[Mungecrundle]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-55996873

Scooby the dog apparently hit by a cyclist after his owner allowed him to escape her control (dog, not cyclist, though possibly both – you know what cyclists are like).

Take home message – dig owner hopes this incident will be a warning to cyclists!

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[Madteclind]

I somehow fail to see how

I somehow fail to see how this can be the cyclists problem, it’s not like you have some 6th sense to let you know a dog i running wild when you’re out riding.

[HoarseMann]

The ‘Island Echo’ facebook

The ‘Island Echo’ facebook page has a post about it. From the comments it looks like it happened on a National Cycle Network path and the owner has got a second hand version of events from the bloke who was walking the dogs. So I’d take this story with a large pinch of salt!

https://www.facebook.com/pg/IslandEcho/posts/

[Captain Badger]

WTF?? They’re supposed to

WTF?? They’re supposed to keep their f&cking animals under control….. Luckily for the dog, and no thanks to the feckless owner, it didn’t end up with a bus tyre track across its back…

[hawkinspeter]

I’ve seen that bug too –

I’ve seen that bug too – editing or deleting forum posts doesn’t currently work.

[Mungecrundle]

“Dig owner…”
“Dig owner…”

Irritating typo which I cannot edit away.

Apparently the “Revision publish date can’t be smaller than now”. Which unless I am very much mistaken* is a passage from the Bible pressaging the end of days.

*I am almost certainly very much mistaken.

[wtjs]

People with 3 dogs are

People with 3 dogs are generally nutters of one type or another, so prone to allow dogs to ‘slip collars’, despite all 3 being pictured with harnesses. She should have been warned/ prosecuted (Ho! Ho!) for endangering cyclists. This other 3 dog nutter below had all 3 in the front passenger compartment, but the famously deranged Blackpool TacOps Sergeant decided they ‘could have been correctly restrained’ because such restraining devices (for 1 dog only, of course) exist. That’s apart from crossing double white lines in a dangerous position on a humped bridge, which FDBTS also decided was a NaOiL (Not an Offence in Lancashire). Nowadays, I would get straight into a complaint.

[hawkinspeter]

To be fair, the owner did

To be fair, the owner did have the dog on a lead, though whether it was fit for purpose is debatable.

I’m surprised that the cyclist(s) didn’t stop – I would if I’d just hit a dog as usually the owner isn’t too far behind (whereas cats deserve what they get and good luck trying to find a cat’s owner).

[Hirsute]

Yes because they came

Yes because they came “whizzing from nowhere”

Let’s hope there are no cars or motorbikes on IoW.

Warning dog owners – fit a proper lead.

[the little onion]

So the dog was running out of

So the dog was running out of control and somehow this is the cyclists’ fault? 

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