Angry social network users are lambasting a second video depicting animal abuse by a Malaysian which is now available for worldwide view online.
PETALING JAYA: Are Malaysians turning into sociopaths with little or no concern for man and beast?Are we so tormented that we need to kick, hit, stomp, slap and abuse not just people but also helpless animals to assert our “superiority” and vent frustration at how the world treats us?
Shocking as it is, we have had two videos uploaded on public domain in just as many months depicting abuse of animals by Malaysians.
The latest video circulating the Internet and which has also incurred the wrath of netizens shows a man beating cats to death.
Uploaded on Facebook, the five-minute-long video shows a Chinese man in his 20s abusing a litter of cats with his umbrella.
Entitled “Happened in Malaysia – Serdang, captured by CCTV”, the video was first hosted on “Bincang”, a local Internet forum.
In the clip, a man is first seen threatening a lone kitten in an alley. He then swings his umbrella behind a wall, striking another kitten in the process.
Without mercy, the man hits the first kitten again. An older cat, presumably its mother, rushes to its rescue.
The assailant chases the mother away before hitting the kitten again. This time he gives it a hard kick before chasing it out of the camera’s view.
A few seconds later, the man turns his attention to another kitten behind the wall, whacking it with his umbrella.
Again the kitten’s mother tries to intervene but the man chases her away. The kitten then falls helplessly to the roadside, only to be whacked at again and again.
Eventually, the man grabs the kitten’s lifeless body and drops it into the alley. He stamps on it twice, before walking away.
Forty seconds later, he is seen kicking the kitten’s corpse out of the camera’s view.
Face censored
Sporting a cap and wearing Crocs, the man does not appear to look like a local shopkeeper.
It is believed that the video was taken through a security camera’s feed. The lettering “CH04″ is seen in the lower middle portion of the video.
The man also seems to be aware of the camera, and is seen looking at it after stamping on the kitten’s body. His face, however, was censored.
Predictably, the man’s actions were heavily condemned by the online community.
“I don’t understand how some people can be so cruel and heartless. This idiot must have some mental dysfunction,” said Facebook user Debbie Tan.
Enraged cat lover Nora Aziz said: “Stupid man. If you have kids one day, (I hope) wild cats will do the same thing to them.”
Other users also bemoaned the possible lack of police action against the kitten abuser.
“What we lack is enforcement,” said Facebook user, Adelene Wee.
“But that doesn’t mean we take matters in our own hands. We can fight for their rights and not condone such cruelty, but we can raise awareness,” she said.
Second video of its kind
The video is the second of its kind to appear over the Internet in recent months.
In January, a video of a man teaching a toy poodle tricks through abuse spread over Facebook. The abuser, also Chinese, was seen beating his dog into standing up straight.
Despite widespread online and offline condemnation, no known action has been taken against him.
The link to the cat abuse video.
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