by “Bad Newz Kennels” at least twice and watched as the pit bulls “caused major injuries.”
- Vick and co-defendants Purnell Peace and Quanis Phillips “thought it was funny to watch the pit bull dogs belonging to Bad Newz Kennels injure or kill the other dogs.”
- Vick was administered a polygraph test by the FBI in October 2007 and denied taking part in the killing of dogs in mid-April. When told he had failed that part of the test, Vick recanted his story and admitted to helping hang six to eight underperforming dogs.
- Peace said there were times he suggested that dogs unwilling to fight be given away, but that Vick said “they got to go,” meaning be killed.
- The dogs were killed by shooting, hanging, electrocution and drowning, and in at least one instance, according to one of the witnesses, when Vick and Phillips killed a red pit bull by “slamming it to the ground several times before it died, breaking the dog’s back or neck.”
Nice guy. Not only should Michael not be allowed back into the National Football League when he is scheduled to be released from prison next summer, he ought to be locked up somewhere where he can’t hurt anybody. Because if he can inflict this kind of violence on dogs, whose to say human beings aren’t next? An NFL reinstatement would be a travesty.
Source: Yahoo! Sports
shut up everyone deserves another chance people hunt animals but dont kill people ever who wrote this is full of crap
Uh, there’s a HUGE difference between a responsible hunter/sportsman and a thug like Michael Vick who enjoys hurting animals and watching them being hurt. Read the report. He put family pets in rings with pit bulls and thought it was funny watching the trained killers injure or kill the helpless dogs. Do you condone that type of behavior and the other stuff he did? Sure, he deserves another chance to try to live a normal life. But, playing in the National Football League is not a right, it’s a privilege. Michael Vick doesn’t deserve that privilege. And the NFL certainly doesn’t need Michael Vick.