Bag's Rants

How the RSPCA spend charity money.

Well I for one thought they spent it on animal welfare. Their staff raised and cruelty and neglect complaints for our legal system to sort out.

Now it appears that they spent £50K of our money. £12K from their own funds, which was given by us and the rest, £38K, from public funds somehow, maybe legal aid, persecuting a policemen for his actions in a difficult situation. Read more here.

I don't think it should have gone to court in the first case but it did. Now, if they had left it after that case. Then they would have done what they thought was right and pointed it out. But they didn't they wanted to take it further. What was the point in that?

Now what I am curious about was what the RSPCA would have suggested that PC Bell should have done. Remember, no lethal injection on him. No gun, possibly no knife. Cat lying in agony with it's lower half squashed to an inch thick or is that thin. He even asked for advice and the RSPCA was unavailable. Maybe they didn't have funding to stay open at night. I wonder why.

I seem to remember a similar case in the US where a copper shot an animal involved in a car crash and a complaint was made. This one didn't see the inside of a court room. I also seem to remember that animal welfare was not available there either.

So, remember when you pay your £3pm that it's going to aid the persecution of people doing the right thing in difficult circumstances not for looking after cuddly cats. btw. Is there any way they can pay the rest of the £50K as well?

posted by Bag @ 10:38 am