Cheap fireman kills dogs, Rambo lady kills bambi

What's up with Ohio?

Our first two candidates for this week's Sick Fuck of the Week award are from that state. We have a dog-killing fireman from Columbus and a bambi-killing woman from Euclid.

I've always thought that violence, hostility, hatefulness can grow in stages--violence against things and property, violence against plants (yes, plants), violence against animals, violence against people, violence against humanity...

Therefore, I doubt this is the first violent act each of these two individuals has committed. The insensitivity, cruelty and brutality required to do what they did does not grow on someone overnight...even warts take longer to grow on you.

Cheap fireman not a lifesaver

David Santuomo was going on vacation and didn't want to or couldn't pay to board his two dogs, so he killed them.

He suspended mixed-breed dogs Sloopy and Skeeter from a pipe near the ceiling in his basement and fired 11 shots from a .22-caliber rifle, killing both dogs.

He then wrapped the carcasses in plastic and dumped them in a trash bin behind the firehouse were he works. So he's not only cheap and cruel, but also an idiot.

Well, what else was he supposed to do? Leave them with a friend or co-worker? Pay someone a few bucks a day to feed and walk them? Put them up for adoption? Call the Humane Society? Jeez...

A judge gave 43-year-old Santuomo a 90-day jail sentence to be served in 10-day increments (WTF?!) over the next two years after he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty and one felony count of possession of a criminal tool during a hearing last week. The tool is a silencer he made by taping a 2-liter soda bottle to the end of the rifle.

Ninety days to be served in 10-day increments? Why? Why not serve the three months at once? What, would that be too harsh?

Santuomo also has to pay $4,500 in restitution, perform 200 hours of community service, stay away from companion animals for five years and write a letter of apology to be published in the local newspaper and the International Association of Firefighters magazine.

"This is pretty heinous," said Cheri Miller, spokeswoman for the Capital Area Humane Society, which carried out a search warrant in Santuomo's home. "There were reports that he was bragging about this," she said.

The Columbus Division of Fire has received more than 2,000 e-mails and calls from outraged people, said Battalion Chief , the department's spokesman.

"People are not very happy," said David Whiting, battalion chief of the Columbus Division of Fire. "We had people say they should do to him what he's done to the dogs. A lot of people want him fired. They don't want him coming into their house. They're worried about their animals; they're worried about their kids. They'd just as soon let their house burn down if he shows up."

Santuomo's attorney called the crime an isolated event "totally out of character" for his client. "It's the same old story. They couldn't care less about people and they love animals," the lawyer said. Ugh.

Yeah, right. This sick fuck's decision to shoot his dogs instead of finding a place for them to stay while he went on a cruise--an act he both planned and executed on his own--just kind of, you know, sort of materialized from thin air...just happened and could, like, you know, happen to anyone.

Bite me.

Bambi killer

Newborn Whitetail fawn

I suppose the following incident, too, demonstrates how anyone would react the same way under the circumstances.

Dorothy Richardson saw a fawn sitting in her flower bed in a bed of flowers, so she grabbed a shovel and beat it to death.

I mean, honestly, what else could she do in such a life-threatening situation?

The 75-year-old woman then stuffed the fawn's body in a cardboard box and put it out on trash day.

Richardson said she was defending herself (from a 25-pound fawn?), but it turns out she was defending her flower garden. She reportedly hit it once, and bambi screamed, so she hit it two more times. She also mean to leave the body at the end of the yard so that other deer would know better than to mess with her.

"I killed it--I killed it dead," she reportedly bragged to a neighbor, noting she had worked hard on her plants. "And I'd kill it again."

"That doesn't sound right," said a neighbor who called Richardson friendly and churchgoing. "That is just not like her."

What does churchgoing have to do with goodness and kindness these days? Not much, if you ask me.

Some, however, say the matter is getting out of hand.

"She's scared, she's 75, she made a horrible mistake, but it's gotten to the point where people are calling her and talking about killing her," said Clifford Johnson, another neighbor. Yikes!

"Everybody's very upset over this," said Euclid Animal Control officer Ann Mills, who requested the warrant. "This is my first for a beating like that--it makes you sick to your stomach, you know?"

Richardson faces charges on animal cruelty, which in Euclid is a first-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine; however, because of her state charge of second-degree misdemeanor punishable by a maximum 90 days in jail and $750 fine might be considered.

Female deer leave their fawns in secluded spots while they forage for food. The fawns avoid being eaten by predators by remaining still until their mothers return. Young fawns are still nursing and do not eat flowers and other foliage, Division of Wildlife spokeswoman Jamey Graham said according to an AP report.

Call me sentimental, but I just can't imagine beating a beautiful and harmless fawn to death with a shovel; furthermore, I can't imagine doing it and be more than willing to do it again.

Say what you want about the deer getting in her garden. Did you ever stop to think that her garden got in the way of the deer?

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