Posted on 07/22/2007 10:34:11 AM PDT by monkeycard
A Tulsa man will be honored this week for saving another man's life. Back in April, Michael Cook came to the rescue when a pitbull attacked his neighbor. The News On 6’s Chris Wright reports Cook will receive the Citizen Appreciation Award from Tulsa police on Tuesday, an honor his neighbor says he more than deserves.
Marvin Battle walks with a cane these days, but says considering what happen to him on April 25th, he can live with the limp.
"I can't bend my leg. I have to go through physical therapy,” said Battle. “I've been on a lot of pain medications. I have panic attacks and I have nightmares."
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good observation..
I agree.
Good shoot, and for exactly the correct reason. I think about the kids who live in the area, and I think about a mauling or killing prevented.
No, he took the picture because otherwise, jerks would have called him a damned liar when he recounted his own personal first hand experience with pitbulls. Works for me.
Good for you! Good shooting!
What luck! I just happen to have a handy, built-in dispenser. I don't know what the neighbors will say as I'm spreading dog-B-gone around my property.
Pitbull Terriers - the Dog Breed of Peace®
Yeah, he should have waited until the dog actually had his neck (or some neighbor kid's head) in it's jaws before shooting the dog. After all, the dog had only tried to attack him once - and had only killed a few of his own livestock. Much better to wait until there is a funeral to dispatch a dog like that...
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Sounds just like the mothers/grandmothers of the gang banging gang members when they get convicted of murder after drive-by shooting and killing some innocent toddler in the crossfire: "He's mah babby - he ain't never done nuthin' wrong in his life - such a good boy.....He be innocent...
Tell that to my wife's cousin. His child was seriously mauled by neighbor's a dog (chow) several years back. The dog had been raised as a family pet - with the best of care and really a spoiled "baby". The dog just "snapped". The dog owners tried to use that same defense (dog was sweet - we have no idea what could have caused it). The child was not in any way harassing or bothering the dog- and in fact, the child had spent time around the dog before with no problem.
“Battle believes it belonged to his neighbors, who have several other pitbulls.
We talked to those neighbors Saturday, and they say the dog was not theirs.”
No one commented on this part of the story so I will. I hope that the police are seriously investigating this. I’ll bet this pitbull is his neighbors dog. Also, since they seem to have many pitbulls one has to wonder why they have so many? I mean, could it be that they are raising these dogs for fighting?
I’m conservative to libertarian in nature, but I think a little government intervention on these type of dogs is needed. For one thing, maybe it would be a good thing for all breeders of these type of dogs that are identified as extremely vicious (i.e. pitbulls and rotweillers) have to put those chips in the ears identifying them and keep paperwork on the transfer of these dogs.
I mean, the liberals are all about going out and taking away our 2A rights. What about this constitutionally unprotected weapon? Guns don’t go off by themselves, but it appears to me that pitbulls do...
I read that in the Mike Vick case, the local authorities were not really investigating his case until the FBI got involved and started pushing them. My question is why not? This dog fighting garbage is illegal and should be dealt with. If we don’t things like this story happen.
Geez you make them sound like they could kill grizzly bears or lions...
Not if you read the article.
www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-blackwater_23jul23,1,7091876.story?coll=chi_tab01_layout
chicagotribune.com
‘America’s private army’ under fire for Illinois facility
Anti-war activists, locals are wary about military contractor’s new training site
By E.A. Torriero
Tribune staff reporter
6:11 AM CDT, July 23, 2007
MT. CARROLL, Ill.
Strangers rarely venture onto the twisting gravel roads in this corner of the state, and those who do sometimes get lost amid the rolling hills.
So it came as a surprise to many locals when the expert marksmen of Blackwater USA — a controversial military contractor that provides armed security guards in the Iraq war — took over an 80-acre rifle range and opened up a new training center this past spring. Blackwater North, as the North Carolina-based firm calls its new site, is designed primarily as a tactical training ground for domestic law enforcement and contractors, not for security missions to Iraq or Afghanistan, Blackwater officials said. Using civilians schooled in military warfare, the site offers training in weaponry, hostage dealings and terror reaction.
Still, the sudden appearance of Blackwater is attracting criticism and questions from miles around.
Wary residents fret about noise, expansion and the more distant possibility that low-paid local police might end up working lucrative jobs for Blackwater overseas.
Meanwhile, peace groups from as far as Chicago, 150 miles to the east, plan to stage a major demonstration here next month protesting “America’s private army.”
“We’re tucked away here in a no man’s land, and to have Blackwater come in is quite unsettling,” said Conrad Landola, a neighboring landowner. “Most people have farms and homes. That’s it. Now we have Blackwater here and we don’t know what they will attract.”
In a recent tour for a Tribune reporter, Blackwater officials displayed gun ranges the size of athletic fields — bermed to absorb stray bullets — along with a building used for hostage training and a pro shop that sells ammunition as well as key chains, shirts and shot glasses emblazoned with the company logo.
Since April, the company has trained some 200 people, most from 40 law-enforcement agencies from as far away as New York and California, company officials said.
“We’re not the mercenaries come to town that some people paint us out to be,” said Patrick Sergott, a former Marine and suburban police officer who is Blackwater North’s director.
But Landola is one of a group of citizens so concerned that they have resorted to surveillance techniques seemingly out of a Blackwater handbook. Landola rented a small plane and flew over the site snapping photographs that show Blackwater moving earth, which, Landola worried, could be a sign Blackwater might be expanding.
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A pitbull!! Yet another mere coincidence
Of course there are exceptions ot every rule. I don’t discount that not all breeds are the same temperament, or great with kids, or better hunting dogs than others, etc etc. Personally I would not have a pit bull if I had small children - common sense about pit bulls says it’s not a good combo. They aren’t the first dogs ever to do this to a child, but I wouldn’t take that chance. The risks are a lot lower with golder retrievers or labs.
This exception still does not take away anything I said otherwise in my prior posting.
I am a huge Golden Retriever fan, but back when our Collin was a pup, we had in in obedience classes. One of the trainers brought a very large purebred Golden in an attempt to socialize and maybe do something with the dog. It had never been mistreated, but something was just “wrong” with the dog - it was extremely aggressive both to other dogs (like I have never seen in anything but “fighting dogs”), and towards all people. My understanding was that it finally had to be put down - even the “pros” couldn't’t do anything with the dog. The general consensus on the dog was that it was the “victim” of some really bad breeding.
But as you stated, there is a wide range of risks inherent in different breeds. You have to weigh that risk, and be willing to pay the consequences of your choice.
Sorry, I wasn't being serious. Were you able to watch the vidoes?
If not, one was of an adult pit bull being very gentle with a goup of baby chicks which had "imprinted" on her as a mother figure.
The other video was pictures of happy pit bulls and their owners set to music.
BTW, the "locking jaw" and "thousands of pounds of bite pressure" comments come from common myths about the dogs. Neither are true.
The breed of peace strikes again.
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