EDITORIAL PELICAN TRAGEDY ATTACK ON ANIMAL BEYOND JUST CRUEL.

FEW things highlight the capacity for pointless cruelty by humans more than the injured pelican at Lake Balboa does. Someone shot the poor thing in the beak with an arrow, and now it can't even eat.

Why someone would torture an elegant creature that beautifies the park is simply unfathomable. But with the bad comes the good. This creature's suffering has also highlighted the awesome capacity for compassion by humans: Many people are trying to help the pelican survive.

We can only hope that they reach the bird before it succumbs to its injuries -- and that the perpetrator is caught before going on to other senseless brutality toward any of God's creatures.

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