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.
“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.”
My buddy took his dog to the store. This was last winter and the outside temp was about sixty. The windows were cracked. Over the loudspeaker he heard his car described and he was instructed to report to it immediately. Somebody had called the sheriff because he had left his dog in the car. It was crazy.
The thing is, this is a law that allows people to press their animal agenda. Every law has unintended and usually horrendous unexpected consequences.
That may be the first law California has passed in the past 10 years that I agree with.
Honest officer, I thought there was a dog in there, guess it was just this purse.
Sounds like you needed a window busted out on your car.
So now urban ferals will break into cars with impunity...”Officer, the dog ran away after I saved it!”
It is hard to believe they did not comsider unintended consequences I could envision as soon as I read this.
They want to do this so baldly, that they don't even care if the animal is really in danager.
And, the dog may be the LEAST of your worries.
I think that sums it up nicely.
Dogs lives matter, or something.
You can’t be serious. Parked in the shade, sunroof wide open, all windows cracked 2”, temp 80 degrees. The guy had to have walked up the minute I went inside.
I will leave my dogs in the car when I stop at the grocery store on the way home from the dog park in the morning... most days the temp is below 70 degrees and I am gone 10 minutes at the most. that said if someone truly thought my dogs were in danger they can break the window but they better be ready for small claims court. if I saw a dog in as car and I felt they were in danger I would not hesitate to break the window and they can take me to court about the damages....there is a problem with having a special law dealing with this it give permission to some one who feels entitled to vandalize and cover from the consequences of there action.
It’s now legal to steal someone’s beloved pet.
They always leve their cars running with the AC cranked.
They always leave their cars running with the ac on.
Yeah right. Six different deaths in six different jurisdictions. These are the guys who judge our behavior unable to regulate their own:
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/cherokee-county/k-9-officer-dies-after-being-left-in-patrol-car/336279804
http://dogtime.com/trending/15924-police-dog-left-in-hot-car-dies
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-k9-car-died/
http://www.wtoc.com/story/29599648/ssu-k-9-dies-in-handlers-hot-car
http://www.nwahomepage.com/news/madison-county-sheriff-k9-dead-after-being-left-in-hot-car
Ten minutes is not four hours.
20 minutes, 80 degrees = 109 degrees.
Cracking the windows slightly slows the initial temperature increase, but over time, the cracked window car will catch up with the closed window car. See Figure 4. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/116/1/e109.full.pdf
Thanks.
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