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Why was a cop even involved here? Doesn’t animal control exist for situations like this? Yknow, like someone actually trained to handle animals instead of someone trained to behave like an animal?
I live in a decent size county, and our three animal control agents only works four hours a day six days a week and all calls go through 911. So if animal control aren’t available, I could see 911 sending a cop…although he had an animal lasso, so maybe they do both jobs in that city.
I used to work 9-1-1 in a pretty small town and our policy was to send a cop for every call. We once had someone call because an opossum was outside the door to a shop and it was scaring people. Cop went and shooed it away.
So it could also be that.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but everyone should know that fop headquarters are flammable
Is this actually real? It looks like the national enquierer. I want to.believe.
The Independent reminds you of a tabloid?
Hello everyone, can I please have a brief moment of your time? It is with a heavy heart and a heavy brick, that I break this window. May your days be merry and Christmas.
If I wanted to nail a nail slowly, I would grab a hammer. If I wanted it nailed fast and in a very shitty way with all sorts of metal fracture generating stresses, I would use a nail gun. But if I wanted it shot dead, I would call the cops because that’s what cops do.
Wait, nail guns are bad?
Nah. Nail guns are good 👍. They just, probably, work harden the nail head. Come to think of it, hammers probably do worse. Not only do they harden the head, but each blow is at a slightly different angle, this work cycling the material. That’s why screws are better… Better for the home owner, not the contractor who would need to spend more time on each screw.
Is a screw much better? It’s a lot larger. For example, I recently got a nail gun to secure a metal covering to a piece of wood. The nails are tiny/less visible (18 gauge). I can’t see an advantage to screws in my case
It’s a fucking shihtzu, which are tiny. And this ones blind and deaf. Holy shit do we need drastic and violent police reform. Like fire 90% and completely retrain from the ground up. Not gonna happen though obviously.
Fucccck
This police department really gave a gun and a badge to someone who fears for his life encountering a 13-pound shih tsu.
If the people that become US cops aren’t already like that they break them to become like that during “training”. I highly recommend looking up the shit they say and show during police training in the US, it’s absolutely bonkers. They make them so scared of everything and fuck them up so badly that stuff like this is fully expected. So fucked up.
police training
That’s what, 8 weeks?
Is it even that long?
Training for call centers is longer than that.
Varies by department. I think 3-6 months is pretty common. Obviously insufficient but slightly better than two months.
Pretty nice. We have the police trained 36 months (Bachelor’s degree, here’s more about it).
Some could say there’s a difference.
In the US a dog that works with the police has many protections legally.
In the US any other dog is merely property and the police kill them with impunity.
In the US when a police dog is euthanized there are lines of officers and police workers and first responders to show respect.
In the US any other dog is just leverage for the police to threaten.
They don’t even treat their own police dogs with respect. There’s videos of cops yanking and choking them, body slamming them, etc. that that other stuff is just for show.
The Department of Justice estimates that American police officers shoot 10,000 pet dogs in the line of duty each year. It is impossible to ascertain a reliable number, however, because most law enforcement agencies do not maintain accurate records of animal killings. The tally may be substantially higher, and some suggest it could reach six figures.
When I first read this, I thought it said “police called to help shoot him dead” and I was like yeah, that’s why you would call the police, but why would you want him shot dead?
I read: “Biden and deaf dog Teddy got lost in a neighbor’s yard.” I was disappointed, but willing to believe it
“Hello, police? Yes, this is Kristi Noem. Yes, I have a dog that got lost, so could you find it and shoot it for me? Normally, I’d just shoot it myself before it got lost, but I was running late this morning. Thanks.”
“I just didn’t have time to go to the gravel pit today”.
People who call the police think the police are there to help. They don’t expect the police will kill dogs or keep parents away from school shooters.
Based on how often it happens, and how the cops are never punished for it, I just assume that part of the job description for cops is to shoot people’s dogs.
Genuinely why are headlines the least comprehendable English these days?
Because all the people who write headlines grew up learning how to read and write on the internet and social media. And the bosses they present their work to for scrutiny? Also learned to read and write while arguing with other middle schoolers online or role-playing terrible fan-fic erotica.
I shudder at the thought of some erotica authors and their content being the example a person might aspire to write like, or worse, to learn from. Even as a very, very horny pre-teen I had to put down some stories because the grammar and spelling was so atrocious I could tell.
Or it was written by AI
Meanwhile the schizo threatening to slice up everyone’s neck: 5 police cars show up to tell him to just calm down and then leave to go steal ebikes
ACAB. Fuck these cops. Poor old puppy.
He didn’t comply with their orders.
To be fair, dogs go nuts for bacon so the cops may actually have been in danger.
the dog was too deaf to hear the oinks silly
