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News & Current Events Apr 9, 2026 at 2:05 AM

Man who hit wolf with snowmobile, brought it to a bar and killed it gets probation

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Man who hit wolf with snowmobile, took it to a bar and killed it gets probation
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Man who hit wolf with snowmobile, took it to a bar and killed it gets probation
Cody Roberts avoided as much as two years in prison and a $5,000 fine by pleading guilty.

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Jesusland_Refugee 2 days ago +1835
"fined Roberts $1,000 and ordered him not drink alcohol, enter a bar or liquor store, nor hunt or fish while on probation" No way this guy doesn't violate probation
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StrategicCarry 2 days ago +550
In that part of Wyoming those are basically all the recreational activities.
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EmergencyGrocery3238 2 days ago +226
Violating probation is the best one
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lowbloodsugarmner 1 day ago +17
In the Midwest this would be considered cruel and unusual punishment.
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garbage1995 1 day ago +3
Drugs and alcohol are available. Edit: I just reread that you said those were off the menu.
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yama1008 2 days ago +268
I've met Cody. He has a trucking business in pinedell. They love hunting and he seems to have a drinking issue. Thing is Pinedell has now been overtaken by rich people who may not have an issue reporting him for drinking or hunting compared to the tight knit Wyoming ranch towns. Really low life shitty thing he did.
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Sonoranpawn 2 days ago +220
I stopped in this bar a couple years ago not long after this happened. The bartender was out of her mind and they had Trump signs all over the front. It’s the kind of place you would see Sasha Baron Cohen go into and put it into his movie.
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yama1008 2 days ago +45
You mean Daniel, WY. It does have a weird look and feeling to it. I spent a while very close to the town and I never stopped once. Pinedale on the other hand was a decent area, but a bit expensive. $18.00 for a quart of oil at NAPA.
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TwoLegitShiznit 1 day ago +31
In wyoming, wouldn't you have a harder time finding a bar where that wasn't the case?
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Brancher 1 day ago +7
It's like a thing here to see who can bring the most outlandish animal into the local bar. My wife was at the bar in our town and a guy brought a baby bison in which was actually super awesome. I have a buddy who has made it his mission to see how many bars across the state he can bring his horse into. Not talking riding his horse into the parking lot, talking walking into the bar with the horse.
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calguy1955 1 day ago +4
We stayed at a hotel in New Orleans and every night a local policeman would ride his horse through the open front door and the horse would belly up to the bar and get the snacks the bartender had waiting for him.
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garbage1995 1 day ago +1
Depends on who you're trying to attract to that location.
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casualchaos12 1 day ago -15
Tell me you've never been to Wyoming without actually telling me you've never been to Wyoming
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TwoLegitShiznit 1 day ago +17
Which Wyoming - the state with the highest percentage of Trump votes out of all 50 states in the 2024 election? Is there another Wyoming I should know about before answering?
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casualchaos12 1 day ago -12
That doesn't mean every business has Trump signs plastered all over them.
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akidwhocantreadgood 1 day ago +4
No one said that every business has Trump signs plastered all over them
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casualchaos12 1 day ago -3
Well, at least your username checks out 🤦
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Osiris32 1 day ago +14
Wyoming broke 71.6% for Trump in 2024. The state senate is 29-2 and the state house is 56-6 in favor of Republicans. It's not a big stretch to say that a bar outside of Cheyenne is probably gonna be a maga bar.
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Big_Lab_Jagr 1 day ago +7
And you still walked in?
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snowleopard48 1 day ago +3
Sometimes these people say crazy shit and it's fun to act like you kind of agree so they say crazier shit. It's a way to have fun on a long drive.
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ringothefuckindingo1 2 days ago +16
Do you mean Pinedale? 
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yama1008 2 days ago +6
Yes, I cannot spell.
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Accomplished-Fix6598 2 days ago +6
Palmdale http://youtu.be/2dxHOD33VUJU?si=vqP9C2qgSi1Kq9xL
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ringothefuckindingo1 1 day ago +1
I lived in SV for awhile and was tripping I couldn't remember where Pinedell was. 🤣 You gave me an internal crisis for a sec. 
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BlueEyes294 2 days ago +19
Cody is an alcoholic gun owner.
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ChesterComics 2 days ago +19
That's a requirement to live in Wyoming. I say that as someone who loves Wyoming (not for the people).
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StableManticorePilot 1 day ago +13
Wyoming is a beautiful state ruined by the people who happen to live there. I miss it sometimes, but man I do not like the people.
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red_sutter 1 day ago +6
Such a wild state, filled with cowboys that love playing with guns and basking in nature, but consistently vote for the party that strips their gun rights away and wants to strip mine every inch of the state
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StableManticorePilot 1 day ago +1
Pretty much. But hey it makes liberals mad and we all know that's what matters at the end of the day right.
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Jon_E_Dad 1 day ago +9
I would drive 3,000+ miles from IL to WA x2 per year as a college student. Went through South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho. It was an astonishingly beautiful drive. One of my first college buddies was from Cheyenne. This was 2004-2008, so I was actually reading local printed newspapers out of interest of what was happening. Every time that I parked in Montana or Wyoming, the local papers were all like, “is it legal to shoot your neighbor’s dog?” In those areas, animals aren’t considered “fur babies,” they’re considered things that you shoot.
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fightbackcbd 1 day ago -5
> I would drive 3,000+ miles from IL to WA x2 per year as a college student I guess im an idiot but this is such a weird way to word this to me. Its like 2000 miles, so round trip its 4000, so 8000 miles per year for two round trips from il to wa. So yes, 8000 is more than 3000 but I was just confused at the significance of "3000+" miles. Maybe from the absolute farthest ranges possible its 3000? I did Unionville to Neah Bay which is about as far as it can be and it wasnt even 2500 so i dont know lol
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Jon_E_Dad 1 day ago +2
Appreciate the feedback, calculating on Google Maps, you’re definitely right. Since back in that time I was not yet an adult introvert, I definitely visited friends in MT, WY, etc. while driving across the multiple states on multiple days, so it presumably lengthened my trip (and my mom was like, I’ll kill you if you try to do it in one shot). I was printing out MapQuest, which gave my total route at 3.3K, but I won’t dispute that your numbers seem correct! R1A1 This is Copper Mustache WSF89, wishing everyone safe travels and see you at the next Motel 8.
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Squire_II 1 day ago +2
Ranchers in general also hate wolves and the government not allowing them to hunt said wolves to extinction.
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Worried-Pick4848 2 days ago +119
You get this sort of thing when the judge really wanted to punish you more but the law wouldn't let him. So the judge sets it up so he has the choice between being a model citizen, which he isn't, and getting nabbed on a probation violation. It's technically lawfare, since he's being led headfirst into a legal trap and set up to fail, but it couldn't happen to a nicer guy. I mean that quite literally.
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sniggity_snax 2 days ago +35
Ah, took me a second to get that last part
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ItsDarkAndHeckIsHot 2 days ago +49
I will personally pay ANYONE $500 for *actionable* proof of a violation of the terms of his parole, I’m not exaggerating. That man deserves the smallest box they can squeeze his old-country-buffet-leftovers-in-a-pillowcase-shaped ass.
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Accomplished_Ant5895 2 days ago +34
This plus the millions of people on their 12th DUI enrages me to no end. Why is this country so infinitely forgiving of alcohol-based violence and destruction?
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EquivalentSpot8292 2 days ago +5
Because they are rich.
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jaspersgroove 2 days ago +9
Yep, I have a few criminal defense lawyer friends and I’ve heard all of them say on multiple occasions that you can get away with just about anything in the US as long as you have enough money
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Cyrano_Knows 1 day ago +1
He's the type of guy to have a celebratory party where he does the same thing to another wolf or somehow shows his rage-bro dominance over the woke system etc.
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Jweiss238 2 days ago +454
This dude is a f****** monster. What kind of deranged shit is this?!
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blackweebow 2 days ago +191
Aaaaaand he's now the new HHS secretary.
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mwagner1385 2 days ago +18
Nah. He's now Secretary of the Interior. Got to make sure he's put to good use /s
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natebookair 2 days ago +36
Had to check to see if you were joking
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DarthShiv 1 day ago +6
Interesting times 😵‍💫
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TheBonesm 1 day ago
Had my glasses off and I couldn't rule out RFK Jr. from the thumbnail
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SwissChzMcGeez 1 day ago +2
Secretary of Wolf Safety and Alcohol Regulation
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ConstructionMany8195 1 day ago +4
Some people genuinely have no disregard for animals
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Lakanas 1 day ago +10
He deserves real prison time. This is one of the most disgusting things I've ever read. 
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ProtestEverythingTho 2 days ago +767
Been following this case since it happened. Cody Roberts whole family took part in this torture. The pictures they took of this poor wolf with its mouth taped shut, being tortured in a bar.. this is the type of lifestyle they live, in the parts of our country closest to our prideful national parks.
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BibliophileMafia 2 days ago +225
disgusting that bar is even still open. That entire family deserves to lose everything.
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androidfig 2 days ago +223
They are rapidly privitizing our national parks and working to put federal land up for sale because rich fucks want huge swaths of the best land for themselves. Look up the Crazy Mountains land dispute.
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indicatprincess 1 day ago +79
They hit her, taped her mouth shut, then paraded her around a bar like a good damned mink stole.
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YouKnown999 2 days ago +104
That’s so fucked up
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RedsDelights 1 day ago +16
I’m crying for that poor fur baby
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RevolverMFOcelot 2 days ago +109
That man and his family deserves to feel the same pain that poor wolf felt 
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RepulsiveLoquat418 2 days ago +448
"Condemnation and scrutiny of Wyoming laws followed the widespread circulation of photos showing the wolf with its mouth shut with tape. Video showed the same animal lying on the floor, alive but barely moving." what the actual f***. are they waiting for this sick psychopath to move on to humans before they lock him up?
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TransitJohn 2 days ago +141
Animals classified as predators in Wyoming can be taken on sight, no license required; this includes jackrabbits, amusingly. With the reintroduction of wolves to Wyoming in the 1990s, in an agreement between the US Fish and Wildlife Service and Wyoming Game and Fish, a dual classification system was worked out where wolves would be classified as trophy game and couldn't be taken without a license inside a defined area of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (with such licenses basically impossible to get), but classified as predators in the rest of the state. Since predators can just be taken on sight, there wasn't much a prosecutor could do originally, as Wyoming Game and Fish, as the investigatory agency with jurisdiction didn't charge him with any illegal taking, because there was no illegal taking, and G&F have no statutory authority to enforce state or local criminal law, which is where animal cruelty statutes are, thus a grand jury indictment was necessary.
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CFIT_NOT_PERMITTED 2 days ago +123
He is weak and so is his entire blood line
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ReceptionUpstairs305 2 days ago +54
Losers, all of them. Worthless pieces of shit.
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LazyAd7151 2 days ago -65
Trust me, the suffering this wolf went through is genuinely nothing compared to many of the lives of the animals you eat for pleasure. This wolf suffered for his pleasure, the cow you eat suffers for your pleasure. Do you feel much better ?
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Bart-Harley-Jarvis- 2 days ago +44
Pleasure from eating is not the same as pleasure from sadistic torture. You're an absolute supercilious muppet to suggest as such.
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indicatprincess 1 day ago +12
Unlike you, I’ve never hung a dead chicken around my neck after hitting it with my car.
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Trollensky17 1 day ago +2
Oh my god f*** offf, there are obviously contextual differences here
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Long_Category_6931 1 day ago +8
Wolf licenses inside the trophy zone are sold over the counter for $20. Individual hunting areas have a wolf quota. Once a pre determined number of wolves have been killed, the season closes in 24 hours (or something close to that number). It’s usually 2-6 wolves per hunt area and those numbers vary year to year. Problem wolves depredation on livestock are killed by the government.
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yama1008 1 day ago +3
Haven't you heard of the ranchers 3 S saying? Shoot Shovel Shut up
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ReceptionUpstairs305 2 days ago +30
So, Wyoming thinks it's the 1800s.
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ChemsAndCutthroats 2 days ago +23
If they want to be in the 1800's so much perhaps they should live like it. Make it so that they have to hunt and fish like they were in the 1800's. No snowmobiles or ATVs, no fancy rifles with thermal optics, no 100k pickup trucks, no drones, and no modern hunting gear. Let's see how those fatasses do in the elements without modern technology. Perhaps other animals outside of cows and sheep will have a chance to live in that state. Wyoming is basically a small part rich part-timers coming to enjoy their cottages once a year, cows, and oil.
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greendestinyster 2 days ago +13
You know what was much more viable in the 1800s? Vigilantism
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konosyn 2 days ago +7
Erect the gallows, lads!
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qosthanatos 2 days ago +148
You have to be sick in the head to do something like this to a living creature, animal or human.
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BibliophileMafia 2 days ago +166
He did this in a bar full of people, people who cheered on the torture of an injured animal. His aunt, who owns the bar, is proud of what happened. His wife took pictures of herself in wolf skins gloating about her husbands actions. These are not people who should be accepted in any polite society. No one should give them any business. They should be shunned by everyone. If they can do this in a public setting I shudder to think what these monsters do behind closed doors. He's not sorry for the torture of an animal, he's sorry he got caught. Absolutely disgusting he gets to walk free after what he did.
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DelcoPAMan 2 days ago +22
Completely agree.
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VisceralMonkey 2 days ago +185
Chickenshit weasel f***.
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bighootay 2 days ago +49
Nothing but truth
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GamingWithBilly 2 days ago +77
If you hit a deer with your car, the humane thing is to put it out of its misery.  You don't strap it to your car, drive to a bar, and beat it to death.  That's cruel and unusual animal abuse.  Doesn't matter if it's a rat, cat, dog, deer, wolf or any living thing.  You don't let wounded animals languish in pain and misery for entertainment.  So when a backwards inbred piece of scum, lower than a cockroach missing 5 legs, runs over a wolf with a snowmobile, and hauls it to a bar to torture...they shouldn't have offered any deal at all.  That should have gone through full trial to make an example of what the worst of a human will get for such deplorable acts.
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PVT_Huds0n 2 days ago +23
People that can torture animals to death like that are definitely able to do it humans. This guy walking free will undoubtedly end up with someone getting murdered if it hasn't already happened.
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ABearDream 1 day ago +2
You dont even have to do it, often call the sherrifs office and they'll send someone out to dispatch the animal so you don't cause additional suffering trying to kill Bambi with a tire iron
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TroublesomeTurnip 2 days ago +149
I don't really care if killing animals leads to killing people, that whole narrative is irrelevant imo. The outrage should *start* with animal harm and torture without having to think about my fellow humans. I don't need to think 'ah but what about poor jonny' to hate an abusive, vile monster. Hurting animals is wrong. Period.
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SpookyDoings 2 days ago +53
Absolutely. "They'll hurt people later" okay, they're hurting living creatures NOW. Stop them.
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Smooth-Boss-911 2 days ago +333
The words I want to say will get me banned. Also animal cruelty is often an indicator of future human cruelty :)
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Coakis 2 days ago +114
Or current. A dude this old has probably been this way for a long long time.
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ReceptionUpstairs305 2 days ago +3
Oh, mine will, too.
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atomicskiracer 2 days ago +31
You absolutely already know how this guy voted
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huxtiblejones 2 days ago +17
'Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by what is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?' - Pierre Troubetzkoy
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EMPgoggles 1 day ago +11
animal cruelty is despicable. they deserve to lose everything.
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JoplinSC742 2 days ago +34
This is my first time hearing about this and my only thought is "that's f****** it?!"
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chele68 1 day ago +10
His name is Cody Roberts and he pled guilty to felony animal cruelty. I hope he’s miserable for the rest of his life.
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Swordf1sh_ 2 days ago +19
May this horrible excuse for a human never know peace. Also what a pathetic sentence. I bet the judge just wishes he’d been there.
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Icy_Program_8015 2 days ago +9
i hope he dies the way he lived, like a lot backwards f****** people in these places always do. lonely and unloved.
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limma 1 day ago +8
Disgusting and awful piece of garbage.
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IsThisKismet 2 days ago +35
> Wyoming law gives wide leeway for people to kill wolves and other predators by a variety of means in the vast majority of the state. They shouldn’t.
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GamingWithBilly 2 days ago +22
It's wild to think Wyoming has a 'kill on site' rule for any predator.  Does it apply to child predators?  
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ReceptionUpstairs305 2 days ago +10
They're backward-ass country fucks.
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Ghostrider556 2 days ago +4
I mean thats a lot of rural areas tbh. You are usually cleared to kill any predators on sight, especially if they are on your property. The crazy part to me is that you can often set traps as well which can be dangerous for a variety of reasons
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porkypine666 1 day ago +7
Dude should be in jail. It's absolutely horrific what he did.
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Spiritual-Driver8926 1 day ago +7
What happened to all the new laws about animal cruelty?
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silverado6314 1 day ago +4
Tape his mouth shut and toss him into a federal penitentiary.
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edcushway 1 day ago +5
What a piece of garbage
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HowlingWolven 1 day ago +5
And despite this, it’s still legal to run down predators with sleds in Wyoming.
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suplexhell 2 days ago +16
it would be so sick if a wolf could drive a car
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nyg1219 2 days ago +1
Anybody remember when people were trying to teach dogs to drive cars?
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Fickle-Albatross6193 2 days ago +4
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cmotolion 1 day ago +4
What a waste of human life. How messed up in the head do you have to be to do this?
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Ok_Database_8426 1 day ago +3
he’ll probably run for office now
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qnssekr 1 day ago +3
Typical. This is how justice looks like because this is the world we live in now. On a side note, make his life miserable.
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pro_No 1 day ago +1
Always been this way, you just have a phone now
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reddit-Evan_ 1 day ago +4
Did he lose his hunting license?!?
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DelcoPAMan 2 days ago +5
This was sadism. It is indefensible.
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Varorson 2 days ago +11
Thought the article would be about RFK Jr. until I saw "gets probation".
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skiborobo 1 day ago +3
That guy is 44?? Jeez!
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joker0812 1 day ago +3
What in the RFK Jr is this shit?
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free2bk8 1 day ago +3
His hell is coming. That is my only solace.
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besos2400 2 days ago +23
What does he do for living ? Where does he work? So we make sure we cancel this MF !!!!
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RealMDClassic 2 days ago +17
C Roberts Trucking LLC. is apparently the name of his trucking company as of 2024.
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princessofparmesia 2 days ago +6
What a vile, shitty excuse for a human being.
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d3vilm4n60 2 days ago +2
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DrPuzzle 2 days ago +2
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DrPixelFace 2 days ago +2
At this rate he is going to be your next secretary of state or some shit
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newarkian 2 days ago +2
RFK will get him pardoned…
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IrateArchitect 1 day ago +2
This is awful but at no point during that title could I have guessed the next words.
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Mutex70 1 day ago +2
When some random does this it's a court trial. When RFK Jr. does this, it's a normal Tuesday night.
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Sea-Paramedic-1842 1 day ago +2
How very rfk jr of him 
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schlamster 2 days ago +5
So if someone does the same to him, does they get a probation 
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Moonunit08 1 day ago +3
What a f****** tool. I bet he’s a Christian maga supporter too. It’s a living thing you pos. Kill it with respect and dignity. How any Person can be like this is beyond me. Zero respect for life.
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BlueEyes294 2 days ago +3
Those who torture animals for fun are often young men in trouble. This guy is an old overweight alcoholic. Who tortured him when he was a kid? Normal folks don’t do this. Just another reason never to visit nor purchase anything from Wyoming. ick
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gravescd 2 days ago +2
I can't be the only person who briefly saw RFK Jr in the thumbnail after reading the thread title
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NoMayoForReal 1 day ago +2
Dude should apply for a job with RFK Jr.
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BassLB 2 days ago
RFK Jr is lucky he knows people in high places
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wutImiss 2 days ago
Wait, this isn't RFK jr? 🤔 sure fooled me 😑
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Deep-Sample7451 2 days ago +1
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1nitial_Reaction 2 days ago +1
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No_Sherbert4143 1 day ago +1
M-My kind 3: \*Sniffle\*
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Creative-Hyena-2666 1 day ago +1
Why tape its mouth shut?
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Maplecook 1 day ago +1
I was expecting to read the RFK cooked and ate it. lol
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Away_Corner_6617 1 day ago +1
Would be a shame if something happens to him when he inevitably goes to a bar in like a week 🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺💀
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whitenoise2323 2 days ago +1
Does this count as headline gore?
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inductiononN 2 days ago
r/titlegore
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whitenoise2323 2 days ago -1
Yeah that
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CasualAffair 2 days ago +3
Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing really fucked me up
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bloodandsunshine 1 day ago +1
We treat animals like shit and get upset at this while factory farmed meat feeds 97% of North America.  Whats the disconnect?
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fling_flang 1 day ago +1
make gulags great again
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GuthramNaysayer 1 day ago
Looks like Kim Jong Un
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Intertravel 1 day ago -2
I was reading he just thought it was someone’s dog so I thought maybe he was trying to save it?
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Adventurous-Tea-876 1 day ago -4
I guess it’s illegal to have a good time now. smh
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