What's In His Water??
 

GREENSBURG, Pa. -- A man nicknamed "Big Dog" was sentenced to jail, but then immediately paroled, after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct for barking at a police dog.

Norris Daniels, 57, of Pricedale, entered the guilty plea Friday and was sentenced to two to 12 months in jail by a Westmoreland County judge.


The judge immediately paroled Daniels -- who had been jailed, unable to post bond since his arrest on Jan. 27 -- and ordered Daniels to undergo a mental health evaluation.

Monessen police said Daniels was taunting a police dog Ibo in the back of a police cruiser and kept barking at the animal after an officer told him to stop.

Daniels said he was barking at some nearby pit bulls, not the police dog, and "was at the wrong place at the wrong time."

Officer Brian Vitale told Channel 4 Action News that, while it may sound silly to charge someone with barking at a dog, it's a serious matter because the animals become unpredictable when they are angered.

"He's learned a lot of behaviors, and he's trained in different languages and things like that, and when you are barking at the dog, he's going to act out," Vitale said. "And if the door would have opened while he was barking at that dog, that dog would have attacked him."

Vitale said Daniels was warned several times to stop, because the dog was becoming agitated.

The original charge -- illegal taunting of a police animal -- is a third-degree felony. Daniels agreed to plead guilty to the lesser charge of disorderly conduct instead, but Vitale had not agreed to it as of Monday afternoon.






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I'm a dork fish, I bark at dogs for no stupid reason except to piss them off.

That could be a little like laying down and hissing at an alligator. It may not end as funny as it started. :rofl:

In the end, the dog and the alligator both probably think it's hilarious.

He's barking mad.