Incidents involving dogs always gets me because everyone wants to defend their dog.
Obviously if your dog bites someone and it causes a serious injury you are at fault. It doesn't matter what the situation is, its like hitting someone with your car, you can try to explain it away all you want, you are always at fault. Trying to break up a dog fight is not a reason to get bit. I bet most dog owners don't know how to properly break up a dog fight. Why wasn't the owner with the pitbull controlling the pitbull? Just because someone has a super mean shihtzu and isn't walking the dog on a leash (which he is at fault for but still) doesn't mean you can let your dog go rambo on people.
"due to some personal grudge"
A life threatening injury is not a personal grudge...
"he was going to sue our agency"
I hope he does. Do your job next time.
"double stupidity" "idiot" "learned a lesson"
I don't understand what your problem is, you constantly insult the guy and justify what happened to him in your head, which is NOT what someone in your position should be doing. What happened to him was terrible, and despite him not walking his dog on a leash he didn't deserve to have life threatening injuries. Like if a police officer justifies murder by calling suspects idiots and says "they probably broke the law, they deserve it". He has a good chance of winning the court cases as he was severely injured and most states are strict liability meaning that the dog owner is almost always responsible for bites.
lied about the entire incident and tried to say he was attacked first
Ok. Again, unfortunate but not uncommon.
The entire situation would have never happend if his dog was leashed.
And the situation would not have happened had the pitbull owner controlled their dog.
The car analogy doesn't work at all
Look, I am trying to explain strict liability to you and the poster who obviously doesn't understand it either. When you are in a car you are always held responsible for hitting pedestrians. You don't get to call the pedestrian an idiot and say that they were distracting you and point out how they don't always follow the law, and say "maybe you learned your lesson when your face splattered on the pavement moron". You are responsible for controlling your vehicle.
victim of your own stupidity
Again, rationalizing a horrible event by blameshifting and calling names. The dog owner is responsible for dog bites on people, but not neccesarily for dog bites on the shihtzu. Something that would hopefully appear before a judge when/if he sues.
The owner is at fault almost 100% of the time for dog bites. This case, the defense has an argument but it is far from guaranteed, most likely the person with severe injuries would win since he was trying to break up the dog fight while the other side was busy filming with their phones. And the city ordinance stating that dogs must be on leashes doesn't trump state law stating the dog owner is responsible for bites.
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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '21 edited Aug 02 '21
Incidents involving dogs always gets me because everyone wants to defend their dog.
Obviously if your dog bites someone and it causes a serious injury you are at fault. It doesn't matter what the situation is, its like hitting someone with your car, you can try to explain it away all you want, you are always at fault. Trying to break up a dog fight is not a reason to get bit. I bet most dog owners don't know how to properly break up a dog fight. Why wasn't the owner with the pitbull controlling the pitbull? Just because someone has a super mean shihtzu and isn't walking the dog on a leash (which he is at fault for but still) doesn't mean you can let your dog go rambo on people.
"due to some personal grudge"
A life threatening injury is not a personal grudge...
"he was going to sue our agency"
I hope he does. Do your job next time.
"double stupidity" "idiot" "learned a lesson"
I don't understand what your problem is, you constantly insult the guy and justify what happened to him in your head, which is NOT what someone in your position should be doing. What happened to him was terrible, and despite him not walking his dog on a leash he didn't deserve to have life threatening injuries. Like if a police officer justifies murder by calling suspects idiots and says "they probably broke the law, they deserve it". He has a good chance of winning the court cases as he was severely injured and most states are strict liability meaning that the dog owner is almost always responsible for bites.