A woman was arrested at some point within the past few days for one of the most rediculous reasons I've ever heard, and it's something that could ONLY have happened in the Northeastern United States.
She was making faces at a police dog.
They claim she was distracting the dog from its duties by doing so - she had a pretty high BAC (approximately .21), but they attempted to charge her with animal cruelty.
For making faces at a dog.
I think there are reasonable limits, folks, and we just passed one of them. Her behavior was perhaps, not appropriate, but there is no reason for charging her with what they attempted to (the 'cruelty' charge didn't go through). From what I know of them, dogs are not stupid animals, and a police dog... well, a police dog I would have expected to have been trained to ignore distractions from the duties it had been trained to do.
I think perhaps if they're afraid a dog could be distracted by someone sticking their tounge out at it (or something of that sort) we need to work on our animal training for the Vermont Police Department.
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