When Heidi Schwank, 65, was told by police that her Australian Shepherd Robby had been hit by a car on the highway in Germany, she was predictably upset. However, she became incensed later when she learned that Roddy was intentionally run over by the police and then presented with a bill for the damage to the car.
Schwank says that the police initially told her that a motorist hit Robby. Police now say that the police ran over the dog to protect the public. Just ask the Wessel. Spokeswoman Jessica Wessel asked people to understand: “You can imagine that in the dark, on New Year’s Eve with explosions and everything all around, a dog being chased by strangers is not going to calm down, and you’re not going to catch him.”
The police have demanded that Schwank, a retiree, pay $3907 for the damage to the patrol car used to crush Robby.
Schwank is looking for a lawyer. They may want to avoid a trial with this jury of Robby’s peers.
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Kudos: Reddit.
My nearly 80 year old mother (who stands about 5 foot tall) got in a fender bender with a community worker driving a community watch vehicle.
Her airbag didn’t inflate and there was virtually no damage to the government car.
Before she knew it, there were four cop cars at the scene.
Cops R Sissies was in action again (against the hostile forces of petite old women on the verge of crying).
Time to defund cop departments around the nation. These sums of britches are the new criminal class. Learn to protect yourself. Teach your young daughters, nieces, sisters, and wives to handle guns carefully and skillfully. Follow all laws concerning weapons and take back the streets from the criminals.
Especially the criminals in costumes with a badge and taser.
Nails, erm, Nils,
Usins’ iz parsistentlee clammerin’ fo’ mo’ artickuls n’ wez done all ‘greed dat hit wood be mo’better ifn’ theys be mo’ posts–evin wiff arrows–‘n din Nal et al kud fixt dem grammer thangs up directlee ovah yunder n’ da Korreckshins payg.
Hot dang! nut nary a tiepo n’ ma post.
Nils, don’t be so harsh. This guy has a life, I seem to remember him mentioning he blogs in the early morning before his kids wake up. If you do the proofreading for him, he’ll be grateful. There’s a page for that.
Why thank you, darlin!
Cookie,
Its not my week to do crack. Let me rephrase that Its not my week to smoke crack. man or woman in this case glad I got that clear. For some interesting reason I read the main story as well. Now you know why.
May I say your Pink Tresses have never looked more lovely. I would say that the Tiara is the Crowning Glory.
This is a blog, not a workplace, not a hospital. You’re comparing apples and figs (and, as we all learned yesterday, God hates figs). It is a place for comments, discussion, debate, laughter and, apparently, rim shots. There is a corrections page, and nobody is saying don’t point out mistakes. But there is no need for a lecture at the same time, that’s all.
Plus, it was hilarious when AY talked about shutting down the autobahn when it appeared the story was from Australia. I’m disappointed it wasn’t an example of AY’s unique turn of phrase. It was my biggest laugh so far today.
Bdaman,
I need to watch which one is crossing the river. Will I be bit or will I bite.
I am laughing at you too…..Not with you. There is a difference as you point out.
Nils use the correction page top of the home page.
AY I got your rim shot baby.
Looks like a rim shot, but did not make it in…..
@ECookie: I’d like to see you use that excuse with your boss the next time you prepare a report for a customer, or come to work late. This blog purports to provide the facts, but if the facts don’t match, then they deserve to be called out. Would you trust your doctor if he made a “small” mistake on your diagnosis or prescription? The essence is in the details.
ECookie,
Slam dunk for you I see.
Not to mention, appears on television regularly, monitors all these crazy threads and competes in monster truck competitions. Okay, I made up the last bit.
Oh come on. He teaches, practices law, raises a bunch of kids and blogs at 5 a.m. I just can’t figure out when he sleeps. Give the guy a break.
@Jonathan: I think a little proofreading is on order here. The original article clearly states that this took place in Germany, yet you wrote Australia (only the dog was Australian!). Also, the original text mentions “another motorist”, but you wrote pedestrian. What’s going on here?
I have often noticed that some of your posts have grammar problems or typographical mistakes (e.g., their/there and similar). In the heat of the moment (or post), mistakes can happen, but at least proofread it before it is forever published to the Internet (and Google’s cache). Certainly not the quality one would expect from a law professor on an otherwise very informative site.
Kind regards 🙂
Here is the story just for you, alls you really have to do is click here.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyle/the-other-side/german-police-fatally-run-over-dog-bill-owner/story-e6frfhk6-1225825758956
Must have focused on A1 as in A1A. Cabin fever I guess.
AY,
Then in all fairness, the incompetent cops should foot the bill. Surely they had a donut or strudel or something to entice the dog. If four guys can’t catch a dog then what chance to they have of catching an actual two-legged criminal?
Near zero would be the only correct answer.
I hopes she finds the meanest attorney in all of Germany.
“But it turned out that it was the police who had killed Robby after four officers in two police cars spent over an hour getting cars on the A1 autobahn near Hamburg to slow down while they tried, unsuccessfully, to capture him.”
Out of the main story.
autobahn?
I would love to get a copy of those incident reports. This sounds a little to incredible to believe. They shut down the autobahn and then ran over the dog.