Outside a chiropractic office on Thursday afternoon, a normally peaceful autumn day was shattered when a dog took over the driver’s seat of a vehicle.  The protest began when the owner of the vehicle opened the front, driver’s side door in an attempt to enter.  According to witnesses, a dog, believed to be owned by the driver, jumped onto the front seat and refused to move.

“It took me completely by surprise,” one of the witnesses described.  “I mean, how often do you see such blatant disregard for authority?”

“It was chaos,” another witness claimed.  “First the seat was empty, ready to be sat on by the car’s owner, and then, out of nowhere, the dog bounded onto the seat making it impossible to be occupied.” 

When asked if the dog had made this move as part of the “shotgun” rule, sources claim to not only have never heard ‘shotgun’ but that it sat in the wrong seat for it as well.  “Even if the dog thought it could get away with sitting in the front of the car, the rules of shotgun clearly state that the seat sought after is the passenger seat, not the driver’s.”

“It was a basset hound!  The owner never stood a chance against it!” an excited passerby claimed.  “I heard it whine myself.  All the owner could do was stand in the rain, asking it to move.”

The owner could not be reached for questioning, but people with knowledge of the situation assert that a settlement between dog and owner was eventually met.  Speculation has run rampant over the terms of the settlement with some estimating the cost of pettings to be in the double digits.  Some of the most outlandish claims point to dog biscuits as a possible payoff.