I love YouTube and the concept of user-generated content. These days everyone has a camera phone, and you just never know who’s taping what (Michael Richards learned the hard way).

But unfortunately, that also opens the doors to the sickos in our community who like to behead dogs and capture it to watch later:

A St. Paul man charged Friday with killing a girl’s companion dog because the girl had spurned his attentions had a cell phone with video clips showing the dog being decapitated with a chain saw, according to a criminal complaint.

Anthony Albert Gomez, 24, at first denied any involvement in the death of “Chevy”, an Australian Shepard mix, but later told police that he instigated others to do it, telling them to “cut its head off” and to do it with a chain saw, the complaint states.

That article failed to mention Gomez put the head in a box, wrapped it in Christmas paper and left it on the the family’s front steps for their 17 year-old daughter to find.

From WCCO’s coverage: “She was just hysterical. She was screaming, she said ‘Grandma, it’s my dog’s head.’ I said no it can’t be… and it was the dog’s head,” said Shirley Brown, Crystal’s Grandmother.

Could it be there is a market for animal snuff films? Luckily a quick YouTube search for “dog beheading” only turned up cruelty to stuffed animals and snowmen. This group of guys in St. Paul are wackos.

No word on who got the $10,000 reward. Too bad punishment can’t be eye-for-an-eye on this one!

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