Sometimes A Dog Is Just A Dog-Woof!

Bomb dog's alert delays NCAA game

Thu Mar 16, 2006 3:27 PM ET
LOS ANGELES
Reuters

A San Diego arena was evacuated for about two hours on Thursday, delaying a first-round game in the hugely popular national college basketball championship, after a hot dog cart attracted the attention of a bomb-sniffing dog.

Thousands of fans arriving for a game between Marquette University and the University of Alabama were kept outside Cox Arena at San Diego State University until police determined that there was no bomb at the cart.

Authorities cordoned off part of the building to further investigate, college spokesman Jack Beresford said.

"They had a robot go in and disassemble the hot dog cart and look for suspicious substances and at this point we have determined that there is no threat and it's safe to enter the arena," Beresford said.

The dog "hit" on the cart at about 9:30 a.m. PST (12:30 p.m. EST), during a security sweep some two hours before the Marquette-Alabama game, Beresford said.

This was just too good to let pass without comment. We have become so used to having highly trained and specialized dogs doing vital work such as bomb detection, that we sometimes forget that they are really...well just dogs. It appears that this dog wanted a dog of his own. Well who can blame him, afterall who doesn't like a good hot dog every now and then?

Could you put mustard on that, please?

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