Finally it happens: MAN BITES DOG - after stabbing himself A man who squared up to cops after a domestic disturbance stabbed himself in the chest three times before biting the officers' dog, according to reports from the US. The incident began at about 7.45pm when a deputy sheriff responded to a report of a domestic dispute in the Californian city of San Jose. The police officer said …
I have a feeling most of the damage to the suspect was not caused by the dog in the US case. Everybody I have ever known that took a swing at a cop either got put in the hospital (cops are a pack animal after all) or didn't have a fun time in jail afterwards (suicide watch often means your naked for days in a cold concrete cell, and yes cops do talk to the boys down at the jail). In general though if you are fighting with a police dog you are a nut stain who probably deserves what you get.
'E fell down the Station steps yer' onour!
It was the bouncin. off 'em that caused the bruising!
I suspect with modern Elf 'n Safety rules most station steps are protected with rubber matting to help prevent such occurrences but if you want to mix it with the fuzz you are going to get what you deserve and maybe more than you bargained for.
".....Everybody I have ever known that took a swing at a cop....." It is becoming patently obvious that all your "opinions" on the police have been formed from mixing with the type of degenerate that regularly gets in trouble with the law. I bet those losers also had wonderful excuses for why they were commiting whatever crimes they were pursuing when the polcie caught them. My suggestion would be buy a clue and start mixing with a better type of person, there are plenty of them out there, the majority of people never having any cause to be arrested by the police.
Sorry Matt but wrong as usual. No I didn't grow up in a house on the hill but have never been arrested or even questioned by police. I have had a few friends that got DUIs when they were younger but that is all. When you don't grow up in a house exactly like all the other houses in the suburbs you hear a bit more about life from other people, some of which are warnings of course. This just reinforces my impression of you being a posh jagoff. The kind that talks about bootstrapping himself to success never mentioning his mommy and daddy paid for his college. Your friends may have gotten in trouble with the law but their daddy's made sure it didn't escalate past a slap on the wrist.
"....we beat the yanks to it ..." I'm sure I read some article a few years back about a furious Swedish driver who was arrested for beating on a half-dead elk that he had driven into becasue "it had wrecked his car". True, I don't recall he was biting it, but as an exercise in stupid road rage it seems to have even the US example beat!
You might be correct. Not that it matters much though. There are very few effective mental care services provided by the State in this country and they travel exclusively between extremes: Either you need to be locked up or you need Xanax.
If you do need in patient mental care, it isn't uncommon for them to wait until you do something illegal and you'll get your "care" in jail. It's much cheaper to jail someone than house them in a mental health facility.
Nearly 1/3 of our massive prison population meet criteria for the chronically mentally disturbed. Proper care and treatment of those people would likely see many of them become positive contributors to society, but noooo. Fuck that, they send mentally disturbed people into a nightmare scenario where everything that was wrong with them is intensified several fold.
It's a GSD ("Alsatian").
There is a BIG difference. I have several of each snoozling about the office as I type. Yes, all are canis lupus familiaris, but they all have different purposes.
People who keep dawgs as fashion accessories and/or conversation pieces should be taken out behind the barn and horse-whipped.
What's wrong with dogs being a "conversation piece"?
Our conversations generally go like this:
Me: "Dear, <any random dog of our pack> just threw up what looks like pieces of possum again and smells like he rolled in cow pats."
She: "Bath time *again*?! And YOU clean the carpet this time!"
Country dogs make great conversation pieces!
Though I agree with the sentiment on the type of dog the object of the icon tends to have.
What's wrong with dogs being a "conversation piece"?
Our conversations generally go like this:
Me: "Dear, <any random dog of our pack> just threw up what looks like pieces of possum again and smells like he rolled in cow pats."
Take it to a taxidermist. It would still be conversation piece, but a lot less trouble.
It was a "hapless hound". It's obvious that the author was after some alliteration. Fits better than "daunting dog" or "courageous canine" as the dog was the one getting bit, rather than doing the biting. Artistic license!
Let's not forget, that "hound" often is used in this sort of context, as evidenced by that arbiter of such things, Dick Dastardly:
Mutley, you snickering, floppy eared hound.
When courage is needed, you're never around.
Those medals you wear on your moth-eaten chest
Should be there for bungling at which you are best.
So, stop that pigeon
Stop that pigeon
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Stop that pigeon
Stop that pigeon
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Howwww!
Nab him
Jab him
Tab him
Grab him
Stop that pigeon now.
You, silly, stop snickering, it's not worth the chance.
For you'll be returned by the seat of your pants.
And clunk, you invent me a thingamabob
That catches that pigeon or I lose my job.
So, stop that pigeon
Stop that pigeon
Stop that pigeon
Stop that pigeon
Stop that pigeon
Stop that pigeon
Stop that pigeon
Howwww!
Nab him
Jab him
Tab him
Grab him
Stop that pigeon now.
> my Burmese can and will make you bleed
I've had much worse off cats than dogs - cats can choose to retract their sharp claws, or not, and I'm not convinced they always see human limbs as part of a person, whereas the dogs I've played with seem to have good bite inhibition and stop if they think they might have hurt you.
I would never bite a police dog, but I might be tempted to try for a quick GSD snog...
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