My Hero Of The Day
Seems that there was a mob ready to lynch the owner after what he did.... HA!  Cool guy!
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/245529 |
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| I don't think someone should just handcuff someone to a car and leave him there in harm's way. Not even thinking about the danger from the crowd, you just can't leave a person in a makeshift restraint without supervision, he could get hurt, could have exposure issues, could faint or have a seizure...
...Not that the guy didn't deserve it.  Sometimes there is justice. 
I just hope the animal cop settles with the guy before he gets personally sued. |
I agree with you, Ron, but the owner sure had it coming!!!!!  |
| It's not the Animal Control Officer's fault that the crowd beat the owner of the dog. I think he should be reinstated.
Anyone who leaves their dog in a hot car like that should suffer. I think the animal control guy should have locked the owner in the hot car! But a beating from an angry mob works too. 
I am sure he didn't have time to write down the guy's info. He secured the suspect. This was an emergency situation. He did what he had to do and saved the dog.  |
| The Perp was still on his feet and able to move on his own when the police arrived. That's substancely more than the Rottie was capable of when pulled from the car. I would have handcuffed him to the car by something other than his wrist.
I’d love to be the officer questioning witnesses; Sir, I understand you were a witness to the event? I’m sure your statement will be much like the other witness statements, that the gentleman who owns the vehicle and dog was bloody and tattered when he arrived on scene. |
| This happened a couple of weeks ago, and made all the local news...TV, newspapers etc.
From what I recall the Animal Control fellow broke the window and took the dog out and tried to keep him alive..He was barely breathing. The owner came back and got violent and abusive, when he was told that he was facing chanrges of animal abuse. The officer had to physically restain him, to protect himself, and continue nursing the animal. I believe he had reinforcements on the way, and people were "watching" the fellow until they arrived, but the dog needed to get to an emergency clinic or die. The Animal Control here have lots of power and authority, to enforce the very weak protection laws that do exist. He made a choice, and might not have been the best choice, but one that he chose to make at the time. It might have cost him his job. We'll see. |
Ron wrote: I don't think someone should just handcuff someone to a car and leave him there in harm's way. Not even thinking about the danger from the crowd, you just can't leave a person in a makeshift restraint without supervision, he could get hurt, could have exposure issues, could faint or have a seizure...
I completely agree with this. |
| Anyone wanting to show support for the Animal Control Officer can do so here:
http://www.torontohumanesociety.com/ Also there is an update on Cyrus and his condition. |
Ron wrote: ...Not that the guy didn't deserve it.
Sometimes there is justice. That's the way I feel. Hopefully he'll think twice before doing that again. |
| I'm glad for what the officer did. The perp deserved more. If the officer hadn't secured him to the car, the idiot would have gotten away with what he did to the poor dog. Now if he can be kept from owning any other animals, justice will be served. |
| Here's my thought...
If that was the guy's baby he had locked in the car... would it have provoked a different response among us? For instance: The officer arrives on the scene, sees a baby locked in the car about to die, tries to rescue baby, and arrests man for child abuse. Perp becomes aggressive, so cop secures the perp (by the only means necessary, attaching him by handcuff to the car, so perp couldn't run, and couldn't injure the officer) knowing that he HAD to leave the scene secure, but didn't have time to wait for his backup before getting the baby to help... Would that have been a justifiable action? Now doing that in the midst of what ends up being an angry mob, IS irresponsible. You're leaving someone at the mercy of angry civilians. But, in other situations, securing someone like that, not neccessarily so in my book, if the officer knew that backup was close by, and he had to make a decision to save a life. hmm... |
| No it wouldn't have been justifiable. The cop on a scene isn't a judge, jury and executioner, and would have no right to put a suspect's health in danger like that in either case.
I have no problem with him securing the guy to the car while he's there, but I feel it's not reasonable to have put a person's life in danger even to get an animal to the vet or a baby to the ER. Also he probably would wait for an ambulance in the case of a human, so I feel it is kind of unfair to compare the two from this perspective. He could have written down the license plate number... |
| I've been holding out on my reply since this morning. Ron basically wrote exactly what I have waiting on another browser...
I also don't find it justifiable. He could have secured the guy inside his own car or even got someone else to take the dog to the hospital, or just toughed it out like he probably should have and waited for the police to come. This guy was just the "animal control officer" correct? I get that it may have been the perfect payback, but I don't necessarily think that's always the correct thing because no matter what it comes down to... it's the dogs life who may have been perfectly fine waiting the extra 10-15 minutes instead of endangering this person's life. |
| What makes me wonder, is how come a Mob was formed that was about to beat down the guy? What happened there?
My first reaction would be to wonder why the guy was left cuffed to the car and the cop taking off if I had not seen the whole ordeal. If there was a bunch of people looking and the cop left the guy to their mercy, then that would be irresponsible (Not that the guy didn't deserve some punishment ) |
saulmr wrote: What makes me wonder, is how come a Mob was formed that was about to beat down the guy? What happened there?
My first reaction would be to wonder why the guy was left cuffed to the car and the cop taking off if I had not seen the whole ordeal. If there was a bunch of people looking and the cop left the guy to their mercy, then that would be irresponsible (Not that the guy didn't deserve some punishment )I wondered that, too. I have to believe if an angry mob had amassed, something was going on to cause that scene. If he was apologetic and feeling bad about what he did, why would a mob be ready to lynch him, or take notice other than to see someone trying to help the dog? The owner of the dog put himself in the predicament in the first place. If he was so inane as to leave a BLACK dog in a sweltering hot car, than maybe him succumbing to the crowd would simply be Darwinism at its best. I hate so much that crimes against animals are not equal to crimes against humans. It bothers me that an animal's life is not considered as important as a human's. I am mostly tortured why there are so many policies in place to protect the stupid. I'm not saying that every case of stupidity should result in a bloody beating but the guy isn't dead and maybe he'll learn a lesson from this. |
| When the animal control officer broke the car window to get to the dog, it set off the car alarm...which in turn most likely caused a crowd to gather.
That and the fact that the dog's owner got violent is probably what caused the angry mob. |
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