Fleefus is a gorgeous chocolate Lab that was abducted a block away from where DR and I live. The owner tied him outside the butcher shop and from what I gathered many witnesses saw a man take him and runaway. As you can see from the picture, Fleefus is safely home tonight.
This story made the news locally on TV and in the newspaper too… Not a fun thing to have to go through but in their hours of despair, the owners made posters and put them around the area and might have dug into something a bit deeper than they originally thought.
When DR and I first saw the poster we immediately focussed on one particular part: “and may be mentally handicapped”. We started thinking that these guys might have found a way to help the police catch anyone, what if they just insult the perps to a point where they come out of hidding just to defend themselves??? For example, if the police is looking for a bank robber, why not describe him as White Male, in his 20′s, short hair, 6′ tall and a pedophile. Don’t you think the bank robber would come out and say that he’s not a pedophile and then snap, he’s caught. Well done detective. Or say the RCMP is looking for a drug smuggler, they could describe him as White Male, in his 40′s, long hair, 6′ tall and a necrophiliac. Bang, that guy is at the RCMP station to file a complaint… and snap, he’s caught too.
I think it was brilliant of Fleefus’ parents to call the dognapper a mentally handicapped person. I just know for sure taht if I’m a victim of a crime and they don’t catch the person who did it, the poster I’ll make will involve severe bestiality disorder in his/her description. That crime will be solved in no time. Snap.
Hmmm…Devil’s Advocate here…
…try Handi-CAPABLE. He managed to steal a dog off of someone who was stupid enough to leave it unattended while they entered a butcher shop*
*generally glass-fronted, severely WINDOWed affairs.
Just sayin’, is all…
The perp had a convo with Ross (my partner from whom the dog was napped) before he stole the dog and it was pretty clear he was either mentally simple or very high on something brain-damaging, like glue, perhaps. Our dog is usually very affectionate with mentally handicapped people and to have one of them fussing over him is fairly common and usually pleasant for everyone involved. I think that was one reason Ross allowed his attention to be distracted for “not more than 10 seconds,” as he says, to specify which way a steak should be cut to a butcher standing at the back of the shop (why are added blog comments so often on the snide side, anyways?). I wrote that text to help anyone who saw the dog with the thief make the right decisions about what to do. Indeed, Lori, who rescued the dog, saw him the next day in the same neighbourhood wearing the same collar and leash and when she confronted the man, he just gave the dog to her. He was not a dangerous crackhead thief or whatever. Another woman reported he’d been seen handling the dog in a way that almost got it hit by a car. We shall find out soon who he is. Fleefus has led us to what may be his address.
If you don”t like the term mentally handicapped for someone with very low IQ, make a suggestion. The word that actually first came to mind to describe the person was ‘zwaakbegaafd,’ but I couldn’t write the poster in that language!
I was kidding. The dog is found. Life is normal.
RELAX.
Sheesh.
Well he couldn’t have been normal. Like, who steals a dog? (except maybe a true beastiophile)
Good ideas in this post. Would this work for other lost things? “Lost ring. Used to think it had sentimental value, but now realize it was a douchebag all along. If found, please melt down for scrap metal.”
Inanimate objects gotta defend themselves too.