Woman tries to mail puppy from Minneapolis to Atlanta

[Aragorn]

Well I can't say that I'm surprised by the level of stupidity of this woman. On the other hand, she knew exactly what she was doing, lied about the contents (claiming the sounds are from a toy robot!?!?!?) and only cared about the shipping costs after she was busted. I guess she's just a cheapskate that valued the cost of shipping over the life of the puppy.


Complete Star Tribune story, with picture of puppy. Here's also a link to an embedded video of the local news.


The postal worker was stunned when the package moved by itself and fell to the floor. Then came the sounds of heavy panting.

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"It's just crazy," said Minneapolis Police Sgt. Angela Dodge. The air holes the woman punched in the box were covered up with mailing tape, and the priority mail trip would have taken at least two days, she said. "It was supposed to be a birthday gift for a family member. It would have been kind of traumatizing to get a dead puppy,'' Dodge said.

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Champion was cited for misdemeanor animal cruelty and has 10 days to appeal. The dog is now at the city's animal control facility. If Champion declines or loses her appeal, Guess would go up for adoption. So far, Champion hasn't notified authorities that she wants the dog back, Dodge said.

She did, however, return to the post office to demand a refund for the $22 she paid to mail the puppy. She also wanted a small amount of money she had attached to a makeshift dog collar returned to her.

Postal workers nixed the refund and told her to contact law enforcement about the collar currency. "We asked her, don't you want to know about your puppy? But she said no. She just wanted her money back," Ojoyeyi said. "It's just weird to mail an animal like that in a package all covered up. We don't know what she was thinking about."

(In a follow-up story, it looks like she wants the dog back now, but probably only because of the backlash the first story created.)

 

[LitmusDragon]

Release the hounds on her!

Seriously, this is terrible.

 

[ThankQ]

Let's mail her to Atlanta so she can deliver the "Happy Birthday" and $10 bill in person.

Tell ya what, babe. We'll use the $22 we owe ya in shipping to cover the costs!

Strap in, bitch!

 

[auntiehill]

What a great combination: evil AND stupid.

 

[ThankQ]

What a great combination: evil AND stupid.

We'll see her in politics soon enough.

 

[Mary Ann]

What a great combination: evil AND stupid.

We'll see her in politics soon enough.

Sad, but probably true.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Clearly it's time for a colorful metaphor.

 

[KimMH]

I hope she hasn't managed to reproduce herself yet.

 

[ThankQ]

I hope she hasn't managed to reproduce herself yet.

They're usually the first.

 

[Kirby]

Even Michael Vick thinks she's stupid.

 

[Subcommander R.]

What everyone else said.

 

[tharpdevenport]

There seems to be no end to the stupidity of things people will mail.

I remember a postal supervisor telling me people will mail rings and coins in regular envelopes. For those who don't know, or never seen one of those TV programs on how it works, the envelopes are slipped through automatic sorting machines, which also void the stamp and print the orange coding you see on it, and I think check the weight (there is a limit a regular first-class stamp will allow).
Anyway, these envelopes go through the machine extremely fast, hundreds, if not over a thousand, in a very short amount of time. And as soon as a ring, or coin, or what ever stupid thing they have bulging in a paper envelope passes threw, it jams in the machines, and hundreds & hundreds of envelopes are SHREDDED before it can be caught and stopped. That's right, love letter, important information, checks, money orders, all ripped to pieces, many unidentifiable.



I remember a guy who mailed himself in a box (I think via UPS), but I guess he seemed to think deliveries are made in air conditioned, clean Avon cars or something. What he failed to realize was that he'd be in a cargo container during the summer time, of a plane, and almost dying from the heat. Could have been worse -- it could have been winter.

 

[RandyS]

Clearly it's time for a colorful metaphor.

Double dumbass on her.

And so forth.

 

[Kestra]

how could anyone put a puppy in a box and tape it shut? D:

 

[tharpdevenport]

By picking up thep uppy and putting it in the box, then taping it.

Anyway, I think what you mean is mail it that way, because surely you wouldn't be against that, say if the puppy was done that way hours before Christmas morning (or however long folks do that).

 

[Kestra]

I don't thnk a puppy should ever be taped shut in a box.

 

[Amaris]

I don't thnk a puppy should ever be taped shut in a box.

Completely agreed!

 

[tharpdevenport]

Sad part, this thread reminds me of various horror news stories, or local stories of animal violence. Some random ones that popped in my head:

A local asshole, many years ago when I lived in another city, that bragged about catchy a cat, buring in neck up, then getting a push lawn mower and ... I can't finish that sentence -- DISGUSTING.

A cat that was rescued and saved after someone set it on fire; it was burned all over.


Someone who put a box, as I recall of kittens, on a road and left. It got hit by another car.

Local animal control guy, very recent, who was called to pick up a dying dog (we'll not discuss the choices of the owner's here -- that's another topic) to have him put to sleep. Shoudl have been simple enough, but when the dog didn't walk and go like a nomal pet, the animal control guy yelled, cursed and dragged it by colar across the driveway.

 

[JiNX-01]

Maybe someone should send her priority mail to Atlanta.

Stupid .

 

[Amaris]

Sad part, this thread reminds me of various horror news stories, or local stories of animal violence. Some random ones that popped in my head:

A local asshole, many years ago when I lived in another city, that bragged about catchy a cat, buring in neck up, then getting a push lawn mower and ... I can't finish that sentence -- DISGUSTING.

A cat that was rescued and saved after someone set it on fire; it was burned all over.


Someone who put a box, as I recall of kittens, on a road and left. It got hit by another car.

Local animal control guy, very recent, who was called to pick up a dying dog (we'll not discuss the choices of the owner's here -- that's another topic) to have him put to sleep. Shoudl have been simple enough, but when the dog didn't walk and go like a nomal pet, the animal control guy yelled, cursed and dragged it by colar across the driveway.

The idea of harming an animal, particularly a domesticated pet like a dog or cat, just turns my stomach. It takes a special breed of psycho to purposefully harm innocent pets.