Skinny dog stops hammer attack,
Man sics 8" puppy on police,
Malaysian mob orders $30k hit on two Labradors

and more from the CANINE CRIME BLOTTER

Apr 23, 2007

Skinny dog stops hammer attack

EDMONTON, AB (Canada)

On any given day, the Edmonton Police Canine Unit takes on some big crimes. But here's one case case that called for a skinny dog.

A 43-year-old woman awoke just after midnight, Jan. 13, to find a strange man crawling into her bed. She was able to call the police, but then the man grabbed a hammer and began to attack her.

Constable Roger Bellerose arrived on the scene with his cop dog "Indy" but found that the door was barricaded. Through a window, the officer could see the woman struggling against her attacker; however the door wouldn't budge more than a few inches.

Const. Bellerose hurled himself against the door and was able to gain just enough clearance for Indy to slither through. Once inside, Indy (having expanded to full size once again) single-handedly nabbed the attacker and held him until officers were able to get inside.

Injuries - good guys: 0.
Bad guy: 1 bite to the leg.

Man sics 8" puppy on police

RENFREWSHIRE (Scotland)

A man appeared in court earlier this month on charges relating to a domestic disturbance in which he allegedly grappled, wrestled and head-butted police while ordering his four-month-old Lhasa Apso puppy to attack.

The dog ignored him.

In court, the sherriff noted: "The dog shows more sense than its owner." Another court insider described the dog as "a tiny ball of fluff."

The accused man, Tony Williamson, 30, admitted that he was drunk at the time of the incident which occurred last year on Boxing Day. He pleaded guilty to two breaches of the Police (Scotland) Act and was sentenced to 240 hours of community service.

Mr. Williamson's attorney stated that his client "does not try to excuse his behaviour. He knows he was in the wrong."

In other words, he just suffered from a momentary lhasapso reason.

ASSAULT WITH A DALAI WEAPON
Lhasa Apsos like Norbert (available for adoption) were originally bred as guard dogs in 800 BC by Tibetan monks.

Mob tries to snuff the sniffers

Malaysian mob orders $30k hit on two Labradors

KUALA LUMPUR (Malaysia)

Meet "Lucky" and "Flo". Reportedly the Malaysian crime syndicate has put a RM100,000 (US$29,240) bounty on their snouts. In the past month, the two Black Labs have led police to over $3.5 million worth of illegal, pirated and child-pornographic DVDs.

L & F are specialized sniffer dogs, the only two in the world trained to detect the scent of polycarbonate, a chemical used in optical discs (DVDs). The pooches, trained in Ireland, were sent to Asia by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in an effort to uncover the piracy syndicate which costs the film industry an estimated $6.1 billion yearly.

Authorities have taken the threats on the dogs' lives very seriously and have notched up security. "We move them around [to keep them safe]," says Nor Hayati of the MPAA. "They are in a very secure place."

MPAA president Dan Glickman says, "The dogs are some of the greatest employees we have here at the MPAA."