sv_libertarian
State Researcher
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Was walking to work this morning (so no gun ) and a guy had an off leash pitbull and another off leash dog where I was walking. The pit came running up to me while I was on the phone with my boss. I told the guy to call the dog off, that there are leash laws. He called the dog back and leashed it and started getting beligerant with me, telling me to mind my own f-ing business, and his buddy was piping up about "What's the ordinance, huh? What is it?" Then his other dog ran up to me (both were probably friendly but the owner was not) I told them I was going to call the cops, and they kept being beligerant. I was walking off the whole time and leaving the area. I did report the guy to the cops. I don't think people should run pit bulls (or any other dog ) off leash and get nasty when a person calls them on it. I didn't cuss the guy out and I maintained a pretty firm tone with the guy.
What I started thinking was, how would this have gone down if I was OCing? The dog owner would have seen my weapon for sure, and may have not been so beligerant, or given his frame of mind may have tried to have the dog attack me. I can't be sure. I still would have reported him to the cops, more so since he might have made a false report about threatening with a gun.
Potentially dangerous dogs offleash (I'm not picking on pit bulls here, I have known some very friendly pits) and jerkoff owners, plus guy OCing minding his own business can be an interesting conversation.
What I would have done if I was OCing would been to have still told the guy to put it on a leash while walking away. I still wouldn't have responded to the taunting both people were doing, and would have kept walking away and still would have reported it to the cops.
I don't think at anytime I would have done anything wrong, and in fact would have been doing everything I could do to avoid an unwanted encounter.
I like to run this sort of thing through my mind to judge response and reaction and possible endings, because the presence of a gun on my hip may have simplified things or it may have made things more difficult depending on the dog owner's attitude and response to that...
Thoughts?
Was walking to work this morning (so no gun ) and a guy had an off leash pitbull and another off leash dog where I was walking. The pit came running up to me while I was on the phone with my boss. I told the guy to call the dog off, that there are leash laws. He called the dog back and leashed it and started getting beligerant with me, telling me to mind my own f-ing business, and his buddy was piping up about "What's the ordinance, huh? What is it?" Then his other dog ran up to me (both were probably friendly but the owner was not) I told them I was going to call the cops, and they kept being beligerant. I was walking off the whole time and leaving the area. I did report the guy to the cops. I don't think people should run pit bulls (or any other dog ) off leash and get nasty when a person calls them on it. I didn't cuss the guy out and I maintained a pretty firm tone with the guy.
What I started thinking was, how would this have gone down if I was OCing? The dog owner would have seen my weapon for sure, and may have not been so beligerant, or given his frame of mind may have tried to have the dog attack me. I can't be sure. I still would have reported him to the cops, more so since he might have made a false report about threatening with a gun.
Potentially dangerous dogs offleash (I'm not picking on pit bulls here, I have known some very friendly pits) and jerkoff owners, plus guy OCing minding his own business can be an interesting conversation.
What I would have done if I was OCing would been to have still told the guy to put it on a leash while walking away. I still wouldn't have responded to the taunting both people were doing, and would have kept walking away and still would have reported it to the cops.
I don't think at anytime I would have done anything wrong, and in fact would have been doing everything I could do to avoid an unwanted encounter.
I like to run this sort of thing through my mind to judge response and reaction and possible endings, because the presence of a gun on my hip may have simplified things or it may have made things more difficult depending on the dog owner's attitude and response to that...
Thoughts?