Beware of the Dogs Flying at Your Windshield

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February 28, 2005

Beware of the Dogs Flying at Your Windshield

I was driving toward a nearby interstate interchange one day, when a pickup doing 90ish went careening by with 2 large dogs in the open bed. The dogs weren't calm about the ride. One was trying to climb on top of the cab, the other was just about dangling from the right side, and both kept jumping around and making my wife and me really nervous..

I would have thought that the one incident we witnessed (along with many other drivers and a parked patrol officer who, sadly, remained sitting) was a fluke, but if the Knox County Commission is considering this recourse, there must exist a few more, ah, low-competence drivers who, it is felt, need a swift financial reminder in order to break this incomprehensible habit.

The driver I saw that day needed a sharp lesson from someone, but I'm not sure an ordinance that might technically prevent two or three old hounds from riding home from the other field in the farm pickup is the answer to his problem.

Can people simply agree to secure their animals, preferably in an enclosure (depending on breed), when they drive them around?

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