” Our town cops and Sheriff came to the beach this week to escort a local and his 15-year-old beagle off the beach. (There were 5 other folks on the beach at the time.)I sure wish this kind of attention was paid to kids driving golf carts, littering tourists and speeding vehicles. It appears there are a few big-mouthed cry babies in town that don’t care for animals. First it was the cats, now the dogs….
….sad how the town is starting to change.
... it really is… I can only imagine how the folks that have been here forever must feel. Tourists definitely rule-huge changes in my 7 years.
….some that we know, who have been there 25 yrs + say it has become a town that they would never would have settled in. Transient tourist towns typically lose their charm and the peacefulness that draw most in the first place. I have lived in two different areas that this happened too…and I see it happening now. That is unfortunate. We loved CC and staying in town a few years ago, is what drew us in and encouraged us to buy a home and start a business on the Shore. Hope the locals can keep it a wonderful , peaceful and friendly place. “– This conversation took place on the Mirror Facebook page.
Is this really happening? Of course, some rat probably called this in and the Five-O has to do its job–but leave the old beagle alone.
Yes, dogs are banned from the beach during the day, but why is that again? It’s stupid. Enforcing it is even more stupid…wait until we get a leash law.
Does anyone really care if they see a dog on the beach? Really? The people that seem to be the most worried about it don’t go to the beach and don’t even live in the historic district.
Note: Last Sunday, I watched a couple drag a cooler and beach chairs right over the dunes, flattening the grass as they plowed through. The guy never noticed the beach fence and tripped over it. I was sitting in the water and thinking, “For real dude? Are you really doing this now?” This seems a lot more inconvenient than using the pass-through areas.
Is this really the kind of town we want? Is it?
Sorin Varzaru says
I actually always wondered, why are dogs not allowed on the beach during the day?
Stuart Bell says
Because you allow others to tell you what you can and can not do.
Paul Plante says
Is the poor dog going to get a public defender to represent it, or is it going to have have to hire some white-shoe lawyer out of its own pocket?
Maybe a crowd-funding effort is required here to come up with a goodly sum of money to keep this poor dog from having to spend the remainder of its dog’s life behind bars in the Cape Charles slammer.
Publius Americanus says
A Rottweiller with a JD was going to offer, but realized it would be against professional courtesy……..
Paul Plante says
Cape Charles is going to the dogs, and that is a fact!
And Rottweilers with JDs usually go into corporate law, anyway, so the beagle is probably better off that in this case, the Rottweiller took a pass.
Better no lawyer at all as opposed to a lawyer that simply does not know what the **** it is they are doing is my thought on that, anyway.
But I would like the beagle to know that prayers for its freedom are pouring in from not only all over America, but from all over the world as well, because no all the people in the world are hateful enough to want to throw a fifteen-yea old beagle in the Cape Charles Mirror for the crime of being a dog, and hopefully, while it waits for its day in court, the beagle can take some consolation from the fact that it has not been forgotten!
Paul Plante says
Of course, if it should be found that this dog is a known scofflaw and repeat offender, then perhaps a stiff sentence and some hard time in jail would be the appropriate remedy, lest all the law-abiding dogs out there, and yes, there are many of them, get the wrong message that yes, like in politics on the human level, crime in fact does pay, and pay handsomely, and then were will we will all be?
It will be dog anarchy, is what, with dogs taking from this the lesson that yes, on the beach at Cape Charles, anyway, anything goes.
Kearn C SCHEMM says
The situation with this 15 year old beagle makes clear why any new leash law will be used by petty persons to cause trouble for others who are not in any way a danger to society. While the dog in question was “breaking the law” the police could have and should have issued a warning. The owner should also be given the name or names of the complaining persons, I will bet dollars to donuts that the person who complained is one of two disgruntled persons who are behind the whole dog leash push and are the type of people who should simply be ignored by the police. If the new leash ordinance becomes law, these people will have a field day calling the police and the Cape Charles PD will become in effect the Office of the Dog Catcher.
Andrea says
No doubt, Kearn! Agree with you completely!
Lassie says
What does age have to do with it anyway. Clearly a case of prejudice against the elderly!!!
Paul Plante says
As an older person here in America, Lassie, I am right there with you!
And this means no disrespect to the beagle, but let’s face facts here – a fifteen-year old beagle is not what anybody would call a “high-speed” dog by any account.
The poor thing is probably lucky to make a half-a-mile-an-hour at top speed, if even that.
So why the need for the leash?
So it can be pulled along faster than it can walk?
My goodness, give the poor creature a break!
Sorin Varzaru says
Is this the classic case of a solution in search of a problem? I.e. no dogs on the beach, leash laws, etc.
Keith Underhill says
I have lived here all my life. Cape Charles is taking their success and turing the town into just another place full of intolerant snobs. With understanding CC can keep the “LOVE” and keep the peace. Money will ruin everything……
Kearn C SCHEMM says
The new proposed language of the ordinance is totally unclear and will leave dog walkers in the dark about their duties. Show up at the August 1st meeting, sign up to speak and voice your opposition to this badly drafted ordinance.
Duke Johnson says
The article is false. No dog was “arrested”. At first it’s everyone has an opinion but now it’s reporting false information.
Note: Wow Duke, thanks for the correction…really?
Duke Johnson says
Yes really. Police arrest 15 year old beagle at he beach you said. Please give us sources or proof. You have none because it’s false. So either you didn’t check your sources or you are making up stories for that shock factor.
Please prove me wrong.
Note: Oy Vey! First of all, you can’t arrest a dog, so the absurdity of the title. If you actually read the article, you would see that it was from a conversation on the Mirror social media site, “- This conversation took place on the Mirror Facebook page.” I know the folks, and I believe them. Either way, it’s silly, not really serious, and not important. You people must have a lot of time on your hands if you’re getting worked up over something like this. Prove me wrong.
Paul Plante says
The dog is free?
Whew!
That news is going to make literally millions of people who have been sitting on the edges of their seats here following this heart-rending story while wondering if the dog was going to get justice here feel a lot better about themselves now that the charges have been dropped.
Paul Plante says
Yo, Duke, dude, what it is, s’up?
Long time no see, dude!
And what’s with this attitude of hostility you seem to be openly and pointedly displaying and aiming at your fellow American citizens for having opinions in the Cape Charles Mirror?
If people in America couldn’t freely express opinions in the Cape Charles Mirror, as you seem to be strongly suggesting, then it WOULD NOT be America, anymore, plain and simple – it would instead be just another third-world ****hole like Venezuela, or Kenya, and what for you would want that fate for America frankly eludes me.
Surely, Duke, you cannot have forgotten the renowned American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes saying, “If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought – not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought we hate.”
Is that what you are looking to deprive us of here in America, Duke – the principle of free thought, which is expressed through the opinions in the Cape Charles Mirror you seem eager to suppress?
And wouldn’t that reduce us as a people, Duke?
Think it over, dude, if your rules were put in place, the Declaration of Independence would not have been able to express the opinion that the king of England was a petty tyrant, lest the king be made to feel bad about himself, instead of all warm and squishy inside, and in The Crisis by Thomas Paine back on December 23, 1776, he wouldn’t have been able to describe the Tories in America thusly, for the same reason:
I shall conclude this paper with some miscellaneous remarks on the state of our affairs; and shall begin with asking the following question, Why is it that the enemy have left the New England provinces, and made these middle ones the seat of war?
The answer is easy: New England is not infested with Tories, and we are.
I have been tender in raising the cry against these men, and used numberless arguments to show them their danger, but it will not do to sacrifice a world either to their folly or their baseness.
The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.
And what is a Tory?
Good God!
What is he?
I should not be afraid to go with a hundred Whigs against a thousand Tories, were they to attempt to get into arms.
Every Tory is a coward; for servile, slavish, self-interested fear is the foundation of Toryism; and a man under such influence, though he may be cruel, never can be brave.
end quotes
Would we be better off in America today, Duke, do you think, if Thomas Paine had not been allowed to express that opinion, so we today would have its words to consider in these, our own times?
Are there any Tories in America today, do you think?
Or shouldn’t I be expressing such an opinion in polite company?
Duke Johnson says
You can express your opinion. My issue is with the incorrect/ false information being distributed. Raising awareness is great and this site does that. However based off of the comments here and in Facebook you can see that people believe what is written here. It’s as reliable as the rags the supermarket.
Like I said, props for bringing up conversations. For instance the leash law, it is extremely important everyone gets to have their say. So thank you.
However, people will believe anything. I feel that as a place where for better or worse locals go to get their news you have a responsibility. A responsibility for reporting it accurately.
Publius Americanus says
No Duke, Only SOME people believe everything………we call them mopes. Or Liberals.
The rest of us understand sarcasm, satire, humor and rhetoric.
🤔 says
I would love to know the office name and the name of the victim.. if this is really prove it
Bob Tytus says
Well he has really messed the rest of his life , with a criminal conviction he can’t run for public office and Cape Charles could certainly use some guidance. The Northerners and I assume some Southerns that have taken over Cape Charles want to lead the town to same screwed up places they left.