Fuller Malarkey
Regular Member
I think it safe [at least for the next few days] to reference this as an alarmingly frequent isolated incident. Another family pet shot and killed.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/20...police-officer-community-dog-park-keith-elgin
"Tim Reeves — one of Vern's owners — said he had been in the basement of his Pasadena house setting up for a Super Bowl party when his girlfriend called him from upstairs, saying she'd seen a police officer in the front yard.
"I said to him 'How can I help you, officer?'" Tim Reeves said. "He looked at me and said 'I unloaded on your dog. Your dog attacked me, and I killed it."
Thankfully, it wasn't the family's 12 year old son that outweighs and is taller than the dog was.
Another report:
"Police say the officer was canvassing on Lombardee Circle for witnesses to a burglary on Saturday when a dog "confronted" him."
Confronted does not indicate "attacked".
It also clarifies that this police officer was not in hot pursuit of a terrorist / burglar, had maybe jumped a fence and found himself trapped in a deep inescapable pit with a half crocodile / half Bull Mastiff with obvious symptoms of rabies, complicated by a meth habit. He was on a fishing expedition.
Funny how frequently mailmen encounter dogs without needing to "unload" on them. Which in turn triggers my curiosity as to why we don't read about nurses killing mentally distressed people within seconds on encountering them.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/20...police-officer-community-dog-park-keith-elgin
"Tim Reeves — one of Vern's owners — said he had been in the basement of his Pasadena house setting up for a Super Bowl party when his girlfriend called him from upstairs, saying she'd seen a police officer in the front yard.
"I said to him 'How can I help you, officer?'" Tim Reeves said. "He looked at me and said 'I unloaded on your dog. Your dog attacked me, and I killed it."
Thankfully, it wasn't the family's 12 year old son that outweighs and is taller than the dog was.
Another report:
"Police say the officer was canvassing on Lombardee Circle for witnesses to a burglary on Saturday when a dog "confronted" him."
Confronted does not indicate "attacked".
It also clarifies that this police officer was not in hot pursuit of a terrorist / burglar, had maybe jumped a fence and found himself trapped in a deep inescapable pit with a half crocodile / half Bull Mastiff with obvious symptoms of rabies, complicated by a meth habit. He was on a fishing expedition.
Funny how frequently mailmen encounter dogs without needing to "unload" on them. Which in turn triggers my curiosity as to why we don't read about nurses killing mentally distressed people within seconds on encountering them.
