Sometimes, man’s best friend can be in the right place at the right time to be a thug’s worst enemy. From the NY Post today: ‘Mug’ Granny’s Dogged Savior:

Cops said the drama unfolded just before 5 p.m., when [84 year-old Jan] Garten said she was walking along Central Park West near 89th Street when she suddenly felt like someone was following her.

“I noticed an African-American kid, about 14, walking behind me, holding a big black workman’s boot over my head,” Garten said. “His skinny white friend was walking next to me with a red pen knife in his hands.”

The two thugs yelled out, “Give us your money.”

But the cool Garten said she wasn’t having any of it.

“I didn’t even turn my head,” she said. “I said in a pleasant tone of voice, “Fellas, you gotta be kidding.”

The pair kept walking next to her when all of a sudden [dog-owner Stan] Schnier and the hero pooch appeared.

“They were pushing her. They were coming up on either side,” Schnier said. “The dog was pulling me and was barking like crazy.”

Gee and Schnier were able to chase Alexander G. up the street, pinning him against a car as his friend hot-footed it away.

The one fly in the ointment of this story — for me at least — comes at the end:

“Everybody was saying what a great dog, go buy her a pork chop,” Schnier said.

“I said, ‘Why take it out on the pig?’ So I gave her some vegetarian sausages.”

Oh boy. No wonder the pooch was eager to get a mouthful of mugger.

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