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When your nickname is “Big Dog,” odds are, you’re probably doing a lot of dog-related things to live up to the gimmick. You may want to keep that under control though, unlike this man, accused of being nicknamed “Big Dog” and embracing the name a bit too much, opting to bark at nearby police dogs until he was arrested. Fortunately, that was the only territorial dog thing he did.

A man nicknamed “Big Dog” was sentenced to jail, but then immediately paroled, after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct for barking at a police dog.

Monessen police said [Norris] Daniels was taunting a police dog Ibo in the back of a police cruiser and kept barking at the animal after an officer told him to stop.

Daniels said he was barking at some nearby pit bulls, not the police dog, and “was at the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Officer Brian Vitale told Channel 4 Action News that, while it may sound silly to charge someone with barking at a dog, it’s a serious matter because the animals become unpredictable when they are angered.

“He’s learned a lot of behaviors, and he’s trained in different languages and things like that, and when you are barking at the dog, he’s going to act out,” Vitale said. “And if the door would have opened while he was barking at that dog, that dog would have attacked him.”

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