Wednesday, 16 March 2011

Come Out With Your Paws In The Air, You’re Completely Surrounded!

A 19-year-old man was savaged by two dogs at a house in Rishton, sparking a 30-hour seige with police as they tried to capture the animals.
A siege?

What the hell were they doing, heating up cauldrons of Pedigree Chum and tipping it out of a second-floor window?
Police were called to the address at 9am yesterday after being alerted by the ambulance service to reports of a dog attack.

However full teams only made a concerted attempt to retrieve the dogs from around 9am today as they waited for the dogs to calm down.
A wag (groan) at Inspector Gadget’s suggests the negotiators might have needed some evidence for their next promotion…
Riot teams, dog handlers, RSPCA, police marksmen, a vet and dozens of officers was despatched this morning.

For a number of hours the teams were poised at the back of the house trying to lure the dogs out of the back door or to shoot them.

At around midday, they managaed to corner the dogs in a room where the dogs were tranquilised before being given a lethal injection.
Surely an immediate lethal injection of hot lead would have saved a lot of trouble?
A 24-year-old man from Accrington has been arrested on suspicion of possession of a section one (banned) dog.

He has been bailed until May 4 pending further inquiries.
That’s going to be an interesting trial…
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5 comments:

  1. Ranter16 March 2011 at 13:03

    Operation Cluster-fuck indeed. You have to read the article several times, well i did anyway, as I could not believe any of it, there must be more to it - all that palaver for the dogs to be put down in any event by injection. Quite incredible.

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  2. PJH16 March 2011 at 13:56

    "Surely an immediate lethal injection of hot lead would have saved a lot of trouble? "


    One would have thought so. But have you forgotten this?

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  3. Anonymouslemming16 March 2011 at 14:16

    Surely an immediate lethal injection of hot lead would have saved a lot of trouble?

    It's the cuts you see. We already know that it takes the police an inordinate number of tries to successfully kill an animal with real bullets. How many shots did they take at that horse ? We just can't afford to finance that much ammo anymore!

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  4. jd17 March 2011 at 00:26

    PJH beat me to it...

    Still, amazing story..

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  5. JuliaM17 March 2011 at 05:39

    " You have to read the article several times, well i did anyway, as I could not believe any of it..."

    If it had been WMP, it'd be very unsurprising...

    "One would have thought so. But have you forgotten this?"

    Oh, indeed not! :)

    "We just can't afford to finance that much ammo anymore!"

    :D

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