Officials in Troy said Monday that witnesses reported seeing the cart drive over tee boxes and onto greens at the city-owned Frear Park Golf Course on Friday afternoon. City Council President Carmella Mantello says officials have been told two men used the cart to hunt down the animal and run it over near one of the course's holes.
"That's crazy, that's crazy," said golfer Rich Warren, playing Monday on the Troy Municipal course. "You don't have to chase one down. They don't come after you, they stay on the edge of the woods. Once in a while they come out, they don't bother anybody."
William Meissner, identified by WNYT as a former head of the Troy Housing Authority, took to Facebook to describe the scene at Frear Park Golf Course last Friday afternoon.
"While playing Frear Park golf course today, I witnessed two people in a golf cart chase down a [groundhog] until it couldn't run anymore," said Meissner, "and then they ran over it with their golf cart. The [groundhog] managed to crawl about ten feet and rolled around a little before it died."
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| Stock photo of mama groundhog with her babies. The gleeful enjoyment of torturing and killing innocent animals is disgusting. If these are police officers, they need to be fired immediately. |
The incident occurred while the police union for the department in the nearby city of Rensselaer was hosting a tournament. More than 80 people participated, not all of them police officers.
Officials in both cities say they're investigating the incident.
WHY IT'S NOT "JUST A GROUNDHOG":
There is something wrong with people who gain enjoyment from the suffering of others. Who, in history, has been like this? Ted Bundy? The BK Killer? The Boston Strangler? It is even more disturbing that someone sworn to protect and serve may have been the ones who did this horrific deed. Animals feel pain and terror just like we do. A groundhog feels pain and terror just like your beloved cat or dog.
(WHEC - Aug 2, 2016)
