>>>>>>This is crazy. And I think our judiciary is a little nuts sometimes.
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>>>>>>http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/fury-as-judges-rule-lennox-the-dog-must-die-16172205.html
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>>>>>>Has he attacked anyone? No. Has he bitten anyone? No. He has been deemed potentially dangerous. Talk about an activist court.
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>>>>>>Ridiculous. I have absolutely nothing against Ireland but this is not good publicity.
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>>>>>I've nothing against Ireland either Mike. But thats Northern Ireland which is part of the UK and not part of Ireland.
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>>>>>Also its a banned dog breed. Maybe you should offer to adopt it in the US. Personally I think anyone who regards these sort of attack dogs as a practical family pet should have their heads examined.
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>>>>Thank you for setting me straight on the local juristictions. I will withhold comment on that. The location wasn't my point anyway. I would be just as outraged wherever it happened.
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>>>>I don't like pit bulls personally and would not own one. They make me nervous. What concerns me is the guilty until proven innocent attitude. Repeating myself, this dog has not done anything to anyone. That bothers me.
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>>>>This is an extreme metaphor, and one that will probably get me in trouble, but if you look at U.S. crime statistics there is one group that jumps off the charts. Does that mean we should put them down, just in case?
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>>>Are you confusing people with dogs ?
>>>BTW the dog in question was 7 years old. Pitbulls have been banned in the UK for over twenty years (Dangerous Dogs Act, 1991) so the owners must have acquired it illegally ......
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>>No, I am not confusing people with dogs. But I suggest there is more commonality than you are comfortable admitting. Killing a dog because some functionaries decided it might be a danger is despicable. (Dethpicable, to quote a cat, and a round of applause for the first person who knows what cat I mean).
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>>It's a stupid and undemocratic ban IMO.
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>I thought it was sensible and democratic.
>Last time I looked we had a democratically elected government and they chose to pass a law banning the ownership of a breed of dog whose sole raison-d'etre was to pick a fight with a couple of tons of beef :-}

We have a democratically elected government and probably lead the world in dumb decisions.

I believe it's possible to disagree without being disagreeable. You already know you are one of the people I admire most here, so let's just let this go.