Slog - Comments on That Clumsy Homeless Man Must Have Provoked That Dog Somehow

Comment by w7ngman

w7ngman — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:38:34 -0800

I, like, totally saw a black person smoking weed in a bus shelter this morning.

Comment by Mr. Poe

Mr. Poe — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:41:48 -0800

I just took a dump.

Comment by tiffany

tiffany — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:45:33 -0800

do not want!

Comment by w7ngman fan

w7ngman fan — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:49:21 -0800

@1
That was me, snowflake.

Comment by K

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:51:20 -0800

The other problem is that if we did ban pit bulls, owners of aggressive pets would simply find another breed of dog to neglect, underfeed, and make aggressive.

And then Dan would be calling for us to ban those, too, and so on, until all dogs were banned, then all four-legged animals...

Or we could ensure that domestic animals were treated properly, n' stuff.

Comment by jrrrl

jrrrl — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:56:15 -0800

@5, so we need to stop allowing people to take their dogs on the sidewalk? is that the neglect you're talking about? i don't see any other neglect.

in the US pit bull bans have worked great and you're completely wrong. dangerous bites in denver are down to practically zero because of the pit bull ban.

Comment by elenchos

elenchos — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:59:23 -0800

This definitely calls for a really stupid law.

Something approximately as retarded as banning driving with handheld cell phones but not hands-free. Or that 25' smoking ban. I'm talking about the kind of pig ignorant law you can only get when media hype leads the charge.

Hey, what's Tim Eyman up to? Nobody can write a counterproductive new law like Tim can.

Comment by John Bailo

John Bailo — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:02:07 -0800

My asshole is bleeding - should I be concerned?

Comment by Matt Fuckin' Hickey

Matt Fuckin' Hickey — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:17:45 -0800

I'm against breed bans in principle, but we really don't have any other choice. We can try to keep the aggressive pitbulls from breeding and hope that future generations will be the loyal cuddly kind, but the problem is that most pitbulls are bred in people's homes by the kind of people who like them for their implication-of-violence reasons, so that would never work.

Since it can't be regulated, and it's dangerous, it should be banned. That does suck for pitbull owners, and I feel bad for them, but it's what needs to happen.

And for the record, I don't think all pitbulls are bad. I've met several that have been amazingly friendly, fun animals. But the problem remains that a large percentage -- maybe even a majority -- of pitbull owners are the types that like the fact that their loving pets could kill someone if it came down to it.

Two weeks ago I was at a house party. One of the housemates didn't like the fact that there was a house party going on that he wasn't told about. So he came out with his pitbull and sicced it on the crowd. When that didn't get everyone off his lawn, he went and got his AK-47. Some people are attracted to instruments of death, and in this guy's case it was guns and pitbulls. It's people like him that will get the breed banned.

Comment by brandon

brandon — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:42:04 -0800

"maybe even a majority" of them, you say? those are some pretty damning unscientific non-statistics you've got there. you've certainly made a breed ban believer out of me. off with their heads!

Comment by flamingbanjo

flamingbanjo — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:43:22 -0800

Isn't it already illegal to take non-guide dogs on the bus?

Comment by bus trivia

bus trivia — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:44:44 -0800

#11: No, take all the dogs you want on the bus as long as they're not those awful pit bulls I've been hearing about.

Comment by Bellevue Ave

Bellevue Ave — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:07:05 -0800

we dont have any other choice hickey?

i have a choice; stab a pitbull in the throat if it even so much looks at me cock-eyed. ice picks should be mandatory urban gear.

Comment by RonK, Seattle

RonK, Seattle — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:11:26 -0800

K @ 5 -- If we did ban pit bulls, owners of aggressive pets would simply bite us on the leg themselves.

Comment by keshmeshi

keshmeshi — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:35:48 -0800

@11,

Nope. Owners are supposed to pay a fare for large dogs, but I've rarely seen that enforced.

Comment by Alicia

Alicia — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:56:18 -0800

A pitbull and owner came on my bus the other day, and I got to thinking how much chaos would result in a cramped Metro atmosphere if one pitbull -- any pitbull, ever -- had that switch flipped while in transit. It makes me kinda want to agree with 13 about the icepicks.

Comment by ellarosa

ellarosa — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:19:15 -0800

i didn't think anything other than guide dogs were let onto buses. the breed is irrelevant, no?

and no, bailo, don't go to a doctor. just sit home eating anti-coagulants. or maybe apply leeches.