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A father who claimed he merely tried to distract his quarreling children by pretending he was a dog landed in an Oslo jail cell for disturbing the peace with his barking.
The bizarre incident played out in a residential area of Oslo last month when the 57-year-old man and his two young children were walking home from a dinner party at the home of some friends.
The three had decided to walk after failing to find a taxi on the fateful Friday night. The children started quarreling, writes newspaper Aftenposten, and the younger boy started to cry.
That's when their dad decided to distract them with a dog imitation. But his barking woke up local residents and one of them called the police, thinking a dog was on the loose and threatening a child.
Police eventually caught up with the trio a few blocks later, and believed the father was drunk. A police constable also worried the children had been abused.
The father then put up some resistance and it all ended with him placed under arrest and, worse yet, the children placed with a juvenile protection agency. The case came up recently in court, which acquitted the man even though they agreed with evidence that "the defendant had barked in a public place in the middle of the night."
The court doubted, however, that the barking was "so loud that it disturbed the peace." The court also found no grounds for the charges of child abuse.
The defendant, who wasn't named in accordance with press policy in Norway, is now threatening to sue the police department, claiming he was the victim of "a power play." He admits he resisted arrest, "but what father wouldn't in such a situation?"
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=343837
The bizarre incident played out in a residential area of Oslo last month when the 57-year-old man and his two young children were walking home from a dinner party at the home of some friends.
The three had decided to walk after failing to find a taxi on the fateful Friday night. The children started quarreling, writes newspaper Aftenposten, and the younger boy started to cry.
That's when their dad decided to distract them with a dog imitation. But his barking woke up local residents and one of them called the police, thinking a dog was on the loose and threatening a child.
Police eventually caught up with the trio a few blocks later, and believed the father was drunk. A police constable also worried the children had been abused.
The father then put up some resistance and it all ended with him placed under arrest and, worse yet, the children placed with a juvenile protection agency. The case came up recently in court, which acquitted the man even though they agreed with evidence that "the defendant had barked in a public place in the middle of the night."
The court doubted, however, that the barking was "so loud that it disturbed the peace." The court also found no grounds for the charges of child abuse.
The defendant, who wasn't named in accordance with press policy in Norway, is now threatening to sue the police department, claiming he was the victim of "a power play." He admits he resisted arrest, "but what father wouldn't in such a situation?"
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=343837
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