Portland woman, boyfriend won't face charges in photos with dead horse

[Glöwworm]

Washington County investigators have chosen not to file charges in a disturbing incident involving pictures released on the internet of a Portland-area woman and her boyfriend with a dead horse.

The 21-year-old woman told Washington County Sheriff’s Office detectives she wanted to “feel one” with a horse, according to a WCSO incident report.

After the horse had been put down and gutted, the woman undressed and crawled inside the carcass of the dead horse and took pictures to prove it.

"At some point you in your career you say yeah I've seen a lot of bad stuff -- you see this kind of picture and you realize maybe you haven't seen everything, " said Washington County Sgt. Dave Thompson.

In addition to the picture of the naked woman inside the horse, there are other photos, including one of the woman and her boyfriend holding what appears to be the horses’ heart. Another shot shows them holding a piece of the horse in front of their mouth – posing as they’re about to take a bite out of it.

KOIN Local 6 has chosen not to release their names.

Arguably the most artistic photo of the group is a picture of the naked 21-year-old, blood-soaked from head to toe, standing over the horse’s body she had just been inside.

The woman and her boyfriend had recently taken over care of the 32-year-old horse, which was in declining health. The horse had lived in Ridgefield, Washington.

The couple told sheriff’s investigators they fired a single shot with a high powered rifle to put the horse down. Their intent, they told investigators, was to humanely kill the horse and eat the meat.

The WCSO incident report indicated the woman wanted to feel what it would be like to be inside the dead horse. There were photos taken. Several were of her smiling at the camera from inside the stomach of the dead animal, all but the face of her 5-foot-6, 119-pound frame inside the horse.

Her mother says the girl now wishes the entire episode would just go away. The girl has received death threats, hostile contact from people across the country who have viewed these pictures and labeled her everything from a devil worshipper to a pervert. Her mother said she is neither.

Washington County’s investigation is suspended. There has been no evidence of any criminal activity. The horse was not abused, nor was it tortured. It was killed in what law enforcement considers one of the most humane ways to put animals down, a single gunshot to the brain with a high powered rifle. The horse likely never knew what happened. The meat was harvested and eaten.

Source: http://www.koinlocal6.com/news/loca...t-face-charges-in/O5kF74cxmUikMab_W02A2g.cspx


Based on what I've read so far, I think people are overreacting. I wish I could find the quote but Teran said something that sums this up quite nicely. Anyways, what do you guys think about this?

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

I don't really think it matters.

But how is she not a pervert, she obviously did this for sexual/ pleasuring reasons and anything against the norm is what pervert means

 

[Strife]

Isn't there anything more interesting happening?

 

[Glöwworm]

Isn't there anything more interesting happening?

No

 

[Teran]

Now I'm just curious as to what I said.

 

[Spelt]

I am also curious as to what Teran said.

 

[Falconv1.0]

I like how she's received death threats, as if anything she did affected anyone negatively enough to warrant murder.

Also MAN THAT ***** HAS ISSUES.

 

[Arbuckle]

I like how she's received death threats, as if anything she did affected anyone negatively enough to warrant murder.

Also MAN THAT ***** HAS ISSUES.

See now, if it was a perfectly healthy horse that had its whole life ahead of it, I could see people gettin' mad n s***.

But it says right there that it was old and sick and they had to put it down anyway.

So basically, who gives a **** god damn what the **** people why do you even give two ****s.

 

[Falconv1.0]

See now, if it was a perfectly healthy horse that had its whole life ahead of it, I could see people gettin' mad n s***.

But it says right there that it was old and sick and they had to put it down anyway.

So basically, who gives a **** god damn what the **** people why do you even give two ****s.

Well I think we care cuz she totally got inside it and stole its powers.

 

[Arbuckle]

Well I think we care cuz she totally got inside it and stole its powers.

I don't see where it says she made a dress out of the horse's skin while eating its still beating heart, friend :]

 

[Luigitoilet]

i watched some movie the other day where a guy did that to a moose that was dead in a riverbed. he gutted the moose and hid inside it and in the water and hid from the scots. it was totes brutes.

 

[Peeze]

Lady gaga will be adopting this fashion soon.

 

[Strong Badam]

yea but what did Teran say?

 

[ShroudedOne]

People like to drum up fake emotions for things that they really have no business caring about. Like animal rights, or gay marriage, or anything else that doesn't have an effect on their lives directly. For some reason, everyone has to have an opinion on "worldly issues," especially when they don't really matter.

And LOOOOOOL at the people saying that she worships the devil. It's really funny, because it's likely that those people are doing things that would also be viewed as "sinful," but they are using this story to catapult their own piety. That being said, this IS still rather disgusting. But it doesn't effect me. So why would I care what she does?

 

[Shorts]

Portland represeeeent~

 

[frotaz37]

People like to drum up fake emotions for things that they really have no business caring about. Like animal rights, or gay marriage, or anything else that doesn't have an effect on their lives directly. For some reason, everyone has to have an opinion on "worldly issues," especially when they don't really matter.

In other words, people have no business caring about things that you declare to be not worth caring about.

Gotcha

 

[Falconv1.0]

Man I don't think people should care about women's rights, especially voting rights, so if that **** got revoked tomorrow, I expect all men to not do anything about it.

Also you should all give me your money.

 

[ShroudedOne]

In other words, people have no business caring about things that you declare to be not worth caring about.

Gotcha

That wasn't really my point. My point was that people should focus less on "altruism" and things that don't really have an impact on their lives, and more on things that have an impact on their lives. It isn't about what I declare to be important, but what actually has an important impact on them.

I'm not sure why you decided to make that statement instead of just telling me why I was wrong...so...I dunno.

@Falconv1.0: I would say that human rights affects everyone, and so not giving women the right to vote is, in a way, infringing upon human rights. If rights are based off of gender/sex, then who would be wrong to discriminate against men for some reason? Do you see my point.

Again, when replying to a point that someone made, which you don't agree with, it is always better to tell them why they are wrong, rather than attempting to make fun of them, or pointless jabs. I think that's important for discussion. Unless, of course, we aren't allowed to discuss things here.

 

[Falconv1.0]

Thing is though, women's rights probably wouldn't really affect my life directly other than maybe making it more convenient if they're judged to be inferior to me by law, yeah? Point is, yeah it's dumb people got so upset about this but then you just bring up **** like "gay marriage and animal rights" when uh, plenty of folks who aren't gay legit care about that.

 

[ShroudedOne]

But again, that goes back to human rights. I guess my point wasn't really stated clearly, I should be better with that. I support gay marriage, and I care about it, to a degree. But it isn't a direct, personal offense to me that it doesn't happen, because I myself am not gay. It's fine to protest, it's fine to demand it, but there is a line where it becomes less about the issue itself, and more about looking a certain way for public approval. If that makes sense. I just think that people take certain issues too far when they don't have enough of an impact on them to warrant that. I wish I could give you an adequate example.

As far as animal rights go (and I'm largely playing devil's advocate here), how will animals having rights seriously impact our own lives?

 

[Teran]

Man I don't think people should care about women's rights, especially voting rights, so if that **** got revoked tomorrow, I expect all men to not do anything about it.

Also you should all give me your money.

I don't care about women's rights.

Frankly I don't care about human rights.

Oh well \o_o/

BUT POOR HORSE OMG THIS IS AMERICA WE MURDER PEOPLE NOT ANIMALS

 

[ShroudedOne]

Teran said pretty much what I was going for, and in a more blunt, direct, and to-the-point fashion.

 

[Luigitoilet]

We go through this same exact crap almost every time an article is posted here.

It's pretty annoying actually.

 

[ShroudedOne]

I don't understand. What do you mean?

 

[Luigitoilet]

It's a typical thread with people offering empty condolences, then someone comes in and crying about "ugh why are you people pretending to feel bad about this, it doesn't effect you, you phonies. also nothing matters. also I just discovered Nietzsche"

 

[ShroudedOne]

Uh...okay then. I'm sure that that's not what I was saying, but okay. I take your point.

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

Uh...okay then. I'm sure that that's not what I was saying, but okay. I take your point.

Nietzsche is a philosopher that was against our current system of morality and believed in a system where the strong and wealthy were "good" and the weak and poor "bad", which he called the master-slave system.

He was also very nihilistic.

 

[ShroudedOne]

Yeah, I know who he was (at least the bare bones), I just wasn't going for that view, I think. I'm certainly not in the camp of "nothing matters."

 

[Luigitoilet]

That's a crass oversimplification of his philosophy.

A more accurate simplification is that good and bad are societal constructs, and that yes, nature tends to favor those who disregard the shackles of morality and enforces their will to power.

but, that's neither here nor there I guess, I was just talking about how revelatory a lot of forumgoers seem to find that concept of reflecting on what is in good taste and in bad taste in the context of bigger society.

 

[Peeze]

It also deteriorates into a "i'll prove i have more knowledge than you by being verbose and pedantic" ego-driven debatefest.

lol at the irony here

 

[Teran]

The entirety of human history is basically a never ending cycle of repetition tbh.

Things being different would be SPOOKY.

 

[Luigitoilet]

It also deteriorates into a "i'll prove i have more knowledge than you by being verbose and pedantic" ego-driven debatefest.

lol at the irony here

why you lookin bitter

 

[Peeze]

I be lookin better

 

[Claire Diviner]

Big deal. A woman poses nude while drenching herself in horse guts. Like that's the worst we've seen on the internet? I suppose the media has to find something to complain about I suppose. I mean, it's not like they tortured the horse to death before taking pictures.

 

[Glöwworm]

Now I'm just curious as to what I said.

I don't care about women's rights.

Frankly I don't care about human rights.

Oh well \o_o/

BUT POOR HORSE OMG THIS IS AMERICA WE MURDER PEOPLE NOT ANIMALS

I cannot remember from where it is but it's kind of in the lines of this.

 

[Master Xanthan]

Wow, that's pretty weird. IMO that woman really needs help.

 

[SuperBowser]

I'm surprised more people didn't post to say this is really weird. I guess it doesn't matter because the horse was dead already.

But still. wtf.

 

[Master Xanthan]

I'm surprised more people didn't post to say this is really weird. I guess it doesn't matter because the horse was dead already.

But still. wtf.

I think the fact that the horse was dead made it even creepier.

 

[Peeze]

You prefer it to have been alive?

 

[Master Xanthan]

You prefer it to have been alive?

No, frankly its weird either way.