Isn't This A Bit Extreme? Pet Massacre In Puerto Rico

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I actually came across this a few days ago and maybe I'm venting here a bit, but this is just too much and was really, really uncalled for in my mind. It seems that in the city of Barceloneta in Puerto Rico, the city beefed up the no-pet clause in three housing projects, but in a really sick way. Here's an excerpt of the article: (Quote:) ..."Animal control workers seized dozens of dogs and cats from housing projects in the town of Barceloneta and hurled them from a bridge to their deaths, authorities and witnesses said Friday. Mayor Sol Luis Fontanez blamed a contractor hired to take the animals to a shelter."This is an irresponsible, inhumane and shameful act," he told The Associated Press. Fontanez said the city hired Animal Control Solution to clear three housing projects of pets after warning residents about a no-pet policy. He said the city paid $60 for every animal recovered and another $100 for each trip to a shelter in the San Juan suburb of Carolina. Raids were conducted on Monday and Wednesday, and residents told TV reporters they saw the animal control workers inject the animals. When they asked what they were giving them, they said they were told it was a sedative for the drive to the shelter."They came as if it were a drug raid," said Alma Febus, an animal welfare activist. "They took away dogs, cats and whatever animal they could find. Some pets were taken away in front of children."But instead of being taken to a shelter, the pets and strays were thrown 50 feet from a bridge in the neighboring town of Vega Baja, according to Fontanez, witnesses and activists, apparently before dawn Tuesday."Many were already dead when they threw them, but others were alive," said Jose Manuel Rivera, who lives next to the bridge. "Some of the animals managed to climb to the highway even though they were all battered, but about 50 animals remained there, dead."Rivera said he alerted officials, who spread lime over the animals' corpses to control the stench..." http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jnVM28pujsusIu2PeX7-zhySk87AD8S81DO80 Another version of the article is here http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21386121/ I mean, yes, maybe there was a no-pet clause in these projects, but isn't this going a bit extreme..to seize beloved pets commando style or as if a drug raid, snatch them away from the owners then instead of taking them to the shelter just to hurl the pets to their deaths? What kiind of sick crap is this? Can you imagine how those people must feel? How would you feel if the same was done to your pets? There is even a petition one can sign to the Governor of Puerto Rico http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/puerto-rico-pet-massacre