Weird story of the day. Pet dog pepper-sprayed, tasered and shot by police after attacking courier

[El Presidente]

 

Pet dog pepper-sprayed, tasered and shot by police after attacking courier

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-01/bundaberg-pet-dog-tasered-shot-by-queensland-police/11563308

 

Takeaways:

1.  Pepper Spray?  

2. "Chaos was in the vet last night to be treated for shock"        WHAT ABOUT THE BULLET WOUND!

 

Could this dog really have done anything wrong 

 

 

[Ritch]

Lucky dog. In the UK the police would have seized and destroyed it under dangerous dog laws. Whether or not it is a dangerous dog is open to debate as of course as the article states it was protecting the home as such, but nevertheless in the UK it would have been destroyed.

[nKostyan]

This is a puppy, I think he still not graduated from of special training, in this the reason. Couriers are a separate breed of people, I will not say anything. To police claims there is no, wasn that he could would determine that this puppy...

 

[Fuzz AI]

Absolutely ridiculous. Courier illegally trespassed on their property when he used the override switch on the gate. He should have been tasered and shot, not the dog.

[Wookie]

I hope the dog doesn't eat the kids for his next endeavor.

[Bri Fi]

The report doesn’t list any of the injuries the currier sustained, if any. Based on the information, The courier should not have entered the property. Not sure if the company relayed the information to leave packages without signatures.

The officer was probably dispatched to a dog attacking a person. There is no information available for this either. Was it a passer by that called it in? Was it the courier? Was it the home owner? You can imagine how each caller would report the information differently. Based on the information from the caller and what the officer sees when he first arrives on scene will determine action. 

This article is incomplete and leaves you with a couple pieces of the puzzle to lead you to believe the dog did nothing wrong, which could be true but still skewed. 

FYI: I love dogs and generally dislike people. 

[cigcars]

     *I'm sure you all know me by now enough to be familiar with my deep love of dogs, period. I will say this, however: puppy or no - and it wasn't a small puppy- this was a pit bull. They're temperament is to NEVER let go from a bite...no matter how much you beat, tase or kick them. To release a bite is anathema to them. I saw in a news snippet once about a pit bull that, by itself, KILLED A MOUNTAIN LION that had attacked two small girls belonging to his owner. A full grown cougar...killed it. That's a mighty tough dog! My own crazy-ass Jack Russell is a hard headed, insane enough joker to where before we finally adopted and put him in our yard had been pepper sprayed almost a dozen times by the mail man. He's one of these little jokers who likes to chase and bark at people's heels - and they never know if he's going to bite or not. I don't think he'd actually ever bitten anyone, but people don't know that. He'd do that to the mail man and of course for his protection he would pepper spray him. You'd think he'd know not to get that done to himself again...but no - right the next day mailman would come and Capt. Crazy would go "BOWOWOWOWOW!" at his heels and get sprayed again. He can't learn. I mean I'm really sorrowed at reading all the violence done to this dog under these circumstances. But at least it's going to live, right? I'm a dog lover to no end and have been all my childhood to adult life. But I do draw the line at having anything to do with dangerous dogs that can be unsafe even for their owners at times.

[Corylax18]

I always laugh when people tell me "bear spray" works better than a gun as protection when hunting. If pepper spray cant stop an angry dog, what makes people thing it will stop an angry 400+ lb bear?

That's a good dog. It sounds like this postman got what was coming to him. 

[Fuzz AI]

Couriers can see on their in-car system, and on the parcel delivery label, if a signature is required. If you need to break into somebody's property to deliver a parcel, then you have already breached company policy and also the law. If fences and locked electronic gates have not given you enough of a warning, then you are a moron. If you proceed to override the electronic gate to enter the premises, you get what you deserved.

The courier could just have left a "I was here but nobody was home" card and go on with his day.