To Hershey's Dog-Mom

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

If you're taking your adorable chocolate lab out for a stroll on the bike-path on a lovely Sunday afternoon, please protect your dog and other people using the path and keep him on a leash.

I witnessed an almost-accident at close range as the dog ambled from one side of the path to another, forcing a bicyclist to slam on his brakes and stop hard to avoid hitting him.

He doesn't know any better, he's just a dog, doing what dogs do. You, on the other hand, should.

Comments

Re: dogs and kids and bikes and rollerblades and whatnot

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

If you walk away and then call, you have anonymity.

which does you no good if you live right there.

Re: dogs and kids and bikes and rollerblades and whatnot

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

I don't get it. If you don't call until you've walked away and they can't see, they don't know it was you. There's enough traffic to make that impossible. Which is perfectly helpful if you live right there.

Re: dogs and kids and bikes and rollerblades and whatnot

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

I have already heard the dog owners making comments about the people who live there, when the ACO's show up.

It doesn't matter if the people living there called or not.

There needs to be regular enforcement there, enough that the usual scofflaws don't do it anymore.

Sporadic enforcement doesn't stop the problem, but it does get the ire of the scofflaws, who direct it at the only permanent fixture in that area - the abutting residents.

Re: dogs and kids and bikes and rollerblades and whatnot

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

Ah, now I see what you mean. Unfortunately, that happens for any sort of complaint situation - they'll automatically suspect the people right there, whether it's regular or not.

I completely agree that there needs to be regular enforcement there, so the usual scofflaws are dispersed.

I wonder, if every single person who posted about the Lexington Park issue emailed their Alderman and called the police every single time they ran into this problem, if we would see results?