A U.S. Postal Service employee reported Saturday that a man in the 1900 block of South Lumpkin Street threatened to shoot her, Athens-Clarke County police.
The mail carrier told police that she screamed when the man’s dog charged at her while delivering a package to a neighboring house, and when the man confronted her she told him that if the dog ever did that again she would spray it with mace, according to police.
The man told police that the dog “was like his child” that “no jury in Georgia would convict him for shooting someone who was macing his dog.”
The responding officer wrote in a police incident report that the man did not understand that using deadly force was not warranted in defense of his dog and that he tried to explain the law to him.
The man was not charged because he made no “direct threat” to shoot the mail carrier, according to the report.
Athens man threatens to shoot postal worker | Online Athens.
I don’t get mad at the dog – it’s only doing what it knows. Get mad at the idiot owner who is violating the leash laws. If the customer didn’t make a “direct threat”, what constitutes one in Georgia? Threatening to shoot someone with the barrel in the carrier’s mouth? Big Bubba is watching you in Georgia.
Thank you for clarifing that Robert!!
They need to stop delivering to the man’s house and force him to get a p.o. box. I might accidentally misdeliver an important letter or two of his to a vacant house. Also next time the dog is out call animal control on his dog.
The stuff carriers carry hardly stop a fly. Sprayed a pit bull once and he never slowed. When she lunged I kicked ~~ sorry her neck broke NOT
Carriers do not carry mace the authorized dog repellant is a pepper and oil in a small can with a range of about 6 feet max