Posted on 06/08/2011 7:01:59 AM PDT by LongElegantLegs
Yep. As they say...Life is hard, and it’s harder when you’re stupid.
The owner will be lucky an attorney does not sue him. You cannot boobytrap your property. Even with warnings. With dogs that out of control he is grossly negligent for not keeping them locked inside. Sure if someone breaks into his house that is one thing, but walk up the front path to the door? The mailman will be next.
These people should have had a stronger door than just ‘screen’, since their dogs had bit before. Someone could have come to their door for help and had the same thing happen.
Thanks for pinging Joe. Drudge has a new headline;
‘Dangerous Dog Registry’ Created, All Pit Bulls, Dobermans, Rottweilers, German Shepherds Must Register”...
I’m sure the owner will get sued, and no doubt the dogs will be put down. All because some stupid twit ignored the warnings and went where she wasn’t wanted. So it goes.
After asking some Jehovah’s Witnesses three time not to knock on my door, opening the door full wide, standing there naked I invited them in. They politely refused and never knocked again. The guy didn’t even offer me the handout pamphlet!
>>> Why they have a fenced yard the the girl entered without permission and they are just protecting the owners propoerty.
Scratching head - I just reread the article again to make sure. You got a different source? I see nothing about a fenced yard, just the dogs bursting through a screen door.
In passing the signage to knock, she did cause offense. But she did not breach a barrier that allowed for physical contact. The dogs did.
Some adult [door-to-door salesman, Jehovah’s Witness, whatever] ignores my signs to knock anyway, I get to come to the door in nothin but a bloody apron and a knife and cut loose with all the offensive language I wanna, but the law still doesn’t allow me to hit them. Or to sic the dogs on them. Though I can’t say I’ve never grinned like a pie-eyed moron and {whoopsie!} let the dogs out to pick runs in their pantyhose.
The day 2 motorcyclists managed to smash themselves into the ditch beyond my driveway, a passerby who stopped to render assistance sent his son to knock on my door to call 911. The exact address was seen by the dispatcher (not that speed of service mattered much for those poor buggers). Should the good Samaritan have been rewarded by having my dogs bust out the door to chew his son’s arms off?
Getting back to the present situation... In the case that the girl unlatched the gate to a fence that otherwise kept the dogs contained as intended: As you were! (Meaning I stand corrected.)
Video showed the fence in the front yard.
Ah. Dialup.
Kid’s fault then.
One of my neighbors has a nasty little Chihuahua more vicious than any so-called “aggressive” breed.
I understand what you say - I have a Yorkie, but the difference in injury is the size of the animal. My son in law had a Doberman that they raised from pup, when my grandaughter was two the Doberman nipped her on the face twice, just missing her eye.
They had it put down.
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