Even if Sliver is making the story up or exaggerating details (which I doubt), it's not like the situation he's describing doesn't actually happen.
In fact, there's a couple who live on my street who routinely exhibit this kind of dbag behaviour. I live in a densely populated area of the Beltline. The couple in question live in a ground floor townhouse and own a large black lab. I frequently see them walking their dog off-leash on city sidewalks. They also like to sit in their garage drinking beer while their dog runs up and jumps/barks at any passing pedestrians. One time it did this to my wife as she was walking home from the grocery store. She's not scared of dogs (afterall, we own one ourselves), but it caught her off-guard so she jumped and yelled in shock. The dbags, instead of apologizing and tying up their dog, just laughed at her.
Another time, when my dog was a young puppy, I was walking her around the park in our neighbourhood (which is not a designated off-leash dog park). The idiot owner was playing fetch with his dog. As soon as it saw my dog, it started running towards us, completely beyond the control of its owner. I remarked to the owner that this was not an off-leash park and he wasn't permitted to let his dog run freely here. He gave me a rude look as if I was the one at fault and took his dog home.
Some people...
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