First, via Fuzz Martin, the very goddamn NOT funny thing:
PHOENIX, Arizona (AP) -- A suburban police officer is accused of leaving a police dog in a patrol car for more than 12 hours on a 109-degree day, killing the animal.Chandler police Sgt. Tom Lovejoy was booked into the Maricopa County jail on a misdemeanor charge of animal cruelty after a two-week investigation into the death of a 5-year-old Belgian Malinois named Bandit.
He was released later Wednesday, said Capt. Paul Chagolla, a spokesman for the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.
The sheriff's investigation showed Bandit was in Lovejoy's patrol car from about 9 a.m. to shortly after 10 p.m. August 11. During that time, the investigation found, the officer ran errands, napped and ate out with his wife. Lovejoy later found the dog dead in the car.
That man is 100% asshole. There is no way he "forgot" about that dog for 12 hours, and you know what, even if he did, that STILL makes him 100% asshole. I don't give a fuck how "bad" he feels, and I can't BELIEVE he only gets a misdemeanor for this. UPDATE: see here.
Okay. To lighten the mood, reader Steve sent me this link and I swear to god, I can't tell if the site is serious or not but either way, it's totally awesome. They have disguise kits for so-called "dangerous" dog breeds to make them look like "harmless" breeds. There are detailed pictorial instructions for how to get the disguise on, and if this doesn't make you laugh, you need help. You think Sunny is humiliated by wearing a bikini? HA! How do you think this doberman feels as a gott-dayum queer-ass poodle??
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Hubby and I talked about the stupid cop dog killer last night. No good canine officer FORGETS his F-ing DOG! Those dogs are part of the family...the police family and the family family. The guy should be fired. It makes me sick.
And those disguises!!! BRILLIANT!!!
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September 7, 2007 10:19 AM
Posted on September 7, 2007 10:19
Did you read to the end though? Sunny's DANGEROUS. Yeah, to flying pork & Pit Bulz!
The below breeds are automatically declared dangerous under some Queensland Council Local Laws:
Anatolian Shepherds, Bull Mastiffs, Dobermans, German Shepherds, Great Danes, Greyhounds, Maremmas, Neapolitan Mastiffs, Rhodesian Ridgebacks, and Rottweilers.
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September 7, 2007 10:20 AM
Posted on September 7, 2007 10:20
Hey, isn't Joe Arpaio the sheriff of Maricopa County? I hear they have a nice tent city tailor made for Asshats like this officer. A tent would be too good, it provides shade. A greenhouse on the other hand...
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September 7, 2007 10:28 AM
Posted on September 7, 2007 10:28
I can tell you right now, that little poof-ta tailpiece for the poodle disguise would last 2 seconds on my dog. She'd rip it off and buck around the room in circles like a flaming demented jackass, "snapping its neck" like the wolf-descendant-predator she is, until the main poofy-puff was shredded into a thousand tiny auxiliary poofy-puffs. Then she'd collapse amid them all satisfied, feeling like she'd kicked some poly-nylon ass.
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September 7, 2007 10:55 AM
Posted on September 7, 2007 10:55
If an everyday citizen kills a police dog, aren't they charged the same as if they had killed a human policeman?
This ass left his PARTNER to die in the car. How pathetic. I don't for one second believe he "forgot" the dog was in there, either.
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September 7, 2007 11:09 AM
Posted on September 7, 2007 11:09
Gimme 5 minutes and a clothes iron with that cop.
Doberman dressed as poodle = funny.
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September 7, 2007 11:39 AM
Posted on September 7, 2007 11:39
The Dog killer should be shot...
As for the Doggie disguises... too funny... LOL
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September 7, 2007 11:52 AM
Posted on September 7, 2007 11:52
Sunny is already disguised, because she doesn't look like the traditional Rhodesian Ridgeback. Unfortunately, her disguise makes her look like a Rottweiler/Shepherd mix (or at least so it seems in the photos), which on the "forbidden" dog list is a twofer or the Daily Double.
However, it is just within the realm of plausibility that you could claim she's a Bernese Mountain Dog/Lab mix. "They" love lab mixes. It's why all of ours are, even when they're not.
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September 7, 2007 12:19 PM
Posted on September 7, 2007 12:19
Sunny's plight suddenly seems like 'No Big Deal" when looking at the "Instructions" on how to cloak your Dobe as a Poodle. I hope they gave the dog a whole, roasted pig (and not a few Snausages) for putting up with their antics!
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September 7, 2007 12:38 PM
Posted on September 7, 2007 12:38
Oh, and this reminds me of a radio interview I heard years ago, when a scientist published his study on the intelligence levels of various breeds of dogs. The winner?
The Standard Poodle.
The host and his sidekick protested. The scientist shot back ...
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September 7, 2007 12:41 PM
Posted on September 7, 2007 12:41
Rachel et all,
Speaking of No funny... this came via WeSmirch, A Celebrity MemMe tag tracker...
(language warning...)
http://www.thepopulistblog.com/?p=1222
Man, that one royally pisses me off... Grrrrr...
:-/
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September 7, 2007 2:15 PM
Posted on September 7, 2007 14:15
I say we dress the cop up as a poodle and leave him in a car....
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September 7, 2007 3:43 PM
Posted on September 7, 2007 15:43
OMG hardliner...please tell me that is a freaking joke photo. That's just sick and completely twisted. :(
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September 7, 2007 5:51 PM
Posted on September 7, 2007 17:51
Damn, no Akita disguises. Ah well, everybody seems to think ours are Malamute mixes anyway...
How the hell did GREYHOUNDS wind up on that list? The only thing any sighthound breed I can think of is dangerous to is small animals. They're normally incredibly sweet and gentle with people, if too sensitive to be a good match with young kids.
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September 7, 2007 7:15 PM
Posted on September 7, 2007 19:15
Some idiot female cop in this town did the same dumbass thing a few years back with her department dog. What a moron.
Two greyhounds pounced on and killed my friend's pomeranian puppy. The breed was developed to hunt and kill small prey. Yes, they are dangerous to small animals. Don't have one in your house with other animals.
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September 7, 2007 8:26 PM
Posted on September 7, 2007 20:26
I want to know where I can buy a kit that makes a poodle look like a Doberman.
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September 7, 2007 9:36 PM
Posted on September 7, 2007 21:36
I would put a 9mm sleeping pill in that cocksucker and sleep soundly. The hiring practises of some of your small town sheriffs need looking at.
And how the hell am I going to disguise a couple of 170lb neos? Maybe I could put them in gillie suits and tell people they're haystacks.
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September 7, 2007 10:19 PM
Posted on September 7, 2007 22:19
Looks like my wife before her weekly back shave.
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September 7, 2007 10:20 PM
Posted on September 7, 2007 22:20
I grew up in Phoenix. Ya, it's a dry heat, but that only means you lose water faster through sweat. There are regular and frequent public service announcements on tv about leaving *anything* in a car. Temperatures in a car, even with windows left open a crack, will rise to 20-40 degrees above the temp outside the car.
On an asphalt parking lot, the ambient temp can easily be over 120 to start with, and there's no breeze inside the car.
When I moved to the Boston area, and people would ask about Phoenix weather I'd tell them we had 9 months of summer, 6 weeks of both spring and autumn, and then a moment of silence for winter. No excuses, this guy should be sentenced to 12 hours in a car on a 109 degree day. Of course, that would be cruel and unusual punishment.
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September 7, 2007 10:24 PM
Posted on September 7, 2007 22:24
GinO- if by neos you mean Neopolitan Mastiffs, then I think a ghillie suit will only make people think they're Swamp Thing.
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September 7, 2007 10:27 PM
Posted on September 7, 2007 22:27
Poodles were originally hunting dogs. Why people give them those stupid ass haircuts is beyond me.
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September 8, 2007 4:31 AM
Posted on September 8, 2007 04:31
R.L. Hunter, actually the haircut had a purpose. It was designed to keep the body warm when they plunged into water after the prey. It kept the core of the body warm but allowed the hind legs to swim freely.
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September 8, 2007 4:44 AM
Posted on September 8, 2007 04:44
"They" love lab mixes. It's why all of ours are, even when they're not.
Kind of like why my son has paper identifying his canine as a Shepherd mix, which is about the most innocent "they" will believe.
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September 8, 2007 8:32 AM
Posted on September 8, 2007 08:32
The K9 thing is wrong on so many levels. Running errands? Napping? Eating out with the wife? Does this guy normally do these things ON DUTY? Now, we all get "breaks" and sometimes I will use one to run a quick errand. We also get "meal breaks", so I can understand meeting the wife on a slow day. But, napping? What's up with that? And a SUPERVISOR to boot (sergeant).
Around here the K9 officers leave their cars running with the air-conditioner on, when they are out of the car without the dog. They also have darkly tinted windows to keep the heat down. Some departments even have a pager type alarm the officer wears, which will tell the officer if the car dies or a/c stops working while he is out of the car.
I cannot believe that a dedicated K9 officer would treat his PARTNER in the manner this sergeant did. All the K9 officers that I know truly love what they do and care deeply for their dogs. They get the dogs out of the car frequently for a bit of exercise, bathroom breaks, food/water, etc.
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September 8, 2007 9:25 AM
Posted on September 8, 2007 09:25
I once got to see an AMAZING live outdoor demo of the working relationship between a canine OFFICER and his HUMAN partner. They made a point of showing how the patrol car's back windows would open partially automatically IF the A/C even went out for a *minute*, and if the temp got to a certain number the A/C kicked on, etc. Also, the human officer would be buzzed no matter where he was, via the pager Retrocop mentioned, in several potentially dog-threatening situations.
Pretty cool. In more ways than one.
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September 8, 2007 10:01 AM
Posted on September 8, 2007 10:01
Poodles were bred by Germans as bird dogs. The standard cut is designed to protect the animal's central body from loss of heat during cold water retrieval. Then the French got into the act. Shit.
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September 10, 2007 9:19 AM
Posted on September 10, 2007 09:19