Dog Poop Thrower Arrested for Doing what we all Wish we Could

September 21st, 2010. By LucyC

Welcome to Totally Tortelicious—a review of some of the more bizarre legal stories making news—and there’s certainly no shortage of them.

She’s in Deep Doo-Doo Now. Ever been out walking and stepped in pile of dog pooh? It’s pretty annoying. And while you might harbor secret fantasies about picking it up and hucking it at the errant dog owner, what you really do is swear under your breath and walk on. Well, not so for a woman in Illinois, who clearly had had enough.  

Police in Naperville, a suburb of Chicago, have said that the woman, Susan Miller, stepped in dog feces outside her apartment and retaliated by heaving it at the door of her neighbor who owns a dog. (Don’t grin too loudly). So they charged her with disorderly conduct. 

The local paper, The Naperville Sun, also reported that Miller apparently uprooted a sign telling residents to pick up dog waste and placed it on the neighbor’s patio. The neighbor, no doubt afraid of what may be coming next, called the police who arrested Ms. Miller. 

She was quite unapologetic, stating that if she could pick up the poop from her 80-pound dog, then her neighbors could do the same for their 20-pound pooch. Seems reasonable…

Hey, at the very least, maybe Ms. Miller could just suggest the PooTrap, shown above. We’re not proponents of it, but perhaps it’s a solution for those who don’t quite get that owning a dog comes with some, uhh, responsibilities…

New Meaning for ‘Name Brand’. This is weird. Really, really weird. A woman in California is suing her gynecologist for allegedly burning her name into her uterus, unnecessarily. Personally, I can’t think of a single instance in which it would or might be necessary. But hey, I’m just a writer.

The story goes that sometime in June, 2009, 47-year old Ingrid Paulicivic, a hairdresser from Orange County, had her uterus removed as part of a hysterectomy operation. Pretty routine stuff. So far.

But while she was recovering from her operation she just happened to notice some burns on her legs. So she made a follow-up appointment with her doctor to find out what they were.

As it turns out, Dr. Red Alinsod, Ingrid’s gynecologist, told her he had used an electrocautery device to burn her name into her uterus —important point here—after it had been removed—so as not to get it mixed up with other organs removed from other patients…Don’t even go there…

Not surprisingly, Ingrid is suing Dr. Alinsod, because she believes that there was “no medically necessary purpose or reason” for the branding. Apparently, normal procedure involves labeling the patient’s organ with a tongue depressor, or something you could use a magic marker on. (ok—too much information…)

The doctor, in his defense, said that he felt comfortable branding the uterus, even though it isn’t standard medical practice, (greatly relieved to hear that), because he considered Ingrid a “good friend.” Not so, Ingrid’s lawyer apparently told CNN. He said that Ingrid had not met the doctor prior to her first consult, but she is good friends with the doctor’s receptionist. 

Last Time He’ll Make Fun of Bromhidrosis. You know, it’s incidences like this that make me realize why good manners are so important. A 19-year old man was stabbed by an 18-year old woman recently, after he told her that she had smelly feet.

According to The Herald of Everett, in Everett, Washington, Dallas Amber Smith had had a few beverages with friends, when her friends challenged her to do a back-flip (there’s your first clue that something bad’s afoot—no pun there).

In order to oblige the request, Ms. Smith had to take her shoes off, and that’s when her ‘friends’ began teasing her that her feet were kind of smelly. There may just have been a kernel of truth to it, given the way she reacted…she took a steak knife and stabbed one of the young men in the back. It apparently went in a few inches, enough to collapse his lung. So, Ms. Dallas Amber Smith is facing charges of second-degree assault with a deadly weapon.

Had she simply countered with some witty retort—or ignored the lapse of manners entirely—the nasty incident might have been avoided. Where is Emily Post these days?

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