Posted on 02/22/2013 2:46:11 PM PST by Arthurio
This week’s Static discusses the police shooting of Lily the border collie, and the training program and potential legislation that were prompted by that tragedy.
Mark and Cindy Boling weren’t available for comment last night as Static was being written, but I spoke at length with Cindy Boling this morning and she remains upbeat despite all she’s been through.
Imagine unloading groceries at your house and a police officer approaches you on your property. He’s responding to a routine copper theft call but ends up at the wrong address — yours.
Your dog (who is like a child to you) barks at the officer, who pulls his gun and shoots your pet in the back. Then you watch it bleed to death.
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You are correct. No risk is acceptable now.
If a cop shows up on your property, do not speak to him or her and be prepared to kill him or her before he or she takes a notion to kill your dog(s), which will be the first thing they do before they jack you up for any or no reason - including being at the wrong address.
That sentiment is shared here. Being as that I live in a very rural area and my dogs live inside all the time, such an event is very unlikely for me. But, things don't always work out as planned. I can only say that any cop that shoots either of my dogs is dead meat then and there.
today’s cops are not your friends. not how they are trained. they are not peace officers. they are thugs.
1. Dog not on a leash or chain?
2. Dog running free, even in own yard bordered by public sidewalk?
3. No fence?
4. No warning sign of protection by dog?
4. Dog not under owner’s voice control (untrained to obey)?
5. Dog rushing and barking at “invader” of property?
If the above, the policeman may have reason to defend himself, whether or not the address is a wrong one. The owner is at at least as much at fault as the officer. Collies protectively bark while herding, and their nature needs to be taken into account by the owner, not depending on the judgment of a visitor.
A Border Collie?
They don’t even make the ‘Bad Dog’ Home Owners Insurance list
What’s next - shooting Cats
(We own a Border Collie and a Cat, if you knew them you’d stay away from the cat)
The cop called his chief who told him to kill the barking dog on the property. The cop, I believe, killed the dog and the citizen then killed the cop with a 12 gauge blast to the chest.
Awesome. Thug needed killing.
If you happen to know where a news article is about this, let me know. I'll search around as well.
OMG, what is wrong with these scum?
They apply, pass a physical and psychological test- he he he- and get the job through connections.
Years ago my dad wanted a job as a cop. He was told all he had to do was leave a large sum of money in an empty room in the townhall and then he would be hired.
De decided he didn’t want to work for a bunch of crooks.
A fish rots from the head.
ANy cop doing that to one of my dogs wouldn’t leave alive.
If that cat barks like the one in this video you bet they’ll shoot him!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP3gzee1cps
Agreed. So sorry for your great loss.
I think I saw it on FR. You could probably search it.
Of course he’s in jail now.
But, I think he did the correct thing.
Does the Chief still have his job?
Then, again, I never saw another report other than the first and the one thing I’ve come to realize is never to rely on the first reports from any media.
You just forgot the /sarc tag right?
Many of these cop-kills-dog incidents are in the enclosed, fenced BACK yards of citizens.
That you are reaching for excuses for the thuggish behaviour of MANY cops tells me you haven’t had an unpleasant experience with your local constabulary yet.
You will. Guaranteed.
The cops have become disconnected from the communities they serve, and suffer a bunker mentality now. We are not their fellow citizens, we are subject to their every whim.
This kind of activity will not end well for either party.
My work takes me to ranches. Hundreds of them. They all have 2-10 dogs of various breeds and sizes, mostly cow dogs but also others. They usually bark at me but I speak dog and put them at ease and I have been nipped exactly once in 12 years and never felt threatened.
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