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This Exists: Video Shows Pitbull Rampage In A Small Barber Shop

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We’ve had quite a few posts about the awesome parts of dog ownership recently, perhaps it’s time for another side. In Rhode Island, a family’s pitbull got out of the back yard and went on a rampage which left three children injured, one hospitalized, and some pretty incredible security camera footage in its wake. The footage is from a small barber shop that the dog got in and began attacking the patrons and employees.

Yeah, consider this a post for the cat people out there.

Below you can watch the news report from WPRI in Providence in which the owners say they are incredibly sorry and are stunned this occurred. There’s also a quote from someone in the shop who said it was incredibly scary because they had nothing to defend themselves with. And, to prove his point, below the report is the full raw video which shows a man attempt to fend off the dog with a hair drier.

Hey, points for being resourceful.


(h/t Boing Boing)

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PTB2QZB46KXBJJUCPNCTGSOM5I mike

    Can we stop with the stupid “this exists” headlines?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

    God help me, I didn’t mean to laugh.  It just struck me as funny, the idea that the dog most favored by your garden variety urban thug, chooses of all places, a barber shop to get its sweet revenge.  Part that I thought hilarious was when the dude in the white T-shirt pulled what I thought was a gun on the dog – hell, he had the double hand grip working on it too.  Guess he learned the hard way that a hair dryer does not make an adequate substitute!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

    Really like to know why you think this thread should be deleted.

  • Anonymous

    Its the owners not the dog! Punish the owners! A Dog is not violent unless it is abused or trained for it or isolated.

  • Guest

    Agreed.  I’m sick of reading about these pitbull attacks.  Last year I had a neighbor who owned two.  They got loose and attacked an old women and her beagle while they were walking down the street….killing the beagle and sending her to intensive care.
     
    In my mind, if your one of those dipshits that thinks it cool to own a pit bull, or you get one because just “like the breed”, well…. when that think unhinges and mames or kills someone, I think you should go to jail as if you did it yourself. 
     
    That might put the brakes on these fools that buy em..hopefully ending the marketability of the breed, and then the breed itself.
     
    Face it…you get the breed because of “shortcomings” elsewhere….

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Sad to see.

  • Anonymous

    Rabidly vicious with a hatred for minorities, that dog is a teabagger for sure.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EOTQDJK7LUU43OZGQDCXABKJQM patrick m

    I love this dog. This is payback for Michael Vick. Bitem baby.

  • http://AverageBro.com AverageBro

    And what, might I ask, makes you think these guys are “garden variety urban thugs”?

    Lemme guess…

  • koolmoedee

    that dog is playing….this is sensationalism by the media run amok

  • Colonel Lingus

    A hair dryer, really?  They don’t use scissors in a barber shop anymore? 

  • http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

    Someone call Caesar Millan…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

    Bro – My comments regarding the ‘garden variety urban thugs’ was not directed towards any of the hapless lads in this video.  I merely pointed out that most vicious, ass chomping pit bulls are owned by these people.  I see them every day, proudly walking these lawsuits on four legs around their neighborhoods.

    Put away your reflexive hyper-sensitivities and actually read these posts before you respond to them.

  • http://www.facebook.com/mdbyrne Marcus Daniel Byrne

    Pure sensationalism…only 3 people were injured by the dog, now if it would have been 5 then there’s need for concern. I would have shot it. This is the reason I carry a gun while jogging. Owner should do the right thing and have it put down before it kills someone.

  • Jessica Springer

    I have to agree.  “rampage” really? The dog is jumping around playfully.  Dogs do not eat people – they do not want you for food – he didn’t go in that shop because he was hungry for human flesh.  He was obviously very excited because he was somewhere new and “free” from his yard.  When you start whipping the dog with the towel and throwing things at him – he thinks you want to play a little more rough – he can take quite a bit more than we can so the rougher you are with him the rougher he thinks he can be with you and there you have it – someone gets hurt by accident.  I think EVERYONE would benefit from educating themselves on dog body language instead of jumping on just another fear bandwagon.

  • Scoop

    Pitbulls are not all bad dogs, just like stupid people aren’t all mean. This breed was known a hundred years ago as the Nanny dog. But just like a car if not handled right can be dangerous. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3MWBKXQNGDRUXVA6ZO7D6JBMPM Engineer Zero

    The only reason to own a pit bull is to scare other people.  The people who own them love to walk them in parks and take them into stores and shops, just to intimidate other people.  

  • Guest

    That a fair statement to say that not all pitbulls are mean, but frankly the majority of lethal attacks on humans and other dogs are perpetrated by the breed.
     
    And is it really worth it to get one in hopes that yours falls into the “not mean” category?  Why play Russian roulette with it while putting your neighbors at risk?

  • Guest

    Yeah…like I said, its easy to see that generally speaking folks that get them have shortcomming elsewhere, be it insecurities, paranioa, or they just dont feel like enough of a man and need to suppliment their persona with an attack dog

  • Pit Bull Advocate

    For those that take the time to educate themselves about dog behavior and human reactions, clearly the way the people in this barbershop were thrashing around simply stimulated the dog into its acting the way it did.  People, calm down.  If you had, most likely the dog would have relaxed.  Unfortunately, this dog will now be killed.  And for the media folks, had this of been a Cocker Spaniel or Chihuahua (both biting breeds) … would this have made the news?  I think not.  Pit Bulls deserve better from the media and the media is to be held highly accountable for the massacre and breed racism associated with the breed.  They are loving, loyal family pets in the right hands.  I know, I have two rescue Pit Bulls that are very much my family and I’m a 40-year old educated, professional female who chooses to do the right thing for my dogs and the thousands who die in shelters everyday because of media racism of the breed.

  • http://MsUnderestimated.com MsUnderestimated

    Yeah, like you’ve been to a tea party event.

    If I’m a tea-bagger, you’re a donkey-puncher.

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    Didn’t you know Ms, they have all been to a Tea Party event, they’re the ones carrying the Obama poster with the Hitler mustache.

    LOL

    “TMP”

  • Anonymous

    Rescue pit bulls?…..I adopted two cougars, both would have been killed…one by the breeder because the female was born blind in one eye, and the male from an arrested drug dealer.
    Fascinating pets…female lived 22 years, the male 16….more than 3 times the average lifespan in the wild. Care and maintainance for both cats exceeded $100,000.00 over the course of their life times.
    Both had 1200 square ft cages, all-weather shelters, large cat toys, daily interaction with family.
    These cages were in excess of $10,000 each….including a double set of locking doors.
    Not for OUR protection, but for every other human on Earth’s safety.
    Were wonderful pets….completely devoted to us…BUT, still possessed the potential to harm others.
    Any person that assumes ownership of ANYTHING that could be dangerous to others, has the responsibility for anything done to anyone by ANYTHING living that is dangerous.
    If ignorant, “owners” were held financially liable for what their potentially dangerous pets did to others, this love-affair with dangerous animals would soon cease to be financially “entertaining.
    What if this ignorant dangerous animal owner had shot a gun in the direction of several people and then said “I didn’t actually KILL anyone….what’s the big deal?”

  • jane doe

    no. he’s right. you’re completely racist.

  • jane doe

    I love that “nanny Dog’ tag. is that because they shake infants to death?

  • Anonymous

    Dogs react with aggression to anyone or anything that fears them.  They are pack animals.  In a pack, there is an Alpha male and an Alpha female.  The dog needs to find out where he or she fits in.  If a human assumes a dominant posture dogs will back down.  Advance on the dog.  Do not turn and run.

  • Anonymous

    Must be nice to have money to throw away.

  • i love pit bulls

    geeeesus!  most of you people that responded remind me of the group of racist high-schoolers that i spoke to who, when asked if they had even met or known a person from the minority race that they were spewing remarks against, said, ‘NO’!  go ahead and keep letting the biased media brainwash your weak minds – just please do the rest of us a favor: don’t have any babies!!!

    the only difference between pit bulls and any other breed of dog is:  the way people treat/portray/abuse them!

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