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Posted on 07/29/2014 1:13:45 PM PDT by chessplayer
On July 13, Josie Garcia’s husband was pulled over by Houston PD for failure to use a turn signal.
The routine traffic stop lead to a search and prescription drugs belonging to the passenger were found. Both men were subsequently arrested and the SUV was impounded. Charges against her husband were dropped days later.
Unfortunately, Garcia’s 14 year old chihuahua, Guero, was along for the ride.
As the men were being taken into custody and the SUV towed, Guero was removed from the vehicle and left on the side of Highway 59.
Garcia’s husband plead with the officer to let him call someone to come get the dog or for the officer to call animal control, who’s shelter was only 2 blocks away.
The officer refused, claiming the dog would be fine.
For the next 3 days Garcia put up missing posters and searched for her beloved pet. Eventually, she received a call to let her know where he was.
Guero had been found, dead, on the side of the highway not far from where the men were pulled over. The elderly chihuahua was nearly blind from cataracts and had been hit by oncoming traffic.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefreethoughtproject.com ...
And what proof was there that the barking rat was even in the vehicle in the first place?
Oh the word of the wife and her hauled off to jail husband.... Yep that’s proof enough I guess isn’t it?
And if you don’t think that there are people out there who scheme up ways to save their skin or scam taxpayers then there is a bridge in Brooklyn that you can buy for cheap.
Wow. Talk about conspiracy theories. Yup, it was all an elaborate plot to screw you out of your money! Ever thought about becoming a cop? With your hatred of animals, you would fit right in.
The Garcias are making a serious allegation of wrongdoing on the part of HPD. The dept. is taking a big PR hit over this - enough for the mayor to issue a public apology.
Do you find it credible that HPD would offer no comment if the story were made up?
By 'snitches', do you mean the ones who report wrongdoing by fellow officers?
If that's not what you meant, then please explain. It seems like a damning comment to make about the rank and file.
You are absolutely correct.
Original bottle with *your* name and Rx number on them, no matter how many pills you might have to tote around with you, in your travels.
7 day containers = jail time until they call your doc and pharmacist to confirm.
If it’s a weekend, you and your little dog are screwed.
If this had been me, you guys would be discussing the crazy bitch who was gunned down [with her dogs] for failure to comply.
Seriously.
Or the cops just happened to ‘have some with them’.
While on Virginia Ave tonight, as I sat at AutoZone waiting for Himself to get done, a city cop nailed *3* drivers.
For what, I have no idea, as they certainly did not seem to be doing anything overtly illegal.
Oh, wait.
Yeah.
End of the month.
Quota time.
I left the parking lot *under* the speed limit, buckled up, and using turn signals even though there is no actual road at the end of the driveway or oncoming traffic and no cars behind me.
He was gunning for warm bodies.
So the dog ~deserved~ to die?
Thank you, I needed that...
Geeze...you don’t keep pets frozen for later lawsuits?
I thought everyone did.
Right now, I have a roadkill rat snake chillin’ in the freezer until I figure a way to scam somebody with it.
Schedule II pharmaceuticals do have therapeutic use and can be prescribed. Drugs with no therapeutic use are Schedule I.
It IS the law.
Both my pharmacist and cops told me.
Always travel with your Rx bottles.
:)
The in-house trooper here provided some much needed entertainment. He twisted into a pretzel suggesting the dog was killed elsewhere, the owners miraculously found it and days later planted the dead dog at the scene..
But they must have beat their old blind dog with hammers first to make it look like it was hit by a car before doing this...
The trooper then ran for the tall grass...
Ya getting that monkey movie feeling yet?
I am.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFCM6TZgTMI
The sum total of legally manufactured PCP [slang] was slightly more than 2/3’s of an oz for 2014 [so far, link in other post]. Indicates to those interested in particulars that it really isn’t a prescription drug.
So while the original posted article the OP posted may have been technically true when it said ‘prescription drug’ it was most certainly being disingenuous in order to cast the Cops in the most damaging scenario.
IMHO, that was totally unnecessary and poor journalism and flirts with being propaganda. Just the mere fact of forcing them to leave the dog alone and pretty well much blind was enough to turn my stomach.
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“So the dog ~deserved~ to die?”
Show me where either of us said that or butt out with your trolls.
I’ve had it since early on.
It’s getting so I just come here to feel relatively sane by comparison.
[any suggestions on what to do with my frozen “beloved pet black snake who was so brutally and tragically struck down in the prime of his life”?]
:D
It’s irrelevant that a “drug” was found.
Even if the dude had a ton of heroin and 50 rocket launchers in the car, the dog did NOT deserve to die.
What is so hard to understand about that?
People aren’t just “missing the forest for the trees”, they’re apparently ramming brain-first right into them.
FU.
Who died and made you MOD?
I’ll say what I want, when I want, where I want.
No body made me mod you troll.
Maybe you read the posts, maybe you didn’t. But you certainly didn’t comprehend.
But don’t worry, you have a right to be a butt head and a troll, just like I do.
Larry Law once claimed that his dog “triggered” on my mother’s car.
Not even a cigarette had ever been smoked in the car, let alone any illegal substance entering it.
Twenty minutes of some JBT telling his dog “Dirty-DIrty” while it drags its doggy parts all over the seats of the car.
Not impressed with the “officers” involved.
The best part? This was at one of the “fruit stops” on the Cali-Az border, 150 miles N of the Mexican border.
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