Texas mayor resigns over stolen Shih Tzu.
The mayor of a small town in Texas has resigned after secretly keeping her neighbour’s Shih Tzu while pretending it had died.
Neighbours had asked Alice Mayor Grace Saenz-Lopez to look after the dog, Puddles, during a holiday. She called them to say it was dead.
But the dog, which Ms Saenz-Lopez had renamed Panchito, was later seen at a dog groomer’s and at her sister’s home.
There’s such rampant stupidity in this story that I hardly know where to begin. First, if you’re going to pull a dognapping, your neighbor’s pooch is a poor choice of target. Second… the mayor? Third, there’s this nugget of weirdness:
A custody hearing on Monday is expected to decide who keeps the pet.
Custody hearing? That’s nuts. The mayor stole the dog. Give it back. Now.
After being disgraced, the mayor wrote a letter to the editor of her local paper, claiming “I did at the time what I thought was best for Panchito and what I felt was right in my heart.”
Guess that’s why she filed the false police report reporting the puppy missing, then.
You know, I’d like a ski chalet in St. Moritz, and a Gulfstream 5 to fly me there. If I feel it’s right - really, really feel it, deep in my heart - that I have these things, is it all right for me to steal some billionaire’s jet and commandeer his home in the Alps? Would the courts hold a hearing to decide if I get to keep them?
Didn’t think so.
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Dan // February 3, 2008 at 6:24 pm
She should also be charged with animal cruelty for calling the dog “Panchito”. Ugh.
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