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Bad Dog!

… is good at what he does. Furry thief caught on surveillance vid entering a Utah supermarket, trotting straight to aisle 16 — Pets — and grabbing a rawhide bone. Brazen thief defied a store manager who ordered him to “drop it!” So how did the pooch know where the pet section was? Wouldn’t the meat section be a more logical draw? I guess all that pet food must put off a strong pong. Either that or this endearing tale is a setup. KSL-TV: 

At Smith’s Food & Drug in Murray, a popular place these days is the manager’s office, where they have the surveillance video. “You had to see to believe it, but it happened. So, it’s crazy,” said Tracy Jacobson, with Smith’s Food & Drug.

A suspicious character entered through the front door. “I’ve never seen him shop in here before; brand new customer, didn’t even have his Fresh Value card,” store manager Roger Adamson said.

What happened next is already becoming legend. “I mean, how likely is that? For a dog to walk into a store, go down the pet aisle, get his bone and walk out?” Jacobson said.

Let’s reconstruct the crime a step at a time: Entering at the checkout area, the dog approached a young girl. “He just kind of sniffed the customer up, and then headed down the aisle,” Adamson said.

At that point, he had a decision to make: Left? No dog food. Right? Dog food. He turned right and went straight to aisle 16, the dog food aisle.

There are so many fun Christmas presents he could have picked, but he seemed to know exactly what he was after. He grabbed a rawhide bone and headed down the aisle, only to be confronted by the manager.

“I looked at him. I said, ‘Drop it!’” Adamson said. “I decided I wanted to keep all my fingers, so I didn’t try to take it from him. He looked at me, and I looked at him, and he ran for the door and away he went, right out the front door.”

Vid at the link. That dog looks suspiciously like a wily coyote.

Topics: dogs

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:24 am Comments (3) on Friday, December 26, 2008

3 Responses to “Bad Dog!”

1. Cold Fury » Criminal career auspiciously launched Says:
   December 26th, 2008 at 11:34 am

   [...] Jules: BAD [...]

2. The_Real_JeffS Says:
   December 26th, 2008 at 11:43 am

   The dog just helped himself? Must be a Democrat.

3. RebeccaH Says:
   December 26th, 2008 at 11:56 am

   That dog was just availing himself of a five-fingered… er, um… four-pawed discount.

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