It’s raining cats & dogs ... well dogs.

[Dee]

Man saves dog thrown from window (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/27072006/6/n-odds-man-saves-dog-thrown-window.html&printer=1)

WARSAW (Reuters) - A man was bruised but alive on Wednesday after a Saint Bernard dog thrown out a two-story window landed on him as he was walking down the street in the southern-Polish city of Sosnowiec.

The 110-pound dog was pushed out of the window by its drunken owner Monday, police said.

"The dog had a soft landing because it fell on a man," said police spokesman Grzegorz Wierzbicki. "The dog escaped with just a few scratches."

"The man was also more in a psychological state of shock than physically hurt," Wierzbicki added.

The one-year-old dog, named Oskar, was placed in an animal shelter while police investigate its owners for animal abuse.

[Eva]

Poor man. Poor dog. :eek: How horrible.
And what kind of person is it that throws a live creature out of a window!? :mad:

Eva

[Dee]

Well that part made me angry too, even if the owner was drunk. Not a good excuse and none could ever be.

[DaveM]

This probably made headlines in Poland--the entire country only has a few violent crimes every month.

Recalling my visit of some years ago, my pen pal offered to take me to "the worst street" in town (this in a city of 1.5 million or so). Wasn't sure I wanted to accept the invite, but what the heck, it was an adventure, so I went.

It was a pretty grim area, being half post-industrial wasteland and half grimy apartment blocks with doorways that looked as if someone wearing a trench coat and fedora should be leaning against a wall while smoking a cigarette. And strangely, there wasn't another human being to be seen, and only occasional road traffic.

Wanda said: "can you imagine? Someone was assaulted here just last month!"

That was when I realized I'd never dare to invite her to the United States.

[ponytail]

Wanda said: "can you imagine? Someone was assaulted here just last month!"




When I lived in Washington Heights in NYC, I once told a visitor that about my apartment building's front stoop. Only I left out the "can you imagine?" part, and it wasn't last month -- it was last night.:eek: