NAMES IN THE NEWS : Dog Has Biting Day in Court
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It’s a dog’s life, sometimes, for Doug Llewelyn, who interviews litigants on “The People’s Court” and had one bite him on the knee.
Celebrity magistrate Joseph A. Wapner had just heard the case of Anthony and Cynthia Patti of Highland, who said a neighbor boy had shot their dog, a Doberman-pit bull mix named Dee-Oh-Gee, in the eye with a pellet gun.
As Llewelyn had his customary chat with the adversaries after the court battle, Dee-Oh-Gee sunk his fangs into Llewelyn’s right knee.
A physician was called in to administer a tetanus shot. The dog owners ruefully explained that Dee-Oh-Gee had never acted mean before being shot. Llewelyn, who has four dogs of his own, accepted their apology.
The dog owners won their case before Wapner, by the way, persuading the judge to put the bite on the neighbor boy’s father for $300 in surgery costs for Dee-Oh-Gee.
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