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Man Now Threatens to Sue Woman Who Helped Him Rescue His Dog With Viral Photo — Listen to His Voicemail

Feb. 21, 2013 9:38pm Liz Klimas

What started off as the heartfelt story about a man whose dog was impounded and who was able to retrieve him thanks to the money raised through the spread of a viral photo snapped by a California woman has taken and unexpected turn as he now threatens to sue her.

Really.

The pit bull mix, Buzz, was taken to an animal shelter in San Bernardino, Calif., after his owner Dave Thomas was arrested last week and there was no one to care for the dog. After Thomas was released, he visited the shelter and sat heartbroken by Buzz’s cage, because he didn’t have the $400 it was estimated to release the dog.

California Man Dave Thomas Threatens to Sue Woman Who Helped Raise Money to Rescue Dog

Thomas with his dog Buzz when he was still impounded. (Photo: Maria Sanchez/Facebook)

That’s when Maria Sanchez of Riverside, Calif., who visits the shelter regularly to take pictures of the dogs, snapped a photo that would eventually go viral on Facebook and raise funds enough to help Thomas get Buzz back.

Thomas was so happy he kissed Sanchez’s feet on video to express his gratitude.

Of the more than $2,000 that was raised, Thomas told the San Bernardino Sun, “I believe it’s for my dog and not me.”

Thomas was able to take Buzz home this week, after he was neutered. But shortly after the happy homecoming, things seem to have turned sour between Sanchez and Thomas.

On Facebook, Sanchez posted that she had received a call from the local news station, letting her know that Thomas had told them she was keeping his donations.

Here’s how Sanchez explained it:

I have transferred $842.07 into my bank to reimburse myself for the shelter fees, vet and PetSmart shopping spree that I put onto my personal credit card. I had a discussion regarding the remainder of the donations and how he would like to spend them.

I said it would be a good idea to pay off any outstanding tickets so that he will not be taken to jail in the future for having a warrant for unpaid traffic tickets. I asked if he had any bills that were due at the time. I told him that every dime that was donated would go to him and Buzz, but that I would not be giving him the cash. I explained to him that the money that was donated was a blessing for him, I wanted to be sure that we respected that and used the donations responsibly. He sat next to me and nodded his head. Not one response, question or concern.

After I hung up with KTLA channel 5, I tried to call Dave. His wife would not let me speak to him. She screamed at me that I was stealing their dog’s money. She said they have called the news stations and that if I did not give them their money, they were going to call the police.

Sanchez continued, writing that — given this latest development — she would not give Thomas any of the leftover money but would be refunding it.

“I have had my life and the lives of my children devastated by drug addiction. I will play no part in supporting anyone’s habit,” Sanchez wrote.

She is, of course, referring to Thomas’ arrest last week. The San Bernardino Sun reported Police Lt. Paul Williams saying Thomas was arrested for suspected possession of drugs for sale. Thomas was found to have marijuana upon his arrest, but the Sun reported he had papers to show he was a medical marijuana patient.

Sanchez then posted a voicemail on YouTube she had recorded from Thomas responding to her Facebook post where he accused her of slander, embezzlement, and grand larceny.

“You are dead wrong,” Thomas said in the voicemail. “I will be getting in touch with a lawyer.”

In the voicemail, which we should note cannot be verified if it is officially Thomas, he says he is clean from drugs.

“I’ll test it for these cops again to prove,” Thomas said. “Enjoy.”

Watch the clip:

As Sanchez put it in her Facebook post, “No good deed goes unpunished, right?”

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spikebu
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 11:28pm
Wait. I thought the dog got arrested because there was nobody to take care of him after his owner got arrested. What the heck was the wife doing?

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- Warphead
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 11:36pm
  Smokin Weed, Duh!
  
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- spikebu
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 12:11am
  No. Really. Why couldn’t the wife take care of the dog? She say’s it is “theirs”. If my husband went in the hospital, I’d never let his dog get locked up. He’s my dog, too.
  
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- cessna152
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 1:06am
  Story boiled down:
  
  Occupy wall streeter helped out of a jamb and sues person that helps him feeling he deserves money that does not belong to him in the first place.
  
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- moreoilplease
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 1:15am
  I thought Dave Thomas died. Sure do like his burgers.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 1:17am
  Sadly this will make the next person who wants to help someone think twice about doing so. Ungrateful … idiot.
  
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- Libertarian
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 1:31am
  Entitlement mentality. Like a previous poster said, it is an Occupy Wallstreeter that gets a helping hand, then wants the cake and all the fixins’ as well or he will sue. This is the epitome of ungratefulness and representative of the way my generation acts.
  
  On a different note – We are doing a disservice to our communities when we allow government to do for people what they can and should do for themselves. Government is not an authority on morality therefor we should not give them such authority.
  
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- spikebu
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 2:28am
  I don’t care a flying faery’s fart about drugs. The dog in that picture loved that man. The man in that picture loved that dog. Everybody seems to be forgetting about the dog. He’s good.
  
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- spikebu
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 2:42am
  Do we remember what good is?
  
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- FlamingFartSyndrome
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 4:50am
  He married right after getting his dog back.
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 7:50am
  I see nothing wrong with putting stipulations on how the money is to be spent. He wasn’t expecting any of it, it was donated from people who loved the dog. Once a druggie, always a druggie. He would just use the money to go and buy some good hydro. It went to pay off what she paid for the dog, the rest should either keep the dog in Kibbles and Bits until it runs out, or pay off some of his bills (or pay them down). I expect to get a small refund on my taxes, and it’s all going on my car.
  
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- zorro
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 9:38am
  This is why people don’t help people. A friend of mine was stationed in Germany and witnessed a car crash where one man was pinned inside the vehicle and it began to burn. He raced to the car and helped the man get out breaking the man’s legs in the process. Just like in the movies, it seemed only seconds after he dragged this guy to safety, the car burst into flames. He had just saved the man’s life. For his effort, the Air Force awarded him an Airman’s medal and the person he helped served him with a lawsuit for breaking his legs.
  
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- naughtycal
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 9:43am
  No good deed goes unpunished.
  
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- battles
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 10:18am
  Because of the current day lack of respect of others and lack of shame for punitive behavior, it is not worth trying to help any adult. I read about a woman who was a volunteer witness for a bad auto accident. She ended up loosing three full days of work/pay. She said never again. I once say a man steal something in a large box from Sears in AZ. I was sitting in my vehicle in the parking lot and could easily see from his actions while loading the box into his car that something was most probably amiss. His girlfriend and daughter both immediately froze forward in their seats when he arrived at his old clunker car. He drove out straight by my vehicle and I could have easily gotten his plate. A few minutes later, a Sears salesman ran out of the store and started looking for him, asking some people in the area if they had seen anything. The narrow minded company I was working for at the time would have not appreciated my getting a subpoena and having to miss work.
  
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- grimjack3791
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 10:34am
  Early candidate for Turd of the Year.
  
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- Dr Vel
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:03am
  battles either your story is a croc or your brain refuses to operate. Why didn’t you call the plate number in from a pay phone. The Sears could have had the police with a warrant search the mans house for the missing property and you would not have missed any time at work. What you just did was admit how useless and unthinking you were while witnessing a crime.
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 12:38pm
  I wouldn’t worry about a lawsuit from this guy. He couldn’t afford $400 to get his dog out, he won’t be able to afford a lawyer. The suit wouldn’t be worth enough money, maybe he should take it to judge Judy…She would rip him a new one.
  
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- Silent_Majority
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 2:56pm
  That truly sounded like my ex wife… She has a drug problem
  
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- mycomet123
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 4:50pm
  This seems like a perfectly normal story coming out of California. You look to make sense out of it–don’t waste your time, what may be dysfunctional to one turns out to be totally functional to another. As long as the dog is O.K. that’s all that matters. I’m suprised that the man is not suing the humane society for neuturing his dog (which I’m sure will find out in next weeks paper) that he was intending to breed.
  
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- pavepaws
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 5:28pm
  What wife? I thought he was homeless.
  
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- FloraBelleza
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 7:05pm
  Now, I would return all the money that she raised to the donors, indeed we live in very strange world now.
  
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- marssnw
  Posted on February 23, 2013 at 3:49am
  This is a prime example of what entitlement programs do to a person. They fill they are entitled to everything. We shoud do away with all entitlement programs and bring back the soup lines. We should not be handing out money to ghetto thugs and lazy hippies. Definately does not suprise me that this took place in California. Home of the IOU for your tax return.
  
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Warphead
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 11:28pm
Have you ever heard the old saying, “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth?” Well, this guy is way beyond that. He’s done grabbed that horse by the haunches and trying to #%(& in the @$$. Good Lord in Heaven, what’s the world coming to?

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- cemerius
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 1:07am
  Why does this Sanchez woman think she is Mother Teresa? The money was donated to him and his dog why does she feel that she has to parse it out to him? No, I think the ultimate wrong is this woman, She could just as easily have given him the money and been done with it but that’s not good enough for her…..THAT is whats wrong today people acting like they can spend other people’s money better than they can!
  
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- superchaos
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 1:28am
  @CEMERIUS
  
  That is why you will always be a supporter of the welfare system.
  
  This woman fell for his sob story and set up a donation fund from her facebook (of her friends and friends of friends) to get the dog out of doggy jail. Then it turns out she finds poor ol’ Dave is not using the donations for what they were intended for which was to SAVE THE DOG’S LIFE, not Dave’s.
  
  I would refund the excess donations too. Eff that guy!
  
  Guess you don’t mind if the free WIC food is sold for money or traded for drugs, if a person is on welfare but has a nice new car, or if the government pays a $1,000.00 for a toilet seat either.
  
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- Chuck Stein
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 1:32am
  Per the story: “That’s when Maria Sanchez of Riverside, Calif., who visits the shelter regularly to take pictures of the dogs, snapped a photo that would eventually go viral on Facebook and raise funds enough to help Thomas get Buzz back.”
  ENOUGH TO HELP THOMAS GET BUZZ BACK
  She got more. She acted as a trustee of the money given. She acted as a prudent trustee, as I see it. Good for her.
  
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- Nlitend1
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 1:51am
  “THAT is whats wrong today people acting like they can spend other people’s money better than they can!”
  People acting like they can? I don’t think this point is in dispute, she obviously can spend his money better than he can.
  
  Also, the money wasn’t given for him to spend it, it was for the dog.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 6:12am
  I’m with CEMERIUS on this one.
  
  As kind as this woman’s intentions were, she is acting like BigBrother here. Either give the guy the money or don’t get involved in the first place.
  But don’t raise money for him, and then dole it out as you see fit, unless you stipulate these conditions from the start.
  “Hey Panhandler- I’ve got five bucks for you but, i’m going to follow you around and make sure you spend it on dental floss and deodorant.”
  
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- termyt
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 9:09am
  Eastinfection-
  Even in your example, it is perfectly fine to designate what your donations are to be used for. If the panhandler doesn’t want dental floss, he can refuse the donation.
  
  I guess if the government gives a state emergency money to fix a bridge about to collapse then the state uses it to build a casino instead?
  
  The greedy dog owner is not initialized to a single penny of that money. The woman raised that money for him – it’s hers, not his. The only fraud or theft would be between her and the donors if she did not spend it as she said she would. He has no stake in that money and absolutely zero claim to it.
  
  If it were any other way, the CEO of every charity and all charities’ paid staff would all be in prison for theft of the money that did not make it to the charity’s stated purpose.
  
  She got the dog out of hock, plus a lot more. Now what, exactly is that waste of human potential owed? I wouldn’t give a penny to the greedy, ungrateful SoB, either.
  
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- termyt
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 9:17am
  I know better than to trust spellcheck without editing the text myself, but I let it happen anyways. I apologize for all sensibilities offended by my horrible grammar in the above post.
  
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- TOMYMICHAELS
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 9:58am
  @EastInfection If anyone gives any “money” to any panhandler… they’re a fool! Or, in this case “Thomas”, who didn’t even have to do the panhandling, Sanchez raised the funds. I wouldn’t give him a penny! It would most likely be used 99% of the time to enable one of their bad habbits that attributed to them having to panhandle in the first place. Like maybe spending $6 a day for a pack of smokes (U.S. Ave.), that alone is almost $2200 a year, and then there is usually the booze! In Thomas’ case, dope! Anyway, I help panhandlers! If they’re close to a 7/11 type store, I go buy them a sandwich and a quart of milk… that’s “ME” controlling the money I’m giving away, just like Sanchez, and “guaranteeing” that it is used for something healthy, NOT for cigs &/or booze! It’s called responsibility, something most panhandlers don’t want to think about! “Jus gimme da mony damit, its my choice wat to do wit it… or, I’ll sue u!!!” lol
  
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spirited
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 11:15pm
Oh, the outrage!

>{8^ / What’s that third –uhm, thing honey?

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Warphead
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 11:05pm
I say, give him the money. The intent is what was important. I say give him the money, all of it, under one condition. To receive the money he must first give up the dog. Then find a decent home for the poor animal. All the poor dog knows is that it wants safety, food, love, a place to run around and a nice warm cozy place to sleep. I don’t think he will get that with his present master. Hell, he already got the poor dog locked up, would have probably been put to sleep if not for the kindness of strangers & his nuts cut off. And for what? So jackass can run around living the dope head life?

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- SgtB
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 11:49pm
  Actually, in that area, the dog would have gone to a good home. There are almost no kill shelters in SoCal and the dogs in the shelters are generally taken by willing owners within days of their quarantine period expiring. I have personally taken a dog from one of those shelters and my wife and I spent months in those shelters just trying to find a dog that wasn’t already taken. Trust me, the turn over rate in those shelters is staggering compared to most other areas. Oh, and probably 1/3 of all of those dogs are labeled as a pit mix, so finding a home for a pit mix in SoCal is not hard to do.
  
  My point being that the dog would not have been euthanized in that shelter.
  
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- 3-Blue
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 11:52pm
  I say just give him the money, period, and quit all the moralizing. It was meant for him and his dog so simply give it to him. Is that such a hard concept to grasp? The people meant it for him and his dog, not miss goody two shoes. Doesn’t anybody ever simply do anything straight anymore? He’s a big boy. If he uses it to dig himself a deeper hole, well it’s none of our business. For all we know, he might invent the next greatest thing while stoned on pot! Nobody knows anything but everybody acts like they know everything!
  
  Everybody tries to control everybody. That’s what’s wrong with the whole cursed country. Just look around. Freedom is the real gold. If it ain’t free, it ain’t worth having. Be free and give freedom to others. Freedom to win and freedom to fail. Doesn’t anyone know how to just let something be and let the chips fall where they may anymore? That’s where the real beauty is found. When you are willing and have enough poise to let something go to hell and then it doesn’t, well, that my friend is true beauty and real strength. That’s why we are being buried in a nanny state. We’re all just becoming a nosy bunch of self-righteous do-gooders. Pathetic and stupid.
  
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- WaltzingMtilda
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 12:11am
  I agree with just giving him the money. If someone needs money and you give it with a willing heart, then you shouldn’t really want to have any say in how it’s spent. Sure we’d like to think the receiver will use it for good or to better their lives, but you shouldn’t give a gift with strings attached. As a general rule I will give money to people begging on the streets, a few bucks here or there, but once I was out with some friends and a woman who was clearly on drugs approached us for money, and just seeing the state she was in…I gave her a 20. My friends were shocked and wanted to be sure I knew she was just going to spend it on drugs. Well, duh, but I just felt like if it kept her from selling herself for a little while then it was the right thing to do. Besides, you never know what will make a difference in someone’s life.
  
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- 3-Blue
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 12:29am
  I love you WaltzingMtilda. It is ALL about FREEDOM and letting it be! Just follow your heart and for crying out loud, LET IT BE! The cream will rise and the rest will sink. Step back and LET IT ALL HAPPEN!
  
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- jens63
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 6:50am
  The donations were to get the dog out of jail. Job done. Refund the excess donations.
  
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- termyt
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 9:15am
  Right on, Jen
  
  What the heck does this have to do with freedom? The money belongs to the person that raised it. She made a promise at to how it would be spent to the donors. She made no promises to the man, his wife, who could not even be bothered enough to prevent the dog from being sheltered in the first place, or the dog.
  
  She raised the money. It is hers to spend as she sees fit. It is not the dog owner’s. He is not entitled to a single penny.
  
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- 3-Blue
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 12:18pm
  And you know all of this exactly how, TERMYT? The money does NOT belong to the person who raised it. It was raised to help the man get his dog out of the kennel. It was meant by the givers to go to the guy. So miss goody has no business putting strings and contingencies on it. She should simply be an honest broker and deliver the money where it was intended. The consequences are not her business. The dog owner is actually entitled to every single unspent penny because it was intended for him.
  
  Oh and FREEDOM has to do with everything and is central to the malaise which is destroying the fabric of this country as we speak. Freedom from a kennel that designated his dog as a stray even though they went to his house, took the collar and tags off and abducted the dog so that they could charge an exorbitant fee and neuter the dog without the owner’s permission. Freedom from do gooders who put so many strings on their actions that it would be better if they just minded their own business. I cite the whole mess as proof of that. And freedom from self righteous people like you who, without all the facts at hand, invent portions of the scenario so that they can enjoy being all puffed up and indignant, yet still wrong.
  
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- termyt
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 7:52pm
  Righteousness does not come from self, but from God, 3-Blue, which you would know if you were not trying to appropriate other people’s money for your own twisted ends.
  
  Here is what I know, so you can feed your own indignant self-loathing projections onto me but spare me your sanctimony. The woman snapped a photo of a man and his jailed dog. (If the dog was jailed under false pretenses, I do not know. Are you saying this women was part of a conspiracy to neuter this dog?) The woman used the photo and the sad-sack story of a guy unable to afford the fees required to get the dog released The woman used her photo and her time to raise money herself. She raised the money. It is hers. She used it to get the dog out of hock like she said she was going to do. She is FREE to do what she will with the money. The man is FREE to refuse her help. What part of FREEDOM forces someone to give up money to someone who did not earn it, did not raise it, has never possessed it?
  
  If someone raises money to support trollish users to go onto the Blaze and throw words like “freedom” and “self-righteous” around as if they knew what they meant and you got none of it, would then have been wronged? Could you sue?
  
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luxlife
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:53pm
The dog is the only sympathetic character in this story.

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The_Pointy_End
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:39pm
hmmmm…didn’t have the money to release the dog from the shelter but has the money to pay for an attorney and sue. Maria Sanchez call his bluff!!!!

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- Nlitend1
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:59pm
  The lawyer probably took the case on contingency. Probably not a good lawyer because this case sounds very weak.
  
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Jedrin
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:32pm
When I was 19 I bought a bum a hotdog. He put a ton of salt on it then acused me of putting saltpeter on it. I was actually thinking it would come to blows but he left. The burger shop owner offered to reemburse me for the dog and said the same happened to him with that bum. I declined saying he shouldn’t have to pay for my charity going wrong. The street people are there for a reason, mostly mental illness combined with drugs. Every once in a while I’ll see an old guy that looks mostly clean around and I give some cash but I don’t try to control how it is used. If he buys booze or whatever so be it, I just hope he might buy food or something else besides. That is up to him. I would never get anymore involved, that is just asking to find out what the problems in his life are, which could be fatal.

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- Nlitend1
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 11:29pm
  There was always the same homeless guy begging at a light on my way to work. For about 6 months I would give him some change or a can of soda if I got stopped at the light. One day I didn’t have any cans in the backseat and no cash or change to give him. I apologized but he started swearing at me. For the next 6 months, when I got stuck at that light, I rolled down the window and told him to F*** off. I started to feel bad, as swearing at homeless people tends to do, so I decided to go out of my way and find a decent homeless person to give some cash. I thought it might be difficult, but it was very easy. I would talk to them for 5-10 minutes and offer them a couple dollars to help them out. I’d say about half the time, they refused to take the money and the ones that did take it always did so grudgingly. I think they considered collecting money less important than feeling human. This dog owner d-bag will hopefully regret treating a nice person so badly, and this woman seems like the type that will not let this experience stop her from doing good in the world.
  
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- Warphead
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 11:54pm
  I was patrolling the parking lot at McD’s 12th & Broadway Nashville one night. I gave an old guy sitting on a bus bench across the street. I gave him a burger and soft drink. He seemed nice enough but I could tell he didn’t like the uniform. A while later he goes int the market next door and comes out with two bags. You could tell they were quart bottles of beer. He sat back on the bench and started drinking. I left him alone. I had my hands full with the usual crowd & he wasn’t being a problem. At 12:30am he started flipping me off whenever he saw me. At 1:30am he started yelling at me and cursing. At 2:00am he made an attempt to get up and cross the road. I pointed a finger at him and said if you cross that street I’ll lock you up for PD. He sat back on the bench and yelled some more. At 3:00am I noticed he had fallen and passed out on the sidewalk. I put in a call and a few minutes later he was being picked up by two paramedics. He checked out OK, He got to sleep it off in jail. I don’t do anything out of the way anymore for them. Most are their because the want to be.
  
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- Nlitend1
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 12:42am
  I think it’s hard to talk too badly about or hate the homeless because in a lot of cases people recognize that it’s not entirely their fault. A lot of them are veterans or have a serious mental illness, so I think it is understood that for many it wasn’t a conscious decision to become worthless. Also, a lot of effort is made to help the homeless from religious groups and other charities, but it’s mostly just to keep them from dying on the streets. I think people recognize that homelessness is not an insurmountable problem to solve, but we collectively don’t care enough about it to spend the time and resources to fix it. So maybe people come to believe that society may have failed in some way or to some extent for these people. It fails for a lot of people, but life isn’t always fair.
  
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- daisy1955
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 1:47am
  Yeah, but this woman took the picture, put it on the internet, paid for the shelter fees and other items – SHE earned that money and SHOULD be the one to decide where it goes. The man did absolutely NOTHING, but get arrested so that his dog was impounded, cuz his doper wife wouldn’t take care of the dog.
  Some of you are saying the criminal should get money he didn’t earn? What the hell??? Am I still on the Blaze site?
  
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dealer@678
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:31pm
This dog deserves so much better

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lid.smoker
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:29pm
I hope that Pit bull chews the wife’s face off then takes a piss on Mr. Druggie’s head.

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- NewMedia
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:31pm
  Lol!
  
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- Nlitend1
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 11:02pm
  You have such noble hopes. Take that anyway you want.
  
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PotatoJoe
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:24pm
Wow! Unbelievable POS! Someone should take the dog and give it a great home and then let that piece of garbage waste away. What a waste of human flesh…just like our president.

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- Nlitend1
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 11:09pm
  Still better than a waste of potato flesh
  
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LameLiberals
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:23pm
Bottom Line The money was raised for HIM/DOG – NOT HER.

Now she is using HIS donations to reimburse HERSELF – something she did NOT tell donors. She DONATED HER MONEY to him – and should NOT be reimbursed. No one forced her to.

Now she is going to GIVE THE MONEY BACK TO DONORS. HELLO!!! She could buy dog food for years with the money – if they courts let her keep the money which is doubtful – but if they do – she should stop acting like a 3 year old and help THE DOG.

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- Nlitend1
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 11:07pm
  Maybe I misread the story, but I don’t think that was the order in which this happened. I think she put the pic on fb and solicited donations…then, donations were coming in…then, she spent money on dog…then she collected money to reimburse herself. I don’t think she meant to donate $900 to this guy, she used her credit card instead of the cash donated, or whatever
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 12:04am
  She put the shelter and vet fees on her credit card,
  What is SOOOOOOOO difficult to understand.
  Really.
  
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- fawlty
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 2:09am
  You’re a moron. She used the funds to pay the vet and shelter fees which she had put on her credit card. Why are you so dense? Do you think she created a freaking trust in order to bail out a dog? Open a credit card in the name of the dog? Loser bum wants the cash to open a meth lab.
  
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- Ernie Kaputnik
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 6:23am
  Suggest you go back and read the story again: She paid to have the dog neutered and purchased food and other items for the dog with her own credit card ($847.00) and reimbursed herself from the funds food it will be purchased from the fund. The remainder of the money remains in a fund for the dog’s future needs (food and vet care), which seems perfectly fair, ethical, logical and most imporantly legal. She isn’t making a nickel from this.
  
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- LameLiberals
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 9:34am
  How stupid are YOU ALL?
  
  1. When she put the shelter cost on HER CREDIT CARD – she had NO EXPECTATION of getting reimbursed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  2. She posted a photo of the dog/man but AGAIN – SHE HAD NO EXPECTATION OF ANY ANYONE DONATING MONEY TO THE DOG/MAN.
  
  3. When the donations came in, THEY WERE FOR THE DOG/MAN – NOT FOR HER.
  
  4. DID SHE “EXPECT” the man to reimburse if there were NO donations? Answer: NO. She DONATED HER MONEY VOLUNTARILY and NOW wants to be reimbursed.
  
  She is acting like a whiney baby stomping her foot demanding she be reimbursed now and SHE CONTROLS the donations MEANT FOR THE DOG/MAN. Now she is going to send the money back because SHE IS MAD. Now because SHE HAS HIS MONEY – she is going to reimburse herself when she had NO EXPECTATION of getting reimbursed BEFORE.
  
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- flyalot
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 10:59am
  Not only was she being responsible with the money she made the effort to raise, she is beholden to the donors who gave the money. If I gave a donation to helping have this dog released I would not, as a donor, want it going to any other source except for obvious things like reimbursement for expenses accrued to help this dog. She did everything in a right and moral way. If it was strictly just money out of her pocket then she’s not as beholden since no other donors would have been involved, at which time she is still within her rights to dole out the money as she sees fit. If anyone out there just has the cash to throw out at these people then do it but don’t chastise anyone else for showing responsibility. That is what is sorely lacking in this society, self responsibility. I worked for years, through my church, at a homeless shelter and after two years I became so cynical that I just had to quit. What I discovered that 95% of the people that came to the shelter were the same ones over and over and over (15 years later I sill see these same folks on the streets in my city), I’ve watched them throw food in the trash (real hungry…yeah right) refuse certain foods. I came weekly believing I was there for the 5% who really needed the help. those came and went but the rest remained to take “advantage” of freebies. I’ve tried giving food to homeless on street and been turned down, they wanted cash for booze and drugs…I’m done!!
  
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- dancingdoggy
  Posted on April 22, 2013 at 4:11am
  They donated money to the SITUATION. Not for the man, not for the dog, but for the man to get his dog back.
  
  If she had advertised that the money was for them, then she would be in the wrong. But it sounds like she advertised that the money was to help the man get his dog back, so therefore she is in the right to reimburse herself.
  
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wordweaver
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:22pm
Maybe there needs to be a Doggie Protective Services agency like CPS that comes and rescues dogs that have morons for owners. This guy isn’t equipped to care for a goldfish.

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- Nlitend1
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 11:32pm
  The government does this already. I think they have some reality shows dedicated to this profession as well–on animal planet channel
  
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- smokie
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 6:02am
  Good luck with that in Ohio.
  
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LameLiberals
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:20pm
THIS WOMAN RAISED THE MONEY FOR HIM AND THE DOG.

While I agree with her to pay off his tickets so he won’t be arrested again – she had NO RIGHT to take money from him to reimburse HERSELF for what she voluntarily paid for.

She did NOT tell donors – DONATE TO ME FIRST and then the dog/master. Pay off his tickets and GIVE HIM ALL THE DONATIONS.

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onetoomany
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:19pm
Really, it would have been better for this dog to be euthanized, another pitbull mix…too many of them. He cannot take care of it anyway. And the story said, “his wife answered the phone?” Why couldn’t she have taken care of the dog when the guy went to jail? Something seems fishy.

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- VoteRightDammit
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:24pm
  She had to go out to hook for drug money. Couldn’t just stay at home and care for a stupid dog ! Geesh.
  
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- Nlitend1
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 11:42pm
  I assume he got arrested with the dog in his possession. The cops won’t take the dog home, so they probably called the house and told the wife the dog was being held in the pound and she could pick it up. She probably didn’t have a car, or the money to get the dog out, or just didn’t like the dog or her husband, maybe she is disabled and can’t leave the house. Whatever her reason, the expenses got bigger and he probably couldn’t access the money in his IRA because the penalty is just prohibitive. Or maybe she is a ****** meth addict obama voter.
  
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DefyTYRANNY
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:19pm
The wife sounds like a Meth head.

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- dealer@678
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:28pm
  Can you imagine what she looks like after seeing him.
  
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enigmaforever
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:16pm
No good deed goes unpunished

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- Nlitend1
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 11:10pm
  would this be an example of when someone could turn the other cheek?
  
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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:13pm
Potheads. Ugh.

Just say no, kiddies.

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Advection
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:12pm
If she has receipts for everything that was spent, and refunds the remainder, she’s in the clear.

But she was never in any jeopardy from this guy. They have no contract. Her only jeopardy would have been if she had spent any money on herself. That would have been fraud.

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- Nlitend1
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 11:45pm
  Are you a lawyer?
  I think the use of his image to raise money may give him some standing and a basis for a tort. I don’t practice, but I seem to remember a similar case made on similar grounds.
  
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Tri-ox
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:03pm
And, this is (one reason) why you should never try too help a worthless, stoned loser, who refuses to help himself.

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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:18pm
  Another taker that’s a drain on society!
  
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- VoteRightDammit
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:23pm
  But we SHOULD legalize drugs so they are more easily available and at a cheaper price …
  
  Cause
  
  We need more Stoners in our society.
  
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- Nlitend1
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 11:15pm
  Or on the other hand, maybe it’s a reason to help drug addicts differently or even help them more. Of course, ignoring them has worked really well too. In all seriousness, what would jesus do? Is a time to look after each other or a time to punish those who don’t do for themselves? This guy seems like a proper d1ck, he makes a good test case for the golden rule I think.
  
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Use.some.common.sense
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:03pm
Too infinity and……probably back to jail.

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ilandgrl
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:02pm
I’m glad she didn’t give him the cash. One thing I learned from my mom was to buy a meal or coffee for anyone asking for money on the city streets, but never give cash because you could be supporting their drug/alcohol addiction. If they are really hungry, they will be very happy for a warm meal. It’s a real shame this guy turned out to be so ungrateful. I feel really bad for that puppy. I’m sure he’ll end up back in the shelter once the idiot-owner gets himself arrested again.

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- Nlitend1
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 12:06am
  It is a depressing story, but maybe the future isn’t as predictable as all of that. Maybe doing something as reprehensible as this will wake him up to where his life is. Can you do something like this and really avoid any self evaluation afterward? I suppose if you take enough drugs you can avoid a lot of thinking, but maybe this is the bottom for him and he will turn it around. There should be a newspaper dedicated to follow-up stories like these. People like this woman should be celebrated for more than 15 minutes and guys like this shouldn’t be able to avoid the consequences of their actions after a few weeks either. Just a thought.
  
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fdraiden
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 9:58pm
I think the dog is just a crutch for these fools. I pray for the dog.

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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 9:57pm
No good deed goes unpunished, but all dogs go to heaven, their owners are on their own though.

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- spikebu
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 3:22am
  Amen, Brother!
  
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FreeUsAll
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 9:51pm
He may have a case. I’m not saying that I agree with him, but he may have his day in court. No good deed goes unpunished. Is it any wonder that people choose not to be charitable? The reward is so often abuse.

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- VoteRightDammit
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:27pm
  Not correct.
  
  As someone else said, there exists no contract between the stoner and Sanchez. He has no cliam on anything.
  
  However – if she had kept some of the donated funds and used them for her own benefit, those who CONTRIBUTED could have a claim for fraud. but she is returning the undistributed funds, so that’s not going to happen either.
  
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OldSurfRat
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 9:48pm
Save the dog and put down the man and his wife.
The dog deserves better than that white trash.

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- Fubared
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:02pm
  Yes.
  
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- MBA
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:02pm
  yep! you got that right. What a worthless p o s . Oh wait, this country is filled with p o s’es starting from the president on down. No wonder this guy doesn’t recognize compassion when he receives it.
  
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- yiska8
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:59pm
  That poor doggie was better off in the shelter. Maybe a decent family could have adopted him. No innocent human or animal deserves to be exposed to pot/meth heads. They’d probably eat donated dog food on a pot or meth binge.
  
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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 9:42am
  This is what you must know:
  
  Sue! Sue! Sue!
  
  Sounds like a typical conservative.
  
  It is so.
  
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- NHwinter
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 4:50pm
  Yoursenseless has another stupid comment. Typical progressive.
  
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