“I don’t care if was a dragon or Godzilla. I was going to run after them,” the victim’s father Ali Vasheghani says.
He fought off his daughter’s attackers: two pit bulls who neighbors say have been terrorizing the neighborhood for several days.
The dogs bit the 25-year-old woman four times near her home in the 300 block of Sussex near Military and Flores.
The victim had to go straight to the hospital to get the injuries checked out.
Vasheghani says she was walking to Walgreens when the dogs started chasing her.
"I just heard somebody screaming,” he says. "I ran outside and she was running inside screaming, 'Daddy, Daddy!'"
Vasheghani says he saw the two pit bulls chasing his daughter. He fought them off with a stick while she ran for cover.
"She told me, 'They bit me hard,” he says.
Vasheghani says his daughter has four different bite marks in her thighs and lower back.
Neighbors called police. They say the dogs chased the officer, who had to hide inside his squad car until the animals calmed down.
"I try to maintain peace but those dogs, they’ve just go to go,” Vasheghani says.
The dogs’ owners are actually Vasheghani’s neighbors. They didn’t answer the door so officers left a notice to let them know because the dogs bit someone, state law says Animal Care Services had to take the pit bulls into quarantine for ten days.
ACS says after the quarantine is over, the owners can pick the pit bulls up but will have to pay a fee plus court costs.
[Um, no mention of citing the owners for harboring vicious dogs? No restrictions to be placed on them, just "Here's your vicious dogs back. Have a nice day!]
(WOAI - July 12, 2013)
