Dog Tasered By Police After Blocking I-95 Highway Traffic (VIDEO)

For over three hours Monday night and Tuesday morning, traffic on I-95 was delayed by... a dog.

According to CBS News, the dog roamed the four-lane highway in Northeast Philadelphia, forcing cars to stop, slow down, or swerve. The dog was nearly hit multiple times, but managed to avoid cars and people trying to catch her.

The dog finally left the highway and was cornered by police. An officer tasered the dog upon feeling threatened. According to Capt. Francis Bachmayer, "The dog was about to attack one of the officers...We did not want any injuries."

Although old, the dog appears to be okay, and is now in an animal control center run by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Her name has been changed to "Northbound" due to her fondness for the highway. We're guessing some drivers caught in traffic were calling her names that were a little less endearing.

What do you think? Should tasers be used on animals? Do you think it was appropriate in this instance? Let us know in the comments.

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Comments

[hazbro24]

12:11 PM on 01/12/2011

Should have sent in animal control. And some scooby snacks. It's pretty sad cops can't handle a situation like this.

[RadicalSAHM]

04:55 PM on 01/10/2011

Um...tranquilizer dart???

[KarlaElisa]

12:11 PM on 01/09/2011

Amazing reading this thread....the people here seem to truly understand the mentality and violence of Police brutality. This alone warms my heart. I have no use for the police and can't imagine EVER calling one for help, no matter what the situation.

[KarlaElisa]

12:05 PM on 01/09/2011

I think tasers should be used on law enforcement, that's what I think.

[K Rednosed Rupert]

10:33 PM on 01/08/2011

Oh for heaven's sake! Three hours? Couldn't anyone find a hamburger?

[TexasDem0]

01:58 PM on 01/10/2011

Exactly.

[NWBrunette]

09:47 PM on 01/08/2011

That's nothing. Cops in these parts k|ll homeless people for urinating on the street.. They even taser uncooperative 15-year-old girls. Lucky for the dog it lives in Philly. But still, so many cops seem to be so, so trigger happy.

[noob1]

09:41 PM on 01/08/2011

Learn to use the crosswalk pooch, eh?

[1donewrong]

08:53 PM on 01/08/2011

where was Rodney King he could help the poor dog sue

[PartyPartyParty]

06:49 PM on 01/08/2011

OdinsEye   14 minutes ago (6:20 PM) 183 Fans Become a fan Unfan
 
"Firearms are the last resort. TASER ECDs fill the gap BEFORE firearms end up being used."
 
You can keep posting what you want, but the facts are stil the facts:
 
1)  Tasers are potentially lethal weapons.  Their manufacturer has finally admitted as such, and has stated that a Taser ECD should NEVER be fired anywhere near a chest;
 
2)  Police are rarely adequately trained in the use of a taser, including how to handle an individual who they have just tasered so that individual does not die (from falling and hitting their head and suffering a fatal brain injury, for example, which happens:
 
http://www.daggerpress.com/2009/06/14/prisoner-dies-at-detention-center-after-being-tasered/
 
and
 
3)  The dog was tasered not because it was about to run in front of a car, or because cars swerving to avoid it were in danger of crashing and injuring the dog or other people. 
 
The dog was tasered only when it seemed as though a police officer -- not a citizen -- was about to be bit.  "We didn't want any injuries," was what the police spokesperson said.  Not 'We didn't want the dog or a citizen to be injured," but "We didn't want a cop to be injured."
 
In other words, the taser was used to protect the police.  Not the dog, not any drivers.  The police.
 
That's disgusting.

[alteredstory]

10:53 AM on 01/08/2011

You know, it's just possible that all their time with dogs trained to attack people has given some cops a slightly skewed view of shepherds.

Sort of like their training seems to have given some cops a slightly skewed view of old ladies.

[kbeth]

10:35 AM on 01/08/2011

While I don't like the taser being used on the dog it was better than a bullet which is what our cops would have used.I'd say that was one very lucky dog, she could have been easily killed or badly injured and thankfully no one was hurt in wrecks.

[Patrick Shaw]

10:14 AM on 01/08/2011

That's one way to make an Air Bud.

[Dennis7450]

09:51 AM on 01/08/2011

Take the tasers away from cops. They're not smart enough to know when to use them, and not responsible enough to use them intelligently. Enough is enough. When a big, young cop thinks he has to taser an 80 something woman, becasue she's not doing exactly what he wants her to do, and he can't just grab her (???) you know the game is over. Cops are Neanderthals with modern weapons.

[dct1999]

05:39 AM on 01/08/2011

Typical police bullsheet. Don't you know that all of their victims were just about to attack? Even the 5 year olds and the 70 year old grandmothers.

[jubo]

05:02 AM on 01/08/2011

A society cannot continue scraping the bottom in assembling a Police force.