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Caddy the Dog and the Worst Story Ever
By Jamie Mottram | April 14, 2008
So I’m at a wedding shower this weekend, talking to someone who just moved back to D.C. after four years in Hawaii. We’re back in the cut (as Wilbon used to say), watching the couple open gifts, when he says to me, “Do you want to hear a story?” I say, “Sure.” And he says:
“Hawaii is the melting pot of the Pacific. There are all of these different cultures there, and, in some of those cultures, the people eat dogs. So a few months back, this guy goes golfing at one of the best courses on the island. He plays alone, but he brings his dog with him, which he leaves tied up at the clubhouse with a bowl of water.
After playing 18, he comes back for the dog, but the dog is gone. He asks around, and someone tells him they saw two members of the grounds crew walking off with the pup. So this guy calls the police, and they go to the ground crew guys’ house, where they discover that these two dudes barbecued and ate the dog.
They didn’t wait around or anything. They saw a dog tied up with a water bowl (obviously somebody’s pet), stole it and threw it on the spit. The guy was devastated. Pressed charges and everything. It was a national story, dude. Saw it in USA Today.”
I had to Google Yahoo! that shit, and it checks out; almost exactly like my buddy says. The guy’s name is Frank Manuma and his dog was Caddy, an eight-month old German Shepherd-Lab mix. The perps stole Caddy, slaughtered and ate him, then disposed of the carcass in a river. They were eventually indicted on theft and animal cruelty charges, which means up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine, or not enough.
Topics: This Is Weird, New to Me, Golf |
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April 14th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Isn’t it a little early to admit you’re terrified you have zero content to put up today?
April 14th, 2008 at 10:19 am
You’re right, Brinson. We could’ve started the week off with the Wiz locking up the 5 seed, the Nats breaking their 9-game losing streak or the Caps leaving home with a split, but I think we both know that this dog-eating story had to be told.
April 14th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Benji would’ve gave it to those dudes real proper like.