PETA Employees Face Animal Cruelty Charges

Norfolk based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is never shy about telling you what you should wear and eat. Their pompous, dictatorial, and condescending tone never fails to annoy. It seems, however, the emporer has no clothes:

PETA is at the center of an animal cruelty case.

Police in North Carolina say after a month long investigation, they've arrested two people from Hampton Roads, charging them each with 31 felony counts of animal cruelty.

The claim: they dumped dead dogs in a dumpster.

Well that may take a little bloom off the rose. How many dogs, pray tell?

"Most every time it was between 18-25 dogs every time," said Harrell.

Harrell, who owns the shopping center, says for the past four weeks he's seen dead dogs dumped here, some puppies and others with collars still around their necks.

"Every case was the same it was always a black very thick plastic bag tied in a knot," added Harrell.

In last night's television report, Harrel made it clear that he had pulled well over 100 dog carcasses from his dumpster. PETA, typically, cites death in the name of compassion with president Ingrid Newkirk helpfully pointing out that it's not the killing that's the problem, it's the disposal.:

"I cannot comment on Ms. Hinkle's legal situation but I believe that it will become clear that Ms. Hinkle has only spared animals suffering, not caused it. It is not PETA policy to place animals in a dumpster and if that happened we are appalled."

Not surprisingly, PETA's website makes no mention of the issue.