Quote (thesnipa @ May 28 2020 08:25am)
arresting park offenders is their job, calling out illegal behavior is everyone's job who isn't a criminal.
he didnt touch her, he interfered with nothing. all he did was shame a criminal. as any law abiding citizen should.
im not excusing his "abhorrent actions", im telling you they were neither heroic nor abhorrent. he's just a guy fed up with people fucking with his hobby. he lives in an area with very little wildlife, and likes to visit a place that has wildlife left in it. he looks at birds, birds that depend on the forrest floor to be free of dogs and free from disturbance by dogs. people dont use leashes, even though they should, for as much to protect people from dogs as to protect the birds from dogs. he's seen it far too often, and he's fed up. so he recorded a lady, how abhorrent. get a fucking grip.
Oddly, unless the dog bites someone, letting a dog off a leash in a park is not a "crime". Like, there's no misdemeanor, nothing that would go on her record. It's not "illegal" in any criminal sense. Again, unless that dog attacks another person or another dog. If there are signs posted, then there may be a fine associated, if a ranger or officer is there to write it out, depending on the state and county. But no, there's no criminal behavior.
He has no right to "call her out" or interact with her at all. When she told him to leave her alone, his only right was to leave her alone. He was 100% out of line.
"Shaming culture" is just people interjecting themselves into other people's lives. And the guy stated quite clearly that he made a habit of confronting people, and packed dog treats on his person to attempt to gain control of their pets. The only real hobby he expressed was attempting to control other people. Again, he's not a park ranger, he's not responsible for what other people do with their animals, and he's not in charge of other people. It's not his job, and he has no right whatsoever to tell anyone else what to do. And attempting to gain control of other people's pets, especially during a social distancing lockdown where him coughing on her pet might give her a virus that you keep insisting is the new plague? Yeah, no.
He was in the wrong. She was worse. But he was absolutely in the wrong, and his only hobby, based on his premeditated confrontation tactics, was to interfere in other people's lives.