Yobs killed a family’s beloved pet peacock by shooting it more than 20 times with slingshots and catapults, before contacting the owners to warn them, ‘you’re going to be next’.
A family was left in tears after watching River, their peacock, which they rescued from his abusive previous owners, be brutally killed by the sadistic group on CCTV footage.
River’s owner, Alison Carter, 57, posted the footage from a neighbour’s CCTV camera of the suspects on Facebook, showing five boys and one girl firing at the peacock, who was perched in a tree.
One member of the twisted group messaged her daughter Macey, 23, threatening: ‘Your peacock is 6 feet under and you are going to be next’.
In the sickening footage, three of the boys are seen pelting River more than 20 times from the road before climbing over the fence onto the roof of a private property to carry on their assault on the innocent bird.
A petrified and injured River, who Alison says would have ‘trusted’ the group of strangers, is seen falling out of the tree, flapping around in distress and cowering in a corner.
The group keeps shooting at him from the rooftop. Suddenly, two of them run forward, seize River by the wings and present him like a prize. Afterwards, one of them tears off his feathers.
They attempted to conceal his bloody corpse behind some wood in the corner before running away like cowards.
Alison, 57, said, ‘I was devastated, and I still am. He was part of the family; he played and walked around with our dog, Ziggy.
‘He was like a dog—he would follow you around, he would come into the kitchen, he would have trusted them.’
River was found “featherless and frightened” in a little cage without sunshine when they found him about six years ago.
Alison said: ‘We built up the trust and he became tame, friendly and happy for his freedom.’
After posting a screen grab of the security camera footage on Facebook, they notified the authorities and provided the perpetrators’ identities.
Her daughter Macey, who was sent the threat from one of the group members, said: ‘We now don’t feel safe.’
Fearing that the miscreants may return, they have put a halt to their five other peacocks’ freedom to wander.
According to Alison, one of her dogs was hit by a catapult the day after River was murdered, leaving a bloody wound.
This is disgusting behaviour from a human being. It’s not just disgusting, it’s barbaric—we haven’t moved on very much from the days of being hung, drawn and quartered!
How long will it take for parents to accept accountability for their kids? To instruct children on appropriate conduct, inappropriate behaviour, and the reasons behind both. It’s no good blaming schools or society if a parent hasn’t taught their child how to behave, how to treat other people and their property, and that there will be consequences for wrongdoing.
It is the duty of those who choose to become parents to ensure that their offspring learn how to be law-abiding citizens; otherwise, this type of conduct will only continue, as we are currently witnessing.
Unfortunately, you can’t reason with those who have a mindset of immoral ways.
In our culture, we will have more socially inept youngsters who will grow up to be adults with far more serious problems, like murder, if we tolerate violence and brutality towards other living things.
The issue is that, as it has been for some time, punishment is now too light. When I was younger, my mother would yell at me for doing anything remotely wrong. However, these days, parents are afraid to discipline their kids for fear that social services will be called and the kids will be taken away. As a result, these kids don’t have strict rules, and they know that they can get away with anything they want to do because all they have to say is, “I’ll call social services or the police and have you nicked.”
Jeez, the police and social services were on rapid dial! It worked for me since my kids didn’t know it was a deadline and thought I was talking to them on the phone. However, some kids, wouldn’t care and would instead require more severe punishment, such as a smack or even the cane.
Return the cane to the classrooms. I had a pretty good hiding at home if I even looked at my mother strangely, and many other kids got canings or even had the blackboard rubber hurled across the classroom if a student was misbehaving. I was a decent citizen, kind, and respectful, and I performed well in society, so it never caused me any damage.
We now live in a ‘woke’ society where ‘you can’t say this, you can’t do that. You mustn’t do anything that will hurt your fellow human being’, but guess what? We already have!
We have been socially conditioned to believe that these things are bad, and now we have introduced the ‘woke brigade’, and hell’s bells, we are even erasing our history, and we shouldn’t be ‘woke’ we should be ‘awake’, but instead we have been mesmerised and triggered into believing that we shouldn’t do certain things, or say certain things.
It’s all mind control, folks! Induction of P syco-neuroses by Conditional Reflex under Stress. Even commercials that you watch on TV are mind conditioning; it’s just that people don’t realise it, but you are being manipulated. Their marketing and advertising are subtle, but once they get their hooks in, these commercials and other forms of mind control can reach people on an unconscious level.
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