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What the...?!: Dog dies in hot car while "Idol" hopeful auditions
The woman and her boyfriend left the terrier in the car with the windows rolled up. The guy was supposed to check on the dog periodically while his girlfriend waited in line to audition for "American Idol." Idiots. (Denver Post)July 16, 2009 | Permalink
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At least he gave his life for a noble and just cause.
Posted by: Torgo | Jul 16, 2009 10:51:16 AM
Who doesn't know by now that neither humans nor animals can be left in a closed vehicle in hot weather? Poor dog.
Posted by: Sheila | Jul 16, 2009 10:51:55 AM
I say lock 'em both in the closed car for a couple of hours.... and then check on them around 2pm.
Posted by: Sisterblonde | Jul 16, 2009 10:52:18 AM
Ahh. The "American Idle"...I am sure these two Rhodes Scholars will more than make up for it by a long life of meritorious service to there community. It must be some darwinistic impulse that makes me want to attack these two imbeciles, to weed them out of our herd. I suppose it was incidental that it was "just" a dog and not the next generation.
Posted by: sometimesilie | Jul 16, 2009 10:52:56 AM
If I had come back to find her dog dead in a car that I was supposed to be checking, I think she would have learned that the dog must have escaped, and we should put up some posters around town.
Posted by: Sigh | Jul 16, 2009 10:58:46 AM
Did she make it on the show?
Posted by: you know me by now | Jul 16, 2009 11:04:05 AM
@Sigh -- you're on to something. First I'd beat myself in the head for being dumb enough to leave anything alive in a vehicle. Then I'd break one of the windows on the car. 'Fluffy was so cute that someone STOLE him! They broke my window to get to him, they wanted him so bad!'
Sure, I'd have to pay for the window, but that's a well spent couple hundred bucks.
Posted by: EV | Jul 16, 2009 11:44:30 AM
I'm with SisterBlonde on this one. Treat 'em like they treat their dog.
Posted by: nauip | Jul 16, 2009 11:56:42 AM
I left my dead dog in a hot car back in 78, then we all went and ate ice cream.
Posted by: thing1 | Jul 16, 2009 12:02:43 PM
WHY DO YOU TAKE YOUR DOG ANYWAY?
Posted by: MONKEY JERKm | Jul 16, 2009 12:03:12 PM
What is with people taking their dogs everywhere?
I hope these people don't breed other people.
Posted by: twerp | Jul 16, 2009 12:23:15 PM
Sigh and EV, it was his dog, not hers.
Posted by: kevy | Jul 16, 2009 12:38:35 PM
Things like this really burn me up. If you're not responsible enough to take proper care of a pet, don't get one. If you get one and are not responsible enough to take proper care of it, don't get another one, ever.
Posted by: kevy | Jul 16, 2009 12:42:24 PM
hot dogs! get your hot dogs here!!
Posted by: buddy | Jul 16, 2009 1:06:14 PM
These people were just doing what any conscientious people would do by eliminating one more worthless stinking canine from this world. They should be given a medal and additional canines to leave in the car. Regular readers here will know that for a long time I've advocated for the necessity of a world wide canine virus to kill off this canine plague and the idiots who let dogs lick them in their face after they've just licked their genitals. Disgusting.
Posted by: a little Dick Tater | Jul 16, 2009 1:41:35 PM
I don't know why I never noticed it before, but Dick Tater ='s Dictator. Am I the only one that didn't get that?
Posted by: sometimesilie | Jul 16, 2009 2:14:07 PM
How very tragic. I agree with several others here - why in the world did they take the dog with them? What is wrong with people.
Posted by: Pet Sitter in Orland Park | Jul 16, 2009 2:18:24 PM
How can anyone, *anyone*, be this clueless in this day and age?
Also, this must be a really horrible way to die, whether you're a baby or a dog.
Posted by: outofsalt | Jul 16, 2009 3:44:11 PM
Yes, sometimesilie, you're the only one that never noticed that before. Ketchup. ;)
Posted by: ReginaFilangee | Jul 16, 2009 7:33:42 PM
sometimesilie, I'm disappointed.
Posted by: kevy | Jul 17, 2009 6:45:41 AM
please, please, please....do NOT let this pair reproduce.
Posted by: goofs off at work | Jul 17, 2009 10:09:58 AM
1.) A Little Dick Tater sounds like A Little Dick, in more than one sense of the term;
2.)IMO anyone who wastes their time auditioning for 'American Midol' the better to inflict their complete paucity of talent on the rest of the nation should not be allowed to breed, own pets,or for that matter, continue to keep breathing without the aid of machinery as far as I'm concerned, as they're nothing more than a flesh-waste who needs to be removed from the vale of tears as quickly as possible.
A prayer for the dog, and all the other helpless victims of idiots here and around the globe. 'Nuff said.
Posted by: ellen | Jul 17, 2009 11:21:32 AM
Sorry, kevy and Regina, I know, it was like a crack of lightening...but in my defense I always considered his name;
Dick: Dick
Tater: Tater Tot
so I always thought of him as Tater Tot Dick in my mind...
Posted by: sometimesilie | Jul 17, 2009 11:43:21 AM
and I know I'm in the minority on this opinion, but I miss Dick Tater. He used to make me laugh...
Posted by: sometimesilie | Jul 17, 2009 11:46:51 AM
While all of you are hacking at STIL for misreading a moniker, it was not that long ago most of you guys misread his moniker, too.
So ease up a little.
Honest mistake.
Posted by: RockyMtnMac | Jul 17, 2009 11:51:03 AM
