Recent comments in /f/springfieldMO

Hippy_trippy_jon_boy t1_j15uanw wrote

Sounds about correct to me honestly. You can message me if you'd like to further talk or anything. He looks oddly familiar and I don't know why, I don't recall ever knowing him or anything of that sort. But I feel for you, I truly do, otherwise I wouldn't of bothered to say anything at all.

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drewboto t1_j15ptju wrote

There's some pedestrians with death wishes in that corner of town. I was riding passenger a few months ago on scenic coming up to Grand. We had the green light so we were full speed limit. Some dude on a bike on grand rides around all the stopped cars at the light to run the light while we're full speed coming up to our green light. I look over at driver to see that biker is most likely visually blocked by the A pillar for driver so I yell STOP. She slammed the brakes without questioning my yelling thankfully. By this time, dude is biking mid- intersection looking down at the ground. She lays on the horn, then dude lazily lifts his head to look at her with an expressionless face and keeps lazily pedalling across like nothing happened

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charitykase32 t1_j15n24z wrote

We actually started carrying dog spray when we walk our dog after having a neighbor's dog terrorize my family one evening. After confronting the neighbor about their dog, they had beef with me cursing at their children. Yea, I'm going to start saying "get your fucking dog" to a kid after I asked multiple times prior while I'm pushing a stroller. Thankfully haven't had to use the spray, but we carry it for every walk.

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ninjaboss56 t1_j15m57b wrote

There is a right way and a wrong way. Are homeless shelters the only place you’ve looked? He could just as easily be in a sober living home that you are unaware of which would make sense because he was going to court for a possession charge. And yes his warrant is for missing court over that possession so he does have a warrant for possession. All you will achieve by this is throw homeless people in harms way. You want to know why those homeless camps can be dangerous? Because their tired of people like who who don’t care what the police do, as long as we get our fucking way right? You’re what is wrong with society. I have no issues with you seeking out family but those locations should never just be out on a public post. As well as careful visiting the camps posted here. I’ll PM some basic spots for you but they stay between us alright? Imma also give you a number for a local sober living office so you can call them and ask if maybe they have seen him.

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BlueCoatYellowBoots t1_j15luzt wrote

> Also doesn't help that the area usually has dogs dumped too.

And this is precisely the reason I don't let my dogs roam free and I walk my dogs on leash on my own property. I live in the county and 2021 was a terrible year for dumbshits dumping pibbles outside city limits. Maybe they think we're going to take them in? We shoot them when they inevitably harass livestock, so many dead dogs in 2021.

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Realistic-Sun3480 OP t1_j15luot wrote

I really think that bloodsport breeds, such as pitbulls, need to be phased out. They have no business or use in being pets or any kind of working dog for any purpose and that breed type itself is more dangerous in it's own ways that most other breeds are not.

Along with common sense pet ownership and breeding laws, there needs to be strict laws enforced against breeding them and new pits need to be banned. Banning does not equal automatically euthanizing. If a ban is enacted and enforced like it should be, in several years, all of the pits that were grandfathered in and stayed within city limits would have lived out the rest their lives.

This breed has been bred for fighting for hundreds of years and you can't train gameness, prey drive and aggression out of them. These dogs don't just bite and release when they attack, they maul. The victim(s) very often in these cases will end up sustaining severe or horrific injuries that leave them hospitalized, disfigured, disabled, scarred, nerve damaged, and in many cases dead.

This year alone has seen so many reported pit bull attacks resulting in human fatalities and life changing injuries and way more needs to be done to prevent this. With these, it's not just owners, it's the breed as well.

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