Originally Posted by crtreedude
I have a better solution. Send the police out on bikes, if a dog comes out - shoot it - or at least capture, take it to the animal shelter and give the owner a heft fine. I bet all the dogs would be locked up really quickly doncha think?
No. The people who let nasty dogs run out onto the road and expose the dog itself and whoever is on the road to danger - those people don't give a hoot their dogs get killed. They can always get another one. What you are proposing is unnecessarily cruel. I believe you when you say you hate dogs, and I just don't understand it. I don't understand how can you have hatred toward somebody who doesn't know what it is doing. I can understand fear, sense of danger, the need for self-defense in case of attack - but hating dogs is just as stupid as hating infants, even if those infants are lying on the roadway and therefore cause you to crash. You don't hate the infant, you hate his parents, no?..
Why should cyclist have to put up with being attacked - or even harrassed by dogs? This thread is sad in one thing - that a person needs to be worried about dogs on a public street.
Substitute "dog" by "motorist". I'll tell you, motorists are much more dangerous to cyclists than dogs. Perhaps we should just shoot the bad ones. It makes A LOT more sense shooting them - they actually ARE responsible for their own actions.