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It's the pits.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(pit bull attack)
At about 7:45 a.m. on June 22, Payton Newell, a 12-year-old girl from Roswell, Georgia, was walking her family's pit bull when it broke away from her and attacked a 69-year-old woman named Lan Khanh Trinh. The dog knocked Trinh down and repeatedly bit her face and arm.
Trinh's screams for help got a quick and fairly large-scale response. First on the scene was neighbor Robert Bailey, who ran to the woman's aid while dressed only in boxer shorts and a robe. "Bailey yanked the 60-pound male, named Achilles, off of Trinh, then positioned himself between the dog and the victim. Then he came to his senses," reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. As soon as the dog's attention focused on him, Bailey realized he had few means to defend himself.
Then, other neighbors arrived with sticks and shovels for defense. "Neighbors tried to stop the attack by beating the dog with sticks and shovels, but 'they didn't faze him,' said Charles Tedford, president of the homeowners association ... where the attack occurred." One of the defenders, Spencer Alexander, was bitten in the arm during their efforts. When Marc Del Santro arrived on the scene carrying his pistol, the dog turned to attack him, and he shot it, killing it instantly--a bad dog down ...
- Alexandria Advances Ordinance Targeting Pit Bull Terriers
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Virginia Mansfield February 19, 1987 700+ words
...in response to the growing number of pit bull terrier dog attacks in the city over the...1986 to the present there have been five pit bull attacks in Alexandria," said Christine...t remember ever hearing of one by a pit bull," said Mills. American pit bull terriers...
- Detroit weighs tough pit bull restrictions.
- Newspaper article from: Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) January 20, 2006 700+ words
...proposed new law, would need to have their pit bull licensed by the city, take out $100...their streets applauding. But it has pit bull owners and animal advocates howling...Foundation says that while the American pit bull terrier shares terrier traits, such as...
- Getting a grip on pit bull terror
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Lynda Gorov June 25, 1987 700+ words
Pit bull terriers, like Sean Penn, keep making...attacks on people. The other day an angry pit bull, possibly provoked by its angry owner...woman's breast in Los Angeles. Another pit bull, dutifully guarding his owner's pot...
- Court disciplines lawyers for '1-800 PIT BULL' TV ad: the Ft. Lauderdale...
- Magazine article from: Florida Bar News Blankenship, Gary December 15, 2005 700+ words
Two lawyers who used a pit bull logo and displayed the phone number 1-800 PIT BULL in their television ad have been disciplined by...ad violated Bar rules because the image of the pit bull objectively had nothing to do with the type of...
- Pit bull incident upsets neighbors: Judge lets dog return to area after attack.
- Newspaper article from: Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) September 13, 2007 700+ words
...suburban street anymore. Not since a pit bull attacked her, her 15-year-old daughter...last month. And especially now that the pit bull is back in the neighborhood. The attack occurred Aug. 23, when the unleashed pit bull rushed through the neighborhood around...
- Pit bull attack on dog upsets neighbors: Judge lets dog return to area after...
- Newspaper article from: Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) September 13, 2007 700+ words
...suburban street anymore. Not since a pit bull attacked her, her 15-year-old daughter...last month. And especially now that the pit bull is back in the neighborhood. The attack occurred Aug. 23, when the unleashed pit bull rushed through the neighborhood around...
- Reports of pit bull maulings, killings fuel proposed bans.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) Jones, Tim October 7, 2005 700+ words
...These are not the best of times to be a pit bull, the one-time canine hero of World...and, in the wake of highly publicized pit bull attacks on humans _ some of them fatal...citywide ban on the dogs. Responding to pit bull attacks in the San Francisco Bay area...
- Dogs, owners clash: pit bull, master killed
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Phillip J. O'Connor March 3, 1988 700+ words
It started as a fight between a pit bull terrier and a mixed-breed mutt, but ended in a battle...between their North Side masters. When it was over, the pit bull's master and the pit bull were fatally stabbed and the mutt's master was charged...
Source: HighBeam Research, It's the pits.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(pit bull attack)