where did this figure of insurance costing $500 come about ?

I doubt any insurance company is going to give any and everybody public liability insurance costing only $500 knowing they could be taken for wrong death, grievous assault and all kind of thing

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/MAU ... 49195.html

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Dogs attack pregnant woman, undergoes surgery to save arm

By Susan Mohammed susan.mohammed@trinidadexpress.com
Story Created: May 15, 2012 at 10:58 PM ECT
Story Updated: May 15, 2012 at 10:58 PM ECT
A PREGNANT woman underwent emergency surgery yesterday to save her arm after she was mauled by three dogs.
Two of the dogs are mixed with the pitbull breed.
Kurleen Cooper, 36, who is five months pregnant, yesterday complained she was not feeling any movement in her womb after she was attacked by the dogs at Pt Fortin.
The dogs tore the flesh off her left arm and bit her on the head, hands, inner leg, left ear and stomach.
Cooper's family said they were told by doctors last night the surgery would attempt to reconstruct the damaged arm or amputate it.
Cooper is the mother of three other children, aged six, seven and 17.
She was walking along South Central Road, Pt Fortin shortly after 8 a.m. after dropping her children to school and was heading back home.
She was passing a house owned by businessman Ronnie Maharaj when one of the dogs ran out from the property and charged at her.
Maharaj buys and sells fish and was said to have acquired the dogs after he was robbed a number of times.
The two other dogs, which are mixed with the pitbull breed, followed and leapt on Cooper and knocked her down.
The dogs bit Cooper about her body, and the pregnant woman fought back, she told relatives.
Cooper's sister, Kurlet Cooper Julien, said: "She told me that she was fighting back. She told me when she got the bites, she actually bit one of the dogs. She was kicking the dogs. Because she was kicking, they bit the inner part of her legs."
Police were told that the dogs were "called off" by one of Maharaj's employees.
Cooper was rescued from the roadside by a passerby and residents from the area, who contacted the police and the Emergency Medical Services.
She was rushed to the Point Fortin Area Hospital for treatment, where her wounds were bandaged and she was given a tetanus shot.
She was later transferred to the San Fernando General Hospital and her condition was listed as "serious".
"She told doctors that she is not feeling the baby. They checked and there was movement, but when she came to the hospital, she said she felt something was wrong with the baby. The family is traumatised. I wouldn't even wish this on my worst enemy," said Julien.
The dogs were loose in the yard, and there is no gate installed to the front of the house, according to an employee of Maharaj who was at the Point Fortin Police Station assisting investigations yesterday.
However, June Garib, Maharaj's wife, said when she left for work at 5 a.m., the three dogs, along with three others they own, were chained at the back of the house.
"When I came home I saw the dogs tied. I asked if anyone let go the dogs and they said 'no'. I don't know if it's my dogs that bit the lady."

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what u all say bout this one now..???...

firstly no gate....

secondly the owner not sure if it was her dogs that attacked the lady....

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lol uml is making sense although in a crude way of doing it.

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she is the kind of owner that i think we all agree needs to be punished and legislation is needed to prevent people like her owning ANY dog.

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AGREED...

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see wah ah mean......la romaine, belmont, enterprise, PT FORTIN!!!

no westmoorings, valpark, lange park, etc.








microchipped dogs will be identified

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ban them dam dogs

It's the owner's fault for not securing his dogs on his property. The dogs were acting normally imo. The owner should be charged (with involuntary manslaughter or something)...

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I find your lack of kickpanel, disturbing.

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"2Pac."

A colleague of mine was bitten while walking in goodwood park last year, rott's. It happens. man went and got stitches and didn't make a big scene out of it, thais all.

Damn @ the front page of the express, rip pitbull owners.

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How come we love to bark and call for similar traffic laws like developed nations, yet when we want to enact dog laws like UK and New Zealand ppl receiving chessburn?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18064875

I can imagine the outcry if they were to enact and enforce the current speed limit with radar guns.

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PUT these DOGS in question to SLEEP and JAIL the owner for 3 years!

why put the dogs to sleep? because im sure that this pregnant lady went provoking the dogs RIGHT?

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3 Men conspire together to DEFRAUD, what happens when 1 is disgrundled? Awaits a Birdie to sing and his blatter to burst......................

The police need to practice their mathematics sir.

noone is against these punishments when something like this happens, it is fair prevention that we are fighting for this owner was clearly not fit to own dogs this is what the legislation should be aiming to prevent and it should not be breed specific it should be a dog ownership license for all breeds.

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So no hate for the pot hound involved?

Just last year I was running from two pit bulls in west moorings
Then again, it was my girlfriend's father that purposely let them go when I was there.

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Regardless of the defect in the legislation it is needed now more than ever....Trinidadians don't know about the concept of responsibility.... All along it was a liberty, you took advantage of this liberty and exploited it at the expense of innocent citizens... now pay the price.... Kill em all!!!

cause he know he would not get through, cause a rott is not a dangerous dog.

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a guy on my street has a pitbull mix.......he also doesnt have a gate and the dog wanders about his yard......

I am always in my car driving past so i never study it but if i have to walk that street one day.......

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If attacked and have a licensed firearm, shoot the dog.

The end

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if you don't have a gun, just yell "pow! pow! pow!" and hope for the best...

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So with ALL of the hype , given this last incident- are these Dangerous animals STILL at their current home? if so WHY were they NOT REMOVED ?
Why is the owner allowed to go about their normal lives? they should be put into a jail cell and as athe perfect example FORCED into PAYING ALL medical expenses that this victim has to incurr, if th eowner cannot pay, then Auction off every last thing she HAS in order to do so............

People must learn responsibility.................

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3 Men conspire together to DEFRAUD, what happens when 1 is disgrundled? Awaits a Birdie to sing and his blatter to burst......................

Agreed on the responsibility...If you cannot keep your dog in your property, you don't deserve to have one. Leave a muzzle on your dog, train your dog, fence your yard and keep the dog on a leash which doesn't exceed the yard boundaries.

I don't agree that dogs are at fault in attacks and should be put to sleep, the dogs' owners are responsible. Putting the dogs to sleep condones the fact that only the dogs are at fault, and the owner has no responsibility, which is wrong.

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I find your lack of kickpanel, disturbing.

It simple inno and all the ppl saying "enact the law nah, eet go help" do not realize that it will not. No body is against any facking law. The law is worded poorly. Why admit a law is flawed, implement it and THEN look to fix it after? What jackass ness is that?
It remains though, if you cannot properly house your dog, whatever type of dog it is, do not have any.

Ps, if anybody see dem dogs that was in that yard and could say that they are pitbulls then alyuh real good.

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and then like all we are accustomed to everyone will BAWL: dem was good dogs and never do nobody nutthen.................

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3 Men conspire together to DEFRAUD, what happens when 1 is disgrundled? Awaits a Birdie to sing and his blatter to burst......................

dais cuz yuh does get it clint eastwood style

shoot first ask questions later if found in someone yard

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THANK YOU GOD FOR GIVING OUR LEADERS SOME SENSE!!