It was hot in Stanley Lee’s South Shore apartment Monday morning, so he cracked open a window. That’s when he heard the screams for help.
Lee’s apartment overlooks Rainbow Beach Park along the lakefront, and through his window he witnessed a frightening scene: two pit bulls attacking a 62-year-old jogger.
- Arriving police officers were confronted by the dogs and fatally shot them, authorities said.
But guess who some people feel bad for?
TeResa Gaddis also lives near Rainbow Beach Park. She saw one of the dead dogs as she walked her two German shepherd mixes Monday morning just before animal control officials cleared the scene.
“It’s a shame all the way around. It just broke my heart to see them lying there,” she said.
We guess she'd rather see the 62-year-old man dead on the path. We were also wondering why the media doesn't cover the fact that most days, there's only one or two Animal Control Officers out on the street, and that's only during daylight hours. Many is the time we call or have heard officers call for Animal Control and dispatch tells us six times out of ten that there is only one Animal Control van on the street and he's somewhere else? The other four times, they just take a notification and tell us there is no one available.
UPDATE: From an e-mail, this little tidbit:
- Hey SCC, did you know all bite numbers are now obtained via 311? They cut staffing at Animal Care & Control to the bone, so the Police Department is picking up the slack again. Tell everyone to update their FOP Books, that 24-hour number at ACC is no good.