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Kentucky man charged with harboring a vicious animal after fatal pit bull attack [Update]
Fox News ^ | December 26, 2017 | Fox News

Posted on 12/26/2017 10:34:53 AM PST by familyop

A Kentucky man has been accused of harboring a vicious animal after a Christmas Eve pit bull attack in which a woman was killed and her husband injured...the two pit bulls...belonged to their neighbor, Johnny Dale Lankford, 42... Lankford was told of the charge at the Bell County jail, where he is being held on separate charges of assault, domestic violence, unlawful imprisonment and an outstanding warrant...in connection with an arrest Friday.

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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: bull; chet99; dog; fatal; maul; mauling; pit; pitbull
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1 posted on 12/26/2017 10:34:53 AM PST by familyop
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Well, there it is: “harboring a vicious animal.” You see why such dogs are so well liked by people with criminal minds now. It’s a way of getting away with murder.


2 posted on 12/26/2017 10:38:46 AM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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And so began another chapter in the Pitbull wars.


3 posted on 12/26/2017 10:39:08 AM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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Pit Bull breed should be eradicated.............................


4 posted on 12/26/2017 10:39:51 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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Anyone with a pit bull should post a $500,000 bond for future damages. I also propose an ordinance is all communities forbidding them and putting them down on sight. They have no reddening value whatsoever.


5 posted on 12/26/2017 10:40:56 AM PST by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall")
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Always carry concealed. This is as much of a realistic threat as any human threat. Especially if you are a person who enjoys walking.


6 posted on 12/26/2017 10:41:49 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ... we.)
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Man walked outside to look for his wife and also got attacked. Managed to get to his .22 pistol and killed one, and they other fled with a bullet in it’s chest.

Have something when you walk outside. A lowly .22LR pistol stopped the attack right then.


7 posted on 12/26/2017 10:46:14 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ... we.)
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> A Kentucky man has been accused of harboring a vicious animal... <

That seems like a relatively minor charge. Seeing as the couple was attacked by a pit bull while in their own yard, I’d go with some version of depraved indifference manslaughter.


8 posted on 12/26/2017 10:47:26 AM PST by Leaning Right
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To: Red Badger; raiderboy; DesertRhino; Leaning Right

Find and contact their homeowners’ insurance company. If the local office doesn’t do anything about it, a main office will probably do so. Word is that insurance companies won’t cover people who own dangerous dogs. I’ll try to find a minute to post more info about that.


9 posted on 12/26/2017 10:51:58 AM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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I like the idea of insurance companies not covering homeowners with dangerous dogs. This should apply to people that rent property too — including section 8 housing. Make it so unaffordable so that no one will have this horrible breed.


10 posted on 12/26/2017 10:57:36 AM PST by boycott
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Every pit bull owner is a criminal.


11 posted on 12/26/2017 10:58:33 AM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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I seriously doubt that there is an insurance policy....................


12 posted on 12/26/2017 10:59:11 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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13 posted on 12/26/2017 10:59:35 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Leaning Right
That seems like a relatively minor charge. Seeing as the couple was attacked by a pit bull while in their own yard, I’d go with some version of depraved indifference manslaughter.

Enough to hold him until they can bring up more charges.
14 posted on 12/26/2017 11:01:12 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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Watch a really stupid woman recently walking two pits down the street on a sidewalk. Another person on the opposite side of the street was waking his dog.

Those two pits nearly drug the woman off the sidewalk into the street attempt to get at the person and dog across the street. She could just barely control them.

I thought for sure I was going to see that guy and his dog get eaten.

Hard to believe people can be this GD stupid.


15 posted on 12/26/2017 11:03:11 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Whatever the criminal outcome in this case, a civil case needs to be pursued. This dog-man needs to be stripped penniless and left without property. His willful negligence resulted in the death of someone's loved one.

I live in a rural area. Everyone owns dogs. The only problem dogs are the pit bulls. My neighbor's pit bull has already killed a neighborhood cat, and mauled three dogs.
 

16 posted on 12/26/2017 11:04:35 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (CNN is fake news.)
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“Pit Bull breed should be eradicated.............................”

A friend and neighbor volunteers at a dog shelter and she told me about 70% of the dogs at the shelter are pit bulls. I asked her about the risk of pit bulls and she gave the standard rationalization that they’re really sweet dogs and they just have to be raised correctly. Shortly after that conversation she was bitten on the hand by one of the ‘sweet dogs’ which required an ER visit and stitches.

To think that the shelter tries to get people to adopt these dogs.


17 posted on 12/26/2017 11:06:03 AM PST by KamperKen
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I have *zero* tolerance for those who don’t secure their dogs and or allow them to run off leash in an unsecured area. I am a dog owner Btw.


18 posted on 12/26/2017 11:07:59 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: familyop
You see why such dogs are so well liked by people with criminal minds now.

It's more like that such people are felons, and cannot legally possess a firearm. Particularly drug dealers.

Ergo, if you're of the criminal mind to begin with, chances are that something's going to happen to bring LEOs in, and not having a proscribed weapon around is beneficial.

Pit bulls act as deterrents to casual snoops, as well as adversarial acquaintances trying to poach action and/or ripoff stashes and swag.

19 posted on 12/26/2017 11:12:39 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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The only good pit bull owner is a ....


20 posted on 12/26/2017 11:15:58 AM PST by Karl Spooner
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