Natural gas worker beats pug to death with a wrench

[Chaos Descending]

It doesn't matter what their written policies are if the corporate culture fosters flaunting the written policy, or if the company isn't actively enforcing it's own policies.

 

[gturner]

All I see in this thread is a lynch mob rushing to judgement.

Having recently saved an epileptic pug from drowning by jumping into a swimming pool in my street clothes, let me say that pugs are not always what they seem. The one I saved wasn't even trying to swim, just sinking straight to the bottom like a pearl diver. It's possible it wasn't even a pug but one of those aliens from Men In Black trying to get better reception on its neutrino-phone.

So lets look at the facts.

1) In the Oklahoma case there were three pugs in the yard.

2) The natural gas worker seemed to have no knowledge that anything unusual happened.

3) There is no direct evidence that his wrench was used in any attack. The vet just said that Mimi died of external force injuries.

So why are people rushing to convict and hang the natural gas worker when there are at least two other furry suspects, or as investigators call them, "pooches of interest"?

Some obvious scenarios:

A) The two surviving pugs beat Mini to death with the wrench when the natural gas worker laid it down to take a meter reading, then returned it before he noticed it was missing.

B) Mimi fatally injured herself while desperately using her body as a battering ram against the gas meter in an attempt to unstick it and get the gas back on.

C) The real killer of Nicole Brown Simpson, who is still at large, slipped into the back yard just after the natural gas man left.

D) The homeowner's son, the first to notice Mimi's body (which is always grounds for suspicion), killed Mimi in an attempt to frame the natural gas worker who he suspected was having an affair with his mom, which went sour, causing the natural gas worker to seek vengeance by turning off her gas.

E) Mimi faked her own death, in collusion with the vet, to punish the natural gas worker for entering her yard.

ETA:

F) Mimi was an alien and the reason the natural gas worker doesn't remember what happened is because the MIB team zapped him with the red blinky thing.

 

[Chaos Descending]

It's all clear to me now! Lee Harvey Oswald was really OSWALD COBBLEPOT! THE PENGUIN!

 

[SeerSGB]

The truth will never be told: The pug was an Chinese spy, operating a black-market squeaky toy smuggling ring; cause-- as we all know-- Chinese Squaeky Mice have been embargoed since teh '93 treaty of Hartz Mountain. The wrench was an operative of the CIA, working undercover in ONG to get close to the pug. The dog made its move, thinking the human was CIA. The wrench bravely attacked before the dog could. Saving not only the human, but all of America from the horror of inferior squeaky toys.

 

[Rii]

Having recently saved an epileptic pug from drowning by jumping into a swimming pool in my street clothes

Really? If so, kudos.

 

[gturner]

^ Yep. And everyone else within reach, though wearing swimming trunks, were busy gabing, gaping, and slurping beer. So I saved little Dojo from his Jacques Cousteau adventure. My wallet and steel-toe boots didn't dry out for days, but thankfully I'd just run out of cigarettes so didn't ruin a pack, which is the most important thing. Not that they're addictive.

 

[trekkiedane]

The cries for beating the offender to death, etc, are so over the top/ridiculous they are laughable. Doesn't mean the full weight of the law shouldn't visit this animal, but talk about his bloody murder only lowers this thread to the level of a grade school playground discussion which understandably irks others involved in the thread -- including the moderators. This is the end of that extreme sort of hyperbole.

I just

this board.

The only other 'public' board I've ever found on the net with this sort of sensible humanistic everyday sense I can't talk about here (for copyright reasons) but darn I

this place!

And, yeah, I too feel that something bad should happen to this guy - but intellectually know that it won't stop him or others from acting like that again... that there is no easy solution.

 

[bigdaddy]

In Massachusetts he would go to jail for longer than if you killed a human.

 

[gturner]

In Massachusetts he would go to jail for longer than if you killed a human.

*climbs out of pool, dripping wet from saving an epileptic pooch*

Yes, so how are the Kennedy's doing these days?



Sorry, it just sort of wrote itself, like Apple's signal bar formula.

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

I'll bet ONG has explicit procedures laid out in training and the employee manual that state service personnel are not to enter a yard where animals are deemed a threat. So overall, the company has protected itself and the guilty meter reader is fully at fault. Again, suing the company is needless and counter-productive.

Not really, no. Cause he could have been under orders to enter the yard, in violation of any policy. Happens all the time in my neck of TN: The utilitiy company has a policy that meter-readers are not to enter an enclosed yard (animals or not) without the owner present or a liability waiver on file; they hop the fences and open the gates all the time when it comes time to read the meters- regardless of if there is a waiver or not. Complain on them and you'll get "We'll review the complaint and take appropriate disciplinary action" and never another word about it will be said.

So they may have a written policy, but their active-policy, what they do, might not be what they have in writing.

If it's in writing, then that's the policy. Since I live in Oklahoma, I'll say I'm familiar with some of the policies and procedures of various companies especially since I've interacted with members of the various trades. Each of these people has told me that their instructions are to not enter the yard, or exit the vehicle for rural property, if they deem there to be a dangerous animal on the premises. That covers gas, electric, cable, and propane.

I'm pretty sure that is their policy. I wouldn't blame ONG for this guy's actions. If they kept him on after this, that would be a different story.

 

[kimc]

Anyone who would do something like that is mentally ill and should be confined/treated before he escalates to people. Just an opinion, I'm not a psych professional.

 

[ByrdMan]

Why does this sound so familiar? Didn't the same thing happen (with similar post on TBBS) last year or something?