Very Lucky Puppy

[k9angel]

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/break...-coast-rampage/

Police on the Gold Coast are hunting five men who went on a rampage which left a cab driver battered, a service station sprayed with a fire extinguisher, and a puppy speared with a sharp wooden stake.

The drama began in the early hours of Sunday morning when the men flagged down a taxi at Tallebudgera and turned on the driver for no apparent reason.

Senior Sergeant Chris Ahearn from Palm Beach says the cabbie pulled into a service station where the assault continued.

"The driver was punched a number of times in the head and was spat on but fortunately his injuries are only minor.

"Disturbingly it seems these individuals have flown into a rage as soon as they got into the cab, there's no indication they were intoxicated ... there was no attempt at robbery, it just seems to be a senseless act of violence."

Sgt Ahearn said the service station attendant locked his door before the men could get inside but they found a fire extinguisher and sprayed it through a window.

What followed, he said, was the most disturbing.

As the men walked down the road a seven month old blue heeler puppy started barking at them.

The dog's owner Julie Nicholas said she and her husband were woken by the noise and men yelling just before 4am (AEST).

"My husband saw a big wooden stake in the yard and spotted the men down the street, but we didn't see that Tex was injured until later because the wound was hidden by his fur," she said.

"They used a sharp hardwood stake from a for sale sign up the road to spear him with and it just opened him up between the shoulders; he's really lucky it didn't hit him lower down or in the head because it could have killed him.

"It's good to see him so well now - he'll be fine - but it's a shocking thing to do to a dog and it's $800 we didn't need to spend just coming into the school holidays."

Sgt Ahearn said he's very concerned at the viciousness of the attack on a puppy which was in a yard behind a high fence.

"They were quite callous in the way they went about this attack, it's sickening and difficult to fathom," he said.

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[spottychick]

Good grief. What kind of cowardly psychos are they? I hope they find them soon and throw away the damn key! Poor little puppy...

[Gilypoo]

An eye for an eye, I say..

Humans make me sick sometimes...

[mutt lover]

Bloody Sick Bastards, I hope they find them and should do exactly same to them I'd tie em up in main street and let puppy's owners belt crap out of em with a stake, you gotta wonder about the mentality of some people!

[KAMS]

How could anyone do something like that?!!