I’ve been following this story about the escape of a horrific murderer from Pennsylvania state prison a couple of weeks ago. He was serving a life sentence and somehow managed to get out through multiple barriers including walls and razor wire. It’s especially gratifying to me that he was not only captured, but was ultimately subdued by a K9 who bit him. I would like to believe that this particular K9 was one of my distant relatives, even though he was probably a German Shepherd and I’m a Bernese Mountain Dog!
I was only disappointed at how much the human officers were celebrating the capture while the dog was getting very little credit.
Cavalcante was crawling away before the K9 was able to help subdue him, Bivens detailed.
“When the dog got to him, he then went flat with the dog on him — the dog was able to detain him there,” Bivens told CNN. “The dog is very quick, has the ability to disable someone and take them off guard so that they’re not able to do something, like fire a gun or use a knife or whatever. Or escaping.”
Well, OnPatrol show will take credit for this happening. They showed the escape on their show Saturday. Some lady spotted him and will swear she heard about it there and get on TV.
The closest the hero pup gets to having credit for the capture is just this picture of his noble head at the bottom of the frame, presumably just after biting the perp to help take him down … one of the SWAT guys appears to be looking at the pup with a look of admiration:
They got him a few miles from my brothers house. He murdered a woman in nearby Tredyffrin Township where we grew up.
The talking heads on the news tried to make a big deal out of the guys that got him taking a photo with him. Good to see their concern for someone who stabbed his girlfriend to death in front of her children. They did give a lot of credit to the dogs though.
Excellent dogs as long as you can give them a job to do, or some goodly amount of things that engage their minds and bodies. They’re working dogs with high drive and get neurotic if someone tries to make them couch hounds.
I thought all along that he had accomplices, a la Eric Rudolph. We’ll learn soon enough. However, at this time of year, gardens are full of unpicked produce and fruit trees are ripening, and if he found some version of a Little Free Pantry somewhere, he could have been supplied for at least a few days.
I was hoping that he would be taken alive, without any further casualties, and he was.
