Posted on 11/22/2008 5:19:40 PM PST by Chet 99
Archdale, NC -- It sounds too bizarre to be true, but a local woman fended off a four-legged intruder's attack with a butcher knife.
Nancy Verzone says a loose pit bull first went after her rat terrier in her backyard. When she snatched her dog from the pit bull's jaws, the attacking dog followed her inside.
"Here I was just stabbing just as hard as I could to get him to let go and he kept coming and coming," says Verzone, who has the bloody t-shirt to prove it. "The harder I stabbed the more he got mad," she says.
Randolph County Health Director MiMi Cooper sees the incident as a warning to keep dogs restrained. "Wake up people. You've got to take care of your dogs, you cannot let dogs run loose," says Cooper. "Dogs are predators."
Verzone says her rat terrier was injured so badly, she had her veterinarian euthanize the dog.
The pitbull's owner shot the dog in the head and buried it in his yard. Animal Control later made him dig it up so the dog could be sent to Raleigh for rabies testing. Cooper says because of the bullet wound to the pitbull's head, rabies testing came up inconclusive. Verzone is now receiving rabies vaccinations for her dog bite.
"It was the most heart wrenching thing for me to have to do that to that animal," says Verzone. "But it was either me or him."
The pit bull's owner promised to cover Verzone's rabies vaccination bill. The price tag tops $2400 dollars for a series of at least five shots. WFMY News 2
Look at the freakin’ posts yourself. It’s in THIS thread. I’m not going to hold your hand for you. If you can read enough into what I say to say I have a ‘gang banger mentality’ surely you can go back to the specified posts
Here's a novel idea. Instead of banning breeds, enforce strict dangerous dog laws, that mandate unpleasant penalties for those individuals who own dogs, regardless of breed who pose, through their behavior, a danger to society.
They don't say what you allege. That's why you won't quote them.
After the child is mauled, give the pit owner an "unpleasant" penalty.
That's one way to go. Some communities are deciding to be more proactive.
“Look at the freakin posts yourself.
They don’t say what you allege. That’s why you won’t quote them.”
Wrong. Read:
“”Its not necessary for the Gummint to make them illegal: all they need to do is declare them Contraband and announce a bounty. Well-armed law-abiding citizens can do the rest, at little cost to the taxpayer and no inconvenience to the erstwhile owners of the Pit Bull mungrel mutts.
There. Problem solved.””
“Here in New Zealand our gummint trusts us to do plenty of varmint control by ourselves. With real guns and no bounty. The gummint does not get involved.
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“That is why mungrel mutt Pit Bulls need to be declared Contraband: so that it is illegal to own or breed them, and even more illegal to resist their lawful destruction. Just like a marijuana crop.”
“If there was a dangerous Contraband mungrel mutt Pit Bull on your property, chances are good that only my bullet would trespass on your property at least initially. I wouldnt want to get bitten.
Once the Contraband was dead I would execise Lawful Purpose to enter your property and retrieve my property (the mungrell mutts carcass) for Bounty.
Lawful Purpose is the same legal principle that meter readers use to enter your property and read the electricity meters. Lawful Purpose isnt trespassing.
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Right there. Black and white.
After the child is mauled, give the pit owner an "unpleasant" penalty.
"After the person is killed by the gun, give the gun owner an "unpleasant" penalty." "After the person is killed by the drunk driver, give the drunk an "unpleasant" penalty." "After the person is killed by the knife, give the knifer an "unpleasant" penalty."
Have him arrested.
I didn’t notice pit bulls mentioned in the 2nd Amendment.
Interesting. You're arguing that drunk drivers should only be penalized after an accident happens?
“If there was a dangerous Contraband mungrel mutt Pit Bull on your property, chances are good that only my bullet would trespass on your property
Have him arrested.
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Under his concept, that would not be possible because he was advocating making it LEGAL. That was one large point of what he was posting.
>You’re arguing that drunk drivers should only be penalized after an accident happens?<
I said that if you said you want to give Chinese Pit Bulls carte blanche to eat people.
I guess you think that a drunk who kills someone does not suffer anything more unpleasant than a drunk stopped for running a red light?
So if drunk drivers can be penalized before they cause an accident, pit bull owners can be penalized before their animal mauls a neighbors child or pet. You shot down your own position.
Only if I had written drivers be penalized before they drink alcohol.
A "pit bull" in and of itself doesn't hurt anyone.
"Shelby, a Staffordshire-pit bull mix service dog, sits beside his owner, David Dalrymple"
By that "reasoning", a "drunk driver" in and of himself doesn't hurt anyone.
>By that “reasoning”, a “drunk driver” in and of himself doesn’t hurt anyone.<
IF you want to call that idiocy “reasoning”.
It’s your reasoning.
>its your reasoning.<
ROFL.
Extreme short term memory loss?
>”After the person is killed by the drunk driver, give the drunk an “unpleasant” penalty.”<
Ah, so I guess you are saying you want the death penalty for everyone who blows a 0.8 on a breath test, then.
Aren’t we the little Napoleon.
You "guessed" wrong.
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