Bizarre Day at the Dog Park

Romeo is resting after a bizarre afternoon at the dog park.

Nothing out of the ordinary happened with the dogs today. Romeo met a bunch of very nice looking dogs. We met Walter the Great Dane, some very nice retrievers, Buddy the Beagle, and some other dogs that I don't remember the names of. It was pretty straightforward with the dogs. Humans, however, were another story entirely.

So we got to the dog park to meet Beth (and her new beau Charlie) and Kiwi (another Australian shepherd) and there were firetrucks and an ambulance. I thought, well, that's not good, someone must be really bad off. We saw a man lying on the ground with a number of firefighters leaning over him. Romeo and I walked around the scene and then we saw a dog walker that we had interviewed for Romeo and the cats awhile back and I thought, isn't that funny that she's here at the same time as us? Then I got to the off-leash area where Beth and entourage were, and I got the whole crazy story connecting everything together. Apparently, the dog lady had parked her car, and a drunk guy in a white van backed up into her car's side. The situation apparently went south from there because somewhere in the course of it all the drunk guy decided to douse himself with gasoline (with, I believe, the purpose of setting himself on fire). Everything turned out all right by the end of our park outing as the dog lady and the drunk guy have auto insurance, the firefighters did their job and the drunk-gasoline man did not set himself on fire. Strange. In any case, as Romeo and I were leaving, the drunk-gasoline man was in the custody of the police, so thankfully, everything ended well instead of becoming more messed up than it already was.

Starring: _Romeo_
Guest Star: Kiwi