Taiwanese vigilantes smash woman’s home in Kaohsiung after video showing her beat dog goes viral
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/05/10
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Screenshot of video from Facebook page 爆怨公社.
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Vigilantes vandalized a woman’s home in Kaohsiung on Thursday (May 9) after a video surfaced on social media showing her mercilessly beating a stray dog with a broom.
On Wednesday (May 8), a woman surnamed Huang (黃) living in Kaohsiung’s Linyuan District complained to her neighbor, a woman surnamed Kuo (郭), that her dog had been damaging her potted plants and demanded compensation. However, Kuo denied that she was the owner of the dog and was reluctant to offer any payment.
Furious, Huang grabbed a broomstick and savagely beat the dog. Kuo shot videoof the beating and uploaded it to the Taiwanese Facebook group Baoyuan Commune (爆怨公社), where it quickly drew the ire of enraged dog lovers.
The Kaohsiung City Animal Protection Office was alerted to the video on Thursday (May 9) and brought Huang and Kuo into the Linyuan Precinct Police Station for questioning. Following a preliminary investigation, police believe that Huang violated the Animal Protection Act (動保法). [FULL STORY]
