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Re: Animal rights emails


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Posted by sofie on January 28, 2001 at 22:38:13:

In Reply to: Re: Animal rights emails posted by Dawn on August 24, 1998 at 18:37:22:

The man, Thomas Capriola, 30, of Islip Terrace, was sentenced last Friday by a Suffolk County Court judge to 280 hours of Community Service with three years probation, after pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges of animal cruelty and marijuana possession. Mr. Capriola admitted that he had bought small animals – guinea pigs, snakes and others- and used them in the filming of the videos in which women wearing high heels crushed the animals to death while talking to the them in seductive tones.

"Its sad thats all that was done"

: I have already emailed PETA. Here is what they said:

: Thanks for your e-mail about the website

: www.cybercomm.nl/~thomas/mainpag2.htm. The site is run by Roel

: Thomasen out of the Netherlands. He displays photos sent to him on

: this page, but does not actually make "crush" videos. Please contact

: cybercomm and ask them to stop hosting this site.

: Thomas Capriola was arrested in New York for allegedly making "crush"

: videos and selling them over the Internet and I just received a

: letter this week from the District Attorney handling his case,

: assuring us that they have no intention of accepting any disposition

: but a plea of guilty as charged in the case.

: Please write to James M. Catterson, Jr., District Attorney, County of

: Suffolk, 400 Carleton Ave., Central Islip, NY 11722 and urge him to

: prosecute Thomas Carpiola to the fullest extent of the law for each

: animal crushed in the videos confiscated from his home.

: Keith Twogood of Britain was just ordered to pay over $3,200 in fines

: for obtaining "crush" videos. His was the first case of "crush"

: videos to reach the courts.

: If there are further actions that can be taken regarding the website

: you wrote about, we will post it on our website (www.peta-online.org)

: under action alerts. Please check the alerts on a regular basis for

: ways you can help lots of animals.




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