Boy attacked by pet crocodile:
Earlier this week a 12-year-old boy survived an attack by a crocodile that was being kept as a pet on the Philippine island of Mindanao. The seven-foot reptile bit little Ramon Palmares on the arm after the boy poked it and threw pebbles, said officials in Cotabato City. It is of course illegal to keep wildlife as pets according to Philippine law and an international convention on endangered species, so the crocodile and his friend, a pet python living in the same house, were confiscated by authorities and their owner will be charged with violating the wildlife law and endangering children. He will likely also be sued by the injured boy’s parents. The way we see it, it’s just too bad that the crocodile can’t sue his guardian for illegal imprisonment, and the boy for assault! At the very least he should be able to plead self-defense!
Human run over by dog:
A police dog named Ranger in Ogden, Utah was left in a pickup truck with the engine running so that he would have air conditioning while his handler responded to a domestic disturbance call, and apparently knocked the vehicle into gear and ran a woman down. Mary F. Stone, 41, was hospitalized with a fractured pelvis and tailbone.
The police man said Ranger must have hit the shift on the steering column, putting the automatic transmission into gear. As the truck slowly rolled forward, police officers yelled to Stone, but she couldn’t get out of the way in time. A front and rear tire ran over her. “She had tire marks on her clothes,” her husband said. Then the truck then went through the Stones’ yard and struck a vehicle in the driveway. Afterward police were trying to determine if there might have been some malfunction that would have allowed the gear shift to be moved easily.
The way we see it, that’s some kind of malfunction.. you usually have to pull back pretty hard on a standard gear shift then push it down, and in many models you have to put a foot (not a paw) on the brake. We suspect foul play! But just in case something like this happens to you, you may want to get your dog a drivers license.
And for those long drives be sure he takes along some bacon flavored, bottled water to quench his thirst. A man in Australia, Andrew Larkey, is behind the brilliant idea to distribute “Aqua Dog,” in beef, chicken, and bacon flavors. He said the idea was obvious since clearly the fastest growing markets in supermarkets and stores everywhere were bottled water for humans and high-value pet treats. Selling for nearly 3 dollars (2.20 US dollars) per bottle, the canine drink is more expensive than mineral water for humans. But in a nation of dog lovers, it is flying off the shelves. He will probably be a very rich man soon!
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