Post by stiggy on Apr 24, 2015 10:59:49 GMT -6
This incident drives home two very important points of life in today's society. #1. Have a firearm handy. #2. Pit bulls are a nuisance and a scourge to be dealt with with decisive finality!! HOORAY FOR MR. LORENZO SMITH. Without you an innocent man and his dogs would be dead, just another statistic. The owner of this dog had the unmitigated gall to say Mr. Smith shouldn't have shot the dog! WHAT AN IDIOT!!
All of you pit bull/vicious dog apologists need not bother putting forth the lame, tired and most of all the bull$hit argument of the dogs not being the problem. We've heard all the same malarkey from you people before SO SAVE IT FOR THOSE WHO ARE STUPID ENOUGH TO GIVE IT ANY CREDENCE!!
DELTONA, FLORIDA — Nigel Bailey always believed that stories about pit bulls attacking people or other animals without provocation were exaggerated. Not any more.
Bailey, 82, who recently had open heart surgery, was out on his usual morning walk last week with his two small dogs when a large brown pit bull appeared “out of nowhere” and attacked him and his dogs without reason.
“My neighbor saved my life,” Bailey said, sitting in his home Wednesday, holding a Yorkiepoo named Ashley he had scooped up from the ground on April 17 to protect it from the charging pit bull. “I just couldn't understand why he (pit bull) was so savage.”
According to a Volusia County Sheriff's Office report, Bailey was walking his dogs in the Brighton Avenue and Derby Drive area of Deltona about 10 a.m. when the pit bull attacked. A neighbor, Lorenzo Smith, heard Bailey's cries for help and shot the dog in defense of his neighbor, the report states.
Bailey is recovering from puncture wounds to his right leg and left arm.
On Wednesday, Smith said he had never seen a vicious dog attack like the one last week. Smith was in his backyard working in his garden when he heard Bailey screaming for help.
“I ran out and I see an unknown pit bull attacking Nigel,” Smith said.
Smith said he watched as the pit bull grabbed the Yorkiepoo and Bailey grabbed the animal to save it. The dog then attacked Bailey.
“The dog just became more and more violent as Nigel tried to protect his dogs,” Smith said.
Smith then went into his home and grabbed his .357 Magnum revolver and went out to help Bailey.
“As I stepped out again, the pit bull jumped on his back,” Smith said. “I've never seen
a dog go for somebody's back of the head.”
Smith said he shot the dog, not intending to kill but just to wound it so it would stop the attack.
The dog died of the gunshot wound to the hip, deputies said.
Bailey agreed Smith saved his life. He said the attack was a surprise as all he heard was the patter of feet and when he turned, he saw the pit bull coming at him.
“I turned to go back home but it cut me off and kept growling,” Bailey said. “He kept getting madder and madder.”
Bailey said he was told by authorities that the dog had attacked two people before.
The pit bull's owner, Douglas Kilpatrick, 26, was still upset Wednesday that his dog was shot.
Kilpatrick said that the 80-pound American Staffordshire terrier, Simba, was not vicious. The 3 ½-year-old Simba was a house dog since he was 5 weeks old, Kilpatrick said.
“I know my dog; he is not like that,” Kilpatrick said. “There is no justification for him getting shot.”
Kilpatrick said Simba was never outside, but on Friday he had visitors and a 4-year-old child let the dog out. He said his dog has never attacked other people.
But Deltona spokeswoman Wendi Jackson said Animal Control Officers have had previous contact with the pit bull roaming the streets.
On Jan. 13, a Deltona Animal Control Officer verbally warned a woman named Jessica Johnson to keep the dog secured after officers chased the dog for several blocks and for more than 20 minutes. Officers got to the Cottondale Drive home just in time to see Johnson taking the dog inside Kilpatrick's house, documents provided by the city said.
Then, on Feb. 2 a caller reported Simba running loose again. The caller told authorities that Simba jumped on her and growled. No one was injured. An Animal Control Officer got to the area just in time to see Simba working his way back through the fence and a hole the dog had dug, reports show.
Kilpatrick was told of the loose dog and he said that the dog was supposed to be on a leash in the backyard. Kilpatrick blamed the children but officials told him that the dog was the adult's responsibility, reports state.
“I am sorry that he got shot because he really was a beautiful dog,” Bailey said. “But he did try to get on my back and he was totally out of control.”
Smith said he believed that if he hadn't acted fast, the pit bull would have knocked Bailey to the ground and killed him.
“If I hadn't gotten my firearm, it could have been worse,” Smith said. “It's a sad thing that I had to shoot the animal but at the same time a human life is more important.”
All of you pit bull/vicious dog apologists need not bother putting forth the lame, tired and most of all the bull$hit argument of the dogs not being the problem. We've heard all the same malarkey from you people before SO SAVE IT FOR THOSE WHO ARE STUPID ENOUGH TO GIVE IT ANY CREDENCE!!
DELTONA, FLORIDA — Nigel Bailey always believed that stories about pit bulls attacking people or other animals without provocation were exaggerated. Not any more.
Bailey, 82, who recently had open heart surgery, was out on his usual morning walk last week with his two small dogs when a large brown pit bull appeared “out of nowhere” and attacked him and his dogs without reason.
“My neighbor saved my life,” Bailey said, sitting in his home Wednesday, holding a Yorkiepoo named Ashley he had scooped up from the ground on April 17 to protect it from the charging pit bull. “I just couldn't understand why he (pit bull) was so savage.”
According to a Volusia County Sheriff's Office report, Bailey was walking his dogs in the Brighton Avenue and Derby Drive area of Deltona about 10 a.m. when the pit bull attacked. A neighbor, Lorenzo Smith, heard Bailey's cries for help and shot the dog in defense of his neighbor, the report states.
Bailey is recovering from puncture wounds to his right leg and left arm.
On Wednesday, Smith said he had never seen a vicious dog attack like the one last week. Smith was in his backyard working in his garden when he heard Bailey screaming for help.
“I ran out and I see an unknown pit bull attacking Nigel,” Smith said.
Smith said he watched as the pit bull grabbed the Yorkiepoo and Bailey grabbed the animal to save it. The dog then attacked Bailey.
“The dog just became more and more violent as Nigel tried to protect his dogs,” Smith said.
Smith then went into his home and grabbed his .357 Magnum revolver and went out to help Bailey.
“As I stepped out again, the pit bull jumped on his back,” Smith said. “I've never seen
a dog go for somebody's back of the head.”
Smith said he shot the dog, not intending to kill but just to wound it so it would stop the attack.
The dog died of the gunshot wound to the hip, deputies said.
Bailey agreed Smith saved his life. He said the attack was a surprise as all he heard was the patter of feet and when he turned, he saw the pit bull coming at him.
“I turned to go back home but it cut me off and kept growling,” Bailey said. “He kept getting madder and madder.”
Bailey said he was told by authorities that the dog had attacked two people before.
The pit bull's owner, Douglas Kilpatrick, 26, was still upset Wednesday that his dog was shot.
Kilpatrick said that the 80-pound American Staffordshire terrier, Simba, was not vicious. The 3 ½-year-old Simba was a house dog since he was 5 weeks old, Kilpatrick said.
“I know my dog; he is not like that,” Kilpatrick said. “There is no justification for him getting shot.”
Kilpatrick said Simba was never outside, but on Friday he had visitors and a 4-year-old child let the dog out. He said his dog has never attacked other people.
But Deltona spokeswoman Wendi Jackson said Animal Control Officers have had previous contact with the pit bull roaming the streets.
On Jan. 13, a Deltona Animal Control Officer verbally warned a woman named Jessica Johnson to keep the dog secured after officers chased the dog for several blocks and for more than 20 minutes. Officers got to the Cottondale Drive home just in time to see Johnson taking the dog inside Kilpatrick's house, documents provided by the city said.
Then, on Feb. 2 a caller reported Simba running loose again. The caller told authorities that Simba jumped on her and growled. No one was injured. An Animal Control Officer got to the area just in time to see Simba working his way back through the fence and a hole the dog had dug, reports show.
Kilpatrick was told of the loose dog and he said that the dog was supposed to be on a leash in the backyard. Kilpatrick blamed the children but officials told him that the dog was the adult's responsibility, reports state.
“I am sorry that he got shot because he really was a beautiful dog,” Bailey said. “But he did try to get on my back and he was totally out of control.”
Smith said he believed that if he hadn't acted fast, the pit bull would have knocked Bailey to the ground and killed him.
“If I hadn't gotten my firearm, it could have been worse,” Smith said. “It's a sad thing that I had to shoot the animal but at the same time a human life is more important.”