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18 September 2019

High School Football Players Get a Pass For Luring, Beating & Strangling a Duck to Death

"The duck-killing incident, which was posted on the internet, involved the
animal being lured by a group of boys out of the waters of Lake
Winnipesaukee's Moultonborough Bay. It was beaten with a broomstick and later
strangled to death."
- The Conway Daily Sun, Sept. 5, 2019

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UPC President Karen Davis's letter, published in New Hampshire's Conway Daily
Sun, addresses an episode in which 6 Kennett High School football players at a
football training camp sadistically beat and strangled a duck to death in late
August and posted their action on the Internet. Other than a few temporary
suspensions from playing football, these students face no real consequences. The
State Fish and Game Department refused to charge them for their animal cruelty
crime, and the school and other authorities are colluding in order to protect
"their boys."


Karen Davis: No moral leadership to look up to in duck case
Published September 16, 2019 in The Conway Daily Sun

To the editor:

I share the disgust that many people have expressed about the decision of
officials to give a pass to the football players who lured, tortured and
strangled a defenseless, unoffending duck for sadistic pleasure.

Most likely, those involved consider themselves "manly," though they are the
opposite. Thuggery and protection of thuggery is ugly. These football players
violated the New Hampshire animal cruelty law and appear to have gotten away
with their crime because football and blood "sports" are more important to
those responsible for upholding the law than an innocent life beaten and
strangled to death. There is no one to respect in this matter, no one to look
up to for moral leadership.

Do any of these men feel even a speck of pity for the duck and the terror and
pain she felt as she was being killed for fun? Do any of these football
players feel a speck of remorse for the gratuitous cruelty they perpetrated
against an innocent, helpless creature? Or are they all high-fiving each other
for being shielded by their elders so that they can now "get on with their
lives"? The situation is reprehensible.

Karen Davis, President
United Poultry Concerns
Machipongo, Va.
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More Letters to the Editor of The Conway Daily Sun:
These letters go back through September 5th and are virtually unanimous in their
anger over the official whitewash of this criminal episode.

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