1. The Oakland Police fell flat on their collective badges again. Having already made headlines several months ago with the shooting of a fawn, who was lost and wandering around the streets of East Oakland, gunning it down like a rabid pit bull ready to savage them, drew their weapons last week and blasted an 11 year old family pet, Gloria-a yellow Lab (Old Yeller), who was arthritic from hip dysplasia and moved like her limbs were stuck in molasses. Not having learned from the Bambi execution that uh, pepper spray and tasers are available, the Police officer responding to a burglar alarm and believing he was about to be attacked by Gloria (a burglar?) opened fire. Come on, we did not all fall off the turnip truck. The family deeply distraught by the fatal shooting of their loved family pet in it's own yard does not believe the officer's version. The back pedaling Oakland Police Department is working hard to extinguish this latest PR blunder. Gloria's owner who raised her from a pup said the dog for the last several years had trouble getting up and moving. The disturbing fallout once again raises questions about police procedure and behavior.
2. Down in South Fla., Kassim Osgood, a Jacksonville Jaguar tight end, was spending a quiet evening with a friend, Mackenzie Rae Putnal, a Jags cheerleader, at her family home when a gun wielding ex of the cheerleader burst through the door, pistol whipped Kassim and threatened to kill them both. Putnal on the floor with a gun pointing at her head scuffled with the ex who grabbed her cell phone and smashed it. Osgood 6'5" jumped out a 2nd floor window and ran for help leaving Putnal inside (!) with the crazed gunman. Putnal, resourceful, and quick on her feet escaped to her parent's room on the lower level, pulled out a sidearm with an infrared laser sight
and traded gunfire with the ex. The moral of this story, boys and girls, is: don't F with cheerleaders. You never know if they'll go all Evelyn Salt or Nikita on you. Post script...the ex was arrested after fleeing Putnal's home.
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