Dogs Drive and Crash at Coffeehouse and Car Wash
There’s an old kid’s record called Free to be You and Me and it has one song that urges “Don’t dress your cat in galoshes, if he’d prefer an overcoat.” Don’t leave your dog in a running car either. Read below for Killy the pit bulls rather long driving disaster and Bentley the Bo-Pei (groan) crashing thru a window. Killy’s was licensed but his owner not insured, oops. Bentley sounds like a juvenile delinquent with a troubled past.
Killy the Pit Bull, above.
Dog rolls van through St. James coffee shop window
BY SOPHIA CHANG | November 20, 2008 | www.newsday.com
As his owner was signing up for an open mic showcase, a limelight-loving mutt climbed behind the wheel of a van and rolled it through the front window of a St. James coffee shop last night, police and the dog owner said.
Around 7:10 p.m., Bryan Maher, 60, of Port Jefferson, parked his 1992 Chevrolet van in front of the Cool Beanz coffee shop on North Country Road, police said. “Seeing it was cold, I left the motor running with the heat on” for his pooch, Bentley, Maher said.
As Maher signed up for the 8 p.m. showcase, the dog somehow jostled the gears and the van rolled into iron patio furniture outside the store and knocked out a window, police and store owner Patricia McCarthy said. There were no reported injuries, and police said charges were not filed. “That poor dog. He didn’t know what was going on,” McCarthy said.
Maher said he recently adopted the 5-year-old Bo-Pei (think boxer and Shar-Pei), which had been abused and mistreated.
McCarthy said Maher called his insurance company, and the window will be replaced. “Everyone’s asking, didn’t he have a license?” McCarthy said.
Arielle Brechisci contributed to this story.
No One Hurt After Dog Accidentally Takes Car For A Drive
Friday November 7, 2008 | CityNews.ca Staff
Here’s a lesson for those who like to keep their vehicles clean – never take your dog with you when you’re at the car wash. A Pryor, Oklahoma man learned that lesson the hard way on Thursday, after he left his pooch inside his automobile while he was busy cleaning it at one of those do-it-yourself places.
The 70-lbs. pit bull named Killys (top left) got restless while his best friend was taking care of business, jumped in the front seat and somehow shifted the car into reverse. The vehicle then started moving, headed onto the highway, drove in a loop for a minute or two, and finally, mercifully came to a stop in one of the car wash’s automated lanes.
Witness Mark Walker was startled when he thought he saw a dog at the wheel. “I heard somebody holler. I walked out the front door and seen a car come off the four lane backwards and into the automatic bay. As soon as I looked around the corner I saw the dog in the car — just the dog!”
No one was hurt and amazingly, nothing was hit. But the owner lost his car anyway when police coming to check out the report of a vehicle being driven by a dog found the man had no proof of insurance.
The officer involved, Brent Crittenden, admits his paperwork was a little odd, “It made my report quite easy because the driver information was all blank and I didn’t have to fill that out.”
The owner was forced to walk the canine home after the now spotless car was towed away.
Fortunately, the animal wasn’t charged for his little sojourn into the human world.
After all, the dog already had a licence.