Posted on 08/06/2019 10:01:53 AM PDT by Innovative
Gerasimos Klonis was leaving a restaurant in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when he broke a window to rescue a dog struggling to escape a hot car.
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With all these things in the news, people still leave kids and pets in hot car to suffocate and die.
What happens when some idiot doesn’t realize the air conditioning is running? Will his Insurance pay for that?
I don’t understand taking one’s dog somewhere only to leave it to possibly die in a vehicle.
A few months ago a girl accidentally locked her baby in her car. She panicked and began screaming.
Fortunately there was a group of prisoners working nearby and a couple of them were car thieves. They told their guard that they could open it so instead of breaking a window, the prisoners opened it.
I am not sure how but it took two of them to do it.
“Fortunately there was a group of prisoners nearby...”
Not everyday ya hear that. I’m told the military was very effective in the draft days, the “cross section” of people inducted made for some very diverse ah, “skill sets”, shall we say.
He didn’t think of going into the restaurant and announcing to everyone that there is a suffering dog locked in a car in the parking lot before deciding to bust the window?
My pup misses her trips to the store in the summertime. If it’s going over 70 degrees and there’s no shade she stays at home.
LOL! Yup. Back in the last century some juvenile delinquents were given the choice. Jail or military.
My Father’s best friend in WWII was a moonshiner from Hickory N.C. He had been let out of prison to serve in the military.
This was the combat engineers. He could not read or write but Daddy said he was the best engineer in the battalion.
I was in the most self-absorbed place on earth last weekend (NY City) and watched a yuppie couple exit a car, leaving their two dogs in the back seat, to enter a nearby restaurant. It was a two door sports car, and the driver's window was open about 2 inches. The dogs were going crazy, yelping and barking then, and still when I passed by again 1/2 hour later.
I read they were going to pass laws making it illegal to leave any living thing in a vehicle running or not. Not sure if it happened.
Time is important.
If it appeared the animal was in extreme stress, time to bust a window.
“He didn’t think of going into the restaurant and announcing to everyone that there is a suffering BABY locked in a car in the parking lot before deciding to bust the window”
Interesting ethical situation.
He didn’t think of going into the restaurant and announcing to everyone that there is a suffering dog locked in a car in the parking lot before deciding to bust the window?
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What would be the point of that? If the dogs owner was in the restaurant, would he do anything?
A think a busted window was the best option. Maybe he won’t do that again.
The problem with this is now the owner of the car can press charges and sue the good Samaritan for damages.
We have a law in AZ that basically says before you break the window you must do two things first. Check the doors to see if one is unlocked and call the local police and state you believe the animal or child is in imminent danger of dying or being hurt. After you break the window and save the pet/child you must stay until the police arrive to take your statement. If you do these things you are protected from prosecution and being sued by the owner of the vehicle.
I was only 15 in ‘72. I remember some of the rowdier boys down home being offered such a choice, jail or military. It got to the point it seemed one would only enter the military to avoid jail. It was not popular to join up in the years following Viet Nam. My dad retired as a Brigadier General, and I regret not serving.
“I read they were going to pass laws making it illegal to leave any living thing in a vehicle running or not.”
That’s gonna get my wife in a heap of trouble. She’s bad about leaving me in the car with the AC running while she goes in the women’s clothing store to shop.
He did check to see if the door was open.
Then did the only reasonable thing: broke the window to save the dog.
The dog might have died, by the time the police would have come out.
The owner of the car and the dog should thank him, not try to hurt him.
I’d find some good safety googles. ;)
Good Greek Boy....
“Take me to the Brig. I want to see the real Marines.”
Gen. Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller
U.S.M.C.
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