I've "translated" an article in swedish if it's okay: http://sydsvenskan.se/malmo/article223835.ece Hope it will make any sence...8) [quote]Cops shooting dog after manattack. The police shot and killed a fightingdog* that bit his 20-year old owner bloody during sundayafternoon. The owner, a man in his twenties, was brought to hospital with severe injuries to his right underarm and both feets. LINDÄNGEN (that's the place in Malmö/Sweden where it took place). The time was about 14:30 when both police and ambulance got the call to Lindängsvägen in Malmö. By that time civilians had got the dog to stop biting and rescued the owner. Roland Strandh were one of them that helped the owner get rescued from the dog. - I came driving from a friends place and I noticed that there where a lot of cars and people that stood waving, so I stoped. Then I saw a dog that that was tearing into a man, he tells Sydsvenskan. -Atleast three persons where charing the dog, and then they starting to throw bottles on it. Another man that had stoped took the bikeholder from his car and started bashing the dog over the back, but it still kept on biting. - I kicked the dog, that eventually let go of the owner. The owner was pretty badly bit by then, Roland Strandh tells us. He then bar the way of the dog with a tarpaulin. By that time the dog had managed to bite his owner severly. The bites where deep, and the man was bleeding heavily. -The dog didn't wanna stop biting, and tried time after time to attack the owner, says Roland Strandh, and wondered why so few that had stopped actually tried to help the owner. The cops from Skånepolisens insatsstyrka ((like S.W.A.T.) piketen (i.e patrol vagon) tried to imobilise the dog by pepperspraying it. That did'nt help. Then the police decided to shot the dog so it could'nt attack them or the civilians in the area. - To shoot a dog is the last way out, says Lotta Peter Narbe, deputy boss for piketen. One of the cops shot a total of 15 shot to the dog that tried to escape. - All the shots did'nt find its target, the dog was moving when it was shot at, says Peter Narbe. The corpse was then taken to Sysavs waste-station to be burnt. - The owner did'nt do any demands on it, says Peter Narbe. - He said that he purchased the dog from a stranger 3 days ago. Seems very serius. During the time the cops tried to uthinise the dog several civilians helped the wounded man dress(?) the man while waiting for the ambulance personel to take over. Roland Strand changed a few words whit the victim before he was taken to the Universityhospital in Malmö by ambulance. - A wished him good luck and told him that his dog was dead, he says. The man now receives treatment by orthopedics and plasticsurgeons on the Universityhospital MAS. He recieved deep biting wounds mainly in his feets and his right arm in the attack. - His condition is stable. But it's estimated that he will need surgery throuout the week, atleast, says the hospitals head of information Hans-Göran Boklund.[/quote] * any dog that resembles a pitbull is called a fightingdog in Sweden.