An unbelievable happy ending story is being read all around the globe - unfortunately it is probably not true. Those puppies that were filmed as they were being thrown alive into a river in Bosnia are safe; or so the story goes. Reason says the elderly woman who saved them would have drowned if she even tried.
The mainstream media has plenty of experience with stories like this, but that doesn’t stop them from promoting those. For the locals in the city of Bugojno it was no big deal. The rescuer just wanted to save the teen from further anguish.
The puppies' “savior,” Ruza Pavlovic, was photographed with are different colors than those the girl, filmed by her elder brother, was seen throwing in the Vrbas River.
Apparently Pavlovic is believed to be the next door neighbor of the accused girl’s family.
“The girl and her family have been under a lot of pressure because of the so many media reports. Bugojno is a small city, we all know who the girl is. She can hardly bear to live with the reactions and here everyone believes that Pavlovic made this only to try to help the girl and her family,” a local who requested to stay anonymous told Allvoices.
In the video, which has been taken off from YouTube, the teenage girl was shown throwing the puppies in the river, one by one. During the video, the teen laughed as she said “Does it swim?”
After the media exposure of the case, she and her family were questioned by local police. According to the local source, the girl went back to school and her everyday activities, but is under medical treatment.
“She vomits every time she sees the reports on the TV,” a source close to the family stated.
While her act caused a mass outrage on the Internet, since the Bugojno’s streets are full of strays, the local people didn’t get that upset.
Indeed, though the Bosnian law predicts a fine for killing or torturing animals, in range from 15 to 5000 Euros, no one has ever paid a penny for such acts.
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Still, what are the chances – if the old woman is telling the truth of course – that more than one litter of exactly five puppies could be “struggling to stay afloat” in a Bosnian river so soon after the posting of the infamous video? Could this, perhaps, be a new fad for teens in Bosnia, throwing puppies into rivers by the litter?
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You need to thank the Internet.
If this video was made in 1980, and sent to every television station in the US and Europe, it would have been a forgotten event.
When I was in college in 1993 as an electrical engineering student in my senior year, I was in a party in which a friend stated that the Internet would obliterate every culture. I was appalled at the idea, but then he pointed out if we all had the same culture there is little to fight over.
12 years later, I thought he was wrong. We're over in Iraq supposedly looking for weapons of mass destruction that don't exist, and in Afghanistan looking for a binLaden while kissing the ass of his family back in Saudi Arabia.
Maybe my friend wasn't wrong after all? Maybe I just didn't give it enough time for it to happen.
Hopefully the obliteration of cultures by assimilation will result in the best of all cultures, not the worst. Time will tell though.
P.s: The puppies look completely different to the ones the old lady is holding. Does she think we are stupid?
People eat dogs in China and nobody says anything about it.Because China is too strong country and they dont wanna listen what people outside say about such things.
Sorry but that is the cruel reallity...
I hope that little girl learnt her lesson.