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unnamed roomate
He'll need "lots and lots of surgery over lots and lots of years.
wanda greer
I heard the bones crush on his left arm. The dog bit the boy’s face and neck, ripped his lip and "bent his arm back like paper.
joyce lovette
I haven't really been an advocate of the pit bull ordinance until now...Nothing was gonna stop those dogs. Nothing.
richard woods
I'm missing my biceps. I nearly lost my eye, but the doctors were able to save it.
denise saurman
One bite ripped the skin off his back. It looked like a fur coat hanging off from around his belly.
joe mazza
It looks like a chainsaw. It is amazing how fast, just in seconds, how much damage this pit bull can do.
julie crews
It just felt like my whole scalp split open. Once I felt my scalp come off and felt it separate more.
stephanie nilsen
It was close to 96 stitches because she kept stitching and stitching and stitching and I just lost count. He ripped up all the tissue from my bone, so they couldn't be able to stitch all of it up.
nathan anderson
She has a steel plate under her right cheek from where the dog broke her face. Her whole face is all scarred -- completely.
rich suviate
The dog bit him from the bridge of his nose right underneath his eye socket, down the bridge of his nose, through his mouth and the entire cheek area. It was a very, very nasty injury.
son of attack victim calling 911
We can't get to my mom and my brother just went out there and they [the pit bulls] attacked him too. They don't need to get out of the ambulance or the dogs will try to get them, too.
dallas mitchell
The dog was locking on my brother, chewing on half of his face.
sue thompson
I was hitting him in the head with a hammer, and Bob was too.
dana plecker
It was horrible. The dog bit him in half.
jennifer walker
It looked like a murder scene. It looked so bad I had to turn away at one point. I thought I was going to get sick.
theresa davies
I can’t fathom it. I can’t believe an animal could do that, but I saw her in the emergency room, and they did do that to her.
rhonda dugger
It looked like my mother's legs had been run over by a car. Pieces of her body were scattered around the scene.
arisha coleman
We ran outside and we started beating the dog to try to get him off of him, we were kicking him and beating him and he just wouldn't let go.
angel germain
Someone has to do something about it and I'm not going to rest until my child and everyone else in Broward County is protected from these pit bulls.
brandon dillingham
The first time he looked in the mirror, it scared him, and he asked if it was his face. He says he wants his other mouth back.
miranda kirby
The dog was swinging the girl around like a rag doll.
michael landon
Everybody is sort of baffled about the fact that these dogs [pit bulls] are still in the neighborhood. I'm bothered by the fact that the dogs were picked up with blood on them and let go.
sima blossom
He was punching the dog, and he even sat on her. It was the most unbelievable thing I've ever seen. Everyone was trying to help. Someone poured hot coffee on the dog. Someone even dropped a flower pot on its head, but she would not let go.
rudy bernal
He was dragging her, and all her scalp was hanging by her side. He wouldn't turn her loose. He would let her go and attack her again. I saw police shoot the dog with a stun gun. That's the only way they could cut him loose.
jean kidd [911 call]
I think I see blood everywhere, so please come in a hurry...I heard her screaming, and I just went to find a neighbor, because there's no way I'm going across. But when I pass her house it looks like there's blood all over the dogs.
sandra goodwin
We saw the pit bull running at us from about 150 yards away," Sandra said. "It was coming at us like a bullet.
claude mcgeough
My black Lab got ahold of one [of the pit bulls] behind the ear -- we struggled for about 30 minutes trying to separate them. My neighbor finally hit the dog with an iron skillet, and it lay there until the county officer came.
cindy davidson
With four pit bulls on top of me, I’m lucky to be alive.
amanda barber
She never done him like that before. There he was helpless, the dog chewing on his head, him screaming. I couldn't see nothing but blood. It was terrible.
angela silva
I'm being attacked and I'm just looking for a place to put my son because he would have killed him in a second. So I found a garbage can and I placed my son in the garbage can.
len epperson
I would kick him in the nose with the bottom of my foot and it would be just enough to push him back, but then he immediately kept coming on. He wasn't backing off, he wasn't giving up.
maureen faibish
We never trained them [our pit bulls] to do any kinds of vicious things...This is just a devastating tragedy.
kenneth garrison
I was always one that said pits are fine and they're only mean if you train them to be that way. This thing made a liar out of me [after it attacked my baby son].
dannett dillingham
The front of his face was just gone. There was blood everywhere.
sandy miller
We saw these two pit bulls -- they came at us on a dead run. It was terrifying.
alex geirlach
I'd like to see some legislation to get rid of these dogs. How many deaths have to occur before something is done?
nick foley
If it's not going to get better, why should I have this arm? I want to chop it off. I wish I could set it on fire.
jackie derdall
I knew I just had to fight, keep fighting. I was biting back. I was doing anything I could do.
bill harrison
I want those dogs caught and put to sleep before they kill somebody's baby or child.
kate grutz
There's still blood on the sidewalk.
dave monroe
These dogs (pit bulls) were bred to fight. It's in their blood -- and we're making pets out of them.
art austin
The dogs were sweethearts. I never thought they were vicious. They were really nice [until they attacked and killed my son]. I would pet them, and my wife would kiss them on the forehead.
sue gorman
She was jumping at my arms and tearing at my arms and jumping at my face.
peter siracusa
I couldn't pry the dog off of her. I was screaming, punching, and sticking my finger into [the dog’s] eyes.
billie devans
The owners have no remorse nor have they contacted us to see if my son is OK.
adam teller
His lips, face and eye -- basically the whole right side of his face was torn up.
police chief frederick ryan
This was an unprovoked and vicious attack that was further complicated by the fact that there is no record of the dog having received the necessary vaccinations.
chicago tribune
Chunks of muscle were missing from his limbs, leaving bone-deep divots papered over with grafted skin. The left side of his face bore two thick, half-moon scars where his cheek had been ripped open like a tent flap.
liz farley
Any move that anybody makes, he's going to lunge and move to tear things off. That dog already has the taste of blood, and you can't let that dog run loose.
colleen lynn
He was holding on to my forearm, dragging me backwards, across the sidewalk, onto the grass, and I saw his teeth in my arm.
ron cutmore
We were about 25 metres away at that time when suddenly a pit bull came screaming at us from where the people were sitting.
hospital director corinne meunier
The little girl died at 00H55 hour.
sue gorman
I thought, 'OK, my arm's still there... there's the muscle... and there's the bone... those are intact... people survive this... let's just pretend we're watching it on TV so we don't freak out.
mandy patriquin
He picked her up. She's 60 pounds and he picked her up like she was 20 pounds and just shook her. I was terrified.
john scovel
They had me by the feet before I knew they were there. They came up behind me and grabbed me and started chewing. I didn't know what to do.
a.c. officer gary longanecker
Our only recourse under law is to bring the animal here, impound it, return the animal to the owners, and maybe at a later time add charges of dangerous or vicious dog, but that takes time. We need tougher laws.
jim dunn
The dogs were possessed. [The baseball bats] would knock them down, and like cartoon characters, they would shake their heads then go right back to biting even worse.
jamie keith
He sat on the couch and his pants kind of rode up and there were actual chunks of flesh missing. It was pretty horrific.
susan hnatiak
Shyanne came running inside and said, 'mom, I don't want to die!'
veterinarian robert arrick
I have no idea what happened in that house -- it just boggles the mind. These seemed like the nicest dogs -- it's that old conundrum about pit bulls.
dave monroe
I had a crowbar in my hand and was ready for an attack, but I wouldn't have stood a chance if she (the owner) hadn't shown up. Nobody should have to live like that.
george walker
He grabbed him on the right fore arm first. Flipped him over. He tried to fight him off. He bit him up under the arm pit and back shoulder blade.
sgt. gil cerda
When the mother came inside the house, she saw the dog attacking the 6-year-old and tried to restrain the dog. By that time, a lot of damage had been done.
kathy shealy
I was scared for everybody because I know pit bulls. I know their demeanor. I know that they can attack at any minute.
kelly edwards
The small one came out and leaped for me and got me on my side, and I fell. Then, when I was on the ground they were snapping at me and biting me. There was one place on my arm where the skin was laid open where one of them bit me.
cheryl napolitano
I know I would be dead if Joe did not come to help me. That dog attacked me and my dog for no reason. It's scary to think of what happened and what else could have happened.
a.c. officer kevin mcdonough
She had to choke the dog to get it off the kids. It was not a nice dog from the time I got her in the van to the time I got her to the shelter. It is not a nice dog.
joanna foster
It was like "shoosh," like a crocodile coming out of the water. He (the pit bull) wasn't there and then, all of a sudden, he was there. Like a wild animal.
david solis
I'm trying to fight him off, he got me all the way to my driveway, knocked me down and started biting the devil out of me.
omar rodriguez
We saw him over here getting attacked by a dog, so we came over to help him out and then the dog came at us and attacked us.
angela silva
There was flesh and meat and bone hanging off my arms.
pip cannan
I was wary of pit bulls before but never scared of them. Now I won't take my dog for walks, I'm so scared of confronting one again.
peter jackson
The dog was right here and I started punching it and kicking it in the stomach.
a.c. officer adam leath
Since I've been here, it is one of the most substantial attacks I've seen against a person
susanne tenney
These two pit bulls, one went to the head, the other went to the rear -- just attacking my dog from both ends.
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