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Pitbull discussion and a false social media post goes viral · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Zach was just asking me during the bottom of the hour,
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  Speaker 1: which is what put the story into my head to
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  Speaker 1: begin with, about the child that was in critical condition
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  Speaker 1: attack by two dogs. Sunday is when this happened. Last
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  Speaker 1: reports I saw said the child had been stabilized. Officers
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  Speaker 1: responded to the incident thirty five hundred block of Hiawatha
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  Speaker 1: Street that's up in the London area. Upon arrival, and
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  Speaker 1: officer shot and killed one of the dogs. Second dog
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  Speaker 1: was euthanized. Both sent to Franklin County Public Health for
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  Speaker 1: rabies testing. The young child a boy under ten. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know why that matters under ten. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: if he's under ten, I don't care if he's under twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody's kid identified as a young child under ten rustern
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  Speaker 1: Nationwide Children's by one of the officers. ABC six Learning
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  Speaker 1: on Monday morning. The boys condition was improved as stable
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  Speaker 1: Zach's question. I understand the question. I don't understand why
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  Speaker 1: it's not being answered. But I have not seen any
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  Speaker 1: media reports that identify the dogs as pit bulls. I'd
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  Speaker 1: never heard of a collaide doing this kind of thing,
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  Speaker 1: and for the officer to have to shoot them tells
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  Speaker 1: me that when he pulled up, they were probably still aggressive.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm telling you right here, right now, it's not
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  Speaker 1: too far into the future. You're going to see a
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  Speaker 1: movement to probably at the very least requires some pretty
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  Speaker 1: serious insurance coverage if you're going to own a pit bull,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe even maybe even some regulations on where in
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  Speaker 1: the city they can be out of a house. What
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  Speaker 1: you'd have to do if you let them out into
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  Speaker 1: a yard, what kind of fencing you'd have to have.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, hell, we've got, you know, a rule about
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  Speaker 1: what kind of fence you have to have around a
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  Speaker 1: swimming pool. Why wouldn't we have rules about what kind
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  Speaker 1: of fence you have to have if you have a
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  Speaker 1: pit I think that's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I get I joked about it last week, but
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  Speaker 2: I don't like him. I might lead that charge.
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  Speaker 1: And I have kid.
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  Speaker 2: There's kids in my neighborhood who play great. They are
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  Speaker 2: very thankful, great neighbors.
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  Speaker 3: Ball.
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  Speaker 2: There's somebody in relatively close to me that got a
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  Speaker 2: lab pit bull mix and it was a puppy and
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  Speaker 2: it was so cute and everything, and then over winter
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  Speaker 2: it got bigger. So now when he takes it for
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  Speaker 2: a walk, he has to hold on to the leash
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  Speaker 2: because it's growling at everything. It's incredibly aggressive, and I can't. Like, now,
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  Speaker 2: every time my kid goes outside, I'm gonna be like,
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  Speaker 2: is that dog gonna be it? You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Like, it just goes on and on and on.
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  Speaker 1: And people will always be there to tell you, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I have a pit bull, and he's sweet and he's wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: He never does anything. Okay, yeah, you might have one.
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  Speaker 1: Don't have that problem. But if you take one hundred
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  Speaker 1: attacks of children buy dogs in neighborhoods in the state
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  Speaker 1: of Ohio, tell me what dog is responsible for. At
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  Speaker 1: the majority of.
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  Speaker 2: Times, overwhelmingly, that's the dog. That's what they're bred for.
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  Speaker 2: They were bred for fighting, that's where they came from,
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  Speaker 2: so that's their nature.
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  Speaker 1: You can't fault the dog for being what it is.
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  Speaker 1: But you have to be bright enough to understand what
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  Speaker 1: it is and and live your life appropriately. And sometimes
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  Speaker 1: that means you don't have the pit bull, especially if
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  Speaker 1: you've got small kids. If you're in a neighborhood with
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  Speaker 1: small kids, the dog needs to be confined. I don't
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  Speaker 1: understand the you know, my buddy, Ray's got a rottweiler,
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  Speaker 1: which were kind of like pitbull juniors by reputation. For
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  Speaker 1: a long long I haven't heard I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: I've heard of a rotweiler attack in ten years.
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  Speaker 2: No, but this they do, it's not nearly as on
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  Speaker 2: the same level.
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  Speaker 1: This dog Ray has, He's got to of them. But
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  Speaker 1: this last one he got is so flip and massive.
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  Speaker 1: The dog carries around in the yard, lives on some makers.
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  Speaker 1: Dog carries around as a play toy truck tire. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not joking. That's this is a big, strong dog and
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  Speaker 1: he actually carries like a twenty eight inch truck tire
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  Speaker 1: as a playtoy. They'll put it around his neck and
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  Speaker 1: trot around the yard. And he loves for you to
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  Speaker 1: come grab the tire so he can wrestle you for it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he pulls on it and stuff. I bet he does.
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  Speaker 2: I bet his grip is.
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  Speaker 1: That dog may see me once or twice a year
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  Speaker 1: and still absolutely friendly. He loves to wrestle with the
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  Speaker 1: tire and he'll he'll come up and prop down next
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  Speaker 1: to you. When he plops down next to you, you
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  Speaker 1: feel it. He is massive, but he's he's a gentle,
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  Speaker 1: gentle dog with all the people around there. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you come in the driveway and he doesn't recognize the
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  Speaker 1: car coming up the drive or something like that, he
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  Speaker 1: will make himself known. He's uh, he's not scared anything.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's his territory. Might be nice, but
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  Speaker 2: he's going to give you a warning shot.
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  Speaker 1: Once he knows who everybody is. He seems to be fine,
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  Speaker 1: and he plays with the kids and the grandkids and
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  Speaker 1: they ride him my horses and completely different disposition. That dog,
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  Speaker 1: as much as I like him and as favorable as
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  Speaker 1: I feel about him, is also a dog, a big, giant,
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  Speaker 1: strong dog. They are animals, and sometimes animals go bad,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes more frequently than others, a certain breed of
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  Speaker 1: animal goes bad, and it's just something we got to
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  Speaker 1: realize and deal with. I'm pretty sure nobody in the
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  Speaker 1: neighborhood is being threatened by my chihuahua, pretty sure. But
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  Speaker 1: I have had some big dogs in the past two
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  Speaker 1: and one of it's Gracie. I think she was half
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  Speaker 1: pitbull and half blue Tech. I'm pretty sure because she
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  Speaker 1: had that big, expansive, strong chest, very pitbullish, but she
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  Speaker 1: had more of a blue tick head and coloring and everything.
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  Speaker 1: And Gracie was a big, strong dog, but I never
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  Speaker 1: knew what her to hurt anybody. She did get out
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  Speaker 1: of the yard one time and some kring on the
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  Speaker 1: community pace.
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  Speaker 4: If anybody goes past this house, avoid it. There's a
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  Speaker 4: vicious dog. Yeh, shut up, she's vicious. You and your
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  Speaker 4: dog feel the necessity to walk all close to my
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  Speaker 4: fenced yard and grazy trying to get out of the
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  Speaker 4: yard toward your dog. How about this walk on the
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  Speaker 4: other side. Don't let your dog come up sniffing at
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  Speaker 4: my fence because Gracie said that's her fence.
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  Speaker 1: But no, Karen's all over the place. Finally here, as
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  Speaker 1: I said, if it's on the internet doesn't mean it's true.
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  Speaker 1: And Columbus police having to get involved here to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that people know some things are not true. Viral
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  Speaker 1: social media post falsely accusing a man of a double
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  Speaker 1: homicide prompted warnings from local authorities and community leaders. Melissa
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  Speaker 1: Marlous no it is malus okay. Thomas Saint Clair, with
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  Speaker 1: mothers of murdered children in Columbus, took to Facebook to
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  Speaker 1: address a misleading post which claims a man stabbed his
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  Speaker 1: foster parents to death and is now attacking people in Columbus.
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  Speaker 1: I had to hurry up and get on here because
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  Speaker 1: I started seeing this post that's about to go viral
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  Speaker 1: real quick, and I needed to get on here and
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  Speaker 1: let you all know, don't do that. Columbus Police confirmed
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  Speaker 1: the allegations are untrue, So if you've seen this video,
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  Speaker 1: it's not true. The mugshot that's being used is from
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  Speaker 1: a police department outside of Chicago where the suspect was
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  Speaker 1: arrested for burglary in December. People's lives, people's livelihoods, families
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  Speaker 1: are attached to this. The young man now may or
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  Speaker 1: may not have something ruined because of someone else wanting
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  Speaker 1: to either have monetary gain or clickbait gain or gain followers,
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  Speaker 1: but none of that is worth somebody else's life. The
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  Speaker 1: post appeared beyond Columbus, appearing in groups from Connecticut to Nevada.
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  Speaker 1: Only one city name had been altered. Columbus Sergeant James Fuqua,
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  Speaker 1: who has been a guest here on this show, emphasized
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  Speaker 1: the importance of verifying information before sharing it online. Bottom
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  Speaker 1: line is, you need to ensure whatever you're getting that
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  Speaker 1: information from whomever the messenger is, make sure that they
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  Speaker 1: are accurate. Pok would noted, this isn't the first instance
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  Speaker 1: of a viral post spreading false information. People thought several
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  Speaker 1: homicide our serial homicide person was running the rampant through Columbus.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, it's very difficult for investigators to nail
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  Speaker 1: down potential information to solving crimes when people believe something
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  Speaker 1: like that. Because the Internet is saying that these things
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  Speaker 1: are happening, they are not accurate, They're not occurring both
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  Speaker 1: Fuquin Saint Clair. It's the public to think critically before
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  Speaker 1: clicking on any of this stuff or sharing it. And
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  Speaker 1: that's true. Somebody can put out there and you never know.
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  Speaker 1: You never know. Somebody wants to put lies out there
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  Speaker 1: about you on the Internet. They want to say you
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  Speaker 1: did something, or you are something or whatever. They want
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  Speaker 1: to try to get you in trouble with your job,
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  Speaker 1: with your boss. They want to try to make you
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  Speaker 1: lose your prominence, lose your position, lose your income. They
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  Speaker 1: could also be stirring up a hornets neess because depending
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  Speaker 1: on what they're saying you did, who you are, somebody
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  Speaker 1: may decide to take justice into their own hands. All
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  Speaker 1: because some lunatic gets on the internet and tells lies.
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  Speaker 1: Something you might want to keep in mind. A two
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  Speaker 1: one nine eight six A two one WTV, and I
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  Speaker 1: can get at least a couple in before I go here. Mary,
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  Speaker 1: you're on six to ten WTVN Hi check.
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  Speaker 3: I originally called about the dogs, but after hearing your
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  Speaker 3: report about the immense differentation, my brother just went through.
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  Speaker 3: He just lost his wife, and we had some girl
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  Speaker 3: on the internet saying he murdered her and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But she didn't, you know, she died of illness. It's
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  Speaker 3: the complications with an illness. But yeah, that stuff just
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  Speaker 3: it just goes viral and everybody believed it, and I
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  Speaker 3: had family members calling me from you know, and it's
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  Speaker 3: just it's ridiculous. But on the dog issue, I got
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  Speaker 3: two akidas. I got one hundred and five pound mail
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  Speaker 3: and he's he's a sweetheart. But you know, the reputations
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  Speaker 3: with akidas as well. But it's how you keep them socialized,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, sometimes sometimes, if not most times, that may
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  Speaker 1: be correct, but there are also those times when the
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  Speaker 1: breed is just going to take over. You know. You
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  Speaker 1: can say you could raise your kids well and teach
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  Speaker 1: them all the good things in life of the way
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  Speaker 1: to act, but occasionally one of them is going to
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  Speaker 1: kill somebody and go to prison.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, true, that is true. But I just found that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he my my akidas, they're just they're just
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  Speaker 3: lovable and uh if I keep them social with other
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  Speaker 3: animals and with people, and I don't think they'll hurt
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  Speaker 3: anyone unless they attack me, you know, or my family members.
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  Speaker 1: Well, good, that's what you want them for. That's if
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  Speaker 1: they if they protect you and the and the family,
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  Speaker 1: then that's what they're there for. Mary, thanks for the call.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you. I had a shepherd mix many years ago,
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  Speaker 1: and she was the same way. She hated violence, but
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  Speaker 1: she also knew the line. Because I'm a believer in
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  Speaker 1: corporal punishment. I would smack the kids on the butts
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  Speaker 1: when they were a and she did not want to
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  Speaker 1: see the kids getting their tails whooped, and she would bark, bark, bark,
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  Speaker 1: and I would turn avery sit and she'd sit because
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  Speaker 1: she realized that, Okay, you know this is this is
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  Speaker 1: what dads do. You got to get this dot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so funny. But we had a lab grown
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  Speaker 2: up with my dad used to jokingly, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: punchy or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: And he did.
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  Speaker 2: My dog did not like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, now she saw one of the other kids
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  Speaker 1: in the neighborhood jump on one of the boys or
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  Speaker 1: something like that. That was a different matter. She go
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  Speaker 1: and she would bark and circle them, but she was
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  Speaker 1: she was calling, come on, dad, somebody's got the boy
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  Speaker 1: out here.