Posted on 09/26/2016 1:20:15 PM PDT by rey
SACRAMENTO — Californians who see an animal trapped in a hot car can now break a window to set them free without fear of prosecution under a bill signed over the weekend by Gov. Jerry Brown.
Rescuers can break into the car as long as there is no other way to free the animal, for instance if the animal appears to be in peril, the car is locked and law enforcement is not arriving quickly enough.
The rescuer must stay at the scene until law enforcement respond to the situation.
The bill was introduced after a series of incidents in which dogs died after being left in closed cars on hot days.
I think it’s a good law.
The idiot who leaves the animal locked up in the car should then be placed into another vehicle for at least two hours in 100 degree wx and see if he or she likes it.
SOUNDS good, but lemme tell ya, California is crowded full of bored people yearning to seem MORE CONCERNED than the next.
I LOVE DOGS —almost to the point of a sickness.
I can see this is going to cause A LOT of problems, though.
The dog can be FINE, windows cracked all around, bowl of water with a huge kook-repelling THERMOMETER plainly visible:
Won’t make ANY difference, there is always some bored kook yearning to VIRTUE SIGNAL to others.
SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH.
Get ready for it.
I’d break a car window to save a pet’s life.
If the idiot owner complains about a broken window, I’d tell him to shove it.
Those of us who love our pets know they deserve the very best.
What about the law enforcement officer who left his K9 companion in a car? Can I smash a police car window and call the police? That should be fun.
It protects the do gooder from criminal prosecution but not civil, right?
A friend left his dog in the car on a spring day while he went in the store for 10 minutes. It was 60 degrees and the windows were open a few inches. A do gooder libtard broke the window. Dog panics jumps out takes off and get hit by a car and dies.
The unintended side-effect of this:
The incidence of totally FAKE “service animal” arrangements will SKY-ROCKET.
It was already really bad:
Now that people know the cost of NOT bringing their animal with them (into restaurant, hospital, food processing facility, wherever) is getting their vehicle legally smashed up, you KNOW there will be 10 milion fake “service animal” vests going around.
I’d be hesitant. Spot may seem nice, but as soon as you forcibly enter his space breaking a window, you may wish you hadn’t.
Anyone trying to change California’s abortion laws?
Yeah. I didn’t think so...
You know, I love animals as much as the next gal, but seriously...some perspective when it comes to more and more LAWS trying to legislate stupidity.
It never, EVER works other than to enrich Lawyers.
I just shared an article about a guy who left his 3 dogs in the car when it was only 66 degrees while he “worked out” for several hours.
They all died agonizing deaths.
The inside temp was over 104 degrees.
The photos of the dogs were horrible.
Break ins can now be falsely claimed to be rescuing a pet cat that got scared and ran away.
This is nightmare scenario. Liberals are just vacuous people.
Cat,or,dog, or whatever
The point is criminals will hide behind the new law to break into cars all over. Claim a pet in distress was there.
What a joke. Yes, there are extreme cases where an animals life is in jeopardy but I can see lots of IDIOTS smashing windows of cars just because the LAW TELLS THEM THEY CAN.
You will be deeply UNsurprised at the person type who leaves a puppy in a overheated car:
https://youtu.be/MRkrnSePEoM?t=62
Their attitude to the officer is also unsurprising.
They feel INCONVENIENCED...!
Yep. Pit Bull in distress. NO THANK YOU.
See Ashley Judd and her fake psychological support dog. The little guy may have spared us an Ashley Judd career in politics.
What could possibly go wrong with this? /s/
I hope this includes whistling cockroaches and red foot tarantulas. Pissy ants would be good to protect too.
Next time I go to California I am busting out car windows right and left, and tossing in a goldfish as CYA.
Because that goldfish looked mighty hot, officer.
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