Bak off: He's A K9 Officer

I have met people with their own secret agendas but I’ve never met a dog with one. So when they are working dogs it’s not really like they can become a double agent and secretly work for the local top dog drug dealer instead of the police. This makes them very valuable as officers of the law.

Which is one of the reasons I think it’s really awful that a police dog was stolen and perhaps murdered; Bak really wasn’t likely to be mixed up in gang warfare.

Bak was a 5 year old German shepherd who lived with his handler Sgt Kerri Andrews in Oklahoma. It appears that someone had removed the lock on Bak’s security pen and either took him or just let him escape.

Moore Police Officer Jeremy Lewis said that there was trauma to Bak’s body and as a result they would be performing a post mortem examination.

When someone kills a police officer you tend to find that fellow officers will move heaven and earth to find out who is responsible. Police dogs like Armed Forces dogs are considered to be officers as well and not just a piece of equipment so should anyone be found guilty in the death of Bak they will quickly be made aware that in Oklahoma the death of a K-9 is classed as a felony offence.

"It's kind of hard to explain unless you've been in the situation. The bond between the handler and the dog is remarkable. They realize when the officer puts on his uniform, they go to work. When he comes home and takes off his uniform, they revert back to a family dog," US Police Canine Association National Executive Director Russ Hess told The Huffington Post.

Sgt Kerri Andrews has lost her partner and her pet.


I feel I have to include this last bit of information on the off chance that someone from Oklahoma reads my blog but if anyone out there in the cyberverse knows anything about Bak’s disappearance or death give the Moore Police a call 405-793-5171 There are colleagues and family members who miss him terribly.

In Defence of the Motorist

I tried not to write about it, I tried not to laugh about it and I tried not to be upset about it, but I have so got to write about the huge crash involving a poor Toyota Prius and some fancy motors.

A 14 car smash is news however you look at it but the interesting cringe-worthy thing here is that the crash involved the super car wish list of the century including 8 Ferraris, 1 Lamborghini, 3 Mercedes and possibly a Nissan GTR (though some sources say it was a Toyota).

The convoy of cars were thought to be on their way to Hiroshima for a ‘gathering of super cars’ which could maybe mean it was a car show or meet of some description, but to be honest it doesn’t really matter does it?

The point I’m trying to make is that, yeah I did have a bit of a smirk, guffaw, giggle and even a chortle to myself but that was more like a nervous laugh. After all, if I had just totalled my Mk2 Scirocco Storm I would be near suicidal, never mind if it had been my McLaren F1.

The Guardian reported ‘The automobile enthusiasts, aged between 37 and 60, were condemned by Japanese police. "It was a gathering of narcissists," Mitsuyoshi Isejima of the Yamaguchi prefecture expressway traffic unit told Bloomberg.’

How very dare people have such powerful and expensive cars and possibly break the speed limit. How dare a self employed business man spend his cash on a car? I mean really!

Now to me that says it all, because someone likes cars and saves up to buy nice cars and enjoy them it doesn’t actually make them the devil or one of his associates. Though in the everyday world it appears that may well be the case.


Yes, the 60 year old Ferrari driver admitted he that he had been speeding and happened to have an error of judgement, but that can happen anywhere with any driver of any car. The car accident didn’t happen because these people had fast, powerful, expensive cars!