• grue@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    WTF was the dog doing running around loose to begin with?

    WTF was the kid doing in the front seat (which is illegal in Georgia, except when the back seat doesn’t exist or something like that) to begin with?

    There are so many kinds of negligence going on here even before you start considering the gun!

    (I can only guess this was an old-school regular-cab pickup truck with the dog in the bed, but what self-respecting hick still drives a truck like that in 2026? Edit: video shows the truck was an extended-cab; no excuse for the kid to be in the front.)

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      10 hours ago

      Not sure of where the family actually lives, but if they are at all ‘country folk,’ then it’s pretty common for dogs to be loose. I know in some big cities that I’ve lived in (in the southern u.s.) it’s even common to see a dog in a fenced in yard with the gate left open.

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        9 hours ago

        First of all, I do know where they live: Dacula is an exurb of Atlanta, about two towns farther out than where I grew up. It’s kinda country, but not country enough to excuse dogs running loose (not that anywhere is these days anyway).

        Second, that’s all irrelevant because they had apparently taken their dog with them to Burger King.