Raccoon suspected of biting an elderly woman and a dog in Belmar (MCSPCA)
LACEY — Following the baseball-bat beating of a raccoon on video last year, a lawmaker wants to ban the sale of traps to teenagers.
In the video posted to the Ocean County Scanner News website in December, a raccoon caught in a steel trap is smashed at least eight times by an aluminum baseball bat.
“Hit ’em, hit ’em, hit ’em,” one teen says to the other, who strikes the critter in the head as it hisses.
Toward the end of the video, the creature twitches.
“You see that animal cry out in pain,” state Sen. Vin Gopal, D-Monmouth, said.
The horror he said he felt watching the “gruesome” video went beyond the borders of his district, prompting him to introduce Senate bill S3611, which would ban the sale of traps to anyone under the age of 18.
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Exposing the Big Game 
So adults doing this exact thing is fine and no cause for concern over someone’s psychological state? Ugh. This is what trapping actually looks like and the real mentality of trappers.
Yep.
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Ugh. Who gives birth to these creatures anyway? It’s not like we don’t have enough of ’em already. Not talking about the raccoon.
I wouldn’t say trapping by adults is fine at all – but these seem like just general kids, junior psychopaths in the making, which isn’t a good reflection of society as a whole. Doing it for no other reason than the ‘fun’ of causing suffering to another creature, who cannot defend his or herself. I hope one of these kids learns what that feels like, someday.