Posted on 10/09/2013 6:27:23 AM PDT by from occupied ga
ATLANTA, Ga. —
A principal at the school where a student was attacked by two stray dogs described the desperate measures he took to get the animals off the boy.
Jason Stamper, the principal of technology at the New Schools at Carver in southeast Atlanta says it's his job to protect students and that's what he did.
Stamper described to Channel 2's Tom Jones how he jumped in his car and tried to use it to scare the dogs after hearing from students that animals were attacking someone near the campus baseball field Monday afternoon.
"Didn't work and actually I had some tennis rackets in my car and I actually was able to get them off with some tennis rackets," he explained.
Stamper says it was tennis rackets that finally scared away the dogs that were attacking 16-year-old Carver student, Azarius Lowe.
"Once we got them off with the tennis rackets they actually ran and APD responded," he said.
The dogs are still on the loose. Animal Control has set up traps to catch them but so far the traps have only caught a dog not connected to the attack.
Stamper explained how he tried to first use his car to scare the dogs away. "Rolled my car onto the curb and basically went to the ditch trying to block the dogs off of the young man. They continued to attack him," he said.
But the tennis rackets did the trick. Stamper says he doesn't deserve all the credit. "My graduation coach, Mr. Jeffries, ran down immediately after with a stool trying to get the dogs off," he said. And officers also chased the dogs after the attack was over.
The student's father heard about Stamper's bravery and wanted to thank him. "I just thank God that he was there to assist him," Arthur Steverson said.
Steverson says Stamper treated his son like he was his own. Stamper says that's exactly how he felt. "I take that same concern that I would take if it was my own child," he said.
Stamper says he wasn't afraid for himself, but was afraid for Azarius after he saw his injuries. The 10th grader is doing better, his father said.
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student's parents want to meet the principal and personally thank him.
When gunpowder speaks, beasts listen.
South Atlanta - Who let the dogs out?
This was on screwl property. No effective means of self defense allowed.
Good man, that principal.
“graduation coach”?...
Detroit has packs of these dogs running around the abandoned areas (and I don’t mean the bruthas).
Damn Chihuahuas!!
Apparently so does Atlanta
Well everyone knows that there are no bad dogs only bad dog owners < /sarcasm> I guess feral dogs go and pick a bad owner to be owned by in proxy so that they can rip off kids' faces.
The man did well.
He could have stood around and taken pictures like so many would have.
He did. Contrast this to what happened in another incident
About ten years ago a little girl was being attacked by a pit bull in a south Atlanta neighborhood. The owner, a woman, was just standing around and watching. A neighbor ran into his house and got a .357 and shot the dog. At that point the dog owner attacked the man screaming "Don't hurt my dog." So he shot her too. She was charged and convicted - was sentenced to 6 months in jail as I recall. Don't know if she actually served any time. A large fraction of dog ownerw are irrational about their pets.
In the 1940s, I knew of a man elected as mayor of a small town, whose sole platform was to personally shoot all the stray dogs. He carried out his campaign promise and was reelected.
In South America, there is an old tradition of itinerant dog poisoners, who go from town to town. In addition to their pay, the town provides them with a barrel, poison, and bad meat from a butcher. On the given day, signs are posted to keep all pets indoors that night, and the meat is soaked in poison in the barrel.
In the late evening, the meat is put out on the street to be eaten. Then before dawn, the poisoner collects any leftover meat and the dead dogs, and hauls them away for burial.
It serves both to prevent packs of strays, and rabies abatement.
In this country dogs occupy the same place as cows do in India. Poisoning strays would get you more jail time than robbing a bank.
Americans do not favor poisoning. Shooting, however, if done discreetly, is far more effective.
Today we have animal control agencies that captures strays, then take them to shelters to be identified or killed. In some places they do it with heart injections, in others, gas chambers. Most people accept what they do, and just don’t think about it.
“Apparently so does Atlanta “
And Cleveland too.
“When gunpowder speaks, beasts listen.
This was on screwl property. No effective means of self defense allowed.”
Wasn’t always that way.
;-)
I saw this one on TV, this is an ugly one.
GA ping list ping.
Is there ever an incident that involves pit bulls and childrens' faces that isn't?
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