Former “Vox Pupuli” dog fights Georgetown counterfeiters
Posted by: Leigh Finnegan in News, Vox Populi, tags: an excuse to blingee pictures of dogs, Bagel the beagle, local superheroes, Vox Pupuli
Move over, Underdog, there’s a new crime-fighting beagle in town. And no offense, but this one’s a lot cuter.
In our inaugural edition of Vox Pupuli, we posted a picture of an adorable beagle that we found amid a flock of awestruck students on the crowded Georgetown Day Healy Lawn. Well this pooch, whom we later learned via comments and fan tweets to have the fantastic name of Bagel, has found himself newsworthy once again, and this time for more than just his looks. Now, he’s entered the highly dangerous world of taking down purse counterfeiters.
According to Georgetown Dish, the incident started when Bagel’s owner, Genève Bergeron, allowed him to “relieve himself” in a tree box on the sidewalk along the intersection of Prospect Street and Wisconsin Avenue. This angered a purveyor of counterfeit handbags who regularly occupies the corner, and the vendor antagonized the dog owner. As a result of the interaction, Bergeron reported the vendor to the swift and decisive law-enforcement powerhouses that are Councilmember Jack Evans and ANC Commissioner Jeff Jones.
And none of this justice would have been delivered without the help of our very own first Vox Pupuli winner. On behalf of law-abiding Georgetown citizens everywhere, Bagel, we salute you.
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Go Bagel!
Attention nearest pet supply store: Bagel deserves a nice treat!
(seriously, how can you get upset at a dog for going in a tree box? THAT’S WHERE DOGS GO.)
Narc
By the way, the comments on the Georgetown Dish article are suuuuuper douchey. One resident complains that the Wisconsin Ave stores that sell cheap suit and are *obviously* drug front, and these corner purveyors are just *ruining* his or her once nice little neighborhood and he or she thinks about moving *all the time.*
So get it together, Georgetown, or sniveling, vaguely racist residents like this are gonna take their act somewhere else. YOUR LOSS.
In fairness, Greta, the idea that those stores are drug fronts used to be a pretty common theory on this blog, too.
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(but let’s be serious, there’s nothing racist about pointing out pretty obvious fatcs; couldn’t even tell you what the poeple who run those shops look like I just know the rent around here and the customers/lack thereof in said shops)