UPDATE: Dog dragged to death - Page 7

Yeah, Beetree, it is sickening.  I hated to post the specifics, but I figured if I didn't, people would just make excuses for the killer. "Maybe it was an accident, maybe he didn't know..." It wasn't an accident and he did know. Poor Buddy didn't have a chance once that POS Romero got him. Authorities involved expect more charges to be filed this week.

I suppose the moral for the dog owner to take from this case is do NOT EVER leave your dog tied up outside a building. You must be with your dog at all times in public. 

Here's the petition site: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/6/demand-justice-for-buddys-killer

There are now just over 5,000 signatures. The goal is 10,000. Go sign, people. You can get to the petition from Facebook by searching for Demand Justice for Buddy, but you don't have to belong to Facebook to sign the petition.

For the comment about that if Romero goes to jail than we have to pay for it thru out taxes?   Well, then so I guess you are saying that you are opposed to people being in Jail..  Then why not all the criminials, murders, robbers go free and let's not have jail at all.  I mean we would not want to have to pay taxes for these people.  So let's just let then run free.  How safe would our world be then?  I mean really.  I just don't get people's thinking at all. 

It's not about thinking, Dodie. It's about typing something off quickly and voicing an uninformed opinion. Many posters on this board don't think before they hit submit comment.

Hey Dodie...

Whenever someone goes to jail, taxes do pay for it.  Taxpayers pay to keep criminals in jail, feed them, house them, keep them warm and provide them with Cable TV.

I'm all for putting them in jail, but I'd make jail hell if it were up to me.  Offenders wouldn't look at being in jail as a reprieve from having to pay their own way...No siree.  They'd be wanting to get the hell out and get straight.

Please tell me what spending a few months in jail will do for Romero?  He gets three meals a day, clothes washed for him, free housing, free medical care, and most likely will still be able to score whatever substances he's used to indulging in.  And there's the TV, too.

Killing a dog is not the crime that killing a human is.  It's a tragedy, nonetheless, and I hope justice is served in any such case.  But the woman in Spokane who killed a little three or four year old girl because she wouldn't stop crying...beat her to death...That's the one I'd like to see them crucify.  It just galls me that when someone has the urge to hurt something that they just don't hurt themselves...Instead, they drag a dog to death, they burn a little girl with cigarettes and then beat her when she cries, they drug a newborn with chemicals to shut it up, a man murders his pregnant wife...Sick people...Just sick, sick people.  They don't deserve to live on the same world with those who do respect other life.

Don't get me wrong..My family hunts, fishes, and raises the occasional pig or steer, or chickens, for meat.  I don't equate their lives with the lives of my dogs, and the lives of my dogs are not equal with mine or my childrens, either.   But I do respect all life, its position on this world, and the fact that not all humans are people.  Some are just animals, and shouldn't be in society.

Just my honest and unvarnished opinion.

Crys

I am not sure whay you are talking about.  I was actually referring to the comment Two Moons made.  The very same one who thought it would be cute to post a so called funny episode about  the video  of National Lampoons were the dog was dragged to death.  I guess in the movie that was supposed to be funny.  This is not funny at all.  Actually it is pretty sick!.   If you ready his most recent post you might understand.  It was made to sound like jail is just a waist of tax payers money.   In some cases it is, they should just get the chair.  But, people need to be locked up who are a mensis to society.   That is the point that I was trying to make.  Get these sick sob's off the street.

Stack 'em up like cordwood and weld the door shut.  Let them suffer like they made their victims suffer.  I am no bleeding heart liberal who thinks the likes of these low life people can be rehabilitated.  I think it's a shame we have to pay for their comfortable accomodations once they are sentenced but until they start asking me how to run a prison, I guess we will have to live with it. 

Deb

Myself, I like Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Maricopa County AZ.  His prisoners get pink uniforms, tents in the desert, no cable, bologna sandwiches, no frills at all. A liberal judge decided his jail building was inadequate to house inmates, so he put up those tents in the desert and gave his air conditioned jail to Animal Control to be an animal shelter.  My kinda guy.

That POS Romero, on the other hand, is now in the Federal system since he tortured and killed Buddy on Federal land. We'll have to wait and see what charges get filed against who for this despicable crime. I hope the Park Service was thorough in their investigation and didn't leave any evidence loopholes for a POS defense attorney to get Romero off. He's got a long record of priors and I hope that doesn't get dismissed either.

I hope he drops the soap.

I hope he drops the soap and gets his finger caught in the draintrying to pick it up, long enough for everybody to get a turn!

From the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel website:

A federal judge this afternoon said a man accused of killing a dog on Colorado National Monument will get a court-appointed attorney.

The appointment, which was made by U.S. Magistrate Judge Laird Milburn, came after 37-year-old Steven Clay Romero said his attorney, “couldn’t make it,” to Monday’s hearing. Romero has been held without bond at the Mesa County Jail since his arrest on Thursday.

Romero told the judge he’s had “problems” since he’s been at the jail, but didn’t elaborate.

“Pretty much everybody thinks I’ve done it,” Romero told the judge.

Romero will return before Milburn Thursday afternoon for a pre-trial conference and a detention hearing.

He may get worse than what you'd expect for dropped soap in the shower. No word yet on additional charges for those who say they heard Romero say he would kill Buddy. I imagine they are dealing for pleas in exchange for testimony.