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Police Shoot Pet Dogs … A Lot
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Dogs are the best everybody knows that! In fact, @tinatbh sums up this follow-up sentiment quite nicely:
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The farmer said, He will never be able to run and play with you like these other dogs would.…He wasn’t expecting the little boy to come back with this. There once was a farmer who had some puppies he needed to sell, so he painted a sign advertising his 4 pups and staked it near the edge of his yard. As we went to nail the sign to the last post, he felt atug on his overalls. He looked down into the beaming eyes of a little boy wearing abig smile. Mister, he said, I want to buy one of your puppies. Well, said the farmer, these puppies come from fine parents and cost a good deal of money. The boy hunghis head for a moment. Then, he reached deep down into his pocket, pulled out a handful of change and held it up to the farmer.Ivegot thirty-nine cents, he said. “Is that enough to take a look? Sure, said the farmer. And with that he let out a whistle and called out Dolly. Here Dolly! Out from the doghouse and down the ramp ran Dolly followed by four little balls of fur. The little boy’s eyes danced with delight. But as the dogs made their way to the fence, the little boy noticedsomething else making a stirinside the doghouse. Slowly another little ball appeared, this one noticeably smaller. Down the ramp it slid. Then in a awkward manner, the little pup began hobbling toward the others, doing its best to catch up I want that one, the little boy said, pointing to the runt. The farmer knelt down at the boys side and said, Son, you dont want that puppy. He will never be able to run and play with you like these other dogs would. With that the little boy stepped back from the fence, reached down, and began rolling up one leg of his trousers. As he did so,he revealed a steel brace running down both sides of his leg attaching itself to a specially-made shoe. Looking back up at the farmer, he said, You see sir, I dont run too well myself, and he will need someone who understands. With tears in his eyes, the farmer reached down and picked up the little pup. Holding it carefully he handed it to the little boy. How much? asked the little boy. No charge, answered the farmer, Theres no charge for love. Read more: http://www.faithit.com The post This Farmer Told the Little Boy Not to Buy the Disabled Dog. The Boys Reply? Priceless. appeared first on DogVirals.com - Funny Dog Pics & Videos. from http://www.dogvirals.com/this-farmer-told-the-little-boy-not-to-buy-the-disabled-dog-the-boys-reply-priceless/ When you’re a famous YouTuber, and sharing the fame with your dogs, you kind of can expect for them to get some hate too. It’s part of the job (unfortunately), and what better way to deal with them then to debunk them all? Or you could embrace them and have a laughor two as well.
Read more: http://www.viralviralvideos.com The post The Dogs Of The Internet Have To Suffer Through Mean Comments Too appeared first on DogVirals.com - Funny Dog Pics & Videos. from http://www.dogvirals.com/the-dogs-of-the-internet-have-to-suffer-through-mean-comments-too-2/ How hard do you think terrorists laugh at people who think the only way to stop them is by refusing to be scared of them? Seriously, this hasn’t exactly worked out so hot over the past two decades; no matter how many people refuse to be fearful the terrorists keep on killing innocents. Remember when the Left said they just needed jobs? HA! And then there’s this:
Read more: http://twitchy.com/ The post Move over Mad Dog Mattis! Jenna Jameson has a BRUTAL suggestion for defeating terrorism appeared first on DogVirals.com - Funny Dog Pics & Videos. from http://www.dogvirals.com/move-over-mad-dog-mattis-jenna-jameson-has-a-brutal-suggestion-for-defeating-terrorism-2/ Do you remember in sex education when the teacher was informing you about how to practice safe sex to avoid pregnancy or STDs, and then said if you really want to be safe then the best thing to do is just have sex with your dog? No, nor do I, but this seems to be the screwed up advice that this girl is offering. It has to be fake, right? Surely this girl is tolling us. We hope so, but it’s kind of hard to tell. She nonchalantly reels of the ten reasons why you should have sex with a caninewhilst giggling and stroking her dog. Reasons include it being legal in some states, it’s convenient, it’s safe, and it’s been happening for hundreds of years. To top it all of she says that dogs don’t complain. Seriously, she has to be trolling us. Someone please buy her a vibrator for Christmas. –> The post Weird Girl Explains Why Women Should Have Sex With Dogs appeared first on DogVirals.com - Funny Dog Pics & Videos. from http://www.dogvirals.com/weird-girl-explains-why-women-should-have-sex-with-dogs-2/ Read more: https://imgflip.com/ The post When It’s Not A Hotdog….It’s A Cold Dog appeared first on DogVirals.com - Funny Dog Pics & Videos. from http://www.dogvirals.com/when-its-not-a-hotdog-its-a-cold-dog-2/ If you’re old, sick, or disabled, we have the perfect solution for you: Get a dog! Of course, that’s our solution for every problem, but an educated service dog might work especially well in your case. Humans have been breeding dogs for thousands of years for every dumbshit task we no longer feel like doing ourselves, but it wasn’t until the past century that we began training them to help people with physical or mental disabilities who can’t manage their daily lives alone. We sat down with a few people who train service dogs, as well as a few who own service dogs and rely on them every day. As usual, what we discovered is more interesting — and more ridiculous — than we would have guessed … #6. You Can Bring Your Pet Anywhere — If You Call It A Service AnimalService dogs are allowed to go places that normally do not allow animals, such as planes, restaurants, the movie theater, and Discovery Zone. They’re allowed this special privilege because they’ve been trained and certified as official helper animals. But, let’s say you want to bring your bulldog or condor or whatever into the movie theater with you — how do you go about getting them certified as helper animals? Well, here’s how to do it: 1) Get a sheet of paper; 2) write “THIS IS A SERVICE DOG” on it in crayon. Your new document means exactly as much as any service dog certificate. Yeah, “certifications” can be purchased online for a fee, even if your dog has no training whatsoever. As a result, when you see someone with a supposed service animal, it might be specially trained to help them with a legitimate disorder. It might be an “emotional support animal” for a bullshit problem they made up. Or, it might be any random pet because the owner may be an asshole. And that majorly pisses off people such as Colin Wong, who genuinely needs his guide dog every time he leaves the house. Colin recalls going to a department store one time with his dog, Wednesday, whom he got from Guide Dogs for the Blind, and getting attacked by another dog patrolling the aisles. Stories of guide dogs getting mauled by other dogs are disturbingly common, because of people like the owner of the dog who attacked Wednesday. That owner insisted it was normal for his “service dog” to attack other dogs all the time. “It’s clearly not your service dog!” countered Colin. “Service dogs are conditioned not to attack other dogs. That’s like day one of service dog school!” Day two is conditioning them not to set up illegal cock-fighting rings. Unfortunately, thanks to fraud service dogs, there is some mistrust of all people with service animals, even legitimate ones. Wednesday escapes scrutiny because Colin is clearly blind, as is obvious to anyone who doesn’t share his disability. But let’s next introduce you to Raven Richard-Bordeau, who gets harassed all the time about Dyson, his Mexican hairless dog who accompanies him wherever he goes. Raven has clinically diagnosed depression and anxiety, and doctors recognize his need for a companion animal such as Dyson, but that doesn’t stop store clerks and restaurant hostesses from constantly calling shenanigans on him. They routinely ask him to produce Dyson’s certification papers. Dyson does have a certificate, but Raven doesn’t carry it around on his person everywhere he goes, and you’re legally not allowed to demand to see it. Although, if you get caught with a fake service animal in the state of Florida, you can be thrown in jail for your dickitry, so maybe bring along the certificate just in case. “I’m sorry, but that dog looks Kenyan, ma’am.” #5. Some Service Dogs Can Smell Medical ConditionsNot all service dogs lead people safely through traffic or keep them from having a panic attack in a public place. Dogs have a sense of smell that borders on magic, and various law enforcement agencies have been using them for years to sniff out illegal drugs, bomb-making materials, and unregistered mutants. Sherry Mers, a dog trainer from Colorado, recognized the potential for service dogs to be used to sniff out common fatal allergens such as peanuts. Pretty soon, her dogs were licensed as medical service animals and were accompanying kids to school to sniff out and steer them from any toxic allergens. Except, well, some families claim their service dogs they got can’t spot peanuts at all, so, um, maybe test your pooch out before shelling out the 20 grand to bring one home. And once they’re out of the packaging, they lose all value. Other medical service dogs are trained to sniff out things that we didn’t even know had a scent. For example, hypo alert dogs are trained to detect when a diabetic’s blood glucose goes too high or low. “The running theory,” says Raven, “is they can smell or otherwise sense the changes in their person’s sugar levels,” but no one exactly understands what’s going on here. Scientists have tried their own means of measuring blood sugar noninvasively using a breathalyzer, but we haven’t quite hammered out the kinks yet, forcing diabetics to constantly stab themselves with needles in order to test themselves. Yet, medical service dogs can detect blood sugar quicker and more accurately than even our best machines with just their noses. And they alert you to danger by licking you awake, which is a function that most medical devices will not perform. And then we have dogs such as Patra, a rottweiler/German shepherd mix from Missouri who could sense when her owner is about to have a seizure. She would warn her owner with an urgent nudge behind the knee 15 minutes before an impending seizure (some other seizure dogs are able to sense it hours beforehand). Nobody trains dogs to do this — some of them are just born with the ability. Seizures suck, but getting a heads up and As for the others, well … #4. Some Dogs Are Too Stupid To Be Service AnimalsAs with any program that requires hundreds of hours of demanding training, there are some washouts who can’t make the cut. Take Virgil the chocolate poodle, who spent much of 2012 training as an assistance dog for autistic kids. Virgil seemed to do fine in preliminary classes, but then the final exam rolled around, overseen by an administrator flown in from another city and held in a million-square-foot suburban mall on a Saturday afternoon. This is a less-than-ideal set of circumstances for all but the most obedient of dogs — a fact that Virgil emphatically proved by thunderously failing his exam. The first part of the test, recalls his trainer Francey, consisted of basic commands, and a bunch of kids running around the mall proved much too distracting for Virgil’s concentration. Next came “behavioral obedience,” which consisted of the examiner dropping a scoop of ice cream next to the dog’s tail to see if he could resist eating it, which Virgil could not. Then came the part of the test wherein Virgil had to walk without Francey to see how he handled the separation, while Francey observed from a distance. Virgil responded by taking a shuddering dump on the shiny linoleum floor, which is an immediate disqualification (the vest that service animals wear is supposed to impart on them that it’s not pooping time, and that’s a big reason they’re allowed places other animals aren’t). He’s still a good boy — just not at that job. And so the career of Virgil the service dog came to a sudden, irrevocable end. Nowadays, he attacks hair clips and barks at toothbrushes as a D-list YouTube celebrity, which honestly is a better career trajectory than any human being who has shit themselves in public could expect. Keep in mind, their standards for behavior have to be high because some of these dogs are in charge of saving their owners’ lives. For instance … If you’re old, sick, or disabled, we have the perfect solution for you: Get a dog! Of course, that’s our solution for every problem, but an educated service dog might work especially well in your case. Humans have been breeding dogs for thousands of years for every dumbshit task we no longer feel like doing ourselves, but it wasn’t until the past century that we began training them to help people with physical or mental disabilities who can’t manage their daily lives alone. We sat down with a few people who train service dogs, as well as a few who own service dogs and rely on them every day. As usual, what we discovered is more interesting — and more ridiculous — than we would have guessed … #6. You Can Bring Your Pet Anywhere — If You Call It A Service AnimalService dogs are allowed to go places that normally do not allow animals, such as planes, restaurants, the movie theater, and Discovery Zone. They’re allowed this special privilege because they’ve been trained and certified as official helper animals. But, let’s say you want to bring your bulldog or condor or whatever into the movie theater with you — how do you go about getting them certified as helper animals? Well, here’s how to do it: 1) Get a sheet of paper; 2) write “THIS IS A SERVICE DOG” on it in crayon. Your new document means exactly as much as any service dog certificate. Yeah, “certifications” can be purchased online for a fee, even if your dog has no training whatsoever. As a result, when you see someone with a supposed service animal, it might be specially trained to help them with a legitimate disorder. It might be an “emotional support animal” for a bullshit problem they made up. Or, it might be any random pet because the owner may be an asshole. And that majorly pisses off people such as Colin Wong, who genuinely needs his guide dog every time he leaves the house. Colin recalls going to a department store one time with his dog, Wednesday, whom he got from Guide Dogs for the Blind, and getting attacked by another dog patrolling the aisles. Stories of guide dogs getting mauled by other dogs are disturbingly common, because of people like the owner of the dog who attacked Wednesday. That owner insisted it was normal for his “service dog” to attack other dogs all the time. “It’s clearly not your service dog!” countered Colin. “Service dogs are conditioned not to attack other dogs. That’s like day one of service dog school!” Day two is conditioning them not to set up illegal cock-fighting rings. Unfortunately, thanks to fraud service dogs, there is some mistrust of all people with service animals, even legitimate ones. Wednesday escapes scrutiny because Colin is clearly blind, as is obvious to anyone who doesn’t share his disability. But let’s next introduce you to Raven Richard-Bordeau, who gets harassed all the time about Dyson, his Mexican hairless dog who accompanies him wherever he goes. Raven has clinically diagnosed depression and anxiety, and doctors recognize his need for a companion animal such as Dyson, but that doesn’t stop store clerks and restaurant hostesses from constantly calling shenanigans on him. They routinely ask him to produce Dyson’s certification papers. Dyson does have a certificate, but Raven doesn’t carry it around on his person everywhere he goes, and you’re legally not allowed to demand to see it. Although, if you get caught with a fake service animal in the state of Florida, you can be thrown in jail for your dickitry, so maybe bring along the certificate just in case. “I’m sorry, but that dog looks Kenyan, ma’am.” #5. Some Service Dogs Can Smell Medical ConditionsNot all service dogs lead people safely through traffic or keep them from having a panic attack in a public place. Dogs have a sense of smell that borders on magic, and various law enforcement agencies have been using them for years to sniff out illegal drugs, bomb-making materials, and unregistered mutants. Sherry Mers, a dog trainer from Colorado, recognized the potential for service dogs to be used to sniff out common fatal allergens such as peanuts. Pretty soon, her dogs were licensed as medical service animals and were accompanying kids to school to sniff out and steer them from any toxic allergens. Except, well, some families claim their service dogs they got can’t spot peanuts at all, so, um, maybe test your pooch out before shelling out the 20 grand to bring one home. And once they’re out of the packaging, they lose all value. Other medical service dogs are trained to sniff out things that we didn’t even know had a scent. For example, hypo alert dogs are trained to detect when a diabetic’s blood glucose goes too high or low. “The running theory,” says Raven, “is they can smell or otherwise sense the changes in their person’s sugar levels,” but no one exactly understands what’s going on here. Scientists have tried their own means of measuring blood sugar noninvasively using a breathalyzer, but we haven’t quite hammered out the kinks yet, forcing diabetics to constantly stab themselves with needles in order to test themselves. Yet, medical service dogs can detect blood sugar quicker and more accurately than even our best machines with just their noses. And they alert you to danger by licking you awake, which is a function that most medical devices will not perform. And then we have dogs such as Patra, a rottweiler/German shepherd mix from Missouri who could sense when her owner is about to have a seizure. She would warn her owner with an urgent nudge behind the knee 15 minutes before an impending seizure (some other seizure dogs are able to sense it hours beforehand). Nobody trains dogs to do this — some of them are just born with the ability. Seizures suck, but getting a heads up and As for the others, well … #4. Some Dogs Are Too Stupid To Be Service AnimalsAs with any program that requires hundreds of hours of demanding training, there are some washouts who can’t make the cut. Take Virgil the chocolate poodle, who spent much of 2012 training as an assistance dog for autistic kids. Virgil seemed to do fine in preliminary classes, but then the final exam rolled around, overseen by an administrator flown in from another city and held in a million-square-foot suburban mall on a Saturday afternoon. This is a less-than-ideal set of circumstances for all but the most obedient of dogs — a fact that Virgil emphatically proved by thunderously failing his exam. The first part of the test, recalls his trainer Francey, consisted of basic commands, and a bunch of kids running around the mall proved much too distracting for Virgil’s concentration. Next came “behavioral obedience,” which consisted of the examiner dropping a scoop of ice cream next to the dog’s tail to see if he could resist eating it, which Virgil could not. Then came the part of the test wherein Virgil had to walk without Francey to see how he handled the separation, while Francey observed from a distance. Virgil responded by taking a shuddering dump on the shiny linoleum floor, which is an immediate disqualification (the vest that service animals wear is supposed to impart on them that it’s not pooping time, and that’s a big reason they’re allowed places other animals aren’t). He’s still a good boy — just not at that job. And so the career of Virgil the service dog came to a sudden, irrevocable end. Nowadays, he attacks hair clips and barks at toothbrushes as a D-list YouTube celebrity, which honestly is a better career trajectory than any human being who has shit themselves in public could expect. Keep in mind, their standards for behavior have to be high because some of these dogs are in charge of saving their owners’ lives. For instance … Read more: http://www.cracked.com/ The post 6 Things You Learn Training, And Owning, Service Dogs appeared first on DogVirals.com - Funny Dog Pics & Videos. from http://www.dogvirals.com/6-things-you-learn-training-and-owning-service-dogs-2/
Read more: http://twitchy.com/ The post ‘Go eat dog d*cks’: Bret Stephens’ debut column for the NYT has liberals MELTING DOWN appeared first on DogVirals.com - Funny Dog Pics & Videos. from http://www.dogvirals.com/go-eat-dog-dcks-bret-stephens-debut-column-for-the-nyt-has-liberals-melting-down-2/ The internet loves dogs. It does not, by and large, love cops. Well, if you Google “cop shoots dog,” you’ll see a shitload of headlines perfect for internet outrage: Google Depending on your friends, it can be hard to go more than a week or two without seeing one of these awful stories show up on Facebook. So, what the hell is going on here? Is it really that common? If so, why are so many cops shooting dogs? We sat down with a woman named Tiffanie, who nearly went to jail for putting her own body between a state trooper’s gun and her beloved dog, as well as a veteran police officer, in order to get his take. It turns out that … 5Police Shoot Pet Dogs … A Lot There’s no exact count for how many dogs are killed by police every year, though, in 2014, an official with the Department Of Justice declared the shooting of dogs by police an “epidemic.” But, hell, no one really knows how many human beings are killed by cops each year, so it’s not exactly surprising that we’re even less sure about man’s best friend. Still, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) estimates that as many as half of all police firearm discharges involve a dog. When we brought that statistic up to “Tim,” a police officer for 16 years, he said that sounded about right. 805promo/iStock/Getty Images So, why would police get into so many gun battles with canines? Well, for one thing, the threshold for an officer to fire on a dog is ridiculously low: If the cop feels threatened, he’s justified in shooting. That sounds reasonable on the surface, but you have to realize how low the threshold is for “threatening” behavior in some of these cases. Our source, Tiffanie, learned that firsthand when the state police showed up at her house for a domestic disturbance. This wasn’t some situation where they were confronted by a snarling pit bull protecting a drug den — it was her family dog, chained up in the front yard, barking at strangers the way dogs do. And it’s not like the police were there because of the dog — there had just been an argument between her stepfather-in-law and a neighbor. The situation was pretty much under control when the cops arrived. One of the troopers walked onto Tiffanie’s lawn (heading toward the house to get her stepfather-in-law’s driver’s license) and past her dog Buddy. Buddy, in normal dog fashion, “started barking at him and wagging his tail, which just means, ‘Warning! This is my family!'” Buddy was chained to a pole, but the trooper either didn’t care or just didn’t notice. Tiffanie Hupp / Facebook Tiffanie was standing in the yard with her 3-year-old son. The trooper yelled for someone to “control the dog” and drew his gun. Tiffanie told us, “I just looked over, and I see a gun pointed at Buddy, so I step in between the trooper and Buddy.” And that’s when shit went awry. 4Many Cops Find Dogs Fucking Terrifying First of all, you don’t have to take Tiffanie’s word for what happened — the whole thing was captured on video. You’ll see where, right after arriving, the trooper had his gun drawn (gangster style, it seems) and pointed at Buddy. Randall Hupp This probably seems super-duper fucked up to all the animal lovers out there in the audience. Tim didn’t endorse or condemn the trooper’s reaction here, but he did provide some context for how your thinking toward canines changes on the job. For one thing, it’s not uncommon for drug dealers to keep very large, ill-tempered dogs as guard animals, ” … the first things a lot of raids encounter is a dog, and there’s not a lot of time to ascertain if it’s a nice dog or not … so, they put it down.” When they approached Tiffanie’s dog, there might have been some, uh, profiling involved. Randall Hupp Tim also shared this nightmare of a story from his time walking the mean streets of Baltimore: “I did see a woman get her arm ripped off at the elbow … she was just running, I think it was a rottweiler — it came out of the woods, appeared out of nowhere, grabbed her arm, and did an alligator twist until it was … dangling from like, flesh. And then the dog was gone.” It should also be noted that cops are human beings and, as a result, tend to be dog lovers under other circumstances. Meaning, they don’t enjoy shooting a dog any more than you would. Tim told us of one altercation with an aggressive pit bull, “who was acting all fucked up … no one would get out of their cars. It came out over the radio to put it down … I think someone had already been bitten. The one guy who did have a shotgun … he unloaded it and took off one of its legs. It was like nothing happened — this dog attacked, [the officer] proceeded to get on top of his car, fire … and missed. And throughout all this, there’s another officer crying his eyes out, ‘Don’t shoot him, don’t shoot him!'” That dog was eventually put down. The officer who did it was depressed for weeks, even though the scenario sounds like something out of the third act of a Cujo sequel. So, there’s one side of the coin. Then, Officer Tim also told us the story of one of his fellow officers, Jeffrey Bolger, who cut a dog’s throat on a crowded street for no good reason. To try to erase that mental image, here’s some cops rescuing a puppy from a stolen car: In Tim’s opinion, it just comes down to fear. “I know a lot of guys who seem to have a phobia … you can totally have this job and have an unreasonable fear of dogs.” When you combine that (sometimes irrational) fear with a person who has deadly force as an option — with little chance of facing consequences for using it — you get situations like this. Fortunately, Tiffanie’s dog was not shot. Unfortunately, she very nearly was. 3Police Do Not Like Being Confronted kzenon/iStock/Getty Images Tiffanie loves her dog, Buddy — enough that she didn’t think twice before putting her body between him and a loaded gun. Randall Hupp If you have a dog that you love and consider to be a part of the family, you probably sympathize with her. Still, rushing a goddamned cop with his gun drawn is a horrible idea, even if it’s, say, one of those guns they use to fire T-shirts at sporting events. This was the kind that fires bullets. The trooper didn’t open fire, but he did decide to try out his judo on Tiffanie: Yeah, he’s not great at judo. But, he was able to handcuff and arrest her. “He said I was cussing him out when I stepped in between him [and the dog]. My words were, ‘Not on this property; I will take a bullet for this dog’ … That’s when he starts shaking me and pulling me backward … swinging me around to the police cruiser to arrest me.” And then, when they were in the cruiser, “he even said … that I was about got shot then and there. He was just about to pull the trigger.” Shortly after arresting Tiffanie, the trooper realized he had been filmed. As you might guess, he did not react to this development with quiet stoicism … 2Some Police Officers Reeeeally Hate Being Filmed John Moore/Getty Images News/Getty Images It was Tiffanie’s husband who made the decision to start filming as soon as the police arrived. Your right to film the police making an arrest, or doing whatever, has generally been upheld by the courts. But, that’s not always the case, and it’s not uncommon for really pissed-off officers to arrest the people filming them. The trooper didn’t try to cuff Tiffanie’s husband, but he did “walk inside and ask for everyone’s phones … he just starts grabbing every phone and charger he could find.” Randall Hupp They took the phones and kept them. Yes, the police can do that. “They said they had probable cause to take them, because it was used for a crime. I have no idea [what crime]. He wouldn’t tell me. He wouldn’t even tell me why I was being arrested … After I got out … I bugged them every day for a month, two months, until I got those phones back.” During that time, the department was trying to get into the family’s phones, which were password-protected (yes, just like in the San Bernardino shooting case). “They said we would get our phones a lot sooner if we gave them our passwords … otherwise, they would have to take the phones to forensics, and it would take us a couple months to get our phones back.” Tiffanie and her family opted to wait, rather than give the local PD access and, possibly, the ability to delete the video. kieferpix/iStock/Getty Images They did eventually get the phones back. In the meantime, Tiffanie was charged with obstructing an officer in his “duties,” a word that here apparently means “shooting the shit out of a tied-up dog.” It was a good thing, because … 1Sometimes, The Internet Is Your Only Hope moodboard/moodboard/Getty Images Tiffanie went to trial. She was assigned a public defender because, in our great society, every man, woman, and child is entitled to free legal representation when charged with a crime. That doesn’t, however, mean the deck isn’t still stacked horribly against you. “I found out [the public defender’s] husband was the state trooper’s boss. He works for the state police department.” She requested a new lawyer based on what she saw as a conflict of interest — her request was denied. At that point, Tiffanie says the public defender advised her not to release the video and urged her to take a plea bargain, warning “… if I was to choose not guilty, that I was facing a year in jail, plus the fine.” Wavebreakmedia/iStock/Getty Images The trooper had actually listed “obstructing an officer” and “battery” on the charge sheet. The judge, says Tiffanie, “made the other trooper scratch that out in front of him.” Still, she was facing a serious charge against a police officer and in a court system that overwhelmingly sides with them. It was her word against his … until she posted the video to YouTube, where it immediately made a splash on a blog dedicated to this kind of thing: Photography Is Not A Crime A private attorney named David Shiles was shown the video by his wife, and he roared in to represent Tiffanie. The trooper’s position was that he was reacting to the dog as he was trained to and that Tiffanie had raised her arms as if to assault him somehow. We know from the video that second part isn’t true. As for the first part? Well, in Baltimore, a city with an estimated shitload of dogs, Officer Tim told us he received “absolutely zero training” in how to deal with them. More departments have started training their cops to deal with dogs via something besides shooting them repeatedly, but most of these changes are super recent, and we’re guessing a lot more dogs are going to heaven before this problem gets any better. Mark Makela/Getty Images News/Getty Images Anyway, thanks to the video, the jury only needed 30 minutes to acquit Tiffanie. The trooper involved went right back to work because he had apparently done everything by the book. So, while it’s true that pulling out your phone to start filming the moment you see a police officer is a good way to piss them off, it’s also really hard to argue against it. All things being equal, juries will simply tend to believe the word of a uniformed officer on the witness stand over that of some random nobody. A video record is often the only chance to tilt the case in your favor (assuming, you know, the video doesn’t show you launching yourself at the officer holding a machete or something). So, it’s all over now … aside from the fact that Tiffanie’s son is now terrified of the police, having watched them almost shoot his dog and then throw his mom to the ground. “It’s like seeing a boogie man. And he gets scared that they’re going to take mommy away again.” Robert Evans runs the Cracked Personal Experience article section. His book A Brief History of Vice, features guides to recreating strange and ancient narcotics. It’s available for pre-order now. Have a story to share with Cracked? Email us here. Deep inside us all — behind our political leanings, our moral codes, and our private biases — there is a cause so colossally stupid that we surprise ourselves with how much we care. Whether it’s toilet paper position, fedoras on men, or Oxford commas, we each harbor a preference so powerful we can’t help but proselytize to the world. 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