9-Year Old Badly Hurt In Pit Bull Attack (ripped his cheek off)

http://www.todaystmj4.com (Wisconsin) ^ | 4-14

[Salamander]

They should’ve painted a crosshair on Petey, instead, considering....

/s

[LongElegantLegs]

You or I may not want our kids anywhere near a 900 pound predator, but some of those attacks happened when the parents paid money to have their kid sit with a tiger to take a picture. You can’t protect people from foolishness with legistlation; all you can do is keep your own safe.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

I can remember well the guys that would put on the “suits”

and “Foo-Foo” the dogs to this day,,,

No way I could have done that!!!,,,But,,,

That was how they bonded with the dogs,,,

I guess you saw this too but there was no way I could

have done that to something I loved...

[Salamander]

FYI, because of the things that were done to me when I was young [and my pets when I was older] there are only *2* things on earth that would cause me to do unspeakable things to another human being.

One is catching someone abusing animals, the other is catching someone abusing children.

If I die a violent death, one or other of the above will be somehow involved.

You will not, in ~your~ lifetime, *ever* again meet someone with as much enraged passion *or* compassion for suffering innocents.

Feel free to make a wild guess *why*.

[yeah...it’s -personal-]

[Salamander]

For the same reason you can’t have a pet coon, squirrel, eagle or chipmunk....because they’re WILDlife.

If you become a licensed WILDlife keeper, exhibitor or rehabilitator you can have all you want.

[shibumi]

Meet the mascot of our local tattoo parlor, Roy Boy's Place, "The Badlands" in Gary, Indiana:

[LongElegantLegs]

Wow. Do they do scarification, too? (har!)

[Salamander]

Sorry...that falls into the “if they were big enough” category.

Not going for a meet-and-greet.

[Salamander]

Beaucoups, not “boo koo”.

[shibumi]

Yes.

Some of the customers are of that “persuasion.”

(There isn’t much that they don’t do.)

http://thebadlands.com/

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

...;0)

[Salamander]

Do not...I repeat, DO NOT go to the piercings page.

You have been warned.

[Salamander]

Sorry..I don’t read Vietnamese.

[LongElegantLegs]

I only got as far as the ‘girls’ page and Mr. Legs walked by...”Oooooh, what are YOU looking at?”...Now he wants another tattoo. >.<

[shibumi]

Makes you wonder about his girlfriend, eh?

[Salamander]

Back in the late 60s/early 70s, there was a place on Lincoln Way East in PA that had full grown black bears and tiger in cages.

If you had the filthy lucre to spare, you could ‘ride one’ and get your picture taken.

Oddly enough, my parents always seemed to be short of cash when I asked so we just stopped and looked at them when in the area.
[I now suspect they were just jerking me around about the money flow because they *had* the bucks to buy me one of the cheaper-than-the-Polaroids stuffed bears]...:))

Funny how a forgotten memory can be triggered by something someone else said....

[Salamander]

No.
I have successfully suppressed that image and will NOT think about it any further.

[Salamander]

Show him the piercing page.
That’ll change his mind.

:-P

[LongElegantLegs]

No...no, let’s not think about his girlfriend. No.

[LongElegantLegs]

There’s a place near the highway that advertises tigers and big cats and bears and snakes, the kids always want me to stop there, but I dunno...the whole place looks like it’s been thrown together from old pallets and chicken wire.