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pedalman wrote:I will say that at least the City did not take the easy way out and immediately throw the officer under the bus.

However,the fun is just starting. We'll see what San Marcos does as the heat turns up.

The dog owner should not have been driving 100 mph.

The LEO could probably have handled it better but then a lot of people are not as compassionate as some would want them to be. I would be willing to bet that as a rule, LEO are more compassionate to humans than most radical animal lovers are to humans.

From my perspective the only thing that needs to be done is that those making death threats to the LEO over this need to be investigated, prosecuted, and sent to the big house where they will first hand understand the definition of "animal".

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KBCraig wrote:And what if it had been a choking child?

A choking child is of course, a different matter entirely. Is that the answer you wanted?

I will never place the life of an animal over the life of a human.

I doubt that there is any EMS policy anywhere that will allow 100 mph transports no matter what the medical condition. State law, I believe, allows 10 mph over posted speed limit. An ambulance with lights and sirens is different from a citizen's car doing 100 mph.

I am pretty certain you already know all of this. Was your question rhetorical?

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The Annoyed Man wrote:An officer with a lick of humanity might have offered to take the dog in his cruiser to the hospital, thereby neutralizing the problem, but I agree that it was unnecessarily dangerous for the dog's owners to clock 100 mph through any kind of traffic. Even ambulances transporting critically injured and dying humans don't drive that fast - and for very good reasons.

Anyone who has ever done CPR, intubation, or start an IV going down the road at 75 can relate. I actually did not like the Nascar type transports if I was working on a patient.

100 mph is too fast. The guy deserved the stop. Too bad the dog died. The LEO was doing his job. How many people were put at risk for this guy's reckless driving? Would a human life have been worth saving the dog? I think not.

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