I prefer news to lift my spirits, but for every story like the one I just wrote about great sportsmanship in a college softball game, I come across at least two stories that frankly depress the hell out of me.
First comes this story of a SWAT team that invaded a private residence at 6:00 a.m. looking for defaulted debtors on a student loan. In their infinite wisdom, the U.S Department of Education sent the SWAT team to the wrong address, where the cops detained an innocent man for six hours while they sorted out their mistake.
Then on the local front, I read where officials in College Park decreed certain canine breeds to be “dangerous dogs”requiring special registration for an annual $25 fee under the guise of “improving public safety.”
If you don’t enter my house without permission, my German Shepherd will not bite you. If you do trespass, you’re getting what you richly deserve — a bite taken out of your butt.
The public is perfectly safe. Any burglar stupid enough to enter my house will be toast but taste like chicken.
No longer do the authorities wait until after a dog it has bitten someone to deem it dangerous.
Owners of pit bulls, Rottweilers, Doberman Pinschers and German Shepherds in College Park must pay this annual tax or they will face both fines and possible confiscation of their pet.
You know, I’m starting to believe in vampires. The government is full of blood suckers!
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