Police break into car to save toy dog from heat.

[*BlackFox]

Police in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire smashed a car window to 'rescue' a toy dog from the heat after mistaking it for a real one.

After a member of the public reported a dog being left locked in a car, two officers confused the King Charles Spaniel toy worth £4.50 ($7.20) for a sleeping dog, according to The Sun.

Out of concern for the safety of the animal in the 18°C temperatures, the policemen smashed the window of the Mercedes after attempting to wake the toy.

Gordon Williams, 80, who owned the car and toy, returned to find his seat covered in smashed glass and an official police note reading: "Smashed your window re concern for animal on rear seat."

Nottinghamshire Police have since agreed to pay £180 ($290) to the retired mining engineer widower so he may replace his window.

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At least the owner... can see the bigger picture which is great.

[BuDo]

That musta been a very convincing looking toy....

[*BlackFox]

Well, It does look pretty.. realistic. xD



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[Ganja]

At least the police payed for it.

Where I live a 22-month-old was left in the car for over eight hours in 90F heat. No one noticed, he should have had one of these toys.

[Love]

Good cops, say what.

I don't think they should help with that bill but I won't judge them too poorly if they do.

[DarkJackal]

Good cops, say what.

I don't think they should help with that bill but I won't judge them too poorly if they do.

Why shouldn't they?

[CrimsonNuker]

Good cops, say what.

I don't think they should help with that bill but I won't judge them too poorly if they do.

Why shouldn't they?

They should definitely have paid without a question.

Imagine your house gets mistaken as some sort of drug house and it's raided by swat teams and everything is destroyed, imagine no compensation for that.

[Love]

Good cops, say what.

I don't think they should help with that bill but I won't judge them too poorly if they do.

Why shouldn't they?

They should definitely have paid without a question.

Imagine your house gets mistaken as some sort of drug house and it's raided by swat teams and everything is destroyed, imagine no compensation for that.

They had reasonable evidence to break in, sending a swat team is not realistically comparable. This was a fairly open rescue attempt.

This would be akin of you having your car full of things that look like a bomb and expecting nothing to be done about it. Is a matter of common sense, the dog rescue attempt is as a reasonable as reasonable evidence gets. They got call, they got to the scene, dog was unresponsive, we don't know about the visibility and the dog does looking extremely real, reaction follows that formula.

[DarkJackal]

Making a mistake with good intentions doesn't relieve responsibility of the mistake.

[XMoshe]

Soo am I the only one wondering why they smashed the window on a 18 degree day? 18 degrees isn't very warm..

[poehalcho]

Soo am I the only one wondering why they smashed the window on a 18 degree day? 18 degrees isn't very warm..

No... no you're not...

[omier]

Soo am I the only one wondering why they smashed the window on a 18 degree day? 18 degrees isn't very warm..

[*BlackFox]

Soo am I the only one wondering why they smashed the window on a 18 degree day? 18 degrees isn't very warm..

Temperature inside a car... can be more than 30 degrees hotter than outside.
Imagine... you wearing a "fur coat" in 90 degrees of heat!

[Degauss]

Soo am I the only one wondering why they smashed the window on a 18 degree day? 18 degrees isn't very warm..

Temperature inside a car... can be more than 30 degrees hotter than outside.
Imagine... you wearing a "fur coat" in 90 degrees of heat!

Yea and there is no fresh cool air if windows are closed. Don't think thermometer is standard issue
equipment of police anyway. So guy looked at the sky and made judgement call that it's too hot.

[*BlackFox]

^ Meh... An eyewitness may have seen the dog in the car several hours... and called police !
Seriously, It is better to be safe than to be sorry !

[Ganja]

They should definitely have paid without a question.

Imagine your house gets mistaken as some sort of drug house and it's raided by swat teams and everything is destroyed, imagine no compensation for that.

Close to where I live, the police did a no knock warrant search and seizure. They had bought drugs from the home previously and went back to raid it. Anywho, they threw a flash bang through a window they broke and it landed right next to a sleeping baby. That baby is in critical condition. They didn't find any drugs in the house.

[Love]

Making a mistake with good intentions doesn't relieve responsibility of the mistake.

Mistake was on the part of the owner, you didn't pay too much attention to my response.

[DarkJackal]

Making a mistake with good intentions doesn't relieve responsibility of the mistake.

Mistake was on the part of the owner, you didn't pay too much attention to my response.

What exactly would qualify as looking like a bomb in a car? A Typical Block of C4 with a timer on it?

They didn't have evidence they had speculation. I dunno why they couldn't knock on the window and watch it for a reaction? Or watch it to see if its breathing? Pretty sure a dying dog from heat wouldn't be comfortably snuggled up and not gasping or panting or w/e.

It's not against the law to have lifelike resembling objects in your car I would think? If your gonna break someones window to get in and check, you should be sure. And if you think you are and your wrong, You made a mistake. its certainly not he car owners fault.

Apparently even the police who broke in the window would think your wrong considering they are willingly paying for it, so ya >.>.

[Spore]

Seriously, It is better to be safe than to be sorry !

100% agreed.

[Love]

You are clearly not familiar with the law, the concept of reasonable evidence escapes you and that is fine.

There is also the fact that the law enforcement club isn't a particularly high iq one. No response is still a response and there are several reactions that appropriately follow, rescue being one of them. How you can say there was no evidence is beyond me.

Probably best to leave it here in any case.

Spoiler!

I should probably add that I don't give a shit for dogs, whether they die or not doesn't mean much to me. I would personally have it be that the law is such that the police would value my window above a dog's life but that isn't the case and therefore my associated conclusion.

I also think that anyone who does this to a baby should be put away for a very long time and not have a chance to raise said baby.

[BuDo]

Despite the cops good intentions and doing their duty it doesn't absolve them of the error...Police departments have insurance to cover mishaps like this....In their line of work they're mandated to have insurance....There is no argument about them not taking responsibility for their errors...

[*BlackFox]

Spoiler!

I would personally have it be that the law is such that the police would value my window above a dog's life

"Never gonna happen" and I'm thankful for that.

[ShaDeVi]

toy dogs dont come cheap