Posted on 10/23/2010 8:36:09 PM PDT by devane617
"I've been in law enforcement 20 years, and this is the first time I've known of anyone that has busted a dog out of jail," Chancellor told The Oklahoman.
Fry spent several days in jail, and faces a municipal charge of allowing an animal to run at-large.
Fry didn't deny the charges. He told The Oklahoman that he warned police to stay away from his dog unless they wanted to face his shotgun.
As for Buddy Tough, he was euthanized while Fry was in jail.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
because they could. Nothing worse than a local official hell-bent on proving their “authority”
During that time, the pound ended up euthanizing his dog.
City officials say it is policy to euthanize animals after they have been in the city’s custody for three days.
As for Fry’s charges, they were reduced to one misdemeanor charge of breaking and entering.
Regardless, if he loved his dog he would have acknowledged that you can't fight City Hall and made provisions for the dog's care. Instead he left him in a pound.
I don't like euthanizing pounds either, but not every jurisdiction can afford to keep large numbers of animals indefinitely.
Can anyone track down the name of the pound?
Considering this is a very small place—probably no more than a few hundred—I’m sure everyone in town knew of the situation. I could understand if this happened in a huge system, but in this case it seems unnecessary.
If the local official was hell-bent on throwing his weight around, Fry could have been arrested on charges of threatening the life of a peace officer - something which he openly admitted to in print. But the people whose lives he threatened decided to let that slide. When he broke into the pound with a bolt cutter, though, they kind of had to arrest him. He did this to himself.
I have no problem with the charges against the man—seems from the details he deserved them, unless he has a mental problem or problems related to aging. However, I have a huge problem with them killing his dog. Completely unnecessary.
Better article about this:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101023/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_bustin__out_buddy
Sat Oct 23, 5:10 pm ET
HYDRO, Okla. – An elderly Hydro man landed in jail after springing his prized pooch from the town kennel. Instead of paying a $100 fine for not having his poodle on a leash, 73-year-old Edwin Fry decided to bust Buddy Tough out, driving his lawnmower to the city pound Oct. 13 and breaking into the cage with bolt cutters.
As the pair escaped, police officer Chris Chancellor intercepted them.
Chancellor told The Oklahoman officers had received numerous complaints about Buddy Tough, who had been in the pound before. He said Fry had been told he could retrieve the dog and sort out the fine in court.
“I’ve been in law enforcement 20 years, and this is the first time I’ve known of anyone that has busted a dog out of jail,” Chancellor told The Oklahoman.
Fry spent several days in jail, and faces a municipal charge of allowing an animal to run at-large.
Fry didn’t deny the charges. He told The Oklahoman that he warned police to stay away from his dog unless they wanted to face his shotgun.
From the comments by the locals, the old man and his dog were never a problem. The cop was new to the town.
Two weeks before, a couple pit bulls on a tear killed some agg student’s show cow. The department was on a new zero tolerance policy. The ADA had ordered that the dog not be killed, but someone disobeyed.
That’s horse-hockey!
Yes, the old fella handled it all wrong but what the city did is terrible...horrid, cruel!
It was a darn poodle for goodness sakes! Do they do this to cat owners?! L No!
This is SO f’d up!
I agree, it was unnecessary. He should have paid the fine and called a kennel to take care of his dog.
Nope, guy’s just an old man who doesn’t understand that his country has been taken over by mindless bureaucrats (and their sympathizers).
Wouldn’t it be fitting if someone were to put on the internet the name and address, phone number, and email of the “somebody” who disobeyed the ‘do not kill’ order?
Just wonderin’.
When another animal whacko named Wendy something or other, with a group named SINAPU, made the statement that it was illegal, immoral, and fattening to kill a predator to protect one’s pet dog or cat, pet owners angry emails were sufficient to crash the SINAPU web server.
Time for the same to occur in this case.
You can't have one without the other.
“HYDRO, Okla. – An elderly Hydro man landed in jail after springing his prized pooch from the town kennel. Instead of paying a $100 fine for not having his poodle on a leash, 73-year-old Edwin Fry decided to bust Buddy Tough out, driving his lawnmower to the city pound Oct. 13 and breaking into the cage with bolt cutters.”
It reads like a Disney movie gone awry. Ask me how many times my kids made me watch Homeward Bound with them just to laugh at me when I cried. Sad story regardless of where fault is laid.
Hopefully the cranks of Internetland will find a way to put that person out on the street or, even better, inspire a crazy person to injure or kill them.
Good thinking, keyboard warrior.
Have you always been so fond of government trough feeders with room temperature IQ’s that you must stoop to argumentun ad homenim in your pitifully lame attempts to defend their admitted mistakes?
True enough, but either way they MADE SURE that the dog died and they did it on purpose. It was a deliberate act to hurt an old man.
Most "trough feeders" would prefer to be on welfare than do that job.
It's not a matter of defending mistakes, but having a sense of morality and proportion.
And while I did not actually use it, the term is spelled argumentum ad hominem.
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