I'll try to keep it short but I was fined for discharging a firearm while shooting a dog that had bit me while I was walking in the street in the valley. There were no sidewalks and it was common practice to walk on the street and when traffic approached to step off to the side. While coming back from the store a small ankle biter kind of mutt ran out from a yard and bit me quite hard on my leg, drawing blood. I tried to drop kick him but he was mighty spry and dodged my foot and finally left me alone. I continued on home and got more angry as I went. I got in mom's house where I was staying after getting out of the army and knew where she kept her .22 pistol, I checked to see if it was loaded and stuck it in my pants, walked back to the dogs house and out he came for me again, I wasn't anywhere near the house and a good 20 feet from the yard, I shot him twice straight down into the street, left him laying in there and went home, cracked a beer. Thirty minutes later a Sheriff's car pulled into the driveway, he asked me where I had been , etc. I told him my story, showed him my leg. He told me that he was sorry for my injury but was going to have to fine me for discharging a firearm within city limits, then he told me that the owner was very angry and that I might want to go over and tell him why I shot his dog, I told the deputy that was his job I got nothing to say to a *** that would keep a dog around that would bite folks minding their own business.
