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UK man with a sick obsession for publicly masturbating near horses has been arrested twice within 24 hours for the same lewd offense
Malcolm Downes, 61, who has a “long, long history” of pleasuring himself in front of the mammals, was arrested on Feb. 18 after he was spotted touching himself in a field in the city of Hull, England, Metro UK reported.
A witness initially thought that Downes was urinating but it “soon became clear he was in fact masturbating,” prosecutor Neil Coxon said, according to the news outlet.
“This activity went on for three or four minutes. His penis was exposed for about 10 minutes,” Coxon said.
When police grilled Downes about the illicit act, he told detectives: “I was sat on a bench. I was feeling sexy so I started to…”
Downes told cops he knew what he was doing was wrong, according to the news site.
The suspect was then released on bail after saying he had been planning to see his doctor for libido-suppressing drugs.
But within 24 hours, Downes could not resist his urges and was back at the same field, where he was caught by an off-duty cop.
The offender ultimately was jailed for eight months.
Downes admitted he has a problem, but that he got a thrill out of pleasuring himself, according to Metro UK.
According to the news outlet, Downes, who recently reconnected with his family after being exiled, had 12 similar busts on his record.
He also had nine breaches of an antisocial behavior order for masturbating in public, the news site reported.
The court order had barred Downes from entering any field, stable or area that may have equine animals across the northern English county of Humberside.
“The defendant is very disappointed to be back before the courts again for precisely the same sort of behavior he’s been convicted of in the past,” Downes’ lawyer, Stephen Robinson, told a judge.
“The defendant was of the view he’d been doing quite well,” Robinson said.
Robinson added: “He can’t really explain it. He said he felt he was starting to conquer his demons. He believes this was some sort of lapse he can’t explain. He is, he insists, very sorry for his actions.”
Judge David Tremberg told Downes: “You know you are doing wrong, but you appear either unable or unwilling to stop yourself.”
via: https://nypost.com/2019/04/10/man-with-bizarre-horse-fetish-busted-twice-in-24-hours/
Nearly 200 free-roaming horses died searching for water on Navajos’ parched land
Nearly 200 feral horses, besieged with famine and dehydration, were found dead on a dried-up stock pond on Navajo land in Arizona.
The animals went to the pond in Gray Mountain, an unincorporated community in Coconino County in north-central Arizona, in search of water. But they somehow found themselves burrowed into the mud and too weak to escape, said Jonathan Nez, vice president of the Navajo Nation, which is the largest Native American tribe in the country and covers parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.
Some of the 191 horses were buried neck-deep in the mud, Navajo officials said. Some were buried beneath others. Pictures show the horses’ overlapping bodies, arranged roughly in a circle, as they lie on the parched earth.
The mass deaths come as Arizona experiences an exceptional drought unlike anything it has seen in more than a decade. Navajo officials say horses dying near an empty watering pond is “not a new but a seasonal issue.”
The deaths also underscore an overpopulation of free-roaming horses, a problem entangled in competing interests, scarcity of resources and tribal cultural values.
About 73,000 horses and burros roam free in the western United States; that number has far exceeded what government officials say the land can sustain. With such overpopulation, having herds of free-roaming horses has become expensive. For example, damage the animals cause cost the Navajo Nation more than $200,000 a year. According to the Navajo Department of Agriculture, one horse consumes 18 pounds of forage a day. Removing as many as 13 dozen horses would save the Navajo Nation more than 290,000 gallons of water and 1.1 million pounds of forage a year.
But the issue has been a divisive one.
The Navajo tribe reveres horses, which have become symbols of the American West and are deeply entrenched in the Navajo people’s beliefs and traditions.
“It’s a sensitive subject to begin with because horses are considered sacred animals, so you just can’t go out and euthanize them. That would go too far against cultural conditions. At the same time, we have a bunch of horses no one is caring for, so it’s a delicate balance,” former Navajo spokesman Erny Zah told the Associated Press.