This video captured the scene in Grand Bend, Ontario, last weekend, as a Good Samaritan stepped up to save a small dog from a sweltering hot car. The community had gathered for festivities being held in honor of a new band shell being unveiled, when someone noticed the dog, which had been left in the car as temperatures reached upwards of 30 degrees Celsius (approximately 86 degrees Fahrenheit). Announcers at the event attempted to locate the owners to no avail, and that’s when Will Costa stepped in.
By the time Costa arrived at the parking lot, a small crowd was surrounding the car, and that’s when he decided to take matters into his own hands. And he did so with a very large rock, smashing the car’s window and freeing the tiny white dog. Costa later told reporters why he absolutely made the right call: “The dog was completely soaked. The owners didn’t show up for another 50 minutes. I believe in another 50 minutes it could have been fatal.”
The best part is at the end of the video, when a woman tells the freed dog, now overcome with joy, “I know! Your owner is a ******** !” When the owners, a couple said to be in their 20s, finally did come back to their car (at which point their dog may have been dead), they seemed confused and embarrassed by the commotion. By then, police had arrived on the scene and they were asked to accompany an officer back to the police station, where hopefully they were charged with animal cruelty.
It’s just unfathomable in this day and age that people still think it’s okay to leave an animal (or child) in a hot car, but sadly it seems like every summer we hear more and more stories just like this.
(Via CTV News)