Well I haven't posted on here in years but today REALLY pissed me off and I need to vent.
I was 2.5 miles into an 8 miler when 2 PBs broke through a wire fence barking...I looked at them but didn't think they would come down the steep 7-8ft tall ditch wall crawl up the other side and after me....wrong. I was running on the side of a double lane with a median in between highway. Most of us have fought off one dog but two is a big issue. They began to lunge and as I was swinging they backed off circled and lunged again...each time backing off less. I knew they would eventually get ahold of me. I saw no traffic so I ran into the HW and they followed. I fought them off crossing the median and onto the other side. No traffic. Finally the bigger one got ahold of my jacket scrtaching my arm. I swung and I think I barely hit it in the head/face. As soon as he let go the other lunged and I swung I think hitting it. So I finally was able to see the traffic released from a light coming this way and my only option was to jump into the traffic hoping they would stop and the dogs would not follow. (this is a HW through town 55mph.) The traffic stopped but the dogs followed. I kept jumping around swinging and yelling when I thought to jump up on a hood of a car...BUT then I thought they would sue if I dented the hood?? Swung a couple of more times and spotted a lady in a truck motioning to get in....I ran and the door was locked....just then the dogs took off, scaled the ditch wall and back into their yard. The police were called...I didn't know but I ran to the city hall and had them call the police.
Well I rode in the back of the car to show the officer where the dogs were and the people were cited 2-300 bucks.
I DON'T FEEL GOOD! Most of us have fought off dogs before so we know how to do it better than the average person right? I teach MMA so I think I have a good grasp on how to fight off "A" dog...2 was a new issue.
I have the feeling that if I were a normal person I would have been shredded and these people would have been seriously ticketed/arrested/dogs taken?? So I have the feeling like they essentially took advantage of my MMA training to only get a 2-300 fine and 10 days of house arrest for the dogs. I got a nice rip in my wind breaker and a tooth scratch on my arm.
I just settled out of court for 3000$ for a german shepard attack in May of THIS YEAR! These people lived in a ghetto and the chance of them having homeowners insurance (which covered the other dog bite) to pay for jacket, hospital bill to have them look at my arm is nil. I am a Doc candidate...not an MD but in the medical field. So I know there is no issue with my arm but still... Fu##ing dogs piss me off. Not all dogs just the ones raised by STUPID humans.
Well I've vented...your thoughts?