Revealed: the man who killed

[highwayman]

This is news?
Untill several years ago greyhounds that were considered less then "par" would be put down...Now there are rescue groups that adopt the dogs out...


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2272175,00.html

THE secret slaughter of at least 10,000 racing greyhounds by one man has been exposed by an undercover investigation.
For the past 15 years David Smith, a builders’ merchant, has been killing healthy greyhounds no longer considered by their trainers to be fast enough to race. He buries them in a one-acre plot at the back of his home in Seaham, Co Durham.

Last week The Sunday Times covertly filmed Smith on two consecutive days receiving greyhounds from trainers before killing them with a bolt gun, dumping them in the plot and covering over the “graves” using a mechanical digger.

He told an undercover reporter it took him three years to fill the field, at which point he simply started all over again. “Within a year the bodies have gone,” said Smith. “It takes me about three years to get across there and by the time I get there I can start back here again and there are only a few bones left.”

 

[Gonz]

Deplorable but perfectly legal. Another fine example of journalism based upon emotion instead of intellect.

 

[highwayman]

Working on the emotions of people alright, it has been common practice to put the dogs down when they were of no use...

 

[chcr]

Deplorable but perfectly legal. Another fine example of journalism based upon emotion instead of intellect.

You ever see any of the other kind?

 

[Dave]

give it a few years and some more indian casinos and greyhound racing will be a thing of the past. the dog track near me has lost over 50% of its clientel since the casinos opened in CT. one opens here in MA and it'll probably be over.

 

[spike]

It is deplorable. Journalists reporting deplorable behavior often brings enough attention to the situation that the deplorable actions stop.

 

[Gonz]

It is deplorable. Journalists reporting deplorable behavior often brings enough attention to the situation that the deplorable actions stop.

Or, one could contact their state representative & ask for legislation...which is where this will end up anyway.

 

[spike]

Or, one could contact their state representative & ask for legislation...which is where this will end up anyway.

Sure, the article might have helped with that too.