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A NY Post reporter is the latest to cover a dog being killed by a Con Ed shock. This time the dog, Mushy, was her own.
My dog, Mushy, a 100-pound Italian mastiff, died yesterday after an encounter with an electrified light pole - and I'm confronted with official bumbling and denials over what happened.It was dark and damp at around 6:30 a.m., when I was walking Mushy in Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem. He stepped near the lamppost, and suddenly, he started staggering toward me. Right away I thought: "Oh, my God, he's being electrocuted!"
All the while I was thinking of Jodie Lane, who died in the East Village three years ago after stepping on an electrified Con Ed box while walking her dog.
She was told the prognosis wasn't good, and her dog had symptoms consistent with electrocution. By that afternoon, he'd become the latest fatality due to stray voltage around the city. In the past, a Boston Terrier, a chow-chow and a human being have all met a similar fate. Apparently using livery cabs to cover stray-voltage hot spots isn't working out so well.
What happened when the reporter, Denise Buffa, went back to the scene to see if the pole was being worked on? Nothing, of course. The police at the 25th Precinct told her nothing was found, the DoT told her to call Con Ed, and Con Ed told her "they got leakage here somewhere, they've got to correct it," but followed up by letting her know light poles are city property.
We've mentioned it before: be sure to buy your pup some shoes (example pictured).
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First the cops are stealing bikes, and now ConEd is stealing dog's souls. What's next?!?
i'm not a dog fan but i've heard stories of people not knowing what was wrong with their dog as they are being slowly cooked by the electricity. so sad and it is amazing nyc doesn't seem to give a shit.
there's another multi-million dollar out-of-court settlement for the archives!
Pardon my French, but this situation is f*cked in a cocked hat. Is it just pure luck that this is not happening to people as opposed to animals? It's bad enough that one person has been fried because of ConEd, but imagine if the dogs killed were children instead?
Burke can go rot in hell.
nyc surely doesn't give a shit about you... how can i tell? you're a bitter person. pathetic.
Rocknrope, I think it's the insolation of shoes that help humans and children not be electrocuted on the streets of NYC. If you're a dog or a horse (one was electrocuted a few years ago on Central Park South) without that extra layer of sole protection, there's less liklihood that you'll be electrocuted. If I remember correctly, the lady who died tried to pull her dog off the place he was being electrocuted and died through that contact.
Methinks that Con Ed really won't do anything about the problem until more humans die. Oh wait, they can't find the problem, so there goes that theory.
Matty, why do you preface your comment with "I'm not a dog fan, but..."
The location is actually inside a city park. Con Edison has no wiring inside parks; they just showed up and tried to help. Blaming this on Con Ed is like blaming them for bad wiring in your home. It's up to the people who did the wiring--in this case, the Parks Department.
poor dog! this is such a sad story.
Good point, guest snarker. Who knew? Now we do!