Barking Bismarck drives neighbours mad

Issue #130, 1st August 2010


Barking Bismarck drives neighbours mad

‘Small town, barking dog’ stories don’t hit the headlines too often, do they? Yet sometimes it’s all there – the big news themes in miniature.  Like how having the right friends lets you evade the law; or how it’s practically impossible for the ordinary citizen to get the police to investigate their own. Then again; maybe this story is simply a caution against those “country dreams” that percolate through your traffic-clogged city day.

Top cops in the Western Cape's boerewors capital have turned a deaf ear in the battle over Bismarck, the incessantly barking terrier.

Bismarck's training regime includes being forced to drag a tyre up a hill and being thrown into the swimming pool. Not surprisingly, old Bismarck is a bit neurotic.

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Submitted by : Tony on 2010-08-24 14:39:45
The Advocate Rodney de Kock of whom you write is in fact the Director of Public Prosecutions for the Western Cape.

It appears that he has, in this instance, usurped the judicial function. This is somewhat rich from a man who never ever appears in court - even to support the prosecutors who report to him.
 
Submitted by : John on 2010-08-03 14:01:17
She sprayed a Pit-Bull with Doom and walked to the front door!!!!! - She went to the next level, every time - if they didn't respond she took it further....every time - She home schools her child when the sysytem fails -She gets photgraphic evidence at great risk....This woman makes Sarah Palin look like little red riding hood!!!

Charlene you MUST run for president!! If SA ever needed a (wo)man for the moment that is YOU!!

To the little Grabau chemist - Wonder how many "klaps" you would want to dish out if it was a man who could and would defend himself living there. You are a coward! - The worst kind of bully and you need vicious dogs to soothe your low self-esteem. What an arsehole! Come on Grabau - boycott this moron's business and show some support for Charlene.
 
Submitted by : Raymondt on 2010-07-29 12:35:11
And the NSPCA (SPCA) says what about the poor dogs thought?

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