One day I was reading an article on the Columbus Dispatch about a man abusing his animals. The guy had raised farm animals all of his life and he was a 3rd generation farmer. He raised cows, horses, chickens, and sheep. Everybody who knew that guy said he was somewhat of a belligerent man. His name was Billy Joe Gregg Jr. He was most notorious for abusing cows.
So one day Billy was caught doing it at a Union County Dairy Farm. He was abusing cows that he did not own. He was charged with Animal Abuse and was plead guilty of the charge. Though if I'm correct he didn't really spend much time in jail. I believe That he only spend about 5 months in jail when he was suppose to be in jail for about 1 years.
I truly cant believe that people like that are out there. It makes me so angry that people just like Billy would go out and abuse animals that weren't even his. They say that he was a coworker and somebody that was there working with him videotaped him abusing the cows and basically killing some of them. Its so sickening. To think about how many people could be out there like that. I am personally completely against animal abuse and really any type of abuse. Though animal abuse is really the one I'm most against.
Growing up with animals my entire life you grow a type of bond with them that is unbreakable. You would never do anything to hurt animals or pets or even your own pets. What I truly believe in is probably not what all people think and it may be a little extreme but, I believe people who abuse animals should be put away for a very long time. Just like I think of people abusing kids or their loved ones. I feel personally they should be locked out for a very long time.
It just really amazes me that anybody would even dare touch an animal like Billy has done. If I ever see somebody doing that to an animal of any type I would get so mad. I would do anything in my will power to stop that from happening. Because I think its just unbelievable. Who in the right mind will do something like that to somebody else's animals? What would you do if you came up to somebody and you caught them abusing animals. You're animals, the animals that you raised and grew up with. I bet you would feel the same that I do.
I would never want to walk in or just witness it while I could be out somewhere or I just see it off in the distance. Most people im sure would hate that and never want to witness something as terrible and heartless and animals being abused. I know that child abuse and other topics like that are really serious. I understand that, but this is a topic that doesn't really come up very often in central Ohio and I think it should be opinionated and should have people speak about what they think. Im doing it right now because I think its an important topic to me. I love animals and I don't know what I would do without them. I have two dogs and one cat and I would never do anything to them that would hurt them in anyway possible.
I feel terrible for all of the animals, farm animals, domestic animals that have to go through something like that. Animal abuse is just as bad as human abuse. It should be hit just as hard if it happens. I would hope for anybody that reads this that they agree with me and they think that animal abuse is just as bad a human abuse. Some may agree, some may disagree and that alright I can understand. The reason why I'm doing this is to make animal abuse a bigger topic than what it really is.
For Billy Joe Gregg Jr. he is one of the possible thousands of people that do that. though he was one that was caught in the act. Not very many people do. I'm not just talking about people in the United States but people all around the world could be doing it. Its just so terrible thinking about how many people could be doing that. I just hope that one day this will all stop and animal abuse would be a thing of that past. I know that asking for a lot but I'm just hoping it does. I just think in all honesty that it would make the world a better place. Even stopping human abuse will make the world a lot better because there wouldn't be as much drama or bad things going on in our world.
This is my strongest opinion on what I think about Animal Abuse. I don't mean to offend anybody in any way. I just want to throw my opinion and thoughts about what I think about it. I think it should stop completely before more and more people start doing it. Because I know that eventually more people could start doing it and it could turn really bad. So I'm hoping that if anybody reads this they could somewhat agree with me on what I'm trying to say because its something that I strongly feel about and I think it should stop.
Billy Joe Gregg Jr. should have been in trouble for a lot more than what he was accused for. I think he should have served more time in jail and made sure he knew the things he did to those cows was wrong and should never in his life do it again. my opinion may be strong but its true and it comes from my heart and I hope everyone can understand that. That is my full entire opinion on what I think about animal abuse and what I think should happen. I am extremely against any type of abuse because doing that kind of things kill animals, kill people, it could even worsen our population because of the lack of food supplies of meat.
Sunday, September 15, 2013
narrative
One beautiful mild fall day on October 15th, 2011 it woke up feeling good, refreshed, and ready to go. Later on that morning I went and bowled in my Saturday morning bowling league. I had a great mindset that I will bowl very well that day. While driving with my mom to Mechanicsburg, I had my earphones in and I was listening to my favorite song "Remember The Name" by Fort Minor. I was feeling really good and I was exited to for bowling today.
Of course like always I was early. I found my lane and I put my bowling balls up on the return rack. The bowling league usually every Saturday morning would start at 9am. I usually would get there between 8:30 - 8:45 and get myself prepared to get ready to bowl. While I sit there waiting for people to show up, slowly, one after another people started coming in. my teammates Cole Smith, Timmy Nawman, and Makayla Smith all were finally here. We were facing another team that only had two different players on it so we were all assuming it was going to go by fairly quick.
9am rolls around and we all start practice or warm ups. Practice lasts for generally around 15 to 20 minutes long. Every single ball I either rolled a split or I spared. I never had a strike during practice. So I started loosing a little bit of confidence and I started thinking that this may not be my day. It good that I was making my spares but I left a lot of splits. So I wasn't sure if it was my release point, my approach, or I kept missing my mark. when I was practicing everything seemed just fine but I was stumped on why nothing was going my way.
so the first game started and I started off with a 189. that wasn't too bad. I started gaining my confidence back up. my average before we started that day was a 185. so the 189 will help me out with my average a lot. The higher the average the better. So then we started the second game, that game didn't end up being so good I ended up with a 168. I had no idea what had happened that game. I still had the confidence that maybe I will bowl a great game today. Well, it happened I bowled a 289 my 3rd and final game of the day.
The 3rd game I started off with the first 10 strikes. The extreme pressure was on. Everybody that was there stopped what they were doing and watched me bowl my 11th shot in the 10th frame. it was dead silent, you could head a pin drop on the ground it was so quiet. then coming up to my 11th shot I knew the pressure was on. my heart was pounding, everything was silent, I was focused a ready to roll the shot. As I start my first step there was not a sound but my feet touching the ground. my second step hit, third step, fourth, fifth. then came one of the most important rolls I could ever do to set me up for a 300 game. As I was about to roll the ball somebody in the far back coughed and I jumped a little bit because it broke my focus. When I released it, I knelt down because either this shot was perfect or it was going to end up bad and end my perfect game.
as the ball was rolling down the lane my heart felt like I was pumping out of my chest. I Was so anxious, nervous, I had sweaty palms, my ball hit the pocket perfectly only to leave the 4 pin wobbling back and fourth. I couldn't believe it, it was just wobbling back and fourth almost about to fall down then the pin setter came down and stopped it from falling down. There It was, the pin standing there mocking me, laughing at me. I was so upset but yet at the same time I was so happy because it was the best game I ever bowled. I ended up picking up the spare for an amazing 289 game. Still to this day I have not been able to reach that same score. the next closest I was able to bowl was a 268. Even though somebody coughed and made me loose my focus I still am happy about that because it was a milestone that I wanted to reach for such a long time. I know that someday hopefully I will be able to reach the milestone of the 300 game. it will just take time.
Of course like always I was early. I found my lane and I put my bowling balls up on the return rack. The bowling league usually every Saturday morning would start at 9am. I usually would get there between 8:30 - 8:45 and get myself prepared to get ready to bowl. While I sit there waiting for people to show up, slowly, one after another people started coming in. my teammates Cole Smith, Timmy Nawman, and Makayla Smith all were finally here. We were facing another team that only had two different players on it so we were all assuming it was going to go by fairly quick.
9am rolls around and we all start practice or warm ups. Practice lasts for generally around 15 to 20 minutes long. Every single ball I either rolled a split or I spared. I never had a strike during practice. So I started loosing a little bit of confidence and I started thinking that this may not be my day. It good that I was making my spares but I left a lot of splits. So I wasn't sure if it was my release point, my approach, or I kept missing my mark. when I was practicing everything seemed just fine but I was stumped on why nothing was going my way.
so the first game started and I started off with a 189. that wasn't too bad. I started gaining my confidence back up. my average before we started that day was a 185. so the 189 will help me out with my average a lot. The higher the average the better. So then we started the second game, that game didn't end up being so good I ended up with a 168. I had no idea what had happened that game. I still had the confidence that maybe I will bowl a great game today. Well, it happened I bowled a 289 my 3rd and final game of the day.
The 3rd game I started off with the first 10 strikes. The extreme pressure was on. Everybody that was there stopped what they were doing and watched me bowl my 11th shot in the 10th frame. it was dead silent, you could head a pin drop on the ground it was so quiet. then coming up to my 11th shot I knew the pressure was on. my heart was pounding, everything was silent, I was focused a ready to roll the shot. As I start my first step there was not a sound but my feet touching the ground. my second step hit, third step, fourth, fifth. then came one of the most important rolls I could ever do to set me up for a 300 game. As I was about to roll the ball somebody in the far back coughed and I jumped a little bit because it broke my focus. When I released it, I knelt down because either this shot was perfect or it was going to end up bad and end my perfect game.
as the ball was rolling down the lane my heart felt like I was pumping out of my chest. I Was so anxious, nervous, I had sweaty palms, my ball hit the pocket perfectly only to leave the 4 pin wobbling back and fourth. I couldn't believe it, it was just wobbling back and fourth almost about to fall down then the pin setter came down and stopped it from falling down. There It was, the pin standing there mocking me, laughing at me. I was so upset but yet at the same time I was so happy because it was the best game I ever bowled. I ended up picking up the spare for an amazing 289 game. Still to this day I have not been able to reach that same score. the next closest I was able to bowl was a 268. Even though somebody coughed and made me loose my focus I still am happy about that because it was a milestone that I wanted to reach for such a long time. I know that someday hopefully I will be able to reach the milestone of the 300 game. it will just take time.
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