The story I heard went two ways, the burglar broke a window or the burglar
tried to come in through a doggie door. When the homeowners come home they
see the dog chocking and scratching at this mouth. When they go over the
open the dogs mouth, they see something stuck in his throat. When they
reach in to pull it out is a thumb.


"John S" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 02:27:10 GMT, "Dr. Dr. Smithers"
wrote:

Tell us about the time the dog bite off the burglars thumb Uncle Harry.
; )




"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 22:47:38 GMT, "Dr. Dr. Smithers"
wrote:

Harry always believes if he gives enough detail in the stories, ( ie
dogs
name, what color his collar is, did the kids like to crawl up on his
back
etc) that his unbelievable stories will become real. Sometimes I
think
he
might actually be the only one who believes them.

I had never heard the story before and it certainly was believable to
me.

Later,

Tom

Smythe is a useless little twerp, which is why he resides in my bozo
bon, along with the other non-contributors.

--
George W. Bush...Armed, Dangerous, and Stupid...
Just What the Terrorists Want & America Deserves


It was using the circular glass cutter that threw the story for me. It is
extremely difficult to cut a pane of glass from the outside using a glass
cutter and break it out without fracturing the pane. Normally when cutting
a
circle, the circle is cut on the outside then pressure is applied from the
inside.

Why not just break the whole pane? If there was an alarm system, they
invariably are set up to protect against glass breakage as well as the
door
or window opening.

For example, I have glass break detectors on my windows but they are
connected through contacts that would open the circuit if the window were
opened. Thus if by cutting a hole in the glass (if possible) without
breaking the glass so someone could reach inside to unlatch the window,
the
alarm would still go off the instant the frame was opened.

Doors are set up similarly. You could smash out a small section of glass
in
the side dressing of the door but the second you opened the door the alarm
would go off.

It just sounded too much like a "Mission Impossible" story of cutting out
a
round circle of glass.

Enjoyable tale though. I got a giggle out of it.