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2 pit bulls maul Minneapolis mail carrier
Minneapols Star and Sickle ^ | July 29, 2010 | Abby Simons

Posted on 07/29/2010 6:11:10 PM PDT by grey_whiskers

Mail carrier Bryan Bloomquist survived a harrowing attack by two pit bulls, with help from neighbors and police who killed the dogs.

The adversarial relationship between mail carriers and dogs is well-known.

But as two pit bulls tore relentlessly into Bryan Bloomquist's arms and legs outside a north Minneapolis house Tuesday, the mail carrier didn't think about clichés. He thought about dying.

"I had no fight left in me at that point," said Bloomquist, a 6-foot 3-inch, 300-pound Iraq war veteran said from his hospital bed Wednesday. "I thought it was over."

(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: chet99; dogs; mail; pitbulls
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To: grey_whiskers
I'm curious to know why these apparent aberrations didn't get their own posts. If you want stories about ‘dogs that attacked people I know’, I got some.
41 posted on 07/29/2010 9:59:27 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs ( I have nothing better to do than sit around all night watching a lunatic not turn into a werewolf.)
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To: LongElegantLegs

Do a Google search on Pit Bull Kills. Then do one on Chihuahua kills, beagle kills, collie kills, Scottish Terrier kills and you may see a pattern.


42 posted on 07/29/2010 10:00:30 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: LongElegantLegs
If you want stories about ‘dogs that attacked people I know’, I got some.

Post them, if you want to, then.

I normally don't get heavily into the DogBite threads, but I hadn't seen this one posted yet, and it got a LOT of local press.

43 posted on 07/29/2010 10:06:19 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: artichokegrower
Everything I need to know about pitbulls, I learned from owning one.

Where do you get your opinions from?

44 posted on 07/29/2010 10:09:30 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs ( I have nothing better to do than sit around all night watching a lunatic not turn into a werewolf.)
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To: grey_whiskers
Post them, if you want to, then.

I can't. The labrador who bit my sister's face never made the news.

I normally don't get heavily into the DogBite threads, but I hadn't seen this one posted yet, and it got a LOT of local press.

It's amazing how much press you get when you put 'pit bull' in the headline...

45 posted on 07/29/2010 10:12:01 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs ( I have nothing better to do than sit around all night watching a lunatic not turn into a werewolf.)
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To: LongElegantLegs

Darling picture, but, my dear, that is definitely NOT a pitbull.


46 posted on 07/29/2010 10:17:08 PM PDT by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: Auntie Mame

He’s a mix...Pit bull & red heeler. We went through hell when he first came to live with us, all the energy of of a RH and the cleverness of a PB. Best dog I’ve ever owned, so far. Makes good furniture, too.


47 posted on 07/29/2010 10:20:07 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs ( I have nothing better to do than sit around all night watching a lunatic not turn into a werewolf.)
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To: LongElegantLegs

Count on you to post those. BTW, like your tagline!


48 posted on 07/29/2010 10:24:03 PM PDT by valkyry1
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To: valkyry1

Thanks! I ripped off a review of ‘the wolfman’.


49 posted on 07/29/2010 10:26:58 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs ( I have nothing better to do than sit around all night watching a lunatic not turn into a werewolf.)
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To: valkyry1

Thanks! I ripped off a review of ‘the wolfman’.


50 posted on 07/29/2010 10:26:58 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs ( I have nothing better to do than sit around all night watching a lunatic not turn into a werewolf.)
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To: little jeremiah

I can imagine and I hear you. As a teenager running a paper route that went into a bad area of town I was set upon by a small gang of dogs run by a pit bull.

But I had my bicycle and the bag of newspapers around my shoulder so when I went down I put the bicycle over the top of me for cover along with thew news paper bag to cover my legs and I stuffed rolled up newspapers into the pitbull’s mouth. The thing was so enraged it could not distinguish between one of my limbs and the newspaper.

The other dogs stayed back and after a time the pit bull lost interest and went off.

I got out of it with just some deep bite marks, shortly after that I quit the paper route.


51 posted on 07/29/2010 10:36:33 PM PDT by valkyry1
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To: Auntie Mame

That was my first thought too.


52 posted on 07/29/2010 10:39:47 PM PDT by valkyry1
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To: valkyry1

Do you hate him, now that you know he’s part pit?


53 posted on 07/29/2010 10:43:16 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs ( I have nothing better to do than sit around all night watching a lunatic not turn into a werewolf.)
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To: LongElegantLegs

No not at all. Like you said, he makes good furniture! LOL!


54 posted on 07/29/2010 10:52:06 PM PDT by valkyry1
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To: grey_whiskers

I would think some smart people will make a land version of a shark powerhead, its also called a bang-stick, basically when you poke it at something it fires a cartridge of certain calibers, can be almost anything from a .22 to a 10ga or a centerfire cartridge.

Off hand I would think and aluminum pole with a machined head to accept a .410 reduced power slug that when depressed against something would through a safety trigger release a firing pin.

And I don’t care about legal ramifications, if we have a corrupt congress, and usurpation in the Whitehouse, federal judges accepting bribes and police that won’t police their own then I’m not going to obey any law.

Yes it can be viewed as a homemade rifle, it won’t have any range of course and will be viewed as a too short of a shotgun. But the beauty of it is that it can be concealed as an umbrella, a walking stick or cane or even in a walker leg for the elderly.


55 posted on 07/29/2010 11:05:11 PM PDT by Eye of Unk ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" G.Orwell)
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To: LongElegantLegs
Here, I found another Minnesota-related dog story.

I hope you're happy now ;-)

Cheers!

56 posted on 07/29/2010 11:39:15 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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58 posted on 07/30/2010 3:03:30 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: grey_whiskers
The owner needs to serve time in jail.

And the government needs to outlaw these pit-bull/pit-bull mix demon dogs. Government do not allow lions or tigers to kept in a home for good reasons.

59 posted on 07/30/2010 3:07:05 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: Past Your Eyes
USPS has a "third party suit" policy. They'll sue the owner for the loss of the employee. It's usually quite ruinous.

Imagine, if you will, the sympathy USPS lawyers have for dog owners who used to laugh while inflicting 60,000 dog bites per year on the letter carriers. Now that number is quite small ~ proving ruinous law suits do encourage better behavior on the part of owners.

60 posted on 07/30/2010 5:21:54 AM PDT by muawiyah
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