DumbTruckDriver
Allergic to cardboard.
If that were true in every case, there would be no dogs running loose with the possibility of being run over.
Driver runs over dog in driveway - Leaves note
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Wally
BrownCafe Innovator & King of Puns
Property.
burrheadd
KING Of GIFS
The article from Cheryl's post looks like the chick is sending in her "glamour shots" photos of herself, instead of family photo's of her dog...
anyways, a small town here enacted a new city ordinance last year
Guthrie ordinance amendment makes drivers accountable if animal is struck by vehicle
http://guthrienewspage.com/2016/09/...s-accountable-if-animal-is-struck-by-vehicle/
anyways, a small town here enacted a new city ordinance last year
Guthrie ordinance amendment makes drivers accountable if animal is struck by vehicle
http://guthrienewspage.com/2016/09/...s-accountable-if-animal-is-struck-by-vehicle/
Why in the world isn't the irresponsible dog owner accountable???
are you talking about the ordinance I posted?
burrheadd
KING Of GIFS
Scoop it up in a dr bag
And throw it on the bar-b when you get back to the bldg
Boss supplies the beers
Poop Head
Judge me.
Notify management.
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Yes, didn't read the whole thing, so if I missed anything...
I think... If a dog gets run over ANYWHERE, driveway, road, whatever.... then the OWNER should be held accountable. The OWNER did not have control of the animal, which led to its demise.
here's the ordinance
CHAPTER 3, ARTICLE 4, SECTION 3-51: DUTY OF DRIVER UPON STRIKING A PET ANIMAL TO BE ADDED AS FOLLOWS:
Duty of Driver upon Striking a Pet Animal:
Every operator of a self-propelled vehicle upon the ways of this State open to the public shall immediately upon injuring or striking a pet animal shall give aid to such animal or immediately notify the Animal Control Officer or Police Officer, furnishing sufficient facts relative to such injury. Any person violating this section is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum fine of two hundred dollars ($200).
here's the kicker...
“Pet animal” means any animal sold or kept for the purpose of being kept or domesticated as a household pet. Pet animal includes but is not limited to dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, ferrets, hamsters, guinea pigs, gerbils, rats, mice, nonpoisonous arachnids, non-poisonous insects, non-venomous snakes and fish.
Wally
BrownCafe Innovator & King of Puns
Now you talkin' crazy! Personal responsibility? Come on, get with generation Snowflake!
AlliSeeisBrown
Well-Known Member
I don't mess with dogs anymore after I got bit. Had a loose dog in a customers yard hop into the cab while I was trying to turn around and I sidekicked it all the way out of the cab and the customer came out screaming. Gave her the center number.
Same here.
No You should have stopped the vehicle, until someone came and got the dog, So the rest of my career, I sat and waited until someone retrieved a dog if I saw one, anywhere near me, loose.
oldupsman
Well-Known Member
No toonertoo the owners were never home, they were at work. They simply let the dog outside all day untied and unfenced.
Everybody knew it. The cops knew it. And this dog chased every vehicle that came down the road. I know that's hard
to believe. It's the truth. It was just a matter of time until it got hit. It just happened to be me.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
She have peanut butter legs?
J
jibbs
Guest
Nah, you just think you know. You're looking at the situation and drawing an inference from implications and circumstance, but you don't know because you didn't have the common courtesy to admit your actions to the owner's face.
That's pretty much the only way you could know for certain whether or not you took away a family's beloved pet, but you, my friend, just seem to be thinking "Well, I never heard of it again so it must not've mattered." You know what we call that kind of thought, right? There's even an old wordplay joke that goes with it, if you're pickin' up what I'm puttin' down. I mean, I understand completely how you can come to that conclusion but in conversations like this I like to refer back to that mind-shattering concept Pulp Fiction introduced me to: "The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence." Just because nobody told you they were hurt when their pet died doesn't mean they weren't hurt, it simply means they didn't tell you one way or the other. Any conclusion you draw past that is simply an educated guess until you have concrete evidence confirming either/or (i.e. "Yeah, dude, thanks, that dog was a pain in the ass," or, ::revves up the chainsaw and charges you:: )
I'll be honest, though, this really isn't as big of a deal as I'm making it seem to me. When I first read the thread I couldn't help but view it from the owners' perspective and kind of blocked out how a career-driver might look at the situation after decades of dealing with the ish. I'm starting to see why problematic animals on your route might not get any sympathy when it comes to accidental deaths. Just want to put that out there.
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Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
That's totally driver dependent. I wouldn't give it a second thought. No different to me than hitting a turtle or squirrel in the road.
