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Police Shoot Dog In Front Of Family
WFSB Eyewitness3 News ^ | December 21, 2006 | WFSB

Posted on 12/21/2006 7:18:44 PM PST by FreedomCalls

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To: HairOfTheDog

Guy down the road from me has these 2 dirty mutts that he lets run loose. Was deer hunting a few months back and the dogs saw me up in the tree. Both of them stared barking up the tree. After 20 minutes they finally went away. I went back to the house and drove over to this guys house and let him have the business. I told him that if I see his dogs on my property ever again that I was going to shoot them. Those 2 dogs have been on leashes ever since.


61 posted on 12/21/2006 8:06:08 PM PST by BigTom85 (Proud Gun Owner and Member of NRA)
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To: Dead Corpse
The initial complaint was suspicion of having firearms. Not a loose dog. But don't let facts slow you down...,/i>

The initial reason for the visit was a complaint of some undescribed potential crime which they had a duty and obligation to investigate. The loose dog reportedly lunged at them while investigating that complaint. But don't let facts slow you down...

62 posted on 12/21/2006 8:06:32 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: Artemis Webb
Hey, it's actually better than the dream. Some time back USPS decided that dog bites were entirely too expensive. They began going to court to recover damages from the owners of those dogs.

At the same time, and this really warms my heart, they began pulling street/door delivery from neighborhoods (or rural routes) where an owner refused to curb his dog.

Dog bites plummeted.

Psych test? Naw ~ I've gone along on route evaluations and other pieces of postal business out on the streets and it's simply amazing how lax many dog owners are.

63 posted on 12/21/2006 8:06:38 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: B-Chan

Personal experience? What were the people doing in order to have a bad encounter with the police?


64 posted on 12/21/2006 8:07:38 PM PST by oneamericanvoice
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To: HairOfTheDog
The initial reason for the visit was a complaint of some undescribed potential crime which they had a duty and obligation to investigate.

Er... yeah. A Constitutionally protected Right. Owning Firearms. And? Is suspicion of free speech enough to call out the SWAT team?

65 posted on 12/21/2006 8:07:40 PM PST by Dead Corpse (Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.)
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To: oneamericanvoice

You are correct. The officers do not need a warrant to open a fence. One would however believe they need common sense since there was a sign that said "Beware of Dog". Then again maybe they were being too macho to read it or just figured they would shoot any dog they saw.


66 posted on 12/21/2006 8:09:36 PM PST by Artemis Webb (All Truth is God's Truth...regardless of the source.)
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To: oneamericanvoice

Is there such a thing as a bad cop?

Yes or No?


67 posted on 12/21/2006 8:10:30 PM PST by Artemis Webb (All Truth is God's Truth...regardless of the source.)
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To: GBA

I understand that not all police should be in that line of work. However, the disparagement that they are getting on this thread without knowing the entire story is outrageous.

It is truely sad about your friend's dog too.


68 posted on 12/21/2006 8:10:47 PM PST by oneamericanvoice
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To: oneamericanvoice
Personal experience? What were the people doing in order to have a bad encounter with the police?

Playing in the yard with their dog perhaps?

69 posted on 12/21/2006 8:11:03 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: oneamericanvoice
But why is it that people always assume the worst of the police?

I don't. But guys with names like Glen Harris living with a wife and kid in a suburban neighborhood of a small town like Hartford, CT generally aren't dangerous criminals, and St. Bernards generally aren't vicious dogs.

If I had a dollar for every time a strange dog "lunged" at me on the street I'd be rich, and I've never shot one of them.

70 posted on 12/21/2006 8:11:34 PM PST by lesser_satan (EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
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To: Artemis Webb

Are there arrogant posters on this thread?


71 posted on 12/21/2006 8:13:00 PM PST by oneamericanvoice
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To: oneamericanvoice
Well, OK, I suppose there really are some people in the world who would think it just fine that three cops fired off three rounds in their yard in the presence of their 12 year old daughter.

Or, maybe you wouldn't wait to file suit.

Choice is yours.

72 posted on 12/21/2006 8:13:03 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Dead Corpse

I don't know the nature of the complaint, do you? Constitution or not, there are in fact some limitations on what all we can do with guns without running afoul of the law. I'd imagine the complaint included something that was against the law, or they wouldn't investigate, right?


73 posted on 12/21/2006 8:13:22 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: oneamericanvoice

You betcha.

I answered your question.

Answer mine.


74 posted on 12/21/2006 8:13:50 PM PST by Artemis Webb (All Truth is God's Truth...regardless of the source.)
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To: GBA

Haven't these police ever heard of pepper spray?


75 posted on 12/21/2006 8:14:01 PM PST by toothfairy86
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To: BigTom85; All
Cops won't be fired. However, the town/city will probably foot the bill for a St. Bernard puppy.

Maybe they should put 3 bullets into a sibling of the first moron who suggest that would remedy the situation and have his/her parents adopt another sibling. No, not all dogs are Lassie, Beethoven, Snoopy or Marmaduke but all dogs have individual personalities and most of those personalities are better than most humans I have known.

76 posted on 12/21/2006 8:14:18 PM PST by olde north church (Hannibal ante portas, the dems don't even ask him to wipe his sandals.)
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To: lesser_satan

Police don't know Glen Harris, his family, and dog. It's interesting that we all think that people can "see" that we're "really good" people. You have to get to know someone first.

"...St. Bernards generally aren't vicious dogs."

"Generally" is the key word here.


77 posted on 12/21/2006 8:16:54 PM PST by oneamericanvoice
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To: toothfairy86

Silly!

Pepper spray is no fun! The cops would not get the thrill of taking the dogs life that way. What the heck are you thinking!


78 posted on 12/21/2006 8:17:12 PM PST by Artemis Webb (All Truth is God's Truth...regardless of the source.)
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To: olde north church
Well said. My dogs are ny friends and protectors. If ANYone messes with them, it's the same as doing it to me personally.

I strongly support the rule of rational law, but cops behaving like this are TFAs!!!

79 posted on 12/21/2006 8:18:45 PM PST by ARepublicanForAllReasons (I hereby pledge to endeavor to eliminate most sarcasm from my posts... (NOT!))
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To: FreedomCalls
Good departments do investigate questionable shootings, and bad cops can be punished. You may need to light a fire under somebody's ass (either higher up in the chain of command or in the DA's office) to get it done, however.
80 posted on 12/21/2006 8:19:16 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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