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June 12, 2005

Some People Shouldn't Be Parents, Exhibit A

Odd, I think most of us would lock the dogs up, not our child:

The mother of a 12-year-old boy killed in his own home by one of the family's two pit bulls says she had been so concerned about one of the dogs that she shut her son in the basement to protect him.

And, of course, we'd certainly not want to blame the dogs:

"I put him down there, with a shovel on the door," Faibish said in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. "And I told him: 'Stay down there until I come back.' Typical Nicky, he wouldn't listen to me."

It's all little Nicky's fault, not wanting to be locked up in a basement while his mom left the house. Lady, if you don't see something wrong with having to lock your kid in the basement to be safe from your dogs, you're an idiot who should be sterilized immediately for the good of the gene pool.

"It's Nicky's time to go," she said in the interview. "When you're born you're destined to go and this was his time."

You're right, your decision to purchase large dogs bred for fighting had nothing to do with it at all. It was all written in the stars!

I hope that nonsensical explanation comforts you when you picture the battered and bloodied body of your son laying there dead.

I swear, we need some sort of long-distance vasectomy/hysterectomy beam weapon. *zap* *zap* *zap* I'll chip in - who's got the know-how?

Update: Michele is on it as well. She's not quite as sympathetic as I was, and I wasn't.

Update 2: Another story on the topic:

Art Austin, neighbor: "I heard her say it was all her fault. You know, I think any mother might feel that way when you lose a kid."

Or when you lock them in the basement to keep them safe from the angry dog you have in the house. Yeah, I can see where one might feel responsible. Go figure.

Naturally, the "pit bulls are just misunderstood" brigade will be rushing out to make their case, but:

Between 1979 and 1998, dog attacks killed more than 300 Americans.

Pit bull-type dogs and Rottweilers were involved in more than half of the deaths.

Yes, yes, we know that your pit would never do such a thing, because he's just a big sweety-pie, a lumbering oaf of a canine joker, your dog. Righty-o.

Yes, we all know that poodles and chihuahuas bite too; however, when they do, they tend not to keep biting and biting and biting until the target of their aggression is a mangled piece of meat.

There is a difference, whether you care to see it or not.