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Authorities Investigating Video Showing Dog Chained to Trailer Driving 70 mph Florida Highway
ABC News ^ | January 13, 2017 | Julia Jacabo

Posted on 01/13/2017 3:08:27 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

WATCH Authorities Investigating Video of Dog Chained to Crate on Florida Highway (video)

Authorities in Florida have launched an investigation after a video emerged on Facebook of a dog chained to the top of a crate being towed by an SUV driving at least 70 mph.

Palm Coast resident Brenna Cronin, 24, shot the video Wednesday afternoon in Flagler County as she and her boyfriend were driving southbound on I-95 toward Daytona Beach. In the video, a dog is seen standing on top of the crate, which contained at least one other animal, while a Chevrolet Tahoe pulls the trailer at high speeds. -snip-

Once the driver realized Cronin was filming him, he "gave me the finger," she said. Cronin said she is "happy" that the video she took led to an investigation of the owner....

The dog seen in the video is a Blue American Pitbull Terrier named Zeus, who does not like to ride in the crate, Ritter said. So his owner, who said he uses the dog for hunting, allows him to ride outside, Ritter said.

A Flagler County ordinance allows people to travel with a dog in that manner as long as the animal is tethered twice to the vehicle. .

Zeus was only tethered to the trailer once, Ritter said.

"The driver didn't have any bad intentions," he said. "...He honestly didn't know any better."

Zeus' owner is cooperating with the investigation and has agreed to allow animal services to conduct wellness checks, Ritter said.

...the Humane Society "would not recommend it at all" and stressed the "importance of having any pet secured when driving."

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 1950nostalgia; chet99; dogs; florida; floriduh; normal; pitbull; sowhat; unsafepetravel; whocares
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To: Seruzawa

Some dogs love wind on their face but they can easily lose an eye or worse from riding unprotected on the highway.

https://www.tripswithpets.com/twp-blog/dogs-head-out-the-car-window-a-dangerous-habit


21 posted on 01/13/2017 3:28:31 PM PST by varyouga
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To: CGASMIA68

Yea right dog was scared shitless.


The dog didn’t look scared to me. He looked uncomfortable.

I have seen lots of unsecured dogs riding in the backs of pickup trucks, that looked like they loved it.

This dog had no protection from an effective 70 mph wind. That was probably why he was uncomfortable.


22 posted on 01/13/2017 3:28:53 PM PST by marktwain
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Can’t get it to play, but from the first still it looks like Zeuss is chillin’ like a villain.


23 posted on 01/13/2017 3:33:16 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: marktwain

There was a story about a woman named La Queesha that was driving drunk back from the swimming pool with 3-5 kids. Since they were dripping wet, she put the kids on the hood and roof to dry off. She sped away and whipped a turn tossing all the kids onto the pavement..

One kid was airlifted to the hospital with brain injury, another broke an arm.


24 posted on 01/13/2017 3:51:20 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever)
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To: lacrew

“Poor little guy, probably kept up for about a quarter mile or so.......”


25 posted on 01/13/2017 3:53:40 PM PST by Envisioning (Call me a racist, one more time......)
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To: marktwain

“riding in the backs of pickup trucks”

Duhhhh.....Big dif between riding in the back of a pick up and tied to the top of a cage going 70 MPH.


26 posted on 01/13/2017 4:06:16 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: marktwain

“riding in the backs of pickup trucks”

Duhhhh.....Big dif between riding in the back of a pick up and tied to the top of a cage going 70 MPH.


27 posted on 01/13/2017 4:06:50 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

I can just hear the woman who did that yelling at the kids “I told you little %$#&s to hold on!”


28 posted on 01/13/2017 4:07:20 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

I hope so. We love our babies and we don’t make them do anything that they don’t like (in other words, they rule the roost) but this is one time they wouldn’t get their way when it’s detrimental to their well-being. Rip, Princess, Bugsy, Pudgie......get in the crate!......;)


29 posted on 01/13/2017 4:09:21 PM PST by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: Seruzawa

persecute

or

prosecute?


30 posted on 01/13/2017 4:14:00 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (LOTS of /s)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Don’t believe your story..... Why waste Alka-Seltzer just to kill some birds?
BS!


31 posted on 01/13/2017 4:16:24 PM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Mitt Romney spotted?


32 posted on 01/13/2017 4:17:26 PM PST by entropy12 (Trump...first president who does not fear and kowtow to media in 100+ years..amazing!)
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To: caver

Some people are just cruel, I suppose. I’ve no reason to doubt my friend.


33 posted on 01/13/2017 4:19:07 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain (The choice to be stupid is not a conviction I am obligated to respect.)
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To: CGASMIA68

Kisha Young, 39, has been charged with intoxication assault after making six children ride on trunk and hood
Four of the six were thrown from the car at corner - injuring them
Young’s own daughter suffered a severe head injury and is in critical condition in hospital in Fort Worth, Texas

A Texas woman who didn’t want six children to ride inside her car with wet bathing suits is facing charges of intoxication assault after four of them were injured - one seriously.

Witnesses who saw the unusual sight said that the children were flung from the car at a tight corner and Young kept on driving - apparently unaware that her passengers had come off the vehicle

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2663225/Mom-jailed-four-children-fall-roof-car-driving-drunk-didnt-want-seats-wet.html#ixzz4VgtoljOi
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34 posted on 01/13/2017 4:25:55 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever)
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To: caver

I have heard of it. The version that I heard is that the alka-seltser bits were interspersed with bread crumbs.

A bird’s food does not go directly to the stomach. Birds do not have a stomach as such. The food would go to the crop, which is relatively thin walled and would likely burst with expanding gases.

Not all bird have crops, but gulls certainly do.


35 posted on 01/13/2017 4:30:14 PM PST by marktwain
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To: Scrambler Bob

Both. They got him arrested for animal cruelty. For killing rats. They are dangerous loonies. Now they want to make animal cruelty a felony. They will use this to go after people for the most minor acts. The animal lovers are truly insane. More worried about a dog on a freeway than the hundreds of child sex slaves hauled down the freeway the same day.


36 posted on 01/13/2017 4:38:05 PM PST by Seruzawa (All those memories will, be lost, like tears in rain.)
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To: caver; Seruzawa

Urban legend per this article - http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/01/seagulls-will-blow-eat-alka-seltzer/


37 posted on 01/13/2017 5:51:36 PM PST by indcons (Ajrawat lies, Americans die)
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To: caver; Ciaphas Cain

> Don’t believe your story..... Why waste Alka-Seltzer just to kill some birds? BS!

I’ve witnessed this very thing on Revere beach in MA where I grew up. Seagulls go boom when fed that stuff. Cruel people doing cruel things to animals isn’t new.


38 posted on 01/13/2017 5:54:25 PM PST by ri4dc (I am Deplorable. Trump is with me. Cable free since 1998. MAGA for all.)
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To: indcons

Dunno, I’ve witnessed it. But it is true I did not have a video camera in 1980.


39 posted on 01/13/2017 5:57:10 PM PST by ri4dc (I am Deplorable. Trump is with me. Cable free since 1998. MAGA for all.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

whats this got to do with the original post


40 posted on 01/13/2017 5:57:20 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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