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Rocky Mountain Fireworks and Fur Torched By Animal Liberationists

By Pete Kotz in Animal Cruelty, arson
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 1:23 pm
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On today's episode of Great Moral Dilemmas of the Day, we take you now to Caldwell, Idaho, where some self-described "animal liberationists" weren't too happy about Rocky Mountain Fireworks and Fur. Given the combination of wares, it probably wasn't the most upscale shop...

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A group called the Arson Unit is claiming responsibility in the name of economic sabotage
But that didn't stop a group called the Arson Unit. When you're fighting against animal cruelty in Idaho, you probably don't get many targets where the trophy wives shop. Rocky Mountain had more of a western flavor, selling coyote and bobcat pelts, trapping gear, and equipment that drowns beavers.

Early Monday morning, the group decided to torch the joint, claiming it abets cruelty. So they drilled a hole into a storage space, pumped in gallons of fuel, then set the place aflame.

Firefighters managed to extinguish the fire without the place blowing up. But seeing as how it was also a fireworks store, the joint could have exploded like a Hezbollah wedding reception if not for their quick work.

The building now has a huge torch mark that burned a hole in the middle, but most of it was left standing.

The Arson Unit released a statement through a animal cruelty PR organization in Los Angeles. "Information leaflets, and television commercials, and lobbying... All of these peaceful means have been tried," Dr. Jerry Vlasak told KTVB-TV. "We think that it's extreme that millions of animals would be kept in cages, and killed unnecessarily top make fashionable garments."

As Vlasak implies, more arsons could be on the way: "Anybody that's making a profit off the exploitation of innocent animals, is fair game, as far as being targeted for economic sabotage."

See our last story from the Animal Cruelty file: Devin Leonard, 14, Watches in Horror as Teens Kick Dog to Death.

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