K9 Cop-Dog Dies in Car

[donkeyhoty]

Even if the dog had lived, the cop should've been fired for incompetence.

I wonder how many times he's had to call a fellow officer because he locked his keys in the car.

[Steve Reason]

Well he should clearly be fired for this, and if it was on purpose, he should be prosecuted.

[SteveS]

I wonder how many times he's had to call a fellow officer because he locked his keys in the car.

Many times.  It usually went something like....

Deputy Dewey: (on radio) Officer requests assistance from partner - I've locked my keys in the car.

Sergeant Pepper: Dufus, you don't need the radio, I'm standing right next to you!

Dewey: Oh.  I locked my keys in the car.

Pepper: Yeah, I know.  I heard you the first time.

Dewey: Well?  Then get your keys out and get us back in!

Pepper: Can't.

Dewey: Why not?

Pepper: I locked mine in there too.

Dewey: Dispatch, officers require assistance, please send backup.

Pepper: Dufus, you have to use the radio to talk to dispatch.

Dewey: You just told me not to use the radio!  Make up your mind!

 :wink:

[MommaSquid]

Update on officer status:

Lovejoy was arrested Sept. 5 by Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies on suspicion of reckless animal abuse after he left Bandit, a 5-year-old Belgian Malinois dog, in his patrol car on Aug. 11 for more than 12 hours, deputies said. The dog died.

Chandler Police Chief Sherry Kiyler said Friday that the department decided to remove Lovejoy, who was Chandler's K-9 unit supervisor at the time, from the police-dog unit and suspend him for two days without pay.

He is also working with Blue Force Dynamics on a device that would keep K9 patrol cars running when the dog is in the car.

Full story linkage:

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepubli ... e1025.html

[a_jaynepayne]

I think him being a cop with an animal partner means the world.  I think it absolutely matters in this case.  It was part of his job, I think being fired and jail time is not too much too ask.  The dog was his responsibility as part of his job, it's not even close to the same as a normal person forgetting about their dog...which a normal person would get into trouble as well I've seen animal planet's Animal Cops.  It would be like a mother accidentally giving her child the wrong cold medicine vs. a doctor prescribing the wrong thing.  The mother would more than likely be forgiven where the doctor would and should get the third degree because it's his JOB.

[SteveS]

For what its worth - sounds like a fairly reasonable outcome.  I still can't figure out what good locking him in prison would serve.

I'm not trying to be harsh here, but ..... seems like its always so much easier to forgive ourselves for our own mistakes than it is to tolerate mistakes made by others, right?

a_jaynepayne - if a mistake by the doctor writing a prescription is intolerable because that's his job, but the mother grabbing the wrong bottle is different --- what is the mother's job?

[a_jaynepayne]

I was thinking about this last night and knew that I was gonna get that question in some form.  Would a better analogy  have been if I were to cut and screw up my husband's hair vs. a professional screwing it up?  

I do agree with your statement about it being easier to forgive ourselves than to forgive someone else...

I still think though, with all of my crappy comparisons aside, the fact still remains that twelve fricken hours is a ridiculous amount of time to have forgotten about an animal in your car.

[MommaSquid]

I saw two women get into an argument in the post office yesterday because of a dog left in a car.  The dog's owner claimed the dog was fine while the other woman swore up and down that it was panting and near death.

Is it wrong that I was hoping it would come to blows?

[SteveS]

Is it wrong that I was hoping it would come to blows?

Hehe - of course not - without guilty pleasures life would be no fun.  Watching a few women brawl it out at the post office sounds like fun to me....

a_jaynepayne - I was thinking it was wrong that we find it easier to forgive our own mistakes.  This is a problem to me - if we're honest, I think we'll recognize that a very fine line separates ourselves from some of the people we condemn - especially in the case of accidents.  If there was no intention of wrong-doing, this is a whole different category to me from intentional harm.

The problem with the hair cut analogy is that your husband would presumably have a choice --- if he wanted to risk an amateur haircut, then he would be doing so of his own accord.  Also the consequences of a bad haircut aren't very bad (unless a person is incredibly vain).

My only point is that I'm not sure why the mother would be less negligent than the doctor.  If we're focusing on what a person's job is --- isn't it a mother's job to care properly for her children?  Didn't she receive instructions on which medicine, and how much, to administer?  The doctor is human and can make a mistake --- this is why the pharmacist and the parent should double check the medicine and be sure its okay.  Of course the pharmacist and the mother are human too.  Which is why I wouldn't advocate throwing either the mother or the doctor in jail; but my point is that if making a mistake is criminal for a doctor, it should be criminal for the mother as well.  I don't see the distinction.