This is a pretty good troll/lclickbait post. A bunch of bullshit that will provoke an emotional response, despite being completely factually incorrect (Mudede's bread and butter), but the excuse to post it is a bit too thin and transparent. No real news value, not much human interest either.
That is going to bring down the score a bit. 7/10, will garner many responses, but most will be pointing out that the author is just trolling or posting clickbait.
Didn't read it, just here for the 100 comments. In b4 pitbulls in the Capitol Hill QFC with their amazon-employee owners meeting their real-estate developer friend from Bellevue who owns the apartment building down the street.
Wanna have a serious discussion about pit bulls? Cool. Let's have it.
Wanna talk about some bear and some old dog?
Wasn't there a new managing editor at The Stranger? What is she doing besides keeping the lights on if this is the kind of nonsense that is produced.
Charles: Hey, I want to post this story about dogs, but not really about dogs, it's about one kind of dog but not really, it's about a pit bull that got into a scuffle in Alaska with a bear.
Managing Editor: AH! An expose about about bear violence in Alaska? You want to take a trip to Alaska then!?
Charles: Uh...no. I want to talk about making pit bulls illegal. Well, I kinda want to talk about it. Not really though.
Managing Editor: Oh. Well. Whatever. OK. Why'd you wake me up for this? I'm taking a nap.
I'm confused, what is your issue with pittys? Especially concerning this article where the poor dog was the one attacked. Your ignorance on the breed astounds me.
I like how y'all are acting like Slog is supposed to solely consist of Pulitzer-prize level reporting on super-serial matters. If you don't like this story, Charles' reporting, or him in general, whatever. But this hardly represents some sort of downfall of The Stranger, it's a short musing on a familiar topic for a Monday morning.
Disappointing article. I agree with #6 that Monkey is not an "it". Are less generic pronouns really that expensive? You begin with a general discussion of Pitt Bull which you do not develop with any solid facts. I expect more from The Stranger and Slog
I think it's great that people are attracted to diverse breeds of dogs. If you want to write about expanded licensing requirements for potentially dangerous breeds, fair enough. But ban an entire breed, when lots if not most of its members are sweethearts owned by responsible people who love them? Rubbish. Does The Stranger want to convince its readers it's the dog-hating--actually let's be honest, pet-hating--paper? Sure seems like it sometimes.
Pitbulls regularly attack horses and deer and I am betting it attacked the bear and then got more than it could handle. Pitbulls are ruining native areas by killing off animals as they are going feral nationwide.. and of course a pitbull brought back the Plague in Colorado.. A great new book to check out: Misunderstood Nanny Dogs? A critical and objective analysis of the facts &myths concerning pitbulls by J. Thomas Beasley. Available on Kindle too. Ask your library to order it. All local leaders should read this. The facts speak for themselves.
That is going to bring down the score a bit. 7/10, will garner many responses, but most will be pointing out that the author is just trolling or posting clickbait.
You can do better.
Move over Woodward and Bernstein - here come Mudede and Frizzelle! Cub reporters on the Seattle Summer Dog Beat!
I saw that freaking idiot flying his drone in the park over the weekend.
Age of majority is 18.
Wanna have a serious discussion about pit bulls? Cool. Let's have it.
Wanna talk about some bear and some old dog?
Wasn't there a new managing editor at The Stranger? What is she doing besides keeping the lights on if this is the kind of nonsense that is produced.
Charles: Hey, I want to post this story about dogs, but not really about dogs, it's about one kind of dog but not really, it's about a pit bull that got into a scuffle in Alaska with a bear.
Managing Editor: AH! An expose about about bear violence in Alaska? You want to take a trip to Alaska then!?
Charles: Uh...no. I want to talk about making pit bulls illegal. Well, I kinda want to talk about it. Not really though.
Managing Editor: Oh. Well. Whatever. OK. Why'd you wake me up for this? I'm taking a nap.
Huh?
Not even your own hypertext believes your hype.