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Altoona Neighbors Start Petition to Boot Pit Bull
 Pit Bull Terrorizing NeighborsAltoona, PA - A vicious pit bull is barking up controversy in one local neighborhood. Residents along West Chestnut Avenue say it's a tragedy waiting to happen. Francis Storm, or Stormy, says the dog has to go. He says he can't even take his friends into his backyard because they're so afraid of it. Stormy says he's spent five hundred dollars to protect himself from the dog. He put shale under his fence, so the dog couldn't bite him. His neighbor says there were some close calls. John McLucas says he asked Stormy, "Did that dog get you? And he said no, it just missed me. And it's just a terrible situation." Another neighbor says the pit bull even attacked her in May. Dan Hogan owns the pit bull. He says he has no comment about his neighbor's complaints. But the neighbors have plenty to say. They went to the Altoona City Council, asking Mayor Wayne Hippo to do something. The police are now investigating the case, but neighbors say they've gone to police before. So they're starting a petition. About forty neighbors have signed it so far. Related articles:05/15/08: Screenshots: Pit Bull Scales Fence, Terrorizes Neighbor05/11/08: How to Evict a Pit Bull from an Apartment Complex in 2 DaysLabels: how to
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7/13/2008 10:52 AM | Flag as abusive
This is an example of how pit bulls hurt home values as well. This pit bull owner has common fences with no less than three residences. Who would want to buy into this predicament?
If I have a good story about a pit bull, it's about how I withdrew from a prospective rental property after learning of a pit bull next door and another one across the street. It's only coincidence the r/e mkt started its grand decline immediately afterwards, but many thanks to the pit bull neighbor that kept me out of the deal!
It seems to me the presence of pit bulls is something that should be explicitly accounted for in hazards and nuisance disclosures. This Altoona, PA resident could have chosen to pass off this situation by dumping the property on an unsuspecting buyer. I’m glad to see someone has chosen to go about this the right way.
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7/13/2008 3:58 PM | Flag as abusive
To the above poster...you are dead on. I have a friend who moved from a rental property, after the neighbors pit bull jumped the four foot fence and attacked her elderly dog. The owners of the pit bull were in complete denial, and refused to fence the yard properly.
Pit bulls in a neighborhood bring property values down, this is an absolute truth. They have become a symbol of crime and urban blight. They are most common in low income rural and urban neighborhoods...with perhaps the exception of certain professional athletes, most people in nicer communities do not own pit bulls. I can drive to the more affluent towns near me, that are clean, well-managed, have good school systems, and low crime rates....I won't see one pit bull. Perhaps its because people in these towns realize the liability, perhaps they are just smart enogh to understand that these dogs are not safe family pets. But if I reverse direction and head north to my home town....a dirty urban community with an underperforming school system, high crime, and a large transient population...I will see lots of pit bulls.
There is no room for pit bulls in nice, family neighborhoods...working class and low income children and elderly people have a right to live in peace, and not have to fear a neighbors dog. Time to spay and neuter pit bulls out of the pet population....they are not pets, but weapons used to intimidate and threaten innocent citizens.
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7/14/2008 12:17 AM | Flag as abusive
You will love this NPR story about foreclosures in Las Vegas! The story is about the housing/mortgage crisis NOT about pit bulls BUT the brief mentioning of pit bulls turned in to pit nutter party. All but two of the comments are defending their precious breed. WTF ever happened to free speech?!
http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/04/24/gated_foreclosure/
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3/08/2009 6:05 AM | Flag as abusive
Dog attack highlights city's problem with pit bulls
By William Kibler
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http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/516815.html?nav=742
Altoona, PA - City dog law officer John Iorio has cited a city dog owner for harboring a vicious canine after two pit bulls attacked another dog on a leash Jan. 30.
If Tyrone B. English of the 200 block of Seventh Avenue is found guilty, he'll need to have the dogs euthanized or buy $50,000 worth of liability insurance, according to the state dog law.
English's animals punctured the belly and genitalia, broke a leg and inflicted wounds on the haunches of a pug being walked by Kevin Burns, 22, who has a mild case of cerebral palsy, said Kevin's father, who has the same name.
The Jan. 30 attack is hardly isolated. In December, the same dogs attacked a beer deliveryman in East End, sending him to the hospital, Iorio said...
Pit bulls comprised 3 percent of the city's licensed dogs last year but were involved in 61 percent of the bite cases Iorio handled, according to information from the city.
"Pit bulls are a problem," Iorio said. "Too many people have pit bulls ... too many run loose." More than half of his calls are for pits, he said.
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