Sunday, December 07, 2008

We're the Only Ones Providing the Finest Care Enough

Deputies from the Charles County Sheriff's Office had arrived at the house on St. Peters Church Rd. around 7 p.m. to serve legal papers to a resident who no longer lived at that address.

The homeowner said deputies asked her to put her 2-year-old sheep dog, Dixie, inside the house while they sorted things out. The homeowner complied, but her 2-year-old niece pushed the door open a short time later. Dixie came running out, and the deputy shot the dog, according to an account from the homeowner's sister.
I got nothin'. Some "Only Ones" stories just stop me in my tracks.

[Via Mama Liberty]

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Boy - seems like a lot of police officers are scared shitless of dogs.

There would be a lot of dead dogs around if every dog that ran up to a person was gunned down.

Remember - shoot first, and ask question later.

Maybe some departments need to do a psyche test that measures how much of a coward an applicant is before they become "peace" officers.

Anonymous said...

Remember that old Charles Addams comic strip where Uncle Fester is in a movie theater and he's laughing his head off while everyone else is crying their eyes out? That's a police officer watching the end of the rabies scene in "Old Yeller".

j said...

A friend of mine who came over from Scotland a while back had a soccer jersey with the letters ACAB on front. I asked about it & he said it stood for "All Cops Are Bastards". I used to think it was a bit of an overstatement, but the more I read about their apparently erotic obsession with murdering animals, I retract my earlier misgivings. And hey, didn;t serial killer Lon Whore-e-hoochie also kill the Weaver's family dog, before he got his jollies shooting Vickie in the face?

I suppose the moral of this story is, whatever a cop asks you for - no matter how innocent it seems - just say no.

theirritablearchitect said...

"Boy - seems like a lot of police officers are scared shitless of dogs."

Sheepdog too. What's next, shooting a Lab or an ankle biter?

Are all cops this pussified?