Gov. Brown signs bill allowing people to break into cars to rescue animals from heat

[Text Drivers are Killers]

This is great news for thieves. You can now break into a car and steal stuff knowing that if caught you just claim there was a dog roasting inside. Where is the dog? He ran off.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/esse...htmlstory.html

Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday signed into law a measure allowing Californians to break into vehicles to rescue animals if they appear to be in danger from excessive heat

The bill by Assemblyman Marc Steinorth (R-Rancho Cucamonga), Miguel Santiago (D-Los Angeles) and others was introduced after a series of incidents in which dogs died after being left in closed cars on hot days.

"We're very excited about the lives this new law will save," Steinorth said in a statement Saturday on Facebook. "Thank you to everyone who helped us raise awareness of this serious issue and showed their support."

Under AB 797, a citizen must first call law enforcement to report a situation in which he or she believes an animal to be in peril.

But if the animal is in imminent danger, the car is locked, and law enforcement is not arriving quickly enough to save the animal’s life, the bill provides immunity from civil and criminal liability to a person causing vehicle damage for the purpose of rescuing the animal.

[Text Drivers are Killers]

Stupid liberals always think if there is a problem then we have to pass a law.

[Mr.Badguy]

This just in: TDAK wants puppies to die roasting in cars.

[Billy Batts]

This is great news for thieves. You can now break into a car and steal stuff knowing that if caught you just claim there was a dog roasting inside. Where is the dog? He ran off.

Great news for Dog's who get locked in cars in 90 degree weather.

[Mr.Badguy]

It got so hot this summer, I started breaking the windows of cars that's didn't even have dogs in them! (stolen from a Facebook post)

[domer76]

This just in: TDAK wants puppies to die roasting in cars.

Right can put his ill cat in there instead of taking it to the vet to be put down.

[Legion Troll]

TDAK thinks thieves have to break a window to get into a car?

[Legion Troll]

And that's only if you don't have the tech tools.

[SmarterthanYou]

I guess most people need to have a law written to tell them whats right and whats wrong. pathetic moral compass issues.

[Legion Troll]

I guess most people need to have a law written to tell them whats right and whats wrong. pathetic moral compass issues.

Think so? Or maybe they would do it anyway, and are grateful that they won't be criminally prosecuted for an act of humane kindness.

[Phantasmal]

This is great news for thieves. You can now break into a car and steal stuff knowing that if caught you just claim there was a dog roasting inside. Where is the dog? He ran off.

Yeah, that won't fly when the owner claims there was no dog!

[Phantasmal]

Stupid liberals always think if there is a problem then we have to pass a law.

So liberals are the only compassionate dog owners, THINK?

[SmarterthanYou]

Think so? Or maybe they would do it anyway, and are grateful that they won't be criminally prosecuted for an act of humane kindness.

I was referring to the idiot jurists who would apathetically listen to a black robed tyrant tell them that they have to decide by the law and not use their own personal feelings on the issue.

[CFM]

This just in: TDAK wants puppies to die roasting in cars.

Actually, I would prefer it be the idiot that left the dog in the car.

[Legion Troll]

I was referring to the idiot jurists who would apathetically listen to a black robed tyrant tell them that they have to decide by the law and not use their own personal feelings on the issue.

Can you cite these cases?