I can understand why someone would post this annon. I have been really thinking about this situation alot since reading the post and I feel (like so many others will too) that I need to comment on this situation... To be fair, I would like to say, that I see positives and negatives in this situation. I don't know which is more out-standing, but, I think something needs to be said. Please don't flame me later for my opinions. They are just opinions. My objective here is to NOT flame this person for his actions... I can see this scenario in my head. I have SO many times wanted to walk up to some horrible pet store owner and smash their little heads in and save all the fuzzies and birds and dogs, etc. I am only one person and can do so much. (I will tell you what I do do in a moment). I think that on one level, I respect this guy for taking a stance and sticking to his beliefs (be it in rage and anger or not). I think, even when he did what he did, he knew the consequences. (That's probably why he made the wife take off with the kit). My response (and have done it before) is to walk up and say, "Can I use your phone? It's a local call." They give me the phone and I call the police to report bad conditions in the petstore (boy, do you get some glares). I then inform the police that I will wait around to give a report of the bad conditions that I see and that kinda makes them come immediately albeit slowly and you get your two words in with the authorities and they may report them to animal control. Ok (now for the negative reaction). The way I see it, because of this situation, I have to admit, that the pet store owner probably won this battle. True, he gets his cage smashed, but he did get reimbursed, sell his ferret, and get the guy arrested who did all the damage and get him fined (with a record). Now, if the press heard this commotion on the radio scanners and came running, they could have headlined it one of two ways, "CONCERNED CITIZEN LOSES TEMPER OVER ABHORRENT PET STORE CONDITIONS" (which isn't so bad) or "LUNATIC RAMPAGES THROUGH PETSTORE AND STEALS FERRET". (which is bad). I am willing to bet that number two is the headline that did or could have appeared. My only concern here is that it kinda sets back the work that people have done to stop bad pet store conditions. It's a little like the Right to Lifers who kill folks for doing abortions. Helllllloooooooooo! That makes no sense. Either way, I am sure I have ticked off more than my fair share of FML'ers. I am going to go ahead and post this with my name because I believe in what I say and I don't apologize for it, no more than our "hero" apologizes for his actions. But, please don't flame me. As they say, 'Opinions are like butts. Everyone's got them." April Gallaty and the fuzzy 4 http://www.geocities.com/~april_gallaty "Get thee down. Be thou funky." - Anonymous [Posted in FML issue 2592]