I’m betting as tough as the bites and scratches are, nothing beats a slipping wrench against a steel frame!
I’m your Huckleberry
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I used to teach statistics and would tell my students not to gamble because they can’t build those casinos if the odds are that you are going home with more money than you came in with. If I’m willing to make abet it’s because I already know the outcome and I’m willing to take your money if you’re silly enough to bet with me after I’ve told you that I don’t gamble. This is one of those times when I’d say, I’m your Huckleberry. I’ll take that bet that you mention.
I used to wear the padded suits and get bit by dogs being trained to do protection/pursuit/arrest work. I’ve had to break up a fight that broke out between them. Breaking that fight up was scarier than any fight I had to break up when I was a bouncer in a redneck bar that also attracted bikers when a certain band was playing.
My former daughter-in-law is a canine handler. She has a Malinois. The dogs in her department have done permanent nerve damage and broken bones in both their handlers and the people they arrest.
Mike Ritland, a retired Navy Seal handler/trainer tells a story about a Malinois going into a hide to get a sniper and ripping the guys throat out. I heard one of the guys who started the K-9 program for Delta tell similar stories.
A friend of mine broke up a fight between his Springer Spaniel and Irish Setter nearly passed out when one of them bit into his hand and its teeth sank into bone.
As bad as that slipping wrench might feel when it smacks a steel frame, people who haven’t experienced the ferocity of a dog fight or experienced the bite force that dogs can generate often underestimate just how devastating they can be. Even when they are just playing with a human, they can tear us up. I was play boxing with one of my Rottweilers when one time he simply turned his head with his mouth open and his canine tooth sunk itself deep inside my hand like a hot knife through butter. Another time he sunk the tooth into my forehead, and another time he sliced my ear open when he swatted it with his paw, and each of those times we were playing with each other as a way of showing affection.
I’ll bet on the dogs being worse than the slipping wrench every time. Over the long run I will make way more money than I would ever lose.
And then there’s the damage cats can do…
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