{"id":3567,"date":"2008-06-23T09:05:57","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T14:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3567"},"modified":"2008-06-23T09:05:57","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T14:05:57","slug":"dog_eat_dog_world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/dog_eat_dog_world.html","title":{"rendered":"Dog Eat Dog World"},"content":{"rendered":"

The unregulated Five Points-like atmosphere of the city dog run starts to resemble rush hour at the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Two men rumbled at a Brooklyn dog run in a fight over their beloved pooches — ending when one whipped a water bottle into the other’s face, breaking his nose, cops said yesterday. <\/p>\n

The heated canine clash erupted on June 13 at 10 a.m. at the Manhattan Beach dog run. <\/p>\n

Ira Levine’s bull mastiff, Max, tried to take some water that Sergey Uzilov was squirting from a bottle so his boxer, Lola, could drink. <\/p>\n

Levine, 66, of Sheepshead Bay, and Uzilov, 55, of Midwood, had almost come to blows once before when their dogs fought, so the exchange escalated quickly. <\/p>\n

“He has a water bottle, and he’s giving his dog some water and some of the other dogs,” Levine said. <\/p>\n

“My dog is thinking, ‘Where’s my water?’ and [Uzilov] yelled, ‘Get away! Get away!’ ” said Levine, who was also walking his other dog, a French mastiff named Jake. <\/p>\n

“I grabbed a hold of my dog, and I said to him, ‘You’re a real a- -hole. He’s just a dog. He doesn’t know,’ ” Levine said. <\/p>\n

Levine, a retired police officer, said Uzilov shot back, “Get your dogs out of here! You don’t belong in here!” <\/p>\n

“We’re yelling back and forth at each other. I lean over — I have my gun on me at all times — I don’t want to do something and get really pissed off,” Levine said. <\/p>\n

“The bottle of water that he is giving to his dogs, he throws at me from 10 feet away. I couldn’t react fast enough.” <\/p>\n

As the bottle bounced off the ridge of Levine’s left eye, others quickly intervened, and cops were called.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The unregulated Five Points-like atmosphere of the city dog run starts to resemble rush hour at the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel: Two men rumbled at a Brooklyn dog run in a fight over their beloved pooches — ending when one whipped a water bottle into the other’s face, breaking his nose, cops said yesterday. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}