Lady Gaga offers $500k reward for her dogs

[TSwizzle]

I really gotta move out of LA;

Lady Gaga's dog walker was shot and her two French bulldogs, Koji and Gustav, were stolen Wednesday night in Hollywood, a source close to the singer tells CNN. The source said the singer "is offering half-a-million dollars to anyone who has her two dogs, no questions asked. Anyone who has the dogs can use this email, KojiandGustav@gmail.com to retrieve the reward."
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said a man was shot during a robbery before 10 p.m. and was transported to the hospital in stable condition. The male suspect took the two bulldogs from the victim, used a semi-automatic handgun and fled the scene in a white sedan, according to police.

CNN

I hope she is paying the dog walker's medical.

 

[Trausti]

The award is for her dogs, not to find the criminals who almost killed the guy. Stay Woke my friends.

 

[GenesisNemesis]

Do you know what music will be playing when Communism finally arrives in America? Lady Gaga's. That's what you get, conservatives! It will also be playing in the gulags, which you will promptly be sent to.

 

[Politesse]

The award is for her dogs, not to find the criminals who almost killed the guy. Stay Woke my friends.

It's really not a very long article, I want to be surprised that you were unable to read it but I guess I am not. I will summarize:

The LAPD are investigating the crime, because they have detectives.

Lady Gaga is not investigating the crime, as she is not a detective.

But on the reasonable assumption, presumably, that the dogs have already been sold or otherwise transferred, she's offering a reward for their safe return.

 

[Politesse]

That said, expect an absurd* number of french bulldogs to be optimistically delivered to the Gaga estate over the next few days, some of them themselves stolen property.

(Three would be an absurd number, to be clear. They are expensive.)

 

[ideologyhunter]

If they catch the perp, I suggest they play a tape loop of Gagaloo singing Poker Face and Christmas Tree at max volume into his cell. A confession would be forthcoming in 2 hours max. Too cruel?

 

[Trausti]

The award is for her dogs, not to find the criminals who almost killed the guy. Stay Woke my friends.

It's really not a very long article, I want to be surprised that you were unable to read it but I guess I am not. I will summarize:

The LAPD are investigating the crime, because they have detectives.

Lady Gaga is not investigating the crime, as she is not a detective.

But on the reasonable assumption, presumably, that the dogs have already been sold or otherwise transferred, she's offering a reward for their safe return.

.

You’ve never heard of people offering rewards for information to solve crimes? Don’t get out much, do ya?

 

[Keith&Co.]

If they catch the perp, I suggest they play a tape loop of Gagaloo singing Poker Face and Christmas Tree at max volume into his cell. A confession would be forthcoming in 2 hours max. Too cruel?

not at all.
Cruelty would be letting the perp pick his favorite song.
To play.
Endlessly.
One half hour he laughs "Stupid cops, 'forcing' me to listen to (say) Shania Twain, like that's a punishment."
Next hour, "Wish i could turn it down a bit."
Next hour, "GOD, that little hitch in the chorus is annoying! Is that a record scratch?"
NEXT hour, "Why did i ever like this musical genre?"
Then at, I dunno, midnight? Thursday? Time has no meaning, "Hey! Is anyone out there? I said I'll sign the confession!"

Meanwhile, in court, "I don't know what counsel is complaining about your honor, we simply asked Mr. Smith what his favotite song was. And played it gor him."

 

[TSwizzle]

If they catch the perp, I suggest they play a tape loop of Gagaloo singing Poker Face and Christmas Tree at max volume into his cell. A confession would be forthcoming in 2 hours max. Too cruel?

I'd confess before it got to the chorus whether I did it or not. I'd fess up at the merest hint of playing that "Shallow" song.

 

[laughing dog]

The award is for her dogs, not to find the criminals who almost killed the guy. Stay Woke my friends.

Offering a reward for the safe return of the dogs with no questions asked is an attempt to get them back. It gives the criminals an incentive to return the dogs either directly or indirectly through a third party. If you think Lady Gaga thought this up by herself, you are sadly mistaken - it is often done in crimes where someone or something is taken.
I am also under the impression that the police do not necessarily want rewards offered for information since they tend to create more work with no payoff. That may be the case right now.

So, this reward offer is not necessarily an example of "wokeness".

 

[ZiprHead]

The award is for her dogs, not to find the criminals who almost killed the guy. Stay Woke my friends.

Offering a reward for the safe return of the dogs with no questions asked is an attempt to get them back. It gives the criminals an incentive to return the dogs either directly or indirectly through a third party. If you think Lady Gaga thought this up by herself, you are sadly mistaken - it is often done in crimes where someone or something is taken.
I am also under the impression that the police do not necessarily want rewards offered for information since they tend to create more work with no payoff. That may be the case right now.

So, this reward offer is not necessarily an example of "wokeness".

We had a couple early last year that were frantically posting notices of a reward for their two dogs that went missing, no questions asked.

Sadly the dogs were found a few months later in a lake that had frozen over.

 

[Politesse]

I'd say the LAPD already have "extra incentive" to solve this case, given the publicity. But they don't necessarily have extra incentive to hunt down the dogs, especially if they are no longer in the posession of the thief. Do you want them to spend taxpayer money trying to figure out where the dogs ended up, if the shooter has already been apprehended? You might, but a lot of taxpayers would see dog theft investigation as a waste of money, and police agencies certainly don't normally spend a lot of resources on trying to find lost animals. So if you have the money to reward the return of a lost animal, you should probably offer it.

Not to mention the sleuthery that a public announcement like this opens up, money or no. I have a friend who, though not a celebrity, is a reasonably well known activist within certain circles with many social media followers. She lost her dog, a companion animal who has been with her for many years, and was devastated, asking her friends to "keep an eye out for him". The friend network mobilized, and utiliized the full might of the internet to solve the problem. Stevie was found three and a half hours after her initial tweet, at a dog shelter the next county over. What I'm saying is, anyone in Angeleno society right now who happens to acquire two French bulldogs in the next few weeks had better keep the receipt, because their friends will be giving them very suspicious glances.

So I agree with the Lady's reasoning here.

#istandwithgaga

 

[Trausti]

The award is for her dogs, not to find the criminals who almost killed the guy. Stay Woke my friends.

Offering a reward for the safe return of the dogs with no questions asked is an attempt to get them back. It gives the criminals an incentive to return the dogs either directly or indirectly through a third party. If you think Lady Gaga thought this up by herself, you are sadly mistaken - it is often done in crimes where someone or something is taken.
I am also under the impression that the police do not necessarily want rewards offered for information since they tend to create more work with no payoff. That may be the case right now.

So, this reward offer is not necessarily an example of "wokeness".

She could offer an award to find the guy who shot the dog walker. That she values her dogs over human life definitely makes her woke.

 

[TV and credit cards]

BREAKING NEWS
Lady Gaga got her dogs back. MSNBC actually showed photo of dog walker (with dogs) and gave an update on his condition (after update on condition of dogs).

#dogwalkerlivesmatter

 

[thebeave]

The award is for her dogs, not to find the criminals who almost killed the guy. Stay Woke my friends.

Offering a reward for the safe return of the dogs with no questions asked is an attempt to get them back. It gives the criminals an incentive to return the dogs either directly or indirectly through a third party. If you think Lady Gaga thought this up by herself, you are sadly mistaken - it is often done in crimes where someone or something is taken.
I am also under the impression that the police do not necessarily want rewards offered for information since they tend to create more work with no payoff. That may be the case right now.

So, this reward offer is not necessarily an example of "wokeness".

She could offer an award to find the guy who shot the dog walker. That she values her dogs over human life definitely makes her woke.

The whole episode does reek of Wokeness. I wonder if her dog walker was a 19 year old black transgender woman rather than just a plain ol' white male, the shooting would have been the headline. I guess I didn't realize that white men have dropped so far down the progressive stack that they're now below French bulldogs. Hopefully, we're at least above Basset Hounds, but I'm not even sure about that.

 

[TSwizzle]

She could offer an award to find the guy who shot the dog walker. That she values her dogs over human life definitely makes her woke.

Dunno about that, a lot of people value an animal’s life over human life or as being equal. Some people are just over the top about it.

 

[Angra Mainyu]

She could offer an award to find the guy who shot the dog walker. That she values her dogs over human life definitely makes her woke.

Dunno about that, a lot of people value an animal’s life over human life or as being equal. Some people are just over the top about it.

But there is no reason to think on the basis of her actions as described here that she values the lives of her dogs more than the life of the dog walker, only that she values the lives of her dogs more than she values punishment of those who unjustly wounded the dog walker. If the dog walker had been kidnapped and the dogs shot while trying to protect him, would she not have offered a reward for the safe liberation of the man? We don't know that.

Apart from that, imagine how a dog owner feels if they are informed their dog was killed in a car crash vs. how they feel if they read in the newspaper that there was a plane crash with, say, 200 dead in a distant country. Of course, that does not mean that given the choice, they would save their dog over those people. They wouldn't. So, things are more complicated; when it's their choice, there are moral obligations involved, the lives of those humans come to the forefront, etc.; but in general, the above tells me that they value their dog more than the strangers where they are not involved. And that is unsurprising, given that humans are social animals. This case is different, of course, as she knows the dog walker, but I mean in general valuing one's own dogs more is common human behavior.

 

[Politesse]

The dogs have been rescued.

Some details: Apparently the goal of the shooting really was the theft of the dogs, and there were multiple assailants; the video is quite hard to watch. I would be surprised if the dog walker himself is in any way offended by the reward offer, because as he was laying there bleeding in the street, the third dog clutched in his arms protectively, the safety of the stolen dogs seems to have been his first or second priority, you can hear him trying to tell Samaritans that the dogs are missing and need help.

 

[TSwizzle]

Be that as it may, society is sick if a couple of dogs are somehow worth more than a person’s life or $500k.

Thank the lord, I have not slept since they were taken.

 

[Politesse]

Be that as it may, society is sick if a couple of dogs are somehow worth more than a person’s life or $500k.

Thank the lord, I have not slept since they were taken.

As though you give a shit about the fucking dog walker. I don't exactly see you putting up a Gofundme. You didn't even look up whether he was okay. Conservatives are such fucking liars to the core. Do you ever have real emotions about fellow human beings, or is it just this feigned outrage nonsense whenever it suits your ends?