DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A man who beat to death and beheaded a rabbit at an animal shelter in Des Moines has been given a two-year sentence.
Polk County court records say Bobby Carothers, 64, of Carroll, pleaded guilty last month to a charge of animal torture and requested immediate sentencing.
Staffers at the Animal Rescue League shelter identified Carothers as being the last visitor in the building on Dec. 15. He was asked to leave. The court records say that as Carothers left he said to one of the staffers, “I am having rabbit stew tonight.”
A short time later employees found the dead rabbit, Petunia.
A deputy arrested Carothers about three hours later after a fire alarm was pulled at a Des Moines trucking company, the court records say. He talked freely about killing a rabbit earlier in the evening. He told the deputy he’d used a stick to kill it and then cut off its head, the records say.
Asked why he did so, Carothers told the deputy he was hungry, the records say.
Bbrhuft on March 4th, 2020 at 10:19 UTC »
https://www.kcrg.com/content/news/Man-admits-to-killing-rabbit-at-Animal-Rescue-League-of-Iowa-566243061.html
tannhauser_gate_vet on March 4th, 2020 at 05:03 UTC »
Jesus, I read that as "beheaded rabbi" and was seriously wondering how the fuck you only get two years for that.
morecomplete on March 4th, 2020 at 03:57 UTC »
Okay.
But he just left it, he didn't even eat it! Said he was having rabbit for dinner but sounds like he just wanted to kill it. I'm going to take a wild guess and say he's probably got mental issues.