Comments on: Local: Bartonville’s shaggy dog story

By: jsteinfeldt

jsteinfeldt — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:50:33 +0000

Even the police who handle the dogs will tell you that the dogs are not reliable; they get false positives and miss pretty regularly. Like people, some of them are better at their jobs than others, and they can have a bad day. I’m not against the use of dogs when there is a reason of suspicion. But marching through schools with them to “send a message to the kids” instead of a problem demonstrated otherwise and setting up random drug-sniffing road blocks seems to be a misuse of a public police resource.

By: Billy Dennis

Billy Dennis — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:46:13 +0000

Giant snake baby?

That’s a new one.

I’m familiar with Bat-Boy and the alien whose had secret meetings with Bill Clinton.

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:42:03 +0000

Billy says: “The dog can always sue me for libel.”

Funny… That’s exactly the excuse the tabloids use when they report about the giant snake-baby.

By: SD

SD — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:24:27 +0000

If they got a genuine Belgan Malinois dog they got the right breed. Others are optional. This breed is what DEA uses for drug sniffing.

By: Billy Dennis

Billy Dennis — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:49:36 +0000

The dog can always sue me for libel.

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:42:41 +0000

Way to go Billy… Post a story you heard third hand (or likely more) from somebody who knows somebody else who said was true as fact on your “online news” outlet. This is just the sort of story (read: rumor) that goes around small towns like Bartonville. And you complain about the crap that turns up in the Journal Star…