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Thu Jun 23, 2:48 PM ET
Animal Cruelty Video Sparks Iowa Probe
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FORT DODGE, Iowa - Authorities are investigating a video sent to a humor Web site that shows opossums being doused with lighter fluid and set afire as youths laugh "hysterically" in the background.
Josh Colvin, cruelty intervention coordinator for the Animal Rescue League of Iowa, called the video "the worst animal torture I've ever seen."
"It shows the possums walking around, clearly just engulfed with flames," Colvin said. "They do this to two possums while laughing hysterically in the background."
The video was sent to eBaumsworld.com, a Web site the features a variety of humorous video clips, stories and games.
"We don't mind a little edgy humor, but this was too over the edge for eBaumsworld," said Neil Bauman, executive vice president of the Rochester, N.Y.-based Web site.
The video doesn't show anyone's face, but it includes voices that sound like teenage boys or young men. Web site administrators sent the video, accompanying e-mail and Internet information to a caseworker with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and it was traced to Fort Dodge.
The Webster County sheriff's department and Fort Dodge police are investigating. Officials declined to comment until charges are filed.
"It's one of the worst cases of cruelty we've run across," PETA spokesman Martin Mersereau said. "The video tracks on for what seems like an eternity."
The 13 staff members at the Web site sift through an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 e-mails a day, many of them with video content, and this was the first one referred to authorities, Bauman said.
Thu Jun 23, 2:48 PM ET
Animal Cruelty Video Sparks Iowa Probe
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FORT DODGE, Iowa - Authorities are investigating a video sent to a humor Web site that shows opossums being doused with lighter fluid and set afire as youths laugh "hysterically" in the background.
Josh Colvin, cruelty intervention coordinator for the Animal Rescue League of Iowa, called the video "the worst animal torture I've ever seen."
"It shows the possums walking around, clearly just engulfed with flames," Colvin said. "They do this to two possums while laughing hysterically in the background."
The video was sent to eBaumsworld.com, a Web site the features a variety of humorous video clips, stories and games.
"We don't mind a little edgy humor, but this was too over the edge for eBaumsworld," said Neil Bauman, executive vice president of the Rochester, N.Y.-based Web site.
The video doesn't show anyone's face, but it includes voices that sound like teenage boys or young men. Web site administrators sent the video, accompanying e-mail and Internet information to a caseworker with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and it was traced to Fort Dodge.
The Webster County sheriff's department and Fort Dodge police are investigating. Officials declined to comment until charges are filed.
"It's one of the worst cases of cruelty we've run across," PETA spokesman Martin Mersereau said. "The video tracks on for what seems like an eternity."
The 13 staff members at the Web site sift through an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 e-mails a day, many of them with video content, and this was the first one referred to authorities, Bauman said.
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