ATHENS, Ga. — An Athens man who saved a dog from a hot car has been arrested for smashing a window to free the animal.
Multiple news outlets report Michael Hammons was charged
with criminal trespassing after freeing a small Pomeranian mix in
distress from a hot car outside an Athens store. Witnesses say while a
group of shoppers waited for police to arrive to free the dog, the
Desert Storm veteran took action and smashed the window.
Deputies say the car’s owner insisted Hammons be arrested.
The woman, who deputies didn’t identify, was cited for leaving the dog in the hot car.
Georgia state law allows an individual to break a window to
save a child in distress, but not a pet. Animal advocates say they are
working to change the law.
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Either this post did not go through or Father objected to a vulgar word in it and did not post it. However, in English English (as in Dickens, for example) as opposed perhaps to American English, the word means donkey. And so, again:
In the immortal words popularized by Dickens’ Mr. Bumble, sometimes “the law is an ass.”
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