Posted on 07/26/2012 6:19:18 PM PDT by chrisinoc
SAN ANTONIO -- The Bexar County Sheriff's Department says two of its K-9s have died after they were left inside a patrol vehicle overnight.
According to a statement from the Sheriff's Office, the dogs were "inadvertently" left inside the vehicle overnight and died from apparent heat exposure.
(Excerpt) Read more at kens5.com ...
I seriously don’t know what the hell you’re talking about. I was just sharing an anecdote related to the story. I didn’t even say it should be required in police cars, much less in everybody’s car. Lighten up. I think we’re supposed to be pretty much on the same side on this site.
“Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.”
— Thomas Jefferson
Worth repeating. Many, many examples of this recently.
How common is it for one officer to have charge of two police dogs? I've only seen single dogs unless they are bloodhounds.
I have, however, kenneled the dog of a vacationing handler with another handler, but under conditions where the dogs, if patrol versus non aggressive EOD dogs, were separated from each other and the surrogates family.
“Nobody is perhaps more upset than Benoy, the deputy being held responsible for the dogs’ deaths. In a 2010 interview with KENS 5, Benoy explained what it would be like to lose his K-9 companions.
“This would be just like losing a member of your family,” he said. “I’m sure when a canine officer loses his companion, we all mourn.”
I’m sorry but I’m having a really hard time summoning up pity for the cop.
If their K9 partners are like “family members”, would he ‘forget’ that his helpless toddler or invalid mother was in a hot car all night?
Where exactly was this cruiser parked?
At his house?
Somebody else’s house?
[somewhere he shouldn’t have been, in the first place?]
If he weren’t a cop, we’d be hearing that he’d left them in the car while shopping, drinking or getting his nails done, just like we do civilian moms who ‘forget’ that their kids are slow roasting in a car.
Enraged minds want to know exactly where he was that entire night.
Inadvertently.
Coptalk is really sophisticated when they want to wiggle out of responsibility. Remarkable for individuals who don’t even have an undergraduate degree in many cases.
The cop responsible should be fired, imprisoned for animal cruelty and fined for the value of the dogs and all their training and up keep casts since acquired.
But it won;t happen.
More of the “them” versus “us” mentality which is making more their paramilitary training and sophisticated weaponry MORE and MORE dangerous.
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