Posted on 06/05/2012 12:32:32 PM PDT by Altariel
FLORENCE, Texas -- The Vybiral family are dog lovers; considering their four-legged companions members of their family. It started with Sassy, a six year old Rhodesian Ridgeback. Now this family is mourning, Sassy is dead.
"She's crying, she's hysterical. 'There's blood mom. She's shooting guns.'" Louise Vybiral describes the phone call she received from her daughter Caren Friday afternoon.
Caren says she was watching a movie with her two year old daughter Lilly when gunshots rang out. She thought they were coming from across the street.
"Thought maybe Chevron was being robbed or something. I didn't have any idea what was going on," Caren Vybiral said. "And when I walked to open the door, there was another gun shot."
Caren said Sassy was lying in the door way bleeding. And standing above her was Florence Police Chief Julie Elliot-Abshire. After a short exchange, Caren said the chief ran to the back yard and shot the other family dog that was locked up, a two year old pit bull named Boomer.
"I asked her what is going on," Caren described, "and she said, um, the b-word, did you not hear me knocking on your front door. And I said no, why did you shoot my dogs?"
Apparently Sassy and Boomer got out of the back yard and walked to the Chevron. A city worker called the cops to report the loose dogs. A family friend put the dogs back into the yard, but Sassy got out again.
"It got out, I'm guilty of that, but it was laying on the porch when she shot it," Louise Vybiral said.
But what truly frightens this family, one of the shots went into the home. Fragments of a bullet still lie on the windowsill.
"For an officer of the law to come up into your yard, and fire a shot, or to draw her weapon and aim it towards a home. That shot could have hurt my granddaughter or my daughter, you know. I mean the bullet is in my house," Vybiral said.
"The bullet hole is only two feet from where we were standing, so I mean, it could have been us," added Caren.
KVUE News tried to contact the Florence Police Department, mayor and city council, no one returned our calls or emails. We also went to the police department for comment, but the door was locked.
"She doesn't need to be an officer. She's not upholding the law. Just because she wears a badge doesn't mean she can pull her gun and just shoot anything," Vybiral said.
The Williamson County Sheriff's Office said they are aware that an incident involving the police chief happened in Florence, but it's not their jurisdiction. The Texas Rangers say they are not yet involved in the case.
I feel like part of this story is missing. Dogs running around being a pain in the *ss don’t usually need to be shot unless they threaten someone. So what, she knocked on the door, nobody answered, so she said “Oh well. I’ll just shoot these m*****f*****s.”? I mean, she walks onto someone’s front porch and drills their dog 2-3 times because she thought nobody was home? What’s the excuse for shooting the dog in the backyard? Someone HAD answered the door at that point. Did the dogs mutilate someone’s kid or something?
Man, there’s an Epic flame war on this topic at this other site’s board.
A word of caution though - lots of uncensored foul language there.
godlikeproductions(dot)com/forum1/message1888033/pg1
According to the locals there, the dogs had been known to break out the yard and run around the neighborhood. Florence used to be a small farming community.
I used to hunt dove there with my cousin in the 70s and 80s. It has grown quite a bit the past 15 or 20 years. The PD chief is lucky she didn't have hot lead headed her way after this incident.
Good point.
Why is it that unarmed (except for pepper spray in recent times) postmen and women have walked the street in their lightweight uniforms for hundreds of years,taking more of their share of bites and cuts (a well-known hazard of the occupation), and these guys in their leather gloves, bullet-resistant vests, and so on shoot at even the slightest threat?
Maybe we should fire all the wimpy, trigger-happy police and replace them with out-of-work postal workers, who would love to have jobs. They seem to have much more courage and better judgement.
Fact is, these "cops" are a bunch of chicken-sh*t pansies, little scaredy-cat, wimpoid, trigger-happy rejects who deserve to be whipped within an inch of their lives.
They make me sick, and their shame is Legion. I wish them all a great deal of ill.
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What, and miss the chance to kill something?
I read some of that thread. Just wow....
Lots of “Anonymous Coward” posts too.
LOL!
It’s not fear, it’s powerlust.
They “get off” so to speak on feeling that they have “dominated” the “simple peasants”.
The Federal government
is remaking itself into the Nobility, the police into the “Knights of the Realm” who torment the “Peasantry”.
Liberals LOVED the feudal system.
Obama made it clear:
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
Notice how police departments across the nation have been “rewarded” with military gear, etc?
They’re preparing for their role as foot soldiers in Obama’s army.
“They’re preparing for their role as foot soldiers in Obama’s army.”
BULL**** !
The pouring of federal dollars and the generous distribution of army, tanks, drones and other paraphernalia speaks otherwise.
These things are not needed by peace officers.
They are needed by a standing army. You know, the very thing the Founders warned us against.
Those who have willingly accepted federal coin and federal booty will be ordered to march for The State. They placed the collars around their own necks.
When your fence has a hole, how about fixing it lady?! She’s lucky they did not get hit on the highway.
But a cop chasing those dogs into their yard and shooting them and putting a bullet into the house, she needs a new job at the convience store across the street. She’s an idiot.
We have the religion of peace...
and the Public Servants of Peace.
Suppose they both have the same reason for wanting to rid law-abiding citizens of dogs?
Why was the police chief *really* there?
(I prefer the real thing—the Peace officers of old, myself, but we’re seeing an increase in the counterfeit).
I agree that the citizen needs to repair her fence.
But the bigger problem here is not loose dogs, but a loose, trigger-happy Public Servant of Peace.
The scary thing about all this is this not an abberration. This forum has been peppered with similar events from the East Coast to the West Coast.
More and more, the Law Enforcement Establishment, with their outrageous perks and salaries, and undue political influence, has been setting itself up as a culture and society apart from the citizenry they are supposed to protect.
Even more frightening is the drfit towards a paramilitary establishment along the lines of the Carabineri or Gendarmerie. Watch them training at a Police Acadmy. It looks like a military institution. And they bring that attitude with them when they graduate.
This is NOT the America I was born into and NOT the kind of police force that existed in the 1950s.
They are frighting and dangerous.
We were far better off with Sheriffs, Marshalls, posses and militias.
“We were far better off with Sheriffs, Marshalls, posses and militias.”
Agreed.
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