Posted on 10/25/2010 6:59:42 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
(AP) -- An elderly Oklahoma man landed himself in jail after using bolt cutters to break his prized pooch from the pound.
Instead of paying a $100 fine for not having his poodle on a leash, 73-year-old Edwin Fry of Hydro decided to bust Buddy Tough out. Authorities say Fry drove his lawnmower to the city pound Oct. 13 and broke into the cage with bolt cutters. The pair were intercepted by police.
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How was the dog a public nuisance? I’m a country boy.
I’ve fed neighbours dogs, cats and whatnot if they show up at my door. As they have with mine.
But then I guess I’m just one of those dem darn dems who ain’t into this whole concept of personable responserbility.
You’re surprised? This type is standard.
I refer you to my comment #17.
Stop it. Otherwise, I’ll start making fun of people who cannot read.
They knew the situation of this particular dog. They just arrested the man and confiscated his dog.
I don’t know exactly how all these places operate, but I’m sorry, this dog deserved some chance at life, even if out of his lunatic owner’s hands. He may have had a few complaints, but they were minor and few as I see it. It’s the man’s fault the dog was running around, but to me it seems the dog was perfectly adoptable.
So, they can’t just give up the dog to an adoption/rescue club?
That is, if they don’t have a kill shelter with a reasonable detention time. (Which apparently they do retain the standard old 3-day period there.)
Nope, you have already convinced me.
And I’m not here to prove anything to you. Someone like you doesn’t rise to the level of my NEEDING to prove myself to the likes of you.
AND I was talking about a poor old man.
I am sure you don’t give a hoot, about him or me, either.
Of course, changing the subject to something I didn’t say shows your inability to have helped this man.
And? I don’t see the public nuisance.
Poodle running free, corrall the darn thing and wait for the owner.
I’m so glad that you formed your conclusion before you learned more about this story, or about me. You are a credit to this website.
Nuisance. 1 report of “riling my dogs” and another of *being* on someone’s porch. Would that MY neighbor’s obnoxious dogs only deserved 2 total minor reports.
Clearly he was a minor “nuisance” only because his owner refused to contain him. He could’ve been confiscated and adopted out to someone else, just because of “incompetency”.
Surprised?
No. Just I get tried of it at times. Deserves a good “hit up the side of the head” post once and awhile.
Hey, you called me a Dim. Then you brought all these big words out.
Look, I ain’t one of you edumacated folks. From where I come from a poodle ain’t a public nuisance, no more so than maybe a rabbit or a squirrel.
But I guess things are different with the city folks. Personal responsibility means dumping the dog off at the pound.
No, no, the heartlessness credit is all yours.
It was the side stepping of the issue of helping this man that did you in.
But if you think someone can just swoop-in, take an animal away from someone, and deposit it at some magically pre-approved shelter, then you don't have a firm grasp of reality.
You are going to have to show me where. I usually don't start with personal attacks, but respond in kind. So either I slipped, or you are mistaken.
That is correct. I did not expect the state to help this man, and I fully expected the state to screw things up. Looks like my expectations are realized.
Having some sanctimonious FReeper inform me of the obvious is meaningless.
Unless a dog mauls someone, or kills livestock, it isn’t advisable in this part of Texas, anyway, to kill a man’s dog.
LOL
I didn’t say ANYTHING about the STATE.
Read.
It was his NEIGHBORS that he needed help from.
As far as sanctimonious, it’s all yours!!!
Oh, how nice....Great town!
That’s wonderful. I’ll assume that you live in a lower-density area.
Yeah, maybe that one neighbor who his dog injured . . . that would be a good place to start, don't you think?
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