She Broke Into A Hot Car To Rescue A Dog And Embarrassed Her Boyfriend In The Process So Now She’s Asking The Internet If She Was Wrong
A woman recently broke into a hot car out in Arizona so she could rescue a dog. She ended up embarrassing her boyfriend in the process, and now she’s asking the internet if she was somehow wrong.
She started out by saying in Arizona right now there’s a heatwave going on, and the temperatures routinely reach basically 100 degrees during the day.
While she was out and about with her boyfriend, she came across a dog sitting inside of a hot car.
Although the windows of the car were open slightly, she knew that wasn’t going to eradicate the overwhelming heat inside.
She just couldn’t help herself; she stopped and stuck her hand into the car and felt how sweltering it was in there.
The car doors were all locked, so she thought quickly, removed the drawstring from the pair of pants she had on, made a knot, and used it to open the car doors.
The car alarm immediately started going off after she was able to unlock the car with the string from her pants.
She grabbed the dog, got the poor thing out of the car, and went back in to see if there were any other dogs inside of the car.
“My boyfriend had walked away,” she said. “I didn’t pay much attention at the time because I was focused on the dog but I know now that he was embarrassed and didn’t want people to think we were together.”
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“I called out to him to go find some water and ice if possible. He started getting annoyed at me for immediately going to breaking into a car.”
“That I should of at least tried to find the owner. I said we can talk after we get some water for the dog, and I carried the dog away from the car. I didn’t think to close the door.”
Then, the owners of the car, and the dog, came out. Her boyfriend explained what happened while she tended to the dog.
After the owners picked up their dog from her, her boyfriend said he was extremely mad at her for putting him in that situation where he had to tell the owners why their care was broken into.
She apologized for embarrassing him, but she pointed out that she didn’t understand why he was feeling like this.
A dog’s life was in danger, and she feels if anyone has a right to be ashamed, it’s the owners of the little dog in the car. On their ride back home together, her boyfriend told her she looked like she was robbing the car.
“He said that was a lot to put on him and I could have done something to look less suspicious but instead at every step I did the most suspicious thing,” she continued.
“Like not even trying to look and see if the owners were nearby or returning, not getting the store to call them on the intercom, just going straight to breaking in.”
Here’s what the internet had to say.
“Several states now have laws making it legal to break a car window if an animal is locked inside on a hot day.”
“I’m also in AZ, and it is illegal to leave a pet unattended in a vehicle if its physical health is at risk. Which it definitely is in this heat.”
“Sadly, this sort of thing happens a lot this time of year, and I’m always reading stuff about people having to break into cars to save pets and sometimes small children.”
“If any of the witnesses had called the cops, the dog’s owners would be the ones getting in trouble, not you. You did the right thing in my opinion.”
“Stick the boyfriend in a hot car and ask him if he wants to wait to find the owners first or get out of the car now.”
“As a rule of thumb, even with a cracked window, an animal or child should be in a car for no longer than five minutes – even less so when it is above 70 degrees.”
“Would it have been good to find the owners first? Sure. But you had no idea how long that animal was stuck in the car already.”
“Why didn’t your boyfriend go ahead and find them while you were doing your thing if he was so embarrassed?”
“Inaction on his part is no excuse. You didn’t cause any damage and you were actually thinking quick on your feet.”
“I’m trying really hard to understand your bf’s point of view and I really can’t wrap my head around it. Would he have preferred you let the poor thing to die in order to spare him from strangers thinking, erroneously, that you were a robber?”
“Agreed, she did the right thing. I live in Baltimore City and I’ve had my fair share of rescuing animals from rough neighborhoods, buying puppies off of drug dealers, and buying kittens from kids who collect them from the alleys during the spring months.”
“Is it dangerous for me, a skinny, young, white girl driving a Lexus, doing such things, usually at night? Of course. But it 100% is worth it. I always keep a crowbar, leashes, a crate, and pet food/water in my car, for times like these.”
“I also have a GPS tracker on my phone, pepper spray, a handcuff lock picking tool, and a few easily disguised (and legal!) weapons on me, as it’s the least I can do to be somewhat prepared.”
“You did the right thing and you did what you could do in the moment. When I go into a seemingly abandoned building (usually there are squatters), I don’t even think to shut the door after I leave or anything of the sort. Once the animal is in my custody, I’m bolting as fast as I can to my car to get to safety.”
“My husband is a sheltered physician and he acts like your bf. Some people just can’t get out of their comfort zone when they’re required to take swift action.”
You can read the rest of what the internet had to say here.
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