I'd like to know how much this cost the taxpayers.

eddyatwork: I'd like to know how much this cost the taxpayers.

What's important is that the dog's family felt a sense of honored closure.

Yep, but their SWAT team will still shoot your dog without even breaking stride.

What's important is that the dog's family felt a sense of honored closure.

That's ruff.

I'm sure the dog would have appreciated it

.eddyatwork: I'd like to know how much this cost the taxpayers.

As an old Military Working Dog Handler, this a sweet remembrance of loyal friend and partner. Still, the dog died of kidney failure, it didn't take a bullet to save a life. Perhaps a smaller ceremony might have been a bit more appropriate

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/hot like the sun

Looks like this city needed a reason to cry and mourn. Too bad about the dog but it's a little excessive in these times to justify the cost for a dog funeral procession.


/dog owner

How many flag pins were there?

Can anyone explain to me how a dog used by cops gets human legal status at taxpayer expense? Is a lifetime of being directed to bite black people really worth that much to society?

Michael Vick would approve.

A life dedicated to protecting those who would denigrate you as you work, in life and in passing. RIP, kibble-worthy citizen.

An interesting response, considering cops don't seem to have a problem killing dogs when they are called to citizen's houses. Guess the only dogs that count are police dogs.

misanthropic1: Can anyone explain to me how a dog used by cops gets human legal status at taxpayer expense? Is a lifetime of being directed to bite black people really worth that much to society?

So that anyone who kicks or injures a police dog can be charged with assault on an officer and not just small time cruelty to animals.

FTA:A grieving Jesse Ray Jordan, who became acquainted with K-9 Ringo at Anderson County High, is comforted by his father, Spartacus Jordan, during Friday's memorial service for the police dog.

I wish I was named Spartacus...

It's just a dog. Not saying that nobody should care, but let's have a little perspective here. The main caretakers and anyone whose life was saved by that dog, you can be upset. Everyone else, stop being a moran. Dogs are not people, and even if they were, most people don't even deserve funerals like that. Hell, most heroes don't even deserve funerals like that.

atheist45: FTA:A grieving Jesse Ray Jordan, who became acquainted with K-9 Ringo at Anderson County High, is comforted by his father, Spartacus Jordan, during Friday's memorial service for the police dog.

I wish I was named Spartacus...


*stands up*
I'm named Spartacus!

Ennuipoet: .eddyatwork: I'd like to know how much this cost the taxpayers.

As an old Military Working Dog Handler, this a sweet remembrance of loyal friend and partner. Still, the dog died of kidney failure, it didn't take a bullet to save a life. Perhaps a smaller ceremony might have been a bit more appropriate

Perhaps sticking a ham bone up the dog's butt and letting the neighboor strays drag him away would be more appropriate.

One Bad Apple: misanthropic1: Can anyone explain to me how a dog used by cops gets human legal status at taxpayer expense? Is a lifetime of being directed to bite black people really worth that much to society?

So that anyone who kicks or injures a police dog can be charged with assault on an officer and not just small time cruelty to animals.

And as an added bonus, police dogs aren't bound by warrants. They can sniff-search you or your property passively.

i'm glad the knoxville metropolitan area can make it on Fark every once in awhile. Knoxville Farkers represent!

You know, they probably already had the giant flag and vehicles. Sure the flowers were a bit much, I wonder if it cost as much as everyone thinks.

Barakku: atheist45: FTA:A grieving Jesse Ray Jordan, who became acquainted with K-9 Ringo at Anderson County High, is comforted by his father, Spartacus Jordan, during Friday's memorial service for the police dog.

I wish I was named Spartacus...


*stands up*
I'm named Spartacus!

I'm Spartacus!

But on his grave they can't explain
The tarnished star above the name of Ringo

Ringo... Ringo...

Good for them. That rules.

Ashtrey: You know, they probably already had the giant flag and vehicles. Sure the flowers were a bit much, I wonder if it cost as much as everyone thinks.

No. The police union probably paid for the flowers and stuff and the cops were all off-duty. But we mustn't let facts spoil a good Fark cop-hating thread.

buckler: Barakku:*stands up*
I'm named Spartacus!

I'm Spartacus!

Annnndddd my work here is done. Thanks, Farkers, for not disappointing.

As with any funeral, it's a tragedy.

And to think all I gave my cat was a burial in the back yard =/

Oh shibble! CruiserTwelve is here! Everyone pack up your cop-hate paraphernalia. There's no more delicious irrational and totally unwarranted cop-hate to be had. Move along.

RIP, Ringo.

CruiserTwelve: Ashtrey: You know, they probably already had the giant flag and vehicles. Sure the flowers were a bit much, I wonder if it cost as much as everyone thinks.

No. The police union probably paid for the flowers and stuff and the cops were all off-duty. But we mustn't let facts spoil a good Fark cop-hating thread.

There is a good reason for some cop-hate, a number of officers cannot turn off the need to be in control. We understand that when you're on duty, you must be in control of every situation for safety reasons, however, the officers who cannot flick that switch off cause a lot of issues in the realm of public perception.

atheist45: buckler: Barakku:*stands up*
I'm named Spartacus!

I'm Spartacus!

Annnndddd my work here is done. Thanks, Farkers, for not disappointing.

"I'm Spartacus and so is my wife"

/Did I do it right?

explains why those guys got away with breaking into my home, beating my wife, eating all my food, running up my PPV bill, then burning the place to the ground.

I should have stayed home instead of going to some stupid memorial that ate up all those tax dollars

DeathByGeekSquad: CruiserTwelve: Ashtrey: You know, they probably already had the giant flag and vehicles. Sure the flowers were a bit much, I wonder if it cost as much as everyone thinks.

No. The police union probably paid for the flowers and stuff and the cops were all off-duty. But we mustn't let facts spoil a good Fark cop-hating thread.

There is a good reason for some coppower-hungry-asshole-hate, a number of officers cannot turn off the need to be in control. We understand that when you're on duty, you must be in control of every situation for safety reasons, however, the officers who cannot flick that switch off cause a lot of issues in the realm of public perception.

FTFY

A small ceremony would have sufficed.
Even German police dogs want steak.

Ennuipoet: .eddyatwork: I'd like to know how much this cost the taxpayers.

As an old Military Working Dog Handler, this a sweet remembrance of loyal friend and partner. Still, the dog died of kidney failure, it didn't take a bullet to save a life. Perhaps a smaller ceremony might have been a bit more appropriate

Really? And should the eulogy be delivered in lolspeak?

Didn´t Caligula do something along this line. With a horse or a monkey...

These law enforcement people act like the nazis did when they swaggered through eastern europe. Dicks hanging out and their dogs up on a pedastal.

A funeral procession....for a dog. And, I´m a dog lover.

Cops are filled with such a a ridiculous sense of self importance.

CruiserTwelve: But we mustn't let facts spoil a good Fark cop-hating thread.

I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt and say that you are among the 12% of cops that are honest and honorable. That being said, make the other 88% of cops follow the same laws we are required too and you will see the hate drop off. Don't make excuses for the crooked ones and you will see an improvement. It also would help if you screened prospective police officers a bit more carefully. Quit picking the ones who were picked on in high school and have some kind of chip on their shoulder.

CruiserTwelve: Ashtrey: You know, they probably already had the giant flag and vehicles. Sure the flowers were a bit much, I wonder if it cost as much as everyone thinks.

No. The police union probably paid for the flowers and stuff and the cops were all off-duty. But we mustn't let facts spoil a good Fark cop-hating thread.


More than likely they were the heroes on paid administrative leave.

El_Swino: Yep, but their SWAT team will still shoot your dog without even breaking stride.

Came in here to say this. They will charge you with assaulting an officer if you kick their pooch away, but they can just gun yours down for being there and no inquiry is required. It's considered "destruction of property."

Not a cop hater, at all, but that inequity really pisses me off. Some cop out here jumped a lady's fence a while back WITHOUT A WARRANT, her little dog barked at him, and he killed it.

That's the thing about WASPs; they love animals, hate people.

Farking dog people. They would elect a dog president if possible.

Have some respect, I'm sure this dog was responsible for getting countless bags of schwag off the streets.

CruiserTwelve: Ashtrey: You know, they probably already had the giant flag and vehicles. Sure the flowers were a bit much, I wonder if it cost as much as everyone thinks.

No. The police union probably paid for the flowers and stuff and the cops were all off-duty. But we mustn't let facts spoil a good Fark cop-hating thread.

Say, where were you for the "Cop beats up a 15 year old girl" thread ? Pretty quiet that day, huh ?

In the UK the RSPCC was founded 100 yeears after, and as an adjunct of, the RSPCA.

I remember the time in my region where it took the cops 12 shots to put down a dog. The first 11 were from pistols, the last coming from a shotgun, after they realized they couldn't hit the side of a barn. And this coming after another incident where it took them 8 shots. Don't recall why they had to shoot them, maybe target practice.

Anyway, the guy being hugged is what I've always pictured libbynomore looks like:

*rolls eyes*

I sincerely hope this didn't come out of their taxpayer's pockets. If it was ponied up privately, they can do whatever the hell they like... but that certainly doesn't mean I agree with this kind of ridiculous extravagance.

Bet all those families of fallen police officers like to know their loved ones got the same treatment as a dog.

Ladies and gentlemen:

This is a new era in Fark history. 44 posts in a thread about government wasting money, and no one has blamed Obama.

And Phil Herup has even posted.

FAG DOGS DIE - GOD LAUGHS!!!

/just sayin. would've been funny if they showed up.
//with their dogs

I blame Obama.