Maybe Pink will send these guys a letter.

These kids aren't going to learn their lesson from this if they get away with a slap on the wrist. It seems the Brit's priotities are a little skewed. They can't own guns so self defense is discouraged, but brutality is treated with leniency.

Why do I have a feeling these two will be back in the news in the not so distant future?

And I wonder if this Judge will regret his decision @ that time?

What those boys did was cruel. They should of been put in jail or fined. Just visualizing those boys laughing and kicking a fawn is very sad. It probably isn't the first time those boys have abused animals, and it probably isn't the last. I woudln't be suprised I saw them on the news in the future either. But next time, they might do it to a person.

That's poaching and animal cruelty right there, when we hunters take an animal, we end its life fast and painlessly, and use it to sustain ourselves. These guys on the other hand, totured to death it while laughing and joking in some sick game.

shoot to kill!!!!

All:

I'm a criminal defense attorney. But I'm also an animal lover and sportsman. A big believer in being as humane as humanly possible to the game we hunt, if we hunt at all. Nothing makes me more ill than to see an animal suffer at the hands of human cruelty, or stupidity, or laziness or ignorance. This is never acceptable.

The little future Charlie Mansons mentioned in the story above should have been locked up in jail or juvie. They should still be there, and stay there for a long time.

Here's the unvarnished, not politically correct truth: The judge was a p*ssy, and society, in a few years, will suffer from these boys-turned-monsters, at least in part because of the judge's cowardice and refusal to teach those boys a hard-earned and deeply painful lesson here. In my view, by his actions the judge just encouraged the boys to go out and grow far worse than they already are. This isn't justice, and that future outcome will serve no one.

Too bad for the deer. Too bad for all of us.

TWD

peta is against the ethical feeding of humans. stupid people. As for the kids kicking the deer to death i would kill a animal in misery but they went about it in the wrong way. utah is heading in the right direction. i wish wisconsin would do that.

Sounds to me like this judge is scared of something.
They should be jailed, and with that a comprehensive
psychiatric evaluation! cindy pieplow, britt, iowa
PS. Jeffrey Dahmer started out killing dogs!

This kind of act is revolting. This is the kind of things that is hurting our privelage as hunters to hunt. Yes it is only a privlage and not a right. So we the people need to be wary and help prosicute those who are putting a bad mark on hunters as just ruthless killers and not conservationists and make a stand to this..

I wonder how many people would have been outraged if these boys had been jailed over this extremely foul incident.

We're not told what the punishment was. We're not told they were slapped on the wrist and let go. I imagine that, seeing how jail was on the table as an option, there were other serious options available to the judge. For all we know, the boys got serious punishment and a comprehensive community service obligation.

I don't think boys with a clean record should automatically get jail. There are alternatives that should be explored first. If they do something similar in the future, well, that's a different story.

And in my opinion, some of the responses above could have come straight from the European elite.