Posted on 07/22/2007 5:44:59 AM PDT by No Truce With Kings
Shouldn't we just end the contest right now?
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — It’s a bad idea to burglarize a place marked "K-9 training facility.“
Police dog handlers arriving Wednesday at the abandoned nursing home where they hold training sessions discovered two men and a woman dismantling the building’s copper pipes and wiring, Hall County Sheriff’s Sgt. Kiley Sargent said.
When the officers arrived, the three dropped their tools and ran. That was their second mistake.
"For anyone to try to run from a whole unit of canines, it’s just a no-win situation,“ Sargent said.
Pamela Puckett, 37, quickly surrendered. Marc Black, 18, was tracked to a trash bin behind a nearby convenience store. Paul Perry, 39, was treated for a superficial dog bite just below the buttocks after his arrest, authorities said.
Signs outside the northern Georgia facility warn, "Caution!!! Gainesville Police Department K-9 training facility — Keep Out.“
"It’s not like it was a secret,“ Sargent said. "I guess someone who is that determined to steal something might not pay attention.“
High copper prices in recent years have led to thieves breaking into power plants and abandoned factories to rip out the wiring.
Perry, of Gainesville, and Puckett and Black, of nearby Braselton, were charged with burglary, Sargent said. Perry and Black also face misdemeanor obstruction charges.
Note that I preserved the blogger's headline for clarity, and followed it with a more descriptive title. These are not really Darwin nominees -- they are just dumb crooks.
Correct you are.
They didn't meet an importance requirement for a Darwin Award. They lived.
Now if the bars to the cages were made out of steel, they thought is was copper and tried to steal those, that would be a Darwin candidate.
Stupid is as stupid does
What?
You mean there was not a single true sprinter among them?
You know, the "Feet, don't fail me now!" types?
Just asking.
“You mean there was not a single true sprinter among them?
You know, the “Feet, don’t fail me now!” types?”
I think that might work with one dog. It might be slow. But with a whole unit of canines, at least one of *them* is bound to be a sprinter.
I think the only real hope is to have enough other perps so that you have n + 1 perps to dogs. Then one of the bad guys might get away.
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