Video of Cop shooting a pit bull -> Totally justified IMO (NSFW)

[boomhower]

Would he had shot the dog if it was a poodle?

A poodle isn't going to cause the same kind of damage. Now replace poodle with boxer, rot, pit, GS or any other dog of size that's acting in that manner and yes he should have.

 

[santz]

counterstrike..... the officer must surely be a pro at it.

 

[NFS4]

Would he had shot the dog if it was a poodle?

You can punt a miniature/toy poodle with your foot pretty easily (my parents had toy poodles when I was growing up and still do).

Standard poodles are pretty tame animals, and people who own standard poodles are usually sane enough to keep them properly secured.

 

[HAL9000]

counterstrike..... the officer must surely be a pro at it.

If he was he'd have duck jumped.

 

[gorcorps]

Serious question: Does OP know the meaning of "NSFW?"

Must be nice to work at such a free spirited place. Some of us don't have that luxury, and I appreciate the OP erring on the side of caution. That shit wouldn't stand at my job... something was openly killed in the video.

 

[Broheim]

A poodle isn't going to cause the same kind of damage. Now replace poodle with boxer, rot, pit, GS or any other dog of size that's acting in that manner and yes he should have.

actually poodles are some vicious fucking animals, I'd rather be attacked by a GSD than a poodle.

 

[TheVrolok]

actually poodles are some vicious fucking animals, I'd rather be attacked by a GSD than a poodle.

Disagree. 😛

 

[Broheim]

Disagree. 😛

I'm dead serious, a GSD restrains while a poodle mauls. Just ask former french president Jaque Chirac.

 

[halik]

He could have tried, he watched for 20 seconds before firing, he could have taken an additional 2 seconds to fire at the floor before shooting one of them.

Cops use guns as last resort lethal force, not "try shooting your gun and see if it scares them". The latter is illegal (menacing) for an ordinary person and likely result in a disciplinary action for the cop.

 

[lxskllr]

I've heard poodles can be real assholes, but I haven't been around many real poodles. Most have been the toy variety.

 

[TheVrolok]

I'm dead serious, a GSD restrains while a poodle mauls. Just ask former french president Jaque Chirac.

You might be serious, I still completely disagree.

 

[Pantlegz]

No, hard statistics:
http://dogbitelaw.com/images/pdf/Dog_Attacks_1982-2006_Clifton.pdf

Crossing the paths of a random pitbull, you have much much greater chance of being attacked than any other random dog.

you are wrong, they're wrong. I bet they just took the reported breed which was never verified. They claim that their stats are from press reports, but also verified breed by experts which I had a hard time believing because...

http://www.nationalcanineresearchcouncil.com/uploaded_files/tinymce/2010 DBRF Report FINAL_1.pdf

The media likes to report every dog attack as a pitbull attack with absolutely no verification of the breed. the link is only fatal attacks but look at the number that were reported as pitbull but it's clear what breed the dog is.

 

[Anubis]

happy to see there are some cops who can accurately fire their gun. pretty tight space there for a shot. normally you hear about cops firing 100 bullets and hitting nothing

 

[Broheim]

You might be serious, I still completely disagree.

 

[halik]

you are wrong, they're wrong. I bet they just took the reported breed which was never verified. They claim that their stats are from press reports, but also verified breed by experts which I had a hard time believing because...

http://www.nationalcanineresearchcouncil.com/uploaded_files/tinymce/2010 DBRF Report FINAL_1.pdf

The media likes to report every dog attack as a pitbull attack with absolutely no verification of the breed. the link is only fatal attacks but look at the number that were reported as pitbull but it's clear what breed the dog is.

So either there's a press&media, government and humane society conspiracy to make pitbulls appear orders of magnitude more responsible for attacks... or pitbulls cause more attacks then other breeds. Considering i haven't seen any studies to the contrary of the latter, Occham's razor applies.

 

[NFS4]

So either there's a press&media, government and humane society conspiracy to make pitbulls appear orders of magnitude more responsible for attacks... or pitbulls cause more attacks then other breeds. Considering i haven't seen any studies to the contrary of the latter, Occham's razor applies.

My friends on Facebook who keep posting this crap:

Also, I saw this posted somewhere, but don't know how accurate it is:

Ironically, all branches of the US military have banned Pit Bulls and Pit types as well as Rottweilers from military bases and housing.

 

[the DRIZZLE]

I'm dead serious, a GSD restrains while a poodle mauls. Just ask former french president Jaque Chirac.

I've seen some very territorial standard poodles and they can be pretty nasty. They are definitely not universally friendly to strangers like labs. Toy poodles seem to have a much different temperament than the standards.

 

[Anubis]

My friends on Facebook who keep posting this crap:

Also, I saw this posted somewhere, but don't know how accurate it is:

in my direct experience with 2 pure bread pitts its 100% accurate

 

[lxskllr]

I used to tie the boat on my car with my PFD on and attached river knife because of the stupid wise and beautiful woman that would inevitably walk by with her fuckin' pit bull. That asshole would start growling at me when I was crouched down tying rope. I will kill any dog that even looks like it will attack me. I held back once, and me and my work mate got bitten due to my inaction. Never again...

 

[mugs]

in my direct experience with 2 pure bread pitts its 100% accurate

Is a bread pitt like a Brad Pitt?

 

[Pantlegz]

So either there's a press&media, government and humane society conspiracy to make pitbulls appear orders of magnitude more responsible for attacks... or pitbulls cause more attacks then other breeds. Considering i haven't seen any studies to the contrary of the latter, Occham's razor applies.

What government and/or humane society research are you quoting? Or are you just saying words with absolutely nothing to back it up with? And I take it the NCRC link I posted doesn't count as a legit source 🙄 You haven't seen because you apparently haven't looked, I gave you a link to the last years data. You also have to take into consideration the owners of 'pitbulls' and how they're raised a well trained/raised pitbull is no more dangerous than any other breed. The press and media have done the same thing with other breeds of dogs in the past too, Dobermans/Rotts/German Shepard's among others have had their time in the spotlight as evil killers and nothing more. You can find aggressive animals of any breed that doesn't make them all bad.

I'm not sure you know what Occams razor is... what does you making blind accusations have to do with taking the path with the least hypothesizing? There is plenty of legitimate data out there says the exact opposite of what you're claiming but you have to look past the analysis of the research and find out where they're getting their data and how much of that data is verified and how it was verified. The link you posted has no crediability, I don't see a single source cited other than "data complied by the editor" - doesn't even say who the editor is.

in my direct experience with 2 pure bread pitts its 100% accurate

Same here, I've had a total of 4(2 pure, 2 mixed 1/2 pit) and knew many others that were raised in a nice friendly environment and are great animals.

 

[Broheim]

Same here, I've had a total of 4(2 pure, 2 mixed 1/2 pit) and knew many others that were raised in a nice friendly environment and are great animals.

they are great dogs when raised by responsible, experienced owners, but the breed unfortunatly attracts the kind of people that shouldn't even keep hamsters, combine that with the physique and instincts of the pit bull type dogs and you have a serious problem.

 

[HAL9000]

Cops use guns as last resort lethal force, not "try shooting your gun and see if it scares them". The latter is illegal (menacing) for an ordinary person and likely result in a disciplinary action for the cop.

That's moronic.

 

[NeoV]

I love it when people try to defend pit bulls, it's moronic, it's worse than people claiming that global warming is some kind of scam - now there is a media-driven attempt at blaming pit-bulls for every dog attack.....

People are going to be shitty dog owners very frequently.

If you are a shitty dog owner, and have you almost any breed of dog, that dog can be more dangerous than it would be for a good owner. The difference is that pit bulls, when they aren't raised/treated well, are simply more physically dangerous than other breeds - stronger, more agressive, more dangerous to other dogs and people.

This isn't some bias - there is a reason that pit bulls are the 'dog fighters' breed of choice.

 

[fatpat268]

Also, I saw this posted somewhere, but don't know how accurate it is:

Yup. I know for a fact that the army doesn't allow pits on Ft. Hood nearby. Not sure about rottweilers though.

But pits seem to be by far and away the most popular breed in the cities surrounding Ft Hood.