Owing a pit bull is a passive-aggressive way for cowards to express hostility towards their neighbors. The pitbull incident in our neighborhood involved the notorious jail-bait family two streets over. That family had a fight with everyone they encountered, and were frequently drunk and disorderly (this was a dense city neighborhood), with many police visits to their house.
One day their pugnacious teenager took their pitbull into the children's playground in the public park, carried the pitbull up the 7-foot sliding board ladder and pushed the dog from the top down the slide. When the dog got to the bottom and fell off, he immediately jumped up and ran to the nearest 3-year-old sitting on a bench with her nanny and bit the child in the spinal column.
That’s terrible. I hope the dog was put down.