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Oddball news stories are generally labelled under the "man bites dog" category. The inference being that a dog biting a man is regular news but when it happens the other way around, it's truly strange.

Well, it happened: Man bites Dog

LONDON (Reuters) - A blind man has been arrested in Scotland after witnesses reported he sank his teeth into his guide dog and kicked her across the road, police said on Thursday.

The incident allegedly occurred outside a busy shopping center in the Scottish capital Edinburgh.

David Todd, 34, is expected to face charges of cruelty to animals and breach of the peace.

A police spokeswoman said the 8-year old dog had been handed over to a charity dedicated to guide dogs. "When we took her into custody, she had no apparent injuries," she added.

Todd is due to appear in court at a later date.

On a wholly different topic, I subscribe to an email-based motorcyling bulletin board and one fellow there recently announced that he had switched to a different set of high-performance tires. When asked what he thought of them, his response was:

They're more confidence inspiring than an asthmatic porn queen"


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