Two dog sled teams competing in the Iditarod were struck by a man on a snowmobile in two separate incidents Friday night. The mushers say it was intentional.
The culprit pointing to the damage on his snowmobile.
Arnold Demoski, 26 was arrested yesterday for “assault, reckless endangerment, reckless driving and six counts of criminal mischief.
Demoski claims to have been returning home after a night drinking and happened to strike the dog teams.
One dog was killed two others injured.
It’s not his fault, he was blacked out drunk.
I’d have him shackled to a pole in a parking lot and have 10 drunk imbeciles drive around him blindfolded.
Knowing how Alaskans especially mushers feel about their dogs, I would be surprised if this asswipe sees his next birthday.
I’ve spent a lot of years in Alaska (it’s a great place) and Doc is right, run over a good dog and you have trouble on your hands.
What kind of sicko does this?
A sicko who hates both people and animals.
I can certainly understand hating people. Animals, not so much.
The kind of asshole who needs to wake up from one of his blackout drunks in my clutches.
His exit from this mortal coil will be rich and storied
You mean it wasn’t Donald Trump? Check Brietbart again its gotta be him.
I read what he did. The bears are asleep, kill a moose (no not that one) tie him to a tree and let the wolfs have at him. He could have killed two mushers and their team. Its a vision quest. Idiot.
Too much fire water for Arnold,
Yeah I’d be pissed, too. After all, them damn sled dogs are sooo noisy at 2am, after the bars are closed.
/s (because you southerners won’t get it.)
I buy tickets to see a musher have his team run over this guy when he walks out of the bar some night.
What passes an an Alaskan sideshow.
Death penalty for canicide.
I know that village, and that young man.
Problems:
Chronic alcoholism, from the top down, as with most native villages. Native livers cannot process alcohol, natives are prone to addiction.
Excuses for bad behavior, from each other and liberals and politicians of all stripes.
Welfare dependency, lack of pride and responsibility. Lack of natural consequences for being a drunk (unable to afford more booZe) absent.
The lack of discipline in the home (parents are afraid to discipline, some kids call the cops).
Lack of sober, responsible male role models.
The destruction of their way of life, and the inability to fit into western civilization norms. That isn’t their fault. But PC whites who are in important positions don’t help the right way.
Almost everyone in his generation has fetal alcohol syndrome, they know it, and most of their mom’s know it and still drink. Some liberals try to advance “drunk sperm” theory for FAE, but that is PC horsecrap. Men have their blame, but FAE is 100% mom’s fault.
Not pretty, and doubtful that he will be a different person in 5 years, unless he is more depressed or more drunk because I am sure he is ashamed.
PM, there are no native dog teams in Nulato. Takes sobriety and effort, and why work that hard when govt money buys a snow machine?
“Native?” You mean Eskimo? Aren’t they a protected species?
I’ll get shit, but here it is from experience.
Snowmobiling up in the nortwoods of the bottom 48 can be pretty lonely. You can be out for hours and see nobody but the folks in your group. In AK it has to be even more distant from stuff going on.
Yeah, I get the whole MADD bullshit and driving while drunk, however we’re mostly talking miles between beating hearts. It can be that remote.
I couldn’t get beyond the scripts to see if he was alone. That’s not smart, but it is his life.
He wasn’t obligated to know there was a race going on. So this may have been an unfortunate accident.
What I could gather (before the scripts) is he hit a sled or tow line at a high rate of speed (not uncommon if you’ve ever run the nortwoods). Things then went south for the following team and killed their dog.
Horrible?
Yes.
But then again we’re not talking Main St. America,
“I just want to say I’m sorry,” he said.
i just want to feed him to the wolves, since the sled dogs would be to nice to eat him.
now that i’ve read all yall’s replies…..here’s my refutation….
WHAT ALASKAN DOES NOT KNOW ABOUT THE IDITAROD???
WHAT ALASKAN DOES NOT KNOW THE ROUTE OF THE IDITAROD????
WHAT ALASKAN “ACCIDENTALLY” RUNS INTO THE IDITAROD????
fetal alcohol syndrome, poor poor pitiful native, and whatever other excuse you want to want to offer………sorry, i’m not buying it……either this idiot is too stupid to breathe, or he ran into the iditarod on purpose……
as far as i know, he’s still breathing, so that kinda rules out option one…….
Old Oaks, I can assure you that he knew the Iditarod was going on. Up there, this time of year, that is the biggest story there is. It is as big as the opening of fishing season.
Chuck FTW.
chuck, I hear you loud and clear, I live in the midwest and have followed/known about the Iditarod for at least a couple decades.
I’m not standing up for the goof, I just know that the race isn’t laid out like Daytona with track blowers, lights and a blimp or two.
Drug or alcohol problems aside. It’s entirely possible he ran the same route nearly daily and all he ever thought about doing it was hitting a moose.
joe, Totally sober you can easily overshoot an intersection, especially one that’s not been marked. It’s not uncommon to run trails wide open on a sled. Which I’ve taken plenty of heat by calling it unnecessary, but I’ve always had fast sleds, lol.
Some strategically placed barb wire at neck height about 100 yards from his home should do the job