Neighbours say Harris' dog, Thor, a Rottweiler, died last Friday. But when he tried to get an agency to pick up Thor and dispose of his body, they all said he had to bring the dog in himself and his car is too small. Officials say that at about 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Harris piled wood around Thor's body and then poured on gasoline, but the fire jumped from the dog to the house, and went up the back of the house to the roof.
So, nearly a week after his death, Thor was still lying there, under a big blue tarp in Harris' scorched backyard. A neighbour, Hugo Schiattareggia says he offered Harris his wagon to move Thor, but got no response.
"I'll just be glad when the dog's gone and the smell's gone," he said. "Now I've got death and fire smell in the air." Charles Harris was cited for illegal outside burning. And Thursday afternoon, animal control finally came and took Thor away.
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Is it bad that I find this to be kind of funny?
"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. " -- Charlie Chaplin
Or as Mel Brooks put it: "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."
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