I hope you burn in hell animal abuser! That dog looked scared shitless. What if that guy got in an accident? The poor dog would have flew out of the back. What if the dog just jumped out? On top of all that he was speeding. I hope the cop that sped past me with the lights on was going after him.
Eh… not really feeling the outrage here.
“You’re driving so fast as to endanger your own life as well as the lives of everybody near you on the road. Oh, and also a dog.”
Shame about the dog though.
A friend of mine, a plumber, took his dog with him to every one of his jobs. But he was safely chained in the back of the truck, with the right length of chain to give him the freedom to roam around the back, but not fall or jump out of the tray.
However, as far as I know, he didn’t speed.
Irresponsible? Yes, for that degree of speeding. Animal abuse? Give me an effing break.
On my dog board there’s the sad tale of a newly adopted puppy unsafely chained in the back of a truck. He was left with a long enough chain to jump out of the truck bed but not long enough to reach the ground, and hanged himself. The person who chained him came onto the dog board crying for sympathy.
People can be pretty stupid.
I really want to care…
In some states, an unleashed dog in the open bed of a truck is considered an unsecured load, which will get you a ticket.
As a farm boy I’ve often ridden in the beds of trucks. Like any other ride, you get used to the rhythm, and you just ignore the odds of fatal interaction, or you’d have to stay home.
Great mental image!
It’s pretty unlikely that a dog lives through a 90mph crash, regardless of where it is, unless it’s got a special doggy-5-point-harness.
Try living in the wild west, I’ve seen so many dead dogs its disgusting. One guy out here has three dogs that walk around on his flat bed, scares me, and he hauls ass.
Another guy with a compact pickup and one of those tool boxes that is above the bedrail behind the cab, well, the dog stands on top of the tool box. A few months ago he had the bed of the truck full of crap, and the dog was standing on the roof as he drove. This one doesn’t worry me, its an old Mexican dude, the dog could walk faster than the guy drives. So its actually more funny than anything.
I’ve been picked on because my pup rides up front, and she goes to work with me everyday. Sorry, I love my dog, besides she’s too big of a wuss to ride in the bed.
On a side note, saw a truck get pulled over the other day for the passenger holding a baby, not in a car seat, as the pickup pulled into a friends or relatives house right across from the shop. Much arguing ensued, backup called, 1/2 hour ordeal, ticket issued. After the cops left, people piled into the front of the truck, the mom still holding the baby got in the bed of the truck, sat on the bedrail and they drove off. Words totally escape me on this one.
Just out of curiousity, why did you mention the driver’s ethnicity?
As a former hitch-hiker, ditto.
As for the dog, if it chooses to jump out of the bed at 90 miles an hour, one can only think of it as evolution in action.
Because I’m a racist asshole and like to piss off people people that are hyper sensitive to any mention of race as a descriptor. OR… it could be that little old mexican dudes that drive beat up old import pickups drive at walking speed and its amusing, if not just downright damn funny, it goes far past stereotype and into stark reality. When I moved out here, it used to aggravate me, now its just funny.
Now if I was a true racist I would have mentioned that the child endangering assholes across the street were Mexican, which they are, but I figured that there is no reason to hate them for their nationality/skin color, plenty of reasons to hate them otherwise.
Now if I mentioned that our latest appointed supreme court justice was both Hispanic and Female, would that make me a RACIST and a SEXIST? And would you question the use of those descriptors in that context??
The little old Mexicans in their beat up old import pickups, cruising around at 3 mph is just funny, its not racist, its not hate, its just funny.
Of course you aren’t. That explains the chip on your shoulder. Asshole
OH NOEZ…Somebody added a detail to an amusing story!!!111 MOTHERFUCKING RACISTS!!!1 WWWAAARAAAAAAAAAARRRGGHGHGHGGBLBLBLBLBL
Yeah, I just hate everybody. I mentioned somebody’s race without wanting to appoint them or give them money so I must really hate brown people :rolleyes:
Do I have preconceived notions when it comes to race, bet your ass I do. I grew up in the North East and worked my ass off to get into a supervisor position, and the one thing I can’t stand to hear anymore ever is “its because I’m black”. No, its because you didn’t show up for 4 days. No, its because you tried to stab another worker (true story, and she claimed she was fired because she was black). No, its because you beat the crap out of your girlfriend in the walkin and destroyed $1200 in milk(true story, at the unemployment hearing, it was because he was black).
So yes, I do carry a chip, but I’ll be god damned if I’m going to be like my grandfather and base things on color. I figured this out at a young age, unfortunately actual life experiences have tainted me. I still won’t be like my grumpy old gramps though.
Sometimes its hard, but I take 'em all as individuals. Pink, purple, green, black, yellow, brown, toss in red and white. All I ever have to do is think of gramps and his ignorance, push aside my own experiences and deal with people one on one. Everybody gets my respect until they prove they really don’t deserve it, and even then they usually get second and third chances because I’m a sucker.
So, CBEscapee, if you sat down with me face to face, not keyboard to keyboard, you’d realize who I am and what I believe. You’d probably still call me an asshole, but you would be smiling when you said it. The written word can be a tough medium and doesn’t always convey how somebody actually feels, or how they feel it. If you get out this way, I’ll take you on a tour and buy you a beer.
As an aside, since I didn’t want to throw in the “I have a pick a color friend”, whites and mexicans intermingle pretty well out here, hang out with one another and breed with each other. Racially its pretty peaceful.
On the flip side in the paper a while back out here a 14 year old sought counseling because his 13 year old girl friends Dad offered to pay him if he knocked her up. Then we go into the 11 year old moms.
The old mexican dudes in the beat up old Nissans and Toyotas, doing 3mph, still funny.
Back to the topic, dead dogs, very not funny.
They can be funny.
Q: How many dead dogs does it take to paint a truck?
A: Depends how good your brakes are.
What was his motivation? Looking to cash in on some welfare mommy action?
Fuck, he also mentioned he was a dude. Sexist! And he said he was old. Ageist! Hell, he had to go and mention he was human didn’t he? Speciesist!! We all know the proper way to tell a story is to refer to every living creature as simply “sentient being.”