What a crappy couple of days it's been.

[Mr 5 0]

Unit:

I have mixed feelings about the use of police dogs for the capture of suspects as I don't care much about what happens to criminals who rob, rape and kill and to my knowledge, very few (if any) unarmed suspects are captured by police dogs.

In the Oxnard case Chris posted, the nut who killed the police dog was armed with a knife, a good equalizer against an attack dog as it turned out, so I can't cheer the death of the dog but I wouldn't approve of using them to attack (and bite) unarmed suspects. The dog simply pinning and holding the suspect is fine, however, as no damage is done and the dog serves a valuable purpose.


Chris:

Yes, it was a bad week in a 'cosmic' sense but I believe that when you look for bad things you can find them. Not that those you listed didn't actually happen but we can always find natural disasters, plane crashes, racing accidents and crime. Illness and death are simply part of the cycle of life, in any week.

I certainly have zero belief in heavenly bodies having much if any effect on human activity, especially crashes, crime and death. Of course, that's just me.