The dog got the wrong person.

[gridlore]

OK, we had another death-by-pit bull in the Bay Area this week - a 12-year-old was mauled to death by the "family pet." I was ready to write it off as another case of people keeping a dog that was wound to tight until I read this story in the Chronicle.

Sorry if this offends people, but this woman is too stupid to live. some excerpts:

Hours before being mauled to death by the family pit bull, 12-year-old Nicholas Faibish had been told to stay in the basement separated from the dogs, said his distraught mother, Maureen Faibish, who called The Chronicle on Saturday, trying to make sense of what she called a "freak accident.''

"I put him down there, with a shovel on the door,'' said Faibish, who had left the boy alone with the dogs on June 3 to run some errands. "He had a bunch of food. And I told him, 'Stay down there until I come back.' Typical Nicky, he wouldn't listen to me.''

You lock your son in the basement because of your dogs? Then when he actually enters his own home and gets killed, you blame him? Holy Fuck, woman, you kept a pair of vicious dogs in the house, so terrible that your son had to hide from them!

"They made it sound like we put our kids in a war zone,'' Faibish said in a phone conversation. "That's not true. My kids got along great with (the dogs). We were never seeing any kind of violent tendencies.''

Then explain the locking in the basement thing. Why not lock the freaking dogs in the basement? Or put them outside on a chain?

"It's Nicky's time to go," she said. "When you're born you're destined to go and this was his time."'

Screw you. He was 12 fucking years old. His time wasn't for another 64 years, you stupid bitch.

Maureen Faibish said she put Nicholas rather than the dogs in the basement because the room, which also served as a playroom for the children, was filled with plastic bags in preparation of their move. She figured the dogs would have destroyed the bags filled with clothes.

Again, these are the dogs that she claims were perfect pets.

Faibish declined to say what triggered such concern that she insisted her son stay in the basement, away from the dogs.

"I don't want to go into any of that detail," she said. "That's between me and the detectives."

Notice that she called the Chronicle, but when asked for specifics clams up. Great Ghu, this woman is stupid. Then she gets a bit contradictiorary...

"Even after the whole thing,'' she said, "I'm not mad at my dogs. I just love them to death.''

From that to this a few paragraphs later.

She would never want Rex back in their house.

"Absolutely not,'' Faibish said. "I told them I wanted him put down. I think of Rex as someone who molested my child, murdered my child.''

I can't go on. This piece of offal cares more about her dogs than her child, and is quite frankly wasting my air.

Comments

[arib.livejournal.com]

Ow. Just... ow.

Can we give her a Darwin award for this?

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

No. She successfully bred, though we might authorize a pass on this as her offspring didn't make it to breeding age. However, there's still the major disqualifier: her stupidity didn't result in her own death. She's still alive and until criminal negligence like this carries a death sentence, she is inelligible for a Darwin award.

Frankly, I'd love to see her take the award this year, with all that entails.

[karjack.livejournal.com]

What kills me is that every time something like this happens, the pit bull fans rush to the defense of the breed, and the way they talk about the breed just damns it even more. In a recent forum discussion, someone countered the notion that it's all about how you raise the dog, because he had been attacked viciously by a pit bull who had never been abused or trained to fight, and the dog went on later to viciously maul his mother, who had raised the dog from a pup.

The explanation given by one particularly vocal pit bull fan was that something set the dog off. "That dog attacked you for a reason," was the quote that stood out for me. It was postulated that perhaps it was that the guy's hat made his head look threatening, or that there was something about the mother's breathing in her sleep, but that the pit bull attacked for a reason, placing the blame squarely on the victims of the attack.

I read that and thought wow, no anti-pit rhetoric has ever turned me off the breed quite so effectively as that one pro-pit person's excuses for why these 'perfectly fine and safe' dogs might try to maul you to death.

I've got nothing against the breed, but there is nothing about them that would ever make me want to keep one. Of course it's the owner's fault. It is always the owner's fault because the day you bring a pet into your home, you are 100% responsible for everything it does. It's a pity that two dogs and a kid had to die while the stupid bint who had no business raising either gets to keep on breathing my air.

[tavella.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I read that and said "_Please_ tell me that they are going to charge this moron with felony endangerment of a child." At the very least. Personally, I'd go for manslaughter.

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

She's wasting my AIR, is what she's wasting. Euthanize the dog; it's a human killer, fine. Euthanize the woman, too, for the same reason.

[psychoticdreams.livejournal.com]

Oh my! First off she locke her Son in the basement? That's stupid fucking parenting. For that alone she should be punished and punished severly. She should be put down just like the dogs. Damn. Sorry her Son had to die to show what a dumb fuck she is.

[jarlsberg71.livejournal.com]

I say we let the ASPCA put HER down....

[murphymom.livejournal.com]

I like the way you think...

[jarlsberg71.livejournal.com]

I have NO doubt that you and I would get along swimmingly....