Perhaps, but why are the police even making that decision about someone else’s pet? And in front of the owner, who is a child? This wasn’t a wild kangaroo. It’s fucked and indefensible.
What’s the alternative here? Just say “aight good luck with that” and bounce to leave the girl with her dying dog? They’re the ones that injured the dog and if the dog had no adult owner nearby they probably made a call that it’s more humane to euthanise it and ends its suffering. As difficult as this would have been for the kid, I can assure you being left with her mangled dog to die a slow agonising death would have been far more traumatic.
I know you said you may be desensitised due to your rural upbringing but the extreme lack of empathy you’re displaying here is bordering on psychopathic. Or maybe you’re just one of these weird people who ragebaits/plays devil’s advocate in every thread and then has a sook about it when you are rightfully called out.
Queensland police issued a statement on Monday saying that at about 3.40pm on Sunday, police in a marked vehicle left an address in Mill Crescent in Mount Isa “at low speed”.
Even assuming there is no local vet with regular opening hours on a Sunday afternoon, it is entirely possible that there were emergency/after-hours options available. By their own admission, the car was moving at a “low speed”, which indicates they were not in an emergency situation themselves and had the time to assess the situation properly and provide assistance to the owner. That would obviously include discussing the available options with her first, and possibly transporting her and the dog to somewhere like a local vet if that was an option.
Additionally, the owner’s grandmother is quoted in the article as a witness so it’s complete speculation from you that there was no adult there to discuss these options with on behalf of the child, or that there was no adult there to transport the child and the dog:
The national broadcaster reported the 15-year-old’s grandmother, Sharlene Boddy, as alleging police fired three shots before Smokey died, and questioning why officers shot the dog at the scene rather than transporting it to a veterinary clinic for euthanasia.
According to the statement, a “supervising officer attended the scene within three minutes” to find the dog “showing obvious signs of trauma injuries and was in distress”.
“The decision was made to euthanise the dog immediately to avoid further suffering for the dog,” the statement read.
But they did none of this. Again, by their own admission, the police made the decision within 3 minutes to shoot the dog without consulting anyone from its family. The fact that you are trying so hard to defend this says a lot about your personality. Trying to take the moral high ground and pretending you know anything about the potential impacts of witnessing the violent death of a pet, when you admit that you are desensitised to all of this, is cringe as fuck and embarrassing. Please think before you type up this inane dribble.
Even assuming they would do this, they would still have to wait for them to arrive, which presumably would prolong the dogs suffering. I’ve not heard of vets doing euthanasia in the street personally either.
Does someone else wanna jump in with questions for the one person in this thread having the audacity to suggest “hey maybe the cops didn’t go into this situation all ‘ay fuck it let’s just blast this dog and get back for smoko’”.
the one person in this thread having the audacity to suggest “hey maybe the cops didn’t go into this situation all ‘ay fuck it let’s just blast this dog and get back for smoko
You may think that’s what you’re doing but you should probably take a step back. Because you’re really coming across as excusatory in a situation where you shouldn’t.
This wasn’t “ah shit I hit a roo in the middle of fuckin’ nowhere, I’d better put it out of it’s misery” they hit someone’s pet in the middle of a suburbian street at low speed - by their own admission - and then decided to shoot it.
That is not fucking normal. That was not their fucking call to make. And on TOP of that they fucked it up, multiple times
Perhaps, but why are the police even making that decision about someone else’s pet? And in front of the owner, who is a child? This wasn’t a wild kangaroo. It’s fucked and indefensible.
What’s the alternative here? Just say “aight good luck with that” and bounce to leave the girl with her dying dog? They’re the ones that injured the dog and if the dog had no adult owner nearby they probably made a call that it’s more humane to euthanise it and ends its suffering. As difficult as this would have been for the kid, I can assure you being left with her mangled dog to die a slow agonising death would have been far more traumatic.
I know you said you may be desensitised due to your rural upbringing but the extreme lack of empathy you’re displaying here is bordering on psychopathic. Or maybe you’re just one of these weird people who ragebaits/plays devil’s advocate in every thread and then has a sook about it when you are rightfully called out.
Even assuming there is no local vet with regular opening hours on a Sunday afternoon, it is entirely possible that there were emergency/after-hours options available. By their own admission, the car was moving at a “low speed”, which indicates they were not in an emergency situation themselves and had the time to assess the situation properly and provide assistance to the owner. That would obviously include discussing the available options with her first, and possibly transporting her and the dog to somewhere like a local vet if that was an option.
Additionally, the owner’s grandmother is quoted in the article as a witness so it’s complete speculation from you that there was no adult there to discuss these options with on behalf of the child, or that there was no adult there to transport the child and the dog:
But they did none of this. Again, by their own admission, the police made the decision within 3 minutes to shoot the dog without consulting anyone from its family. The fact that you are trying so hard to defend this says a lot about your personality. Trying to take the moral high ground and pretending you know anything about the potential impacts of witnessing the violent death of a pet, when you admit that you are desensitised to all of this, is cringe as fuck and embarrassing. Please think before you type up this inane dribble.
Do you think vets and AECs don’t exist?
Even assuming they would do this, they would still have to wait for them to arrive, which presumably would prolong the dogs suffering. I’ve not heard of vets doing euthanasia in the street personally either.
Does someone else wanna jump in with questions for the one person in this thread having the audacity to suggest “hey maybe the cops didn’t go into this situation all ‘ay fuck it let’s just blast this dog and get back for smoko’”.
You may think that’s what you’re doing but you should probably take a step back. Because you’re really coming across as excusatory in a situation where you shouldn’t.
This wasn’t “ah shit I hit a roo in the middle of fuckin’ nowhere, I’d better put it out of it’s misery” they hit someone’s pet in the middle of a suburbian street at low speed - by their own admission - and then decided to shoot it.
That is not fucking normal. That was not their fucking call to make. And on TOP of that they fucked it up, multiple times