{"id":675,"date":"2008-12-24T17:37:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T22:37:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-24T17:37:09","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T22:37:09","slug":"im-siding-with-the-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=675","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m siding with the driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/24530214\/\" title=\" this story \"> this story <\/a> recently.  I can&#8217;t believe they are countersuing for the cost of a new dog.  <\/p>\n<p>Does this mean if I put my car in neutral and shove it out into the highway each and every driver that smashes into it has get together and buy ME a new car?  what the hell?!<\/p>\n<p>do you OWN the dog?  If you OWN the dog, you are RESPONSIBLE for it.  It isn&#8217;t my job to look out for YOUR property while driving on a public road.  If this was in their driveway this would be a different story entirely.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, I also side with the police officer in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/LA-County-Assistant-Fire-Chief-Says-He-Killed-Neighbors-Dog-in-Self-Defense.html\" title=\"local SoCal \"cruel dog killing\" case\">local SoCal &#8220;cruel dog killing&#8221; case<\/a> (if he was bit, about which there are conflicting reports&#8230;).  If your dog bites me I&#8217;m going to smash its brains in!   Happy holidays!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this story recently. I can&#8217;t believe they are countersuing for the cost of a new dog. Does this mean if I put my car in neutral and shove it out into the highway each and every driver that smashes into it has get together and buy ME a new car? what the hell?! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}