Naomi's slumming it these days.
Posted on 08/08/2004 11:12:28 PM PDT by ambrose
Pit bull attacks baby at Brooklyn apartment, is thrown off roof
By Associated Press, 8/8/2004 22:41
NEW YORK (AP) A pit bull attacked and bit a 3-month-old baby at a Brooklyn apartment building on Sunday before a man threw the dog off the roof to its death, witnesses said.
The attack, which seriously injured the baby, occurred around 5 p.m., when a woman took the baby to visit friends at an apartment in the building.
''The dog got jealous and started jumping for the baby,'' witness Emmanuel Santiago said. ''It caught the baby in the head.''
A man grabbed the baby and put it on a bed, but the dog, one of four in the apartment, kept attacking, Santiago told Fox 5 News. The dog then chased the man to the building's roof and bit him.
''When he bit him on the arm, the kid threw the dog off the roof,'' Santiago said. ''And the dog landed dead.''
The dog fell about six stories.
The dog's owner, Reina Lopez, was arrested and was charged with reckless endangerment, police said. She was in police custody, and there was no telephone number listed for her.
The baby was in serious but stable condition at a hospital. The 23-year-old man who was bitten was stable, police said.
Police removed the other dogs to the relief of frightened neighbors.
''It's very unsafe,'' building resident Naomi Campbell told Fox 5. ''Especially if you don't have them contained.''
ping!
The history of Western civilization in a nutshell.
Naomi's slumming it these days.
I am absolutely glad that the savage brute was thrown off the roof.
Notice how there were four of them at large? Four dogs in an apartment?
good.
pit bulls are a deadly breed.
it's in their blood.
they are bred to kill.
the "poor doggie" crowd around here is ridiculous.
It's illegal to keep a leopard in a neighborhood because they KILL PEOPLE as a matter of their nature.
this breed is such a creature.
I am glad... VERY glad it's dead.
And I hope the owner ends up in jail.
>>the dog landed dead<<
Music to my eyes.
obviously wasn't a cat landing on all fours.
"Several neighbors said the dogs had never been a problem before and were surprised they went after the baby."
The same was said by the owners of a pitbull in my neighborhood (and affirmed by their friends) when my son was attacked by it.
It is not the breeds fault that people are not watching their kids. The parents of the baby should have known better than to let a strange dog near the child.
And you should have been watching your child more carefully. I realize that accidents happen- but don't blame the dog because you can't keep track of your child.
You obviously don't know the history of the breed. Pit Bulls were bred starting in the 1990's for fighting other dogs. But- not to turn on humans. The owners of the dogs and a judge would be in the ring with the dogs during the fight. Any dog that lashed out at the owners or the judge would be put down.
I have two pit bulls that are WONDERFUL around kids- but I won't turn my back on them. Dogs cannot be trusted. No matter what breed. Just like humans can't be trusted to watch their own children- because if something happens to the child they blame everyone but themselves.
sorry- wasnt directed at you
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