I'm a little late posting this story from British Columbia, where the typical machinations leading to a 'breed' ban have started in the wake of a bite a few weeks ago by an alleged 'pit bull'.
It sounds as though this guy was being eatern from the ground up, to borrow a colourful phrase from our wacky former Attorney General. The victim likens the appearance of his leg to a 'pork chop'.
I'm sure the local citizens will be standing on the lawn of the legislature with torches and pitchforks, flooding the local tabloids with letters full of 'facts', demanding the extermination of the 'breed' and trolling their tushies off on the intertube comment boards.
'I became dinner,' says B.C. dog-attack victim
Christopher Sun , Canwest News Service
Published: Wednesday, May 28BURNABY - The search is on for the owners of two dogs that attacked a man, biting his leg to the bone.
David Scoular also broke a couple of his ribs, twisted his knee and hurt his neck from hopping a one-metre fence in an attempt to flee from the attacking dogs near Burnaby Lake on May 18.
"It looks like a pork chop that opened up," Scoular said, explaining how his leg looked after the attack. "The (Labrador retriever) bit right to the bone and ripped it."
It took three paragraphs to discover the 'breed' of the attacking dog, which is definite progress. That information is usually buried unless it's a mutt who can be labeled a 'pit bull', no matter how bizarre that designation may be. In those cases, the shape appears in the headline.
So, how about it, British Columbians? Are you ready to ban Labrador retrievers? We'd like a change of pace over here at Banned Aid, things are much too predictable lately.
Surprise us.