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Press (various): Man bites head *UGLY*

Aug 27, 2007 10:53 AM

OTTAWA SUN (Ontario) 25 August 07 Man bites head off girlfriend's python
Belfast (AP): A man bit off the head of his girlfriend's pet snake during a fight and remarked that it "tasted lovely," lawyers testified yesterday in Northern Ireland.
Shane Cooke, a 33-year-old bricklayer, was arraigned in Belfast High Court on charges of assaulting his girlfriend, Coleen McGleenon, and fatally torturing her royal python Aug. 4.
McGleenon's lawyers said he headbutted her twice and picked up her pet, put it in his mouth, and threw its severed head at her.
"Your snake tasted lovely," he was quoted as saying.
Cooke's lawyer, Adrian Higgins had attacked the snake because he knew his girlfriend loved it.
He said Cooke had been drinking for several hours before the attack.
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2007/08/25/4445064-sun.html

LE SOLEIL (Quebec City, Quebec) 25 August 07 Il décapite un python avec ses dents
Belfast: Un homme en Irlande du Nord a décapité d’un coup de dent le serpent de sa petite amie, un python royal, lors d’une dispute ayant mal tourné, a-t-on appris de sources judiciaires vendredi.
Shane Cooke, un maçon de 33 ans, a été inculpé par un tribunal de Belfast qui l’accuse d’avoir agressé sa petite amie, Coleen McGleenon, et d’acte de torture ayant entraîné la mort du reptile le 4 août. Selon les avocats de Mme McGleenon, Cooke lui a assénée deux coups de tête, a pris le serpent, l’a mis dans sa bouche et a jeté la tête coupée sur elle.
"Ton serpent avait bon goût", lui aurait-il dit.Selon l’avocat de Cooke, Adrian Higgins, son client a reconnu les faits et s’en est pris au serpent parce qu’il savait que son amie avait de l’affection pour l’animal.
Il a précisé que Cooke avait bu de l’alcool pendant plusieurs heures avant l’agression.
http://www.lesoleil.sn/article.php3?id_article=28120

EL SIGLO DE TORREÓN (Mexico) 27 August 07 Pelea con su novia y mata a mordidas a su mascopta: una víbora
Belfast, Irlanda Del Norte (AP): Un nordirlandés cortó en dos de un mordisco la víbora mascota de su novia durante una pelea con la mujer y aseguró que tenía un gusto exquisito, dijeron los abogados.
Shane Cooke, un albañil de 33 años, fue instruido de cargos en un tribunal de Belfast acusado de agredir a su novia, Coleen McGleenon y de torturar y matar a su pitón el 4 de agosto.
Los abogados de McGleenon dijeron que él la golpeó dos veces con la cabeza y luego tomó la víbora, se la puso en la boca y luego de cortarle la cabeza se la arrojó a la muchacha. “Tu víbora está muy rica”, le dijo, según el legajo.
El abogado del acusado, Adrian Higgins, dijo que su cliente...
http://www.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/noticia/294037.pelea-con-su-novia-y-mata-a-mordidas-a-su-mas.html

VIETNAM NET (Hà Nội., Vietnam) 26 August 07 Đi tù vì cắn rắn của bạn gái
Chủ nhật: Một anh chàng người Bắc Ai len đang có nguy cơ phải ngồi tù sau khi bị tòa án kết tội anh đã cắn con rắn cưng của người yêu và ném nó vào người cô nàng.
Cách đây vài hôm, anh chàng thợ nề Shane Cooke đến nhà cô bạn gái Coleen McGleenon khi cô đang chơi với con rắn yêu của mình. Không biết do "ghen tị" với con rắn hay do bực mình vì người yêu chậm mở cửa, anh chàng đã lao vào tóm cổ con rắn. Sau khi cho con rắn vào trong mồm cắn và nói với người yêu: "Con rắn của mày ngon đấy chứ", anh chàng đó đã ném thẳng con rắn vào đầu người yêu khiến nàng bị thương. Không thể chống lại gã người yêu đang trong tình trạng nồng nặc hơi men, Coleen đành phải gọi điện cho cảnh sát đến trợ giúp.
Trong lời khai tại tòa, Shane Cooke cho biết: Sở dĩ anh chàng cắn con rắn là do cô người yêu của anh quá yêu nó, và một phần nữa là do anh chàng đã hơi quá chén. Tuy nhiên, dù vì lý do gì đi chăng nữa thì anh cũng đều có tội cả.
http://www.baomoi.com/Home/GiaiTri/2007/8/966655.epi?refer=http://giaitri.vietnamnet.vn/vn/tincucla/6857/index.aspx

Replies (10)

JaredHorenstein Aug 27, 2007 01:32 PM

That dude has issues........

Jared

Ginevive Aug 27, 2007 01:41 PM

Wow; what a psycho. Poor snake; maybe if nothing else, this article will draw sympathy for the snake from people who would otherwise dislike them..
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Ball pythons: 1.4 normals.. 1.0 Spider. 1.0 Graz pastel. 1.0 100% het or. ghost. 0.0.8 hatchlings (Pastel/norm), and 4 eggs still cooking. Also 1.0 BCI boa. 0.2 horses (paint mares) 1.0 black cat, 1.0 fiancee, 2.3 clawed frogs. And a ton of freshwater fish and breeder rats.

LadyOhh Aug 27, 2007 02:21 PM

Its a shame that people can use living creatures in acts of vengeance.

That man needs serious counselling and medications.

That poor snake...
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www.HeathersHerps.com

-Ohh, what a Lady-

Balls for Life, Baby!

Coldthumb Aug 27, 2007 03:19 PM

>>Its a shame that people can use living creatures in acts of vengeance.
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>>That man needs serious counselling and medications.
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>>That poor snake...
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>>www.HeathersHerps.com
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>>-Ohh, what a Lady-
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>>Balls for Life, Baby!

Yeah that's pathetic..anyone that abuses another pet for vengeance should definitely have their head examined....On that note,I've actually heard of this happening in reverse.Where the wife threw the husbands prized fish out in the yard to die(,while he was at work no less.).
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Charles Glaspie

ginebig Aug 27, 2007 07:44 PM

>>the wife threw the husbands prized fish out in the yard to die(,while he was at work no less.).
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Don't interupt me when I'm talkin' to myself

ginebig Aug 27, 2007 07:49 PM

continued...................man I hate when that happens

The fish wasn't yours was it? Sorry, had to ask.

I'm not sure counceling will help this guy. He doesn't seem the type to accept help like that very well. Meds, on the other hand(I'm thinkin' a BUNCH of thorazine here)may well do the trick.

The guy needs to wake up one day with a gaboon in his bed.

Quig
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Don't interupt me when I'm talkin' to myself

Coldthumb Aug 27, 2007 08:59 PM

>>continued...................man I hate when that happens
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>>The fish wasn't yours was it? Sorry, had to ask.
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Oh hail no...I refuse to get married..Who needs contracts with so many loopholes. lol
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Charles Glaspie

Aug 29, 2007 01:03 PM

Charles et al... and not just with fish.
I recently attended a local animal rescue event in Ottawa (Canada) and the manager of Big Sky Ranch indicated that a large number of critters that required rehoming are directed to him because of the keeper's having marital problems or having suffered domestic breakdown.

COURIER-NEWS (Elgin, Illinois) 11 August 07 W. Dundee woman accused of injuring her husband's pets (David Gialanella)
A West Dundee woman faces felony charges in Kane County after attacking her husband's pet lizards, killing one and severely injuring the other, authorities said Friday.
A grand jury this week indicted Sara Tinsley, 37, of the 500 block of South Second Street, with one count each of cruelty to animals and aggravated cruelty to animals for allegedly throwing one of the reptiles against the wall and stabbing the other with a butcher knife. Authorities say it was an act of vengeance against her husband, who is accused of battering her.
"She knew he loved the lizards," said West Dundee Police Chief Dave Sawyer in a phone interview Friday.
According to a report, officers visited the residence April 2 when Tinsley called in to report a domestic altercation that occurred between the couple a day earlier. There officers saw blood on the floor and discovered the lizards Fred and Ethel -- which authorities believe to be iguanas -- in a trash can, the report stated.
Police explained that Tinsley had engaged in a second argument with her husband, Harry -- this time over the phone -- in the hours before she called police and told him she was going to kill his prized pets. After that shouting match, she turned on the lizards, police said. The impact with the wall killed Ethel, but Fred survived the stabbing after a family friend brought him to a veterinarian, Sawyer said.
Harry Tinsley -- who turned himself in for questioning the same day police discovered his dead and injured pets -- was charged with one misdemeanor count of domestic battery for pushing and choking his wife during the prior day's altercation, authorities said.
Sawyer said officers have been called to the residence on subsequent reports of domestic disturbance since the incident in early April.
A young woman who answered the door Friday at the South Second Street home said Sara Tinsley has gone on vacation, and added that Harry Tinsley has moved to West Chicago.
Sara has been out of jail on $500 bond. She and Harry each are scheduled to appear separately before 16th Circuit Judge Grant Wegner later this month.
"We see goofy stuff, but I don't think we've ever had lizards," Sawyer said
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/couriernews/news/506398,3_1_EL11_A1CRUELTY_S1.article

j3nnay Aug 27, 2007 02:31 PM

There's actually program in place here in San Diego for pets of people in abusive relationships - it's a sort of safe house program, allowing the people to house their pets with foster homes until the victims can get out. Prevents this sort of thing from happening.

Very, very sad. I would have grabbed the nearest blunt object and beaten the man if it was one of my snakes.

~jenny
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"The python has, and I fib no fibs,
318 pairs of ribs.
In stating this I place reliance
On a seance with one who died for science
This figure is sworn to and attested,
He counted them while being digested."
~Ogden Nash

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goregrind Aug 27, 2007 07:28 PM

i just dont see how anyone could do that?
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jake

my addiction:
0.2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
0.1 amelenistic corn snake (maizy)
0.1 blizzard corn (blizz)
1.0 albino cal king (zeus)
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