Brave teen fights off pit bull.Thomas "T.J." Moehler, a 16-year-old junior at Central Regional High School in Bayville, New Jersey Bayville is an unincorporated area within Berkeley Township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. The area is served as United States Postal Service ZIP Code 08721. As of the United States 2000 Census, the population for ZIP Code Tabulation Area 08721 was 17,148. , was in his home on April 29, 2005, when he heard a ruckus outside. The noise turned out to be coming from 10-year-old Marky Stanfield, a neighbor boy who was fleeing on a bike away from a 75-pound pit bull. Seeking safety, Stanfield turned into Moehler's driveway. It was there that the dog caught him. Running outside, Moehler saw the dog biting biting pertaining to the characteristic behavior of performing a bite. biting louse see species of the insect suborder mallophaga. biting midge insects of the family ceratopogonidae. Stanfield on the legs and feet. "It was a pretty big pit bull," T.J. recently told the Asbury Park Press The Asbury Park Press is the major daily newspaper in Monmouth and Ocean counties of Asbury Park, New Jersey, and has third largest circulation in the state.[2] . "I was pretty scared." True heroism Heroism See also Bravery. Achilles Greek hero without whom Troy could not have been taken. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad] Aeneas Trojan hero; legendary founder of Roman race. [Rom. Lit. , however, is not the absence of fear, but action in the face of fear. And T.J. had good cause to be apprehensive. Not only was the powerfully built dog in full attack mode, but the teenager was wearing shorts and had a cast on his arm. He nevertheless took action and pulled the dog off Marky, using his cast as a weapon to pound the vicious dog. Marky managed to get away from the dog, but he had received multiple bites on his foot that required stitches, and one of his toes had been severed sev·er v. sev·ered, sev·er·ing, sev·ers v.tr. 1. To set or keep apart; divide or separate. 2. To cut off (a part) from a whole. 3. and had to be reattached. The dog then turned on Moehler biting him repeatedly before he could manage to escape the dog by getting atop a parked car. In the course of the rescue, T.J. received several bites and re-broke his arm, which required surgery to insert a screw in his wrist. The dog was later captured by police and destroyed. 
James Dupre (Member): 8/7/2007 9:11 PM
We always hear bout the pit bull attacking people, but the media never tells us WHY the dog attacked the person. I feel sorry for the 2 boys, but what did the first boy do to make the dog chase him like it did? Was it bad owners that didn't know how to train the dog? I have owned a number of pit bulls and they never shown me and other people nothing but love. |
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