U.S. man seeks $1.6 mln in dead dog suit

The man ran over the dog four times. During the back and forth over the dog the dog owner's children kept trying to pull the dog out from under the car, nearly getting themselves smashed in the process.

"U.S. man seeks $1.6 mln in dead dog suit "

Couldn't he just dress in jeans and Tshirt, like everyone else?

When the case came to court, prosecutor Rusty Amos told a very different story, based on the accounts of Mark Greenup's partner, Therese Smetana, and the couple's two teenage daughters. Amos contended in court that Weaver ran over Grizz four times, breaking bones and inflicting other injuries so severe that the dog was euthanized.

Family members came running when they heard the commotion involving Weaver and Grizz. The two teenagers tried to rescue Grizz from under the truck and were almost injured because Weaver wouldn't stop moving, Greenup said.

"The girls were screaming, 'Daddy, Daddy, please, please, help' . . . while they were trying to pull him out from under there," Greenup said. "I'm affected for the rest of my life," said the 52-year-old logger.

Last spring, Clackamas County Circuit Judge Douglas Van Dyk convicted Weaver of first-degree animal abuse -- the intentional or reckless injury of an animal -- and of recklessly endangering another person, and sentenced him to 90 days in jail.

I think the dog's owners deserve something and I think the man should pay a stiff penalty so that he'll think before he ever does something like this again. But 1.26 million is absurd.