As she told the man filming her actions (see below), detectives reported that she was trying to teach her dog how to swim. It’s hard to know what to do with a headline like ‘Vermilion police say woman was not attempting to throw dog in Lake Erie,’ unless perhaps detectives missed the 35-second mark on the video below, right before the camera shifts.
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May 10:
Last night, video surfaced showing a woman throwing a dog into Lake Erie amid very high winds and waves. (See the video below.) As one can easily tell, the dog did not want to go into the water at all.
Youtube user Elijah Boggs posted the video, which shows him confronting the woman. She explained that she was “training the dog to swim,” and Boggs counter that she shouldn’t be doing that in rough weather.
Boggs also noted that he called Vermilion Police Department, which did not immediately respond. By this morning, however, the video had gone “viral” and police had shared it with their Facebook audience. The department eventually identified the woman.
We’ll keep tracking this case to figure out what in world was going on with this poor pup. (Note: Boggs wrote, “The dog and her walked away dog still wet.”)
This article appears in May 10-16, 2017.
What a fat pig
Please investigate this and don’t let it fall through the cracks. That dog doesn’t deserve that and she shouldn’t have that dog.
The apparent lackadaisical attitude by police also needs some explaining — a viral video quickly flipped Barney Fife into Michael Stone.
Throw her fat ass in the freezing cold water & tell her to swim!
Something needs done. That poor dog should’ve been taken from her. Maybe someone should throw her fat ass in a couple times and see how she likes it.
It’s understandable why she’d want the dog to be able to swim. Some people treat their pets as children, and good parents want their kids to grow up and be better than they were. So this seems perfectly reasonable to me. My god, just look at her: the dog will be able to swim all of the Great Lakes while she instantly sinks to the bottom of Lake Erie.
Take the dog from this fat cow, next time she tries to teach him to”swim” it will probably not be in public. If the fat cow doesn’t want the dog give it to someone who does. She is sick in the head. Dogs know how to swim instinctively, but even if it didn’t, you don’t teach him when the water is still ice cold, and high winds, by throwing him in. Do it from the beach!
Keeping it classy SCENE readers. While the video is disturbing to say the least, your comments are even more so. Why comment on her weight? You can be angry at something without attacking the person’s image… how shallow are you people? Apparently very.
She “was trying to teach the dog how to swim”. I almost believe her.
ALMOST.
For crying out loud, it is a dog. An animal. So what!?
When somebody doesn’t understand ironic humor posted in a comment, as obviously happened with my earlier comment here and often happens when politically correct people take everything literally, there should be a remote tool available which allows the person that posted the comment to punch the unsuspecting reader in the face.
Uh, I like dogs and I was calling her a big fat pig that would sink to the bottom of the lake if the dog tossed her in. Comprendez?
Holy cow. According to the Morning Journal story, the human flotation device is only *26.* There is no way anybody anywhere would have gotten that right in the office pool.
This poor dog was scared to death. Even the dog knew better than to get in the water.
If she doesn’t have more sense than the animal, then she shouldn’t have an animal. I do agree that the dog should be taken from her and she shouldn’t have an opportunity to do this again.
That was flat out animal abuse. She needs to be charged with a crime. Animal abuse is a fourth degree felony in Ohio now thanks to Dick Goodard. Is she related to the police chief, is that how she got off? No one throws a dog into choppy water like that with good intentions. She’s a lying sack of bullshit.
Take the dog. Leave the bitch (to sink or swim, after throwing her in the drink).
Chuckles the Clown