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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Cute Widdle Pit Bull Puppies

posted by on April 24 at 16:44 PM

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A 43-year-old man in Florida was found dead with the right side of his face eaten off and his ears chewed away, according to a Pasco County sheriff’s representative.

Paramedics responding to a home on Tuner Loop in Spring Hill called deputies after finding Daniel Dangelis’ body in a room at the home.

There were three pit-bull puppies near Dangelis’ body licking their faces, reported WTSP-TV in Tampa.

It goes without saying, of course, that no other breed of dog would ever, ever do such a thing.

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1

Any dog will eat a corpse. We're delicious!

Posted by joe mama | April 24, 2008 4:47 PM
2

actually it does happenk. the soft tissues of the face are what they will go for first


Posted by Jiberish | April 24, 2008 4:49 PM
3

Lock me in a room with no food and no means of escape and I'll chew your face off, Dan.

Posted by NapoleonXIV | April 24, 2008 4:51 PM
4

Damn but those are cute puppies tho.

Posted by Jahara | April 24, 2008 4:52 PM
5

Dan, you should know by now that I hate pit bulls as much as you do, but even I have to admit that just about any starving dog will do the same thing.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty | April 24, 2008 4:54 PM
6

They were saving other side of the face for leftovers.

Posted by eclexia | April 24, 2008 5:05 PM
7

"It goes without saying, of course, that no other breed of dog would ever, ever do such a thing."

I assume this was sarcasm, so I have to ask: what's the point of this post?

Posted by w7ngman | April 24, 2008 5:11 PM
8

Won't cats also make a meal of their dead owners?

Posted by PopTart | April 24, 2008 5:11 PM
9

Snark-bait.

Posted by NapoleonXIV | April 24, 2008 5:12 PM
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Posted by Yum Yum | April 24, 2008 5:28 PM
11

Isn't usually those little rat-breed dogs that eat their owners?

@8
Yes, cats eat people too.

Posted by Y.F. | April 24, 2008 5:37 PM
12

Remember the lady whose dog ate off half her face, forcing her to seek a face transplant? Yeah, dogs eat faces.

Posted by Jay | April 24, 2008 5:40 PM
13

My uncle was living in his camper in my grandfathers driveway. The kerosine heater catches on fire and my uncle scrambles in to extinguish it. Simultaneously a he catches his arm on something and tares away a HUGE chunk of flesh from his arm.

Well, the fire is extinguished, blood everywhere, now we are going to the hospital and sew the chunk of flesh back into his arm.

But where is the chunk of flesh? No, only an innoscent looking BLACK LABRADOR RETRIEVER!

Dan you're a jackass

Posted by OR Matt | April 24, 2008 6:09 PM
14

I will echo the call:

"Dan, what is the point of this post?"

Posted by Big Sven | April 24, 2008 6:12 PM
15

triple echo. is this just becoming a self-referencing joke for you, dan?

Posted by ellarosa | April 24, 2008 6:16 PM
16

uh, technically, it's a double echo, actually.

Posted by ellarosa | April 24, 2008 6:18 PM
17

I do so enjoy blind bigotry from someone who is in principle against bigotry. The face has a lot of oils, which is why MOST dogs try to lick faces. Starving dogs do generally eat the corpses of their owners if left to their own devices for a few days, face first.

Pomeranians have killed babies. Why not go after them?

Posted by Kat | April 24, 2008 6:22 PM
18

Cats eat their dead owners? Really? Well it's probably safe to assume that if I die in my home, nobody will know about it.

Posted by Mr. Poe | April 24, 2008 6:23 PM
19

I have this deep-rooted fear I'll die at home and no one will find me until the cats and dogs have starved to death.

Or they've eaten me.

As long as they don't get euthanized for the 'outrage', I hope it's the latter.

Probably safe to say any carnivore, when faced with starvation, will opt to eat what doesn't fight back.

Posted by Ayden | April 24, 2008 7:05 PM
20

Wasn't this a Nick Lowe song?

(Also, @17, I'm pretty sure that was on a Footballers Wives episode, and it was also hilarious.)

Posted by Abby | April 24, 2008 7:07 PM
21

Pit bulls should be made extinct. It would be the only humane thing to do. Yes, the gray is saying to the black and white that there is an answer regardless of who agrees or not (--Fifty Two Eighty). Sad or NOT, to say.

Posted by Mark in Colorado | April 24, 2008 7:52 PM
22

Is 'Dangelis' is of Korean extraction?

Posted by Ultimate Irony | April 24, 2008 8:12 PM
23

Cats are known to feast on the corpses of their dead owners at the first opportunity, whereas dogs will wait until they're starving to death. Also, there's this:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/702597/house_cat_eats_small_child/

Posted by collie | April 24, 2008 10:12 PM
24

dan, stop pushing unnecessary buttons.

Posted by pretentious | April 24, 2008 11:06 PM
25

If we just remember that all animals speak English, but are after all not as smart as people, it becomes easier to understand.

Faces
Feces

Simple mistake.

Posted by Jim | April 24, 2008 11:56 PM
26

Meat is meat to any carnivore or omnivore. Rats, cats, ferrets, dogs, etc. will all eat any carrion left lying around and basically that's all a dead human body is.

Posted by Gindy | April 25, 2008 4:09 AM
27

Chefs, for you quick fire challenge you are to take this corpse and prepare a delicious meal fit for three pit bull puppies. You can use anything in the Top Chef pantry but you have to use at least three parts of the corpse. You will have 30 minutes to complete this challenge. Time starts...NOW!!!

Posted by Padma L. | April 25, 2008 7:31 AM
28

This posts makes no sense. Anti-pit bull or not, the dude was drinking heavily and taking pills. He died (leaving the dogs without any care). Any hungry dog is going to eat what's available. In this case, soylent green.

Posted by Ryan | April 25, 2008 8:37 AM
29

That does it. Dan, you need to write and direct a horror movie centered around man-eating pit bull puppies.

Posted by K | April 25, 2008 9:03 AM
30

Cats will definitely eat you after the kid across the street has killed you. I saw it on CSI so it must be true. I just adopted two cats so they ought to be able to last until about 2013 on me.

Posted by Big_K | April 25, 2008 9:04 AM
31

ha! this is hilarious! why did dan post this? probably because there are over 30 comments already! maybe a little trollish... or maybe, you know, dan is poking fun of himself a little.

but he still got some great responses, like @17: I do so enjoy blind bigotry from someone who is in principle against bigotry.

yes! disliking pit bulls as pets is, like, the definition of bigotry! first, it's completely blind -- there is absolutely no reason to dislike pit bulls as pets! and second, there is no difference between having a pit bull as pet and sexual orientation! or race! that's right: having any animal as a pet is the same as your race and sexual orientation!

Posted by infrequent | April 25, 2008 11:30 AM
32

Don't go bringing bestiality into this, infrequent.

Posted by NapoleonXIV | April 25, 2008 11:40 AM
33

It is common place to spay or neuter pets, a necessary operation IMHO. Some people crop the ears or tails of dogs, something I find cruel. In reguard to Pit Bulls I wonder if anyone has tried to lobotomize one? If doing so would rid them of aggression it migh be a humane thing to do. A little more humane than putting them all to sleep.

Posted by Heather | April 25, 2008 11:46 AM
34

Mary Provost did not look her best
The day the cops bust into her lonely nest
In the cheap hotel up
on Hollywood West July 29
She'd been lyin' there
for two or three weeks
The neighbors said
they never heard a squeak
For hungry eyes that couid not speak
Said even little doggie's have got to eat

- Nick Lowe, "Mary Provost"

Posted by COMTE | April 25, 2008 12:49 PM
35

NapoleonXIV, bestiality makes me dizzy.

Posted by infrequent | April 25, 2008 12:53 PM
36

The only reason cats don't eat you when you're alive is that you're larger than they are. Don't get me wrong, I love them and find them beautiful. But the difference between dogs and cats is that every cat, to the individual animal, has murder on the brain. Pretty nearly all the time. Probably right now.

Posted by thelyamhound | April 25, 2008 2:45 PM
37

Huh... I guess it is possible to troll your own blog.

Posted by AnonymousCoward | April 28, 2008 11:50 AM

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