I stumbled out of the bunker at a disgracefully late hour today (the time involved numbers with PM after them) to pick up my copy of the Denton Record-Chronicle (which was surprisingly still there—it’s often gone if I leave it past noon).  On the front page, in the center, was this article(requires registration) about some agriculture students at Krum High School whose goats and lambs were wounded or killed by dogs on November 16th.  Normally I wouldn’t have thought much more about it, but there is a quote from one of the students in the article that had steam coming out of my ears. 

Since the article requires registration, allow me to reproduce the first few paragraphs for your edification:

Students mourn livestock tragedy

12/07/2002

By JOSHUA A. BAUGH / Denton Record-Chronicle

KRUM – Several students in the Krum High School agriculture department are recovering from monetary and emotional losses caused by a pair of dogs that brutally wounded or killed 11 goats and lambs.

Several students who went to the high school barn to feed their animals on Nov. 16 found many of their animals maimed and others dead.

“When I came in, it was a horror scene,” said Kara Arnold, a senior who was supposed to make her first appearance showing lambs at a Future Farmers of America (FFA) state competition later this year. “There was blood everywhere.”

She described that Saturday morning as a tragic day. People were crying and calling others on mobile phones to inform them of the bad news.

“For us, it was like a small version of Sept. 11,” Kara said. “We never thought this would happen.” (emphasis added)
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I don’t know what the hell they’re teaching the students in Krum, but to equate a dog attack on a few animals with the deaths of over 3,000 human beings is utterly mindboggling to me.  It makes me wonder if this poor girl has been indoctrinated by those idiots at PETA, because this sounds like the kind of crap they’d spew.

Damn!