How crazy are COVID’s restrictions leaving us? A Quebec woman tried an alternative solution to the province’s strict curfew that, unfortunately, the police were not buying.
The unidentified woman was caught walking with her husband around 9 pm on Saturday. She claimed that as she was wearing a collar around her husband’s neck, she was taking the dog for a walk, which is cool during curfew.
New York Post:
According to the rules, people can venture out during these hours to walk the dogs if they stay about 800 meters from their homes.
“One of them had the other on a leash and she said she was taking her dog, pointing at her partner, for a walk, as allowed by the exceptions provided by the premier of Quebec under his curfew law,” said a spokeswoman for the Isabelle Gendron police, according to the Telegraph.
The woman and her 40-year-old husband, who was not identified, were fined $ 1,217 for the violation.
Michael Hollan of Fox News notes: “Apparently, men can be trained to use the bathroom and do not require walking in the same way as dogs.”
Another woman in Quebec jokingly published a photo of her dog and offered to let people “borrow” him for night walks. She was surprised to receive serious and sincere responses to her “offer”.
MSN:
“People sent me long messages about themselves, saying they would love to walk the dog,” she said in a telephone interview.
Although she found the messages “too sweet”, Skoblinski was quick to clarify that she was kidding.
“Even if we wanted to, it doesn’t make sense. . . . How would they go home after dropping it? ” she said.
The point is well understood. The woman seems to be one of the few people to think straight as long winter days turn into endless winter nights, and the impossibility of going anywhere weighs on people.
That’s where a pet comes in. Animal shelters have reported a huge increase in the number of people who wish to adopt because they are working from home and find they have more time to care for an animal.
On Tuesday afternoon, at a dog park in Montreal’s Pointe-St-Charles neighborhood, several dog owners said they were relieved that the rules contained an exception for their pets.
Walking your dog at night with no one around is “special,” said Simon Vadeboncoeur, as he watched his dog Norton fight with another dog in the snow. “You walk and see no one, and no sound, it is very calm,” he said. But he said he wouldn’t walk more often just to leave after curfew.
Pavlina Aubin, with her one-year-old Blaki dog, said she didn’t feel so safe without other people around.
The woman fined for walking her husband on a leash said it would be a “pleasure” to receive the fine and “that would not stop them from breaking the rules in the future and would see how many tickets they could get”.
This is one way to deal with crazy pandemic restrictions. Embrace madness.