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TranscriptionA Twitter post by Kylie Cunningham @kyyylieeeee that reads “today at the airport one of the drug dogs set off a false alarm and officers rushed over to find out the dog had alerted them for a piece of pizza. the handler just patted his head and goes "it's okay buddy i know pizza always confuses you" and gave him his treat anyways.”

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[–] dumbass@aussie.zone 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Ohh but when I confuse drugs for pizza get a lifetime ban from pizza Hut

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

This whole thing about "drug dogs" is junk science in service of security theater. Laughably phony.

The sad part is the animal abuse - both dogs and humans.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

yep they're usually going by the owner's hints which means it's technically 4A violation. they're just an excuse to circumvent probable cause by creating it ad hoc.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago

Traffic stop K-9 units are terrible by every metric. Passive sniffers at an airport or similar aren't the same. (Though drugs are the least useful thing they can watch for)

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I'm not sure how this is 🥺🥺🥺, the trainer is literally reinforcing negative behaviour

[–] IndridCold@lemmy.ca 8 points 17 hours ago

False hits are considered positive behaviour. Drug dogs are just for show to violate citizens rights. A loophole.

Drug dogs are probably less accurate than the pseudo science "lie detector" test.

Police dogs are even worse. Their entire purpose is to find and severely injure a suspect and turn them into a felon. Here's how it works. Cops release dog on suspect. Dog finds suspect and begins to severely attack suspect. Suspect tries to fight the dog ripping a hole in its arm or leg. Suspect is now guilty of assaulting an officer. At this point is doesn't matter if the suspect was guilty of anything else. They are now a felon.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago

It's 🥺🥺🥺 because it's a fake story made by a child.

[–] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

He is a drug AND pizza dog. His trainer probably gets an awful lot of free pizza.

[–] axexrx@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Sausage is a common first step in training dogs from what ive read. Train the pup on find the chunks of sausage the handler has hidden and he gets them, then switch to treats, then swap out the sausage for drugs/ bombs.

I wonder if the dog signals whenever he smells pizza with sausage on it, remembering the first stage of the training.

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[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

And then I started vomiting it was so cute. The dog collapsed from joy and also started vomiting, as did the trainer. Soon the whole terminal was vomiting and crying tears of happiness. And then we all fucked as doves flew overhead shitting out rainbows and butterflies.

[–] webp@mander.xyz 1 points 9 hours ago

And then the alien space bats arrived.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

And then we all fucked

Wait... were the dogs involved? There could be legal complications.

[–] wabasso@lemmy.ca 5 points 16 hours ago

Laughing at the idea of you walking in on a terminal-wide orgy, seeing dogs, and thinking “Hmm, not sure this is legal with them here.”

[–] brownsugga@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Making dogs be cops is so absolutely fucked. I get that there are working breeds but last time I checked there weren’t any breeds predisposed to fascism

Edit: other than Dobermans obviously

[–] Ashiette@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Let's just not forget that those dogs are also trained to smell exposives which can be a cool thing not to have aboard an airplane.

Then those dogs, in airport and in police settings, are correctly cared for. And even if acab, these dogs aren't tools of fascism.

[–] brownsugga@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I love dogs, but everything the police use to do their jobs are tools of fascism. Airport security has never actually caught a bomb or a terrorist, it's literally just theatre.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Well, let's back up a little.

There are very real threats to our security and safety in flying, and there is a good argument that security helps discourage all but the most dedicated attempts to enact terrorism or hijacking.

But what gets left out of this argument is why the USA is the target of terrorist attacks and requires so much more security than many other developed nations.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Airport security has never actually caught a bomb or a terrorist

Citation needed.

Alternatively I'd accept "rarely" instead of "never".

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

Citation needed.

Apparently it "happened" once in 1972 with an obvious briefcase on a plane with a bomb threat.

I'll accept any other tale. Even just one.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

2006 transatlantic aircraft plot - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_transatlantic_aircraft_plot

2017 Australian aeroplane bomb plot - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Australian_aeroplane_bomb_plot

Man who planned to shoot up Atlanta's airport is arrested in a terminal following a tip, police say | abc7.com https://abc7.com/post/man-planned-shoot-atlantas-airport-is-arrested-terminal-following-tip-police-say/18046411/

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Drug and bomb sniffing dogs are separate though. A dog can't be both.

[–] Ashiette@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

I didn't know, thanks for the information.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

The justification is that they're supposed to smell explosives (and they fail at that with an incredible rate anyways), but they're used to harass non-white people. Security theater doesn't actually help with security.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 4 points 18 hours ago

Probable cause generator, maybe. Pseudoscience, no — dogs can be trained to have low false positive rates. It just so happens they're trained to generate probable cause, more than they are detecting drugs/bombs.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 21 hours ago

Cadaver dogs are pretty cool too... But those don't need to be cops.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago

Well-trained dogs can provide useful services to a community in thwarting or arresting violent criminals, sniffing out dangerous substances or finding people. They can be a valuable part of both security and rescue forces.

But they're only as good as their handlers and trainers. When the security force themselves are violent criminals, armed to the teeth with dangerous substances and making people disappear...

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This dog 100% has his handler trained

[–] running_ragged@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even better: the pizza dude and the handler are both on the take, and its how they get the drugs through security.

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[–] Today@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (15 children)

My son got stopped at an immigration checkpoint. He was freaking out because he had a weed vape in his pocket. After a car search they realized that the k9 alerted on his dog who was in heat.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

FYI, if you are in the US, "legal weed" is a misnomer, it's still a controlled substance on the federal level and technically illegal to possess. If you aren't a Citizen, please don't let the authorities find out about any weed you use, they'll literally try to deport you for a victimless "crime". If you are naturalized, do not admit to have used weed before your oath ceremony. I disagree with the law as it is, but just letting y'all know.

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[–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago

little did the handler know, the pizza was filled with drugs

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The dog just figured out how addictive pizza can be and assumes it is a drug.

But also... What if they hid drugs in the pizza crust? 🤔

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 1 points 22 hours ago

I'm guessing this pupper has encountered a few shroom pizzas in its travels.

[–] fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Pizza is just that good.

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