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"Warning: This post contains graphic content and video footage that some readers may find upsetting. Two high school students in Florida are under investigation after video footage of them torturing and killing an endangered species of tortoise went viral. The attorney general&amp;#039;s office is working with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to determine charges for the girls, ages 15 and 18.  In the first of two videos, posted initially by the girls to Facebook and YouTube, the girls light the gopher tortoise on fire after pouring alcohol on it. In the video, the girls can be heard rooting for the tortoise&amp;#039;s demise, reports the Florida Times-Union: &amp;quot;Burn baby, burn baby,&amp;quot; one girl says as they light the tortoise on fire. &amp;quot;Now you are scared of us, huh?&amp;quot; One girl lights a stick on fire and jabs the tortoise, then again. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s \u2014 \u2014 hissing still,&amp;quot; one says as they pick the struggling animal up. A girl in a pink top, whose face is seen multiple times, throws the tortoise as the other girl laughs. &amp;quot;Let&amp;#039;s do it again,&amp;quot; the videographer said. &amp;quot;Let me do it. He&amp;#039;s not dead. He just went in his shell.&amp;quot;  This video concludes with the girls throwing the tortoise down the street. In the second video, one of the girls stomps the tortoise to death until its insides spill out of its body. The running commentary there: &amp;quot;His heart came out with a bunch of grass,&amp;quot; the girl with the camera says as she laughs, then kicks the corpse. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s dead. That&amp;#039;s funny.&amp;quot;  A 16-year-old who goes to high school with the girls and is friends with them on Facebook saw the videos, saved them to his computer, and left comments airing his disgust on the social network. As the videos went viral, an animal abuse organization in Nevada alerted authorities in Florida. Nevada Voters for Animals president Gina Greisen told the Times-Union she wants the girls charged with a felony.  Though the girls took the videos down, the footage is still available online, including on the Nevada Voters for Animals Facebook page in an aim to &amp;quot;get justice.&amp;quot; A more digestible, shorter cut of it appears in this news clip about the incident:      Internet collective 4chan has set out to identify the girls, according to the Daily Dot. And so continues an age in which no one can do anything dumb or downright heinous in a vacuum \u2014 partly because no one can resisting posting every moment of their lives to the Internet, and partly because the Internet seeks to preserve the reputation of absolutely no one. [via Gawker] Follow Amy on Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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