That's who people call when an animal is in trouble like this dog stuck in the fence or the bear cub that got trapped in a trash dumpster and freaked out him big hairy mama, or the cat stuck in a storm drain, baby raccoons stuck in a soda machine, baby ducks crossing the street and officer stops traffic for them to get across, etc., etc., etc. Sadly, they're also the ones that have to rescue abused animals and take them to vets or rescue groups and the ones having to watch a poor animal die in agony in the middle of the street after being hit by a car. They see the ugly every day that happens to animals either pet or wild, and as a result are more compassionate than most every day people.
The two crazies that slit a dog's throat in the news recently are the very rare exception and WHY they make the news. Stories like I mentioned don't because it's not fresh blood on the walls which the media can never resist. The media doesn't report the every day shit that cops do simply because it IS basic every day shit. You'll never read about the officer that raced a dog hit by a car to my vet office when they used to have 24 hour emergency services or saw him flop down in a chair in the waiting room and sob when the vet told him the dog didn't make it or see him pull himself together to go break the news to the worried family. Hell, this one only made Buzzflash because someone saw it on YouTube and thought it was sufficiently funny as to get a mention there. You'll never see these good or sad stories on CNN though. And because it's not on the news people here just assume that what's on the news is all that exists. The news as we all actually are aware but forget in a lot of cases (though it seems it's out of convenience for an agenda) is not a reflection of reality in that it's grossly disproportionate.
Sometimes the police have to shoot dogs, and when they shoot the ones that just mauled a child and is running loose and threatening people though it sucks that they have to there's no other choice. Look at all the perpetual reports of "pit bull" attacks when those attacks may or may not be a pit bull and when most dog attacks never make the news at all, and if it's not a bad mauling and the dog can't be passed off as a pit bull the media pays no attention. Thus the world over believes that all pit bulls are exceptionally dangerous when they aren't.
YouTube is full of officer good deeds especially if they're cute or funny, and the media isn't announcing them. It's just every day stuff for the average cop, and the media doesn't do every day average stuff because every day average stuff isn't news.
It's crazy. Of all people the ones here know full well how fucked up our media is but still irrationally believe that not only did it not happen if it wasn't on the news but buy into the obvious disproportion as though it's a reflection of what is average.
You know what would happen if I had posted this video in GD... swarm of people saying things like "At least he didn't shoot the dog" or "He's just one of the handful of good cops that there are" and similar crap with practically no one just appreciating the humor of the story which is why I posted it. I would have thought it was just as funny if the officer hadn't been a cop but a neighbor or animal control or whoever. The story isn't about anything the cop did or didn't do, it's what the DOG did just like any other funny video of what a dog did in front of someone with a camera. The fact that this was a cop doing the filming is immaterial to the point of the video.
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