Horrifying moment a man is savaged by two pitbulls and left in a pool of blood on a New York street

[XemaSab]

Shocking footage has emerged of two pitbulls savaging a man on the streets of the Bronx in New York City as bystanders bravely attempt to pull them away.

Filmed from an apartment above the road, the middle aged man is left lying in a pool of his own blood after the crazed dogs drag him across the road in the prolonged mauling.

The entire incident was recorded by a woman at the apartment overlooking the street, who is also heard speaking to emergency services on the phone.

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[shenmue]

1. Awful

[yeoman6987]

2. Oh my god! I wish I didn't watch that.

I know there was a warning but wow. Horrid. Huge tragedy.

[KG]

3. Oh, those cute and cuddley pits. they'd never hurt a fly...

[enlightenment]

4. Any dog will attack when trained to do so.

Any dog.
Don't blame the dog - blame the owner.

[HassleCat]

14. I know

The problem is, pit bulls are the best fighting dogs. This attracts a certain type of person, the type of person willing to inflict serious injury on others, like Republicans, but without the sophisticated military hardware. Many pit bull owners train and socialize their dogs to attack people. It's like the whole gun control thing. The owners are at fault, but the dogs enable their bad tendencies.

[gwheezie]

21. Certain kind of people

That must be me. I've had 3 pitbulls, I don't look for a breed, dogs find me. I've had far more hound dogs in my life. I'm 65 years old, vegan and female. The pit I have now for the past 10 years is a rescue. I have a hound and a shepherd mix. The shepherd is the more aggressive. The pit can be taken anywhere.

[HassleCat]

23. Not you

You're socializing your dog correctly. So is my sister in law. So is my neighbor. They both ownp it bulls, and both dogs are sweethearts, because they belong to nice people, not mean people. That bumper sticker should read, "Mean people suck. And so do their dogs."

[gwheezie]

24. I'm horrified when dogs attack people

If I had a dog that was dangerous and I made an effort to rehab it and failed, I would put it down in the kindest way. Training dogs to attack people is so unfair to the dog.

[uppityperson]

26. Dobies used to be the best attack/protection dogs. Then Rotts. German Shepherds. etc

The owners are at fault with no "but" added.

[Major Nikon]

39. A dog doesn't have to be trained to do what it has been bred for

My border collie will herd livestock and small children despite never being trained to do so.

[uppityperson]

11. Any dog will attack when trained to do so and instructed to do so by the owner

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/pit-bulls-attack-man-bronx-graphic-video-shows-article-1.2358056

A Bronx woman ordered her two pit bulls to viciously attack a 62-year-old man Friday morning as neighbors frantically tried to intervene and blood streaked the street, according to police and graphic video.

Cynthia Oliver, 55, began arguing with the unnamed victim outside her building at 2414 Belmont Ave, police said. She soon let the pets off the leash and ordered them to attack, they said.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

19. She should be charged the same as if she had shot or stabbed him. nt

[uppityperson]

29. I agree and it looks like she's been charged with assault.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Woman-Charged-After-Pitbull-Attack-in-the-Bronx-327042651.html

[PufPuf23]

32. Cynthia Oliver should be in prison for the rest of her life.

[cpwm17]

5. That was a deliberate attack by the dogs' owner.

I saw this report a few day ago:

California man killed, woman badly hurt in pit bull attack

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/09/us-usa-pitbull-attack-idUSKCN0R92M120150909

A 65-year-old man was killed and a woman seriously hurt when they were attacked by two pit bulls in Southern California, police and local media said on Wednesday.

Riverside County sheriff's deputies responding on Tuesday morning to reports of a dog attack in North Shore, a community on the shores of the Salton Sea about 100 miles east of San Diego, found a man dead in the front yard of a home there, the sheriff's department said in a written statement.

As deputies investigated they heard a woman cry for help and found her being attacked by two dogs, according to the statement.

[uppityperson]

6. Ah, OP says deliberate attack by owner. wtf

According to police, the dogs owner, Cynthia Oliver, 55, was arguing with the unnamed victim outside her apartment block at 2414 Belmont Ave.
It was then that she let the dogs off their leash.

[cpwm17]

9. It's in the link XemaSab put below the video

and here: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/pit-bulls-attack-man-bronx-graphic-video-shows-article-1.2358056

A Bronx woman ordered her two pit bulls to viciously attack a 62-year-old man Friday morning as neighbors frantically tried to intervene and blood streaked the street, according to police and graphic video.

Cynthia Oliver, 55, began arguing with the unnamed victim outside her building at 2414 Belmont Ave, police said. She soon let the pets off the leash and ordered them to attack, they said.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

17. That's a California incident, not the Bronx one in the OP. n/t

[uppityperson]

27. No, it is the Bronx one. Here is another link. However, cpwm does link to a CA one.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/pit-bulls-attack-man-bronx-graphic-video-shows-article-1.2358056

[BlancheSplanchnik]

38. I was talking about the story in post #5

5. That was a deliberate attack by the dogs' owner.
I saw this report a few day ago:

California man killed, woman badly hurt in pit bull attack

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/09/us-usa-pitbull-attack-idUSKCN0R92M120150909

A 65-year-old man was killed and a woman seriously hurt when they were attacked by two pit bulls in Southern California, police and local media said on Wednesday.

Riverside County sheriff's deputies responding on Tuesday morning to reports of a dog attack in North Shore, a community on the shores of the Salton Sea about 100 miles east of San Diego, found a man dead in the front yard of a home there, the sheriff's department said in a written statement.

As deputies investigated they heard a woman cry for help and found her being attacked by two dogs, according to the statement.

[GummyBearz]

8. It doesn't say the dogs' owner ordered them to attack...

How did you get that? I may have missed it, just want to be sure.

[uppityperson]

12. look up at post #9, has the link and quote.

[Kotya]

15. Oliver has been charged with assault and reckless endangerment

The victim lost an ear.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Woman-Charged-After-Pitbull-Attack-in-the-Bronx-327042651.html

[GummyBearz]

20. Thanks

I see it now, I clicked the reuters link which doesn't mention an intentional attack

[alphafemale]

7. If all those people hadn't come to his aid he would have likely died.

Terrifying.

[HassleCat]

10. Civil and criminal penalties

They have good images of the dogs and some of the people standing around, one of whom may be the owner. It should be relatively easy to track down the owner and haul him into court. Well, it would be easy, if the cops weren't so busy trying to cause trouble for the mayor, but that's anther story. I hope the owner has lots of money, so the victim gets a big payout.

[uppityperson]

13. Owner was there, sicced the dog on him.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/pit-bulls-attack-man-bronx-graphic-video-shows-article-1.2358056

[LiberalElite]

16. Dragged across the street by 2 dogs then he got up and walked away

- but that's probably entirely due to intervention by several people, including the guy with the hose.

[alphafemale]

18. Yes, he'd have likely died if they hadn't all helped.

From the article at least one man was injured himself.

The victim will likely have to deal with these injuries for the rest of his life.

[Adsos Letter]

22. Psychological as well as physical.

I can imagine some pretty horrific nightmares in his future.

[LiberalElite]

31. Yup. The video shows one man being attacked by the dogs

after they got them off the original victim.

[tblue37]

30. Interesting that the digs didb't go after anyone else untik Mr. Ortiz took off his

belt in a desperate attempt to drive one dog away from Mr. Bove. Then that dog went after Mr. Ortiz pretty relentlessly, and then the dogs seem to have changed their focus to attacking anyone that tried to intervene.

I am amazed at the bravery of those many neighbors who put their own bodies between the dogs and Mr. Bove, especially the man at the beginning who did so alone for a while. They all deserve to be publicly honored.

I was, however, appalled by the apparent foolishness of the people who seemed tohank around as "lookie-loos," as though this were a performance put on for their entertainments. One man seems to have had a child with him--probably a daughter. He should have gotten the child to safety as soon as he saw what was going on.

And then there were those who nonchalantly sauntered by, as though it was a TV show rather than real life, so they didn't need to worry about being attacked by the agitated dogs. At the end one such saunterer looks back over his shoulder and sees something that causes him to reconsider his noncalant attitude and glacial pace.

[alcibiades_mystery]

25. Have those dogs been put down yet? If not, why not?

[uppityperson]

28. Owner has been charged since it was a deliberate attack

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Woman-Charged-After-Pitbull-Attack-in-the-Bronx-327042651.html

[greytdemocrat]

33. I don't trust Pitbulls

Never have, never will. I've had all kinds
of poochs over the decades but I will never
get a pit.

[uppityperson]

34. I don't trust people who train their dogs to attack then set them on people.

The owner should be in prison.

[etherealtruth]

40. +100000

[Fluothane]

35. Interesting Story

What a coincidence to come across this post. In Jacksonville, FL we received a man just last week who was mauled by four pit bulls. Apparently people tried to stop the attack, however the dogs did not stop chewing until he became unresponsive. Dude had both of his ears torn off and exsanguinated in the street. He has required multiple trips to the OR for continuing care. It does not appear nurture overcomes nature in this breed.

http://www.news4jax.com/news/police-search-for-owner-of-dogs-who-attacked-man/35156024

http://www.news4jax.com/news/dog-owner-speaks-out-on-attack/35228424

[uppityperson]

36. These dogs were set upon the man by their owner. Bad owner, bad nurture.

Training your dogs to attack and directing them to should lead to long prison sentence. In this case it was nurture, not nature.

[leftyladyfrommo]

37. Having an attack trained dog is no different

Than having a loaded gun. You set dogs on someone and it's attempted manslaughter.

We had a case here in KC where people had a boxer cross that had bitten someone when they lived in Lee's Summit, Mo. They moved to KC. A friend was visiting with her toddler. One of the kids let the dog in the house and it attacked the baby. Baby lived.

But those people were arrested for a whole slew of felony charges and were being held on about $50,000 bond. They are looking at some really serious jail time.

Harboring a dangerous animal is a really serious matter. And it's not just pits. There are other breeds that are just as dangerous. Cane Corso are like pits on steroids and they are one of the breeds growing fastest in popularity.