I'll never understand how a person can do something like that :-5
Can i just derail the thread for a moment (sorry Red).
This happened just down the road from my mother in law.
Dog thrown to its
death from tower block
nlnews@archant.co.uk
16 July 2008
A HELPLESS dog died after being thrown from a 10th-floor window at a tower block.
Workmen saw the tiny black figure sail through the air before landing at the foot of the Somers Town skyscraper shortly before 5pm on Friday.
Passers-by heard a woman's screams - and then saw a woman and girl cradling the dog's battered body as he lay on a patch of dirt beside the Oxenholme toweer block the Ampthill Square Estate, off Eversholt Street.
Witnesses said the small dog, a well-known mongrel called Rush, was still alive when he hit the ground - with one saying it took about 10 minutes for him to die.
Neighbours on the estate are outraged. One Oxenholme resident said: "It's one thing stabbing a kid in the street - but to throw a helpless dog is unbelievable.
"Everyone on the estate knew the dog. He has been here for years and was very friendly.
"People are quite angry. If it was a person, they could probably handle that - but a dog is just senseless. He couldn't defend himself. He didn't row with anybody."
According to police, a man got into an argument with Rush's owner - and then threw him out of the window when she had left the room. The dog landed on part of the estate currently dug up for building work.
Student Kirsty Sheils, 16, who was visiting relatives on the estate, said: "I was on the stairs and heard a woman scream.
"There was a young girl with a woman and a dark-coloured dog. The woman was cradling the dog. It was still moving every now and again. It was alive for some time. Then it died and they covered it over.
"In the end officers put it in a bin bag and walked off with it. They were just holding it like a bag of rubbish.
"I have never heard of anything like it. You would always see the woman walking around with the dog. She was obviously quite attached to it. It's unbelievable that anyone could do that to an animal."
Her mother Patricia Sheils, 50, added: "I couldn't see the dog at first, then I saw a paw moving."
One workman, who did not want to be named, was in a nearby pub when it happened - but was called to the scene by a friend.
He said: "The dog had come flying out of the 10th-floor window. It was still alive when it hit the ground. A little girl came out and wrapped it in her jacket. The lady who owned the dog was lying next to it crying."
Neighbours living in Oxenholme claim there had problems in the block with drug addicts One 30-year-old woman said: "Lots of men and women sleep on the stairs - I have seen them taking drugs on the stairs.
A 65-year-old civil engineer added: "There have been needles in the block. They have had to wipe excreta off the walls. We are forever seeing druggies on the stairs."
The dog was dead by the time police and then officers from the The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals arrived.
The RSPCA, which removed the dog, is able to prosecute for animal cruelty. Spokeswoman Klare Kennett said: "We are extremely concerned that this poor dog came to its death by being thrown from a window. The dog would certainly have suffered."
A spokesman for Camden police, which is treating the incident as an act of criminal damage, said they were looking for a 6ft 2ins tall black man, aged about 45. He added: "This appears to be a cruel act and while no arrests have taken place, inquiries continue."
If you have any information, callCamden police on 020 7404 1212, Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or the RSPCA hotline on 0300 1234 999.
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