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But that's not always true.
When a dog gets on a school bus and starts attacking children -- sending four of them to the hospital -- even the ears of the venerable Washington Post perk up.
Three children were treated and released from Southern Maryland Hospital for minor wounds, most of them scratches, the Post reports. The fourth was taken elsewhere for treatment, the newspaper adds, but does not seem to be seriously injured.
The dog reportedly got on the bus in Clinton, Md., the morning of May 18 and began biting children. The bus driver fought the dog off.
"Really, it was very heroic what he did by fighting that dog off," Prince George's County Schools spokesman Briant Coleman tells the newspaper.
The Post reports a police officer tried to restrain the dog once it was off the bus, but when the animal continued to be aggressive, the officer shot it.
Coleman tells the Post the kids did nothing to provoke the attack. At least one student had to receive stitches after being bitten. The other kids apparently just got scratched, even though they were still taken the hospital.
The Post reports it's unclear from police and eyewitness accounts of the dog was a bulldog or pit bull.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
5-19-2011 @ 3:34PM
sayso said...How in the world did the dog even get on the bus?!
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5-19-2011 @ 10:08PM
Shell said...Probably just jumped on with the kids dogs would that if the kids were petting it .. It probably freaked out between the bus moving and all the kids making noise like it felt trapped the bus driver should have gotten it off in the first place.
6-03-2011 @ 4:35PM
LadyWolf said...Dogs can move faster than a child can board a bus, all it takes is for the bus drivers attention to be distracted for ten seconds. At railroad crossings, bus drivers are required to open the door to insure they do not over hear the sound of a train compared to traffic.Real Question I Have Is "WHERE WERE THE OWNERS OF THIS DOG?" I also say a huge THANK-YOU to the officer who took the right measures of insuring that no other person was in danger of being attacked.
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