Sadie Slater is being charged with robbery after allegedly driving off with the French bulldog.

Sadie Slater is being charged with robbery after allegedly driving off with the French bulldog.

The suspect in a dognapping was arrested Saturday, two weeks after allegedly driving off with a French bulldog as the owner clung to the car hood.

The Los Angeles Police Department and the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force arrested 21-year-old Sadie Slater in Inglewood, California, on Saturday. She is being charged with robbery, and her bail is set at $70,000, according to the police.

Slater is allegedly responsible for the dognapping on Jan. 18 in Los Angeles, where the group she was with drove off with a French bulldog while the owner clung to the hood of the car. The incident was captured on video by a bystander.

  • A_A@lemmy.world
    511·
    5 months ago

    One more of those titles where I think to myself : there must be some English grammatical pervert mechanism (which I don’t understand) that would hint some meaning to a native speaker.

      • A_A@lemmy.world
        73·
        5 months ago

        What ’s are you finding confusing with it?

        For me the worst part was “dognapping”. Followed by : “frantic owner clinging to car hood”. Because at this point, I am on the wrong track … since I am trying to figure out how the owner of the car was napping (like a dog ?) on his car’s hood (??) or whatever. I couldn’t make sense of that.

        • Deceptichum@kbin.social
          8·
          5 months ago

          Ah, well Dognapping is a crime like kidnapping, which was originally used to describe nap/nabbing a child but was eventually used to describe the act for adults as well.

          So once you think of it as someone stealing a dog, you can infer that they were holding onto the car of the perpetrators presumably in order to not let them escape.

          A lot of the meaning is referential and taken from context clues, which I can see how that would be confusing if you didn’t know the context.

          • A_A@lemmy.world
            43·
            5 months ago

            Ok, well, after reading the title I went on to read the “body” of the post and so I was rapidly back on track and understood that “dognapping” word … and was then able to grasp the rest…

            I like this (newspaper article) title :
            “Foot heads arms body” meaning :
            “Mr Foot is heading a group of people which is called a body that is concerned with a type of weapons which is designated by the word : arms”

            Sometimes it is fun to go beyond my initial confusion … but most often it is just making me lose some time … then I don’t understand and I just give up… and sometime, like today, I make some kind of a rant.

            Thanks for your time, attention and your kindness 👍