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Sheriff's Office: DeLand man's lost dog story checks out
Posted Sat, 2010-01-23 00:17
DELAND -- As it turns out, there was a lost dog after all.
On Friday, Volusia County Sheriff's investigators located the man at the
center of a reported suspicious incident near DeLand on Wednesday involving missing dog and his approaching a girl about it.
Based on the girl's account of the encounter, investigators were concerned that the man may have been using the lost dog story as a ploy to lure the girl into his truck. But after talking to the man on Friday,
investigators said his story checked out and he had actually found a dog in the neighborhood and was passing out fliers and stopping people to ask them about the dog in the hopes of locating the animal's owner.
"After talking to the man, investigators determined that there was no criminal behavior on the man's part. Accordingly, investigators have closed the case," Sheriff's spokesman Brandon Haught said.
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Let No GOOD deed go Un-punished- Lost Dog
Read article on the police being asked to investigate man asking about a lost dog. Does anybody realize that the man has a) rescued a lost dog (from hunger, getting hit) and b) taken his time and money to go out and try to find the owner's -- and for THAT, he gets a visit by the police? Which, can be scary, and time consuming, and -- ahem-- embarassing? True- the politically correct process is to call animal control to come get the dog and leave it up to the owner's to schlep all the way to the Shelter -AND pay a fine- to get their dog back. This brings up two points:
A) the dog owner was horribly remiss and in violation of law by not having their dog id'ed/tagged-- (but accidents happen, and mine chose bath day to get out the door--no collar)
B) Check statistics. I think the media has pumped up the Child Abduction stories so much that our country is actually paranoid on the subject: BUT!
It's to the point where one doesn't even want to talk to anyone, and children are paranoid, too. I will confess that when my girls used to ride their horses around the countryside- they were cautioned not to let anyone near enough to them to pull them from their horses, and they rode with whips that were NOT for the horses, but in case any dog OR human -- came too close to them.
So, the round about issue is: at what point does one define caution vs paranoia? I suppose that any inconvenience or exra caution is worthwhile if it saves ONE child from abduction.
NOTE: 24 years ago, near MY house- a 'busybody' reported a truck on the side of the road with a bycycle lying nearby. I heard that the reporter thought the truck was 'dumping' the bike, littering, in effect, and called in a report with the truck's tag number. The driver had snatched the girl riding the bike, and was actually raping her when the caller drove by. The 'busybody' reporting the incident was responsible for the police locating the perp very quickly; after the rape was reported. By the way-- he suicided when the police came to his door. My interest is in what I call incident victims. Do you suppose that the reporter of the littering truck driver has felt awful for years about NOT stopping that day?
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