All together now: Awwwww.
Last week a 10-month-old poodle-terrier mix was found tied to the railroad tracks. An engineer spotted an old man walking near the railroad tracks and noticed that the man had left something behind. The engineer was able to stop the train in time using his emergency brakes and discovered the pooch still alive. The puppy’s hero remains unidentified.
UP Special Agent Sal Pina responded to the scene and questioned the perpetrator. It seems the family didn’t want the puppy and didn’t know what to do with him. The 78-year-old man was deemed to be senile and confused, seemingly not realizing what he had done, and no charges were pressed. He was released into the custody of his family with a warning that if the elderly man was ever spotted around the railroad tracks again Pina would file elderly abuse charges.
The puppy has been put up for adoption at Riverside County Animal Services.
And more:
- Philadelphia workers will have to keep working sick, as an attempt to override Mayor Michael Nutter's veto of a paid sick leave bill fell short by one vote.
- Reality-type TV continues to have lousy labor practices. The Writers Guild of America, West is alleging that Joan Rivers's production company and the E! Network have violated wage laws in producing the show Fashion Police:
Writers on the E! Network cable show, in which Rivers and other hosts comment on the fashion of celebrities, on Wednesday filed complaints with the state Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, alleging they are owed more than $400,000 in back wages.
The complaint follows a similar complaint writers on the show filed last week against E!, contending the cable network owed them $1.1 million in back wages.
- Hooters allegedly forces out waitress because her brain-tumor scar was ugly. I thought that Undercover Boss episode where the weenie son of the founder of Hooters was appalled to learn that waitresses in the chain weren't always treated very well was supposed to have fixed things like that. (Snark. Undercover Boss somehow expects us not to notice that the fact that everyone the undercover boss encounters is broke and mistreated might possibly point to there being widespread problems in the company as a whole, and expects us to be happy when the three or four individuals depicted get, like, a vacation, with no real changes made in the workplace.)