The hot word is that the ABC is about to air footage of a leading South Australian greyhound trainer beating the crap out of a number of dogs.
It’s said that a disgruntled ex-employee or associate narked the trainer to the ABC for mistreating animals.
Good.
This sort of criminal behavior should be exposed.
The ABC is said to have acted on this information by employing drone surveillance to capture footage of the trainer doing some absolutely awful, terrible, disgraceful and unforgiveable deeds.
If this information is correct and the footage proves it, the leading trainer is friar tucked, and so he should be too.
A DQ for life and courtrooms will await.
I just want to say a couple of things in advance.
A couple of my best mates are greyhound trainers, and they are really good people. They would rather bang their own heads hard against a brick wall than ever hurt a dog, and they never would. These folk love their dogs, more than anything in the world.
What you are about to see on the ABC is not a depiction of dog trainers, or of greyhound racing.
This bloke is an unwanted and unloved anomaly, not a representative of the sport.
AFL players have gone to jail for trafficking of drugs.
Olympians have too, and for importing them.
So have Rugby League players
Soccer stars have been jailed for fixing matches.
International cricket captains too.
Boxers are inside for life for murder.
NFL stars are as well, and one of the most famous ever – OJ – escaped it by the width of a tally ho paper.
What I am saying is that there are bad eggs in every basket.
That’s life, not a reason to condemn and try to shut down a flourishing real good sport.
People like this bloke you are about to see on TV don’t represent the greyhound industry, they disgrace it, and no-one decent wants them in the game.
They are not us, and we are not them.
Don’t tar us with the same brush.