Rothwell started to drive off before the victim’s father stood in front of the semi-convertible Citreon to prevent her from leaving the scene.
Oh, perish the thought!
Jamieson Plummer, in mitigation, said Rothwell insists she was simply moving to a more appropriate parking space and not attempting to flee the scene.
Well, yes. Of
course he does.
Mr Plummer described the incident as “quite quirky” .
He said: “My client had parked very closely to the complainant’s car so she had to squeeze through the gap to get to her car and in doing that the complainant came very close to the open window.
“The dog, hearing the noise of her coming and, it seems, thinking she was going to get into the car, put its snout out of the car and bit her.”
Mr Plummer described the incident as “relatively minor” when in contrast to many cases in breach of the Dangerous Dogs Act and said that the dog was being “territorial” .
He added: “The dog has never shown any sign of biting anyone before.”
That doesn’t sound ‘quirky’ to me. It sounds dangerous!
Rothwell was ordered to pay a £100 fine and £100 costs and told the dog must be muzzled when in a public place and when in a vehicle in a public place.
She got off lightly.
Citroen.
ReplyDeleteCut and paste is a bitch, ain't it?
A buttock comes bulging though the car window, the law of comedy dogs dictates that you've got to have a nip. It's like a dog running along with a string of sausages....a narrative imperative, innit.
ReplyDeleteThe question is, did the women that was bitten stick her arm in the car to grab something?
ReplyDeleteIt is very unlikely that the dog would try and stick its head out of a part closed window to bite when it had never done anything like that before. Also, it it was an aggressive dog it would have got a lot more than its head out of the car, especially a lurcher.
I always leave my dog to guard the car - truck actually - with the window down enough to let air, and someone's arm if they were foolish enough, but not enough for him to get his head out. I assume the dog owner in this case did the same, which makes me think it was a case of two against one and justice has not been done. Her guilty plea could have been because it was the best balance knowing the judge and opposition.
Dogs bite...who knew ?
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ReplyDeleteAh, damn, I usually spot those!
"... the law of comedy dogs dictates that you've got to have a nip."
Indeed!
"It is very unlikely that the dog would try and stick its head out of a part closed window to bite when it had never done anything like that before."
Ah, but we've only got the woman's word it'd never done that before...