Utah Now Has A Designated “Porn Dog”

WJ Cope10 years ago

The Weber County Sheriff’s Office now has a new weapon against the so-called “public health crisis” of pornography: a black Labrador named URL. The dog could be called upon if there was a search warrant in regard to the possession of illegal pornography.

From Fox 13:

The 16-month-old black Labrador named URL, is the state’s first electronic detection K-9. The dog comes from the same trainer as the K-9 who played a role in the arrest of former Subway pitchman, Jared Fogle, according to a press release from the sheriff’s office.

URL is specifically trained to sniff out electronic storage devices such as thumb drives, cellphones, SIM cards, SD cards, external hard drives, tablets and iPads.

“Whether it’s child porn, or terrorism intelligence, narcotics or financial crimes information, URL has the ability to find evidence hidden on basically any electronic memory device,” the release states.

Weber County is not far away from where I live, so hopefully I’ll get to meet the hound one day. Preferably when he’s off the clock. Since this story hits so close to home for me, I’m going to cut the bullshit and go straight into my hot takes.

-What a lineage, being trained by the guy who is responsible for the dog that busted Jared Fogle. You’ve got to think that URL (Earl?) is feeling the pressure, like one of those Chinese kids that gets shipped off to an Olympic training school at age 3.

-While looking for a photo of the dog, I made a grave mistake and typed “Porn Dog” into Google. I would advise you not to do that.

-Like I mentioned earlier, pornography is considered a public health crisis in the state of Utah as of this year. If it really is, then one dog just isn’t going to cut it. We need to be breeding these things left and right if we’re going to confiscate all the porn out there.

-While the dog can sniff out electronic storage devices that may contain illegal porn, it doesn’t seem to be able to find illicit DVD’s and magazines. These criminals will have to go old school to remain undetected.

-I would have named the dog “Brazzer” or “Fogle,” but that’s just me..

[via Fox 13]

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