Not How You Boil a Frog

Charles Oliver | 2.8.2011 1:47 AM

The Pinal County, Arizona, sheriff's office fired Deputy Raul Alvarado for torturing a frog by Tasering it. The county's merit commission has ordered the department to rehire him.

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Suki 15 years ago

Why be so cruel to the French?

Good morning reason!
heller 15 years ago

He wasn't fired for torturing an animal, he was fired because he didn't do it to a human being.
1. Funny Every Time 15 years ago
  
  Ha ha ha! Ha! Ha. Ha...
Sovereign Immunity 15 years ago

Heh! Good one there heller!
Hugh Akston 15 years ago

The problem with amphibians is that they're resistant to waterboarding.
smartass sob 15 years ago

Nice people they hire for law enforcement. Do they ever do any psychological screening on applicants? Come to think of it, maybe they do.
Douglas Fletcher 15 years ago

More important, how the hell did he find a frog in Pinal County?
Jerry 15 years ago

In the meantime, the Casa Grande Police Department did a criminal investigation on Alvarado and recommended that prosecutors file charges for felony animal cruelty.

As of now, no charges have been filed against Alvarado.
- 15 years ago

I like to torture innocent megadriles by impaling them on bits of sharpened steel and throwing them into lakes, where they slowly drown or are devoured by aquatic carnivores.
1. - 15 years ago
  
  THEN, I pull the aquatic carnivores out of their homes and watch them slowly suffocate. OR I cut them open with a knife and pull out their guts WHILE THEY'RE STILL ALIVE! Bwaa-ha-ha-ha!
Heroic Mulatto 15 years ago

Alvarado allegedly told a female dispatcher that he planned to take the frog into the desert and perform sexual acts on it

Wait, what?
1. Bingo 15 years ago
  
  This is it, this is the new professionalism that Scalia was trumpeting about.
ktc2 15 years ago

Now if he had tortured some suspected illegal aliens he would have gotten a medal.
Libertarian 15 years ago

I tase my frog several times daily.
Abdul 15 years ago

I'll never forget how embarassed I was when my mom walked in on me when i was tasing the frog.
sage 15 years ago

Semi-related: Man killed by armed bird at cockfight

http://www.seattlepi.com/natio.....fight.html

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