Arson Arrest in Colorado
[Guest post by DRJ]
I don’t envy defense counsel in this arson case:
“A 34-year-old man with the word “VEGAN” tattooed prominently on his neck faces federal charges that he torched the Sheepskin Factory in Glendale last spring as part of an animal-rights campaign.”
There is a mug shot and more details at the link, including a statement from a possible supporter.
– DRJ


Weird — you hardly every see guys with neck tattoos run afoul of the law.
Comment by JVW — 7/24/2010 @ 12:35 am
Oh, and a faux-tribal face tattoo too! Hard to believe that such a colorful character would turn to crime!
Comment by JVW — 7/24/2010 @ 12:37 am
Billy Jo has some finely honed instincts I think.
Comment by happyfeet — 7/24/2010 @ 1:12 am
Meat IS Murder, ya know.
Of course, most of these Animal Liberation wackos probably have no qualms whatsoever about the termination of an unborn human. Maybe it’s because nobody is planning to eat the carcass, or make a seatcover out of it.
Comment by Icy Texan — 7/24/2010 @ 2:19 am
Tasty, tasty murder! Especially with a little salt, pepper, and garlic. Seared on both sides, and juicy-red in the middle, and Mmm-mmm good!
If God didn’t intend for us to eat animals, they wouldn’t be made of meat, now would they?
Comment by NavyspyII — 7/24/2010 @ 5:47 am
Paul Giamatti, call your agent.
Comment by w3bgrrl — 7/24/2010 @ 6:32 am
Yet another in a series of reichwingnut teabagger violence. Racists.
Comment by JD — 7/24/2010 @ 6:53 am
What, the animals can’t speak for themselves?
Oh, guess not, because THEY’RE ANIMALS, you moron.
Comment by EW1(SG) — 7/24/2010 @ 7:20 am
Vlasak is a nutball who I definitely would NOT want operating on me. Maybe he would decide eating meat made my cancer appear and so he might decide to let me die. These people set up a booth at the College of Surgeons every year and a couple of cute girls sit there all by themselves. Surgeons have little sympathy for those nuts.
Comment by Mike K — 7/24/2010 @ 8:53 am
If God did not want
us to eat critters why He
make them so tasty?
Comment by ColonelHaiku — 7/24/2010 @ 9:04 am
Stupid violent racist teabaggers.
Oh, wait, he had “VEGAN” tattooed on his neck? Just a second.
What were we talking about again?
Comment by Sean P — 7/24/2010 @ 9:08 am
Apologies for the threadjack, but has anyone else seen the CNN interview where the allegedly poor, poor victimized Sherrod now claimes that Breitbart wants to put all blacks back into slavery? This woman does not deserve an apology or any sympathy whatsoever at this point – she’s outed herself (again) as nothing but a contemptible carpet – bagging race – baiter.
Comment by Dmac — 7/24/2010 @ 9:45 am
Colonel has written
Sherrod has said and will say
stuff that shows true self
Comment by ColonelHaiku — 7/24/2010 @ 10:13 am
What’s up with the dude’s Picard hairdo? Looks funny with the ink.
Comment by Bradnsa — 7/24/2010 @ 10:41 am
It seems the obvious defense is ‘an imbalance caused by an all vegetarian diet caused him to act crazy’. A variation on the ‘twinkie defense’.
Comment by Jeff S. — 7/24/2010 @ 10:57 am
If you freed the cows they’d be extinct within the year.
Comment by Kevin Murphy — 7/24/2010 @ 11:26 am
Specialty of the Day:
Spotted Owl roasted over old-growth charcoal.
Lunch tomorrow will be non-Dolphin-free tuna-fish sandwiches.
Comment by AD - RtR/OS! — 7/24/2010 @ 1:22 pm
Billy Jo has some finely honed instincts I think.
Billy Jo also needs to sit down and have a little talk with her husband about some of his friends, I think.
Of course, most of these Animal Liberation wackos probably have no qualms whatsoever about the termination of an unborn human. Maybe it’s because nobody is planning to eat the carcass, or make a seatcover out of it.
I think it’s because these members of the species homo sapiens think the rights of non-rational animals are superior to those of rational animals.
However, I think applying the term wacko to these people is insulting to true wackos. A true wacko tries to use his mind rationally, even if he/she fails spectacularly at it. These members of the species homo sapiens don’t even rise to that level.
I don’t envy defense counsel
Claim he was just making empty boasts and pray there’s no physical evidence actually linking him to the crime.
Comment by kishnevi — 7/24/2010 @ 5:00 pm
” Dr. Jerry Vlasak, a spokesman for the North American Animal Liberation Press Office
What, the animals can’t speak for themselves?”
EW1(SG) – Get with the program. The animals are speaking and acting through these nutsacks. It’s like they are ventriloquist dummies.
How’s that for a legal defense?
Comment by daleyrocks — 7/24/2010 @ 6:30 pm
If he manages to bail himself out, he’s welcome to come out to the nat’l forest and try to stop us elk hunters …
Comment by SPQR — 7/24/2010 @ 6:51 pm
#19 daleyrocks:
You know, I was very quiet when I went to the meat department today, and in spite of that, my meat didn’t say a word.
Did I mention that meats are carbohydrate free? If I wasn’t supposed to eat meat, I wouldn’t be diabetic…or something like that.
Comment by EW1(SG) — 7/24/2010 @ 8:44 pm
“my meat didn’t say a word”
EW1(SG) – I don’t usually talk to my meat in public.
Comment by daleyrocks — 7/24/2010 @ 8:47 pm
ZOMG. Seriously, you folks have to click over to the article to see this guy. He is the only “vegan” I have ever seen with a double chin. (Most of them look more like Dr Jerry Vlasak, like you need to start an IV on them right away).
Ah, here’s his veganism in action:
Looks like he’s another beneficiary of the famous revolving door. Although he’d be out by now if he’d done his full sentence, too.
The cops wonder why he changed his name. Uh, because he’s a career criminal and had made the old one radioactive?
Maybe Jerry Vlasak will pay for a Dream Team of lawyers. After all, the output of the justice system is largely random, except to the extent that money can sway things.
Comment by Kevin R.C. O'Brien — 7/24/2010 @ 9:05 pm
the picture of the guy is hilarious. It almost screams “nerd trying to get eco-cred with the eco-chicks.”
Comment by Aaron Worthing (A.W.) — 7/26/2010 @ 7:15 am