"... outside her home in northeast Alabama in December 2017.... A week before Colvin’s death, another woman, 46-year-old Tracey Patterson Cornelius, also was killed by a pack of dogs. A second woman was seriously injured in the same incident.... Similar fatal instances in the state happened in 2020 to a 36-year-old mother of four and in 2021 to a 70-year old man. [Jacqueline Summer] Beard went to the Red Bay area Friday to investigate a dog attack that occurred Thursday afternoon when a woman on a walk was mauled by the animals.... Investigators said Beard was attempting to contact the owner of the dogs when she was killed."
From "While investigating a dog attack, a state worker was killed by the pack" (WaPo).
I opened the WaPo comments with the expectation of seeing condemnation of the deplorable people who live in Alabama, but my expectation of high politicization was wrong:
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As a deplorable person in northeast Alabama, I’m proud to say I’ve never been killed by a pack of dogs. So far…
What a horrible story.
I would love to hear a pro-abortionist’s take on how dogs involved in these types of incidents should be treated.
Who needs guns?
Why didn't she just call the police when the dogs attacked?
This sounds like a lot of fatal attacks for a small area. I wonder how many fatal attacks by “packs” of dogs there are nationally (annually)?
i Don't WANT to be killed by packs of dogs.. I am Pro Life!
the pack of dogs need to be put down.
As a former road runner, I have a strong animosity towards unleashed and otherwise unsupervised dogs- they and their owners are a fucking menace, and I think these owners should be charged with, at a minimum, manslaughter.
I carry a gun when out walking our 18 lb dog. During the day, it is for the pack (>=4) of coyotes in the open space south of the subdivision where we walk. We have seen them at a distance, and they take just too much interest in the morsel on my leash with me. Asked a PXPD officer a couple weeks ago about the legal issues. He said I would be justified using the gun to defend either of us (and it would be hard for a prosecutor to argue that I wasn’t in danger because I could just cut the dog loose to distract the coyotes - like only having to outrun the other guy, and not the bear after both of us).
I do not though go out into that open space at night to walk the mini-dog. The coyotes are out there, and come in pretty close at night. It is their element. I carry a gun anyway when walking the dog at night, and do it for dogs instead. Several months ago, we were walking by the park down the block, and a large dog seemingly peacefully came up. One growled, the other did, and it quickly escalated. That dog’s owner, standing outside his nearby was fruitlessly yelling at the dog to “come”. No doubt, she had thought that her dog did it’s business there a couple times a day, and what could go wrong if she just talked to her neighbor, and let him do it? I got between the two dogs, and eventually things calmed down. Now I carry bot a gun and pepper spray at night.
What must be remembered, always, is that dogs are fairly recently descended from wolves, a pack animal. I am reminded of living in Summit County, CO one summer a bit over 50 years ago. It was a glorious place to live in the summer, and still is. Up by Breckenridge everyone seemed to have a dog, esp out of town. Not little ones like ours, but esp Huskies, Malamutes, etc. full sized, but not large (e.g. Newfoundland, St Bernard). When they went to work, the guys pounding nails, and the girls in the shops in Breck, the dogs were let out to play. Being pack animals, they very quickly started running in packs. Large packs of up to maybe 10 dogs. A couple humorous articles in the paper chuckled at mini-dogs owned by tourists being lost. But then they went after a small kid. It ended up in the hospital, and within the week, the county had a leash law, that, last I knew, was still being vigorously enforced a half century later.
A Smith & Wesson in her purse might have saved her life.
I understand that they are trying to honor the woman, but calling it the "Woman Torn Apart By Dogs" bill might make the legislation sound more urgent.
I’d read about a woman attacked who’s arms had to be amputated? Not even 40, attacked walking home, I think I’d read. It sounds like she passed away, too. More than one dog is one dog to many, loose in a neighborhood.
I don't know anything about this phenomenon. Is there some reason why these stories are about women being attacked? (Dogs instinctively know women are less likely to fight back?) If someone had a good knife and fought back would the pack retreat or not?
Driving across the country way back, I ended up in northwestern Wyoming on a country road. There had been signs for 'missile testing area' a while before, but no longer. Flat. Dry. Maybe a ranch here and there.
Anyways, I came across a pack of strays, and pulled up in my little 4 speed Nissan Sentra. I let the engine idle and rolled down the window. 'any of you guys know how to get to Red Lodge?'
Ha-ha.
Wasn't getting out of that car.
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