WTL

[matt3c]

Did anyone have the work time learning video about dog attacks this week? I feel really sorry for the postman who got attacked by the dogs but why the hell did he carry a hammer around with him on delivery, i thought i delivered to a bad area but to carry a hammer around! Not surprised the dogs bit him if he hit them with a hammer first!!

[fishtank]

I don't think he was carrying the hammer with him if it refers to this case.

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has welcomed the tough sentence handed down to dangerous dog owner Jamal Richards at Sheffield Crown Court, following the mauling of Sheffield DO Postman Paul Coleman by Richards' two dogs.

Richards received two concurrent nine months jail sentences after pleading guilty to two offences under the Dangerous Dogs Act (DDA) of allowing the dogs to be dangerously out of control in a public place. He was also banned from keeping dogs for seven years.

The Court was told that on Tuesday 18th December 2007, Paul Coleman was performing his delivery round, delivering the Christmas mail, in Grimethorpe, Sheffield when the two snarling dogs, which had escaped from a garden shed nearby, came after him "barking, growling and lunging at him".

Paul tried to escape. but the dogs grabbed a leg each and pulled him to the ground tearing "lumps of flesh" from his legs as they dragged him from the property he was delivering to, and into the road where they continued to subject him to a bloody 15-minute mauling. During the prolonged attack he suffered serious leg, arm and chest injuries.

Last month the court heard that Richards kept the dogs in an insecure garden shed in the backyard of his small terraced house on Birdwell Road, which Postman Paul Coleman had to cross. The dogs had escaped before and Richards had already been warned about his dangerous dogs a few weeks previously, but on the day of the attack neither dog was chained up or controlled.

Neighbours and a passing Parcelforce driver stopped and went to Mr Coleman's assistance. The Parcelforce driver hit the dogs with a Metal Bar but they continued the attack. Other helpers hit the dogs with various weapons including garden tools, a rake, a hammer and even boiling porridge was poured on to one of the dogs but all attempts failed to stop the dogs attack.

[guvenor]

we used to have a guy who carried a club with him all the time if a dog even growled or barked at him thud smack on the skull
killed a few so he did
motto he had they dont ask questions later

[Mr Blonde]

That story, fifteen minutes?

Was there no-one around to help?

[superdaddybear]

Did anyone have the work time learning video about dog attacks this week? I feel really sorry for the postman who got attacked by the dogs but why the hell did he carry a hammer around with him on delivery, i thought i delivered to a bad area but to carry a hammer around! Not surprised the dogs bit him if he hit them with a hammer first!!

... Had 2 WTL. IN 6 MONTHS..

[blade8t1]

Did anyone have the work time learning video about dog attacks this week? I feel really sorry for the postman who got attacked by the dogs but why the hell did he carry a hammer around with him on delivery, i thought i delivered to a bad area but to carry a hammer around! Not surprised the dogs bit him if he hit them with a hammer first!!

... Had 2 WTL. IN 6 MONTHS..

WTL? whats one of those then?.they are virtually non-existent in our office.Thats the only reason I roam this site lol.we are so in the dark at our office its unreal.