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Jilly_in_VA

(9,995 posts)
Sun Apr 9, 2023, 06:57 PM Apr 2023

Puppy flung from pickup in high-speed Los Angeles police chase survives

A puppy that was thrown out of a moving pickup truck in Los Angeles during a high-speed police chase “miraculously” survived, according to authorities.

In a statement released on Saturday, the Los Angeles police department announced that on 7 April, at about 12.10pm in a south-east part of the city, officers started a car chase in pursuit of a suspect who was wanted in connection to an attempted murder and carjacking which occurred on 26 March.

The suspect was driving a Chevy Avalanche, the local news outlet KTTV reported. The pursuit had crossed through multiple cities across Los Angeles county, including Inglewood and Westchester, when a puppy was placed in a brown Michael Kors designer bag and then “tossed from the suspect’s moving vehicle”, police said.

The puppy, an eight-week-old beige mixed breed with one blue eye as well as one brown eye, “miraculously … emerged unharmed and was rescued by responding … officers,” the police department said.

The puppy is now reportedly in the care of South Los Angeles Animal Services. The agency is holding the dog pending an investigation into the “abandonment” of the animal during the chase, and it is not available for adoption, at least not yet, the police added in a statement.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/09/puppy-high-speed-los-angeles-police-chase

People are fucking awful.

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Puppy flung from pickup in high-speed Los Angeles police chase survives (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Apr 2023 OP
I'm so glad the pup is okay MustLoveBeagles Apr 2023 #1
Very cute: tblue37 Apr 2023 #2
Adorable MustLoveBeagles Apr 2023 #4
nice bag too... glad it protected the puppy BlueWaveNeverEnd Apr 2023 #5
DISGUSTING, poor little puppy Raine Apr 2023 #3
Well, life just took a dramatically fortunate turn for this little one. Hortensis Apr 2023 #6
Now consider that everyone seeing this story and that image wanting to adopt the little guy Stinky The Clown Apr 2023 #7
:) Me. I want to! Hortensis Apr 2023 #9
Aw MustLoveBeagles Apr 2023 #8
Poor baby Meowmee Apr 2023 #10

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. Well, life just took a dramatically fortunate turn for this little one.
Sun Apr 9, 2023, 08:48 PM
Apr 2023

Lol imagining the outrage if some bureaucrat allowed the puppy to be returned to any of them.

Stinky The Clown

(67,818 posts)
7. Now consider that everyone seeing this story and that image wanting to adopt the little guy
Sun Apr 9, 2023, 09:08 PM
Apr 2023

A dramatically fortunate turn, indeed!!!

Meowmee

(5,164 posts)
10. Poor baby
Sun Apr 9, 2023, 09:16 PM
Apr 2023

So glad he is ok. 😀 I thought there was a move to stop these high-speed chases because they are too dangerous.

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