If you ran an animal organization, would you want Michael Vick -- NFL star quarterback, dogfighter, felon -- to make a public-service announcement for your group about what a bad thing dogfighting is?
That's the question I asked Jane Pierantozzi, the executive director of Faithful Friends, when she called she me Tuesday. Would his celebrity, and now, infamy, and his ability to reach people outweigh his obvious drawbacks?
Jane says PR, no. Getting out in the community, yes.
"I don't think they're going to respond to Vick on TV" in a public-service commercial, Jane says. If she thought he was sincere about getting involved in community outreach, in contributing money to the cause, in talking with people about why dogfighting is wrong or starting a tipline, she would take his help.
Jane was struck by something Vick said after pleading guilty Monday. He said he needed to grow up. "It's more than just growing up," she says. What he did involved violence and criminal activity, and he lied about it, she says. You shouldn't have to grow up to understand any of that.
Would you accept Michael Vick's help, his money, his community service if he offered it?
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No Way!!
Sure. I'd take Vick's money for an animal shelter to fight Dog Fighting ... and I would want him to do community service there too. I'd have him put down time after time pit bulls that come in unable to be adopted. I'd have him throw their bodies into the 'burner,' shovel the ashes into the wheel barrow and dump them in the dumpster. I'd want him to answer the shelter phone and hear the tears of an old woman who's little dog was snatched from it's front yard for 'pit bait' for the dog fights down her street. I'd have him repair the cut wire fencing of the animal shelter kennels where the 'owners' of confiscated fighting pit bulls took them back over night.
no!
What would qualify Michael Vick to fight dog fighting?
You're joking; right?!?
THIS IS JUST ANOTHER STUPID REPORT ABOUT MIKE VICK, BECAUSE THE MEIDA HAS NOT A THING BETTER TO DO BUT FUEL THE FIRE OF A BUNCH OF HYPOCRITES WHO ARE SO FOR THE RIGHT OF ANIMALS AND PROTEST AGINST THE HARM OF ANIMALS BUT HAVE LEATHER SHOES ON THEIER FEET WHILE PROTESTING.
OR THE COMPANIES WHO DROP MIKE VICK NIKE WHO HAS PLEANTY OF LEATHER FOOTWEAR IN THE COLLECTION
AND RAWLINGS WHO MAKES LEATHER BASEBALL GLOVES, LEATHER BASEBALLS, BASKETBALLS
AND WHAT IS THE BALL MADE OF THAT THE NFL USES PLEASE DO TELL ME SO IF WE SO CONCEREND ABOUT THE DEATH OF ANIMALS PLEASE.
THIS IS ALL ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT NOT ABLE TO TAXE THE WINNINGS AND NOW WANT TO MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF SOMEONE
THE ALREADY GAVE A REF 25 YEAR WHILE DOWN STATE A 17 YEAR OLD KILLED A MAN OVE A PARKING SPOT GOT 17 YEARS WHAT MESSAGE DOES THAT SEND. WHEN YOU GET LESS TIME FOR MURDER THAN YOU DO FOR FIXING A BASKETBALL GAME
A WOMAN WAS JUST RELEASED AFTER WHAT 8 MONTHS FOR KILLING HER HUSBAND BUT THEY WANT MIKE VIC TO DO 12-18 MONTHS FOR KILLING A FEW DOGS
I DON’T THINK HE SHOULD HELP FIGHT ANYTHING.
ISNT FIGHTING THE REASON HE IN TROUBLE IN THE FIRST PLACE
LET THE MAN DO HIS TIME, AND LET IT GO!!! Dogfighting has been going on for many years before this, and will be going on for many more years!! THIS WHOLE CASE IS STUPID!! I'm a dog lover, but this is a little extreme! Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and Nicole Richie can drive the streets drunk, and all they get is a slap on the wrist. They could have killed a person, but Michael Vick fights dogs, and now he's facing 12-18 months, COME ON PEOPLE!!
To Anonymous who posted at 10:29am - Please take yourself out to the train tracks, sit down and wait.
I wouldn't want Vick's help for anything. He should be completely forgotten and left to live a miserable life.
RD107
WHY RD107 CAUSE I DONT GIVE 2 CRAPS ABOUT DOG AND THIS IS MORE ABOUT TAX FREE MONEY THAT ABOUT THE DOGS ARE YOU TO BLID TO SEE THAT ANY WAY IM SURE YOU OWN A PAIR OF LEATHER SHOW AND IM SURE THE COW WAS READY TO BE KILLED TO MAKE THEM SO YOUR RIGHT
SAVE THE COW
IF HE WAS FIGHTING MICE IT WOULDNT BE THAT BIG OF A DEAL TO YOU PEOPLE YOU PEOPLE FEED YOUR SNAKES LIVE MICE THAT PRETTY CRUL IF YOU ASK ME BUT WHAT DO I KNOW
IAND I WILL SIT AND WAIT IF YOU PROMISE TO COME WITH ME AND HOLD MY HAND FTARD
I think if this guy really means what he has said in court he will donate MOST of his little fortune to the cause, you know, ACTIONS do speak a lot louder then words.
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