While we're on the topic of exaggeration, I want to point you to this story that appeared...well, just about everywhere, yesterday. The story is about a pack of dogs, apparently all of them Pit Bulls, that unfortunately attacked a man in a Target parking lot in Florida.
I'm going to point you toward Caveat's Blog that does a nice take on the piece. But there were a couple of things that I noted in the article that I want to point out on my own; and most of them are related to the type of language that is used to describe the pack of dogs.
"He was bitten from head to toe, it was a vicious mauling," said Veda Coleman-Wright, spokeswoman for the Broward Sheriff's Office. "This was a ferocious attack."
"The dogs savaged Wall's entire body, leaving him critically injured, Coleman-Wright said."
The man is in the hospital in "good condition".
Outside, four, hulking, drooling pit bulls stalked the front yard and carport."
Hulking? Drooling?
"Witnesses to the chestnut-colored dog's relentless attacks in east-central Deerfield Beach describe an uncanny, human-like intellect."
Human-like intellect?
"The dogs were spotted looking at a woman's cat through a window at Rivertown Manor condominiums."
You don't say.
They took a police helecopter after these dogs. From the soudns of the article, these dogs were a pack of wild dogs...something that sounds not at all uncommon in Broward County Florida. What they are describing are some hulking, super-mastermind dogs, that are plotting, and caniving.
These are dogs folks. Simply dogs.
Hey, I missed that article! Jumped in too early I guess. 'Hulking' is a good one.
Most of the time, it seems as though they are talking about these guys:
http://www.diannevetromile.com/LPBBCoB.jpg
Doesn't it?
Posted by: Caveat | March 04, 2007 at 12:14 PM
Human-like intelligence? Well, the dogs are probably smarter than most of the politicians I've met.
Posted by: DianneSinger | March 04, 2007 at 01:34 PM