\u200bA woman was out for a jog in her Long Island neighborhood when she says two pit bull dogs ran up and attacked her. When her husband came to help, he too, became a victim.<\/p>\n
“One dog had me by the hand, the other by the elbow,” Larry Ballereau said Thursday, 10 days after the Dix Hills attacks. “It was scary.”<\/p>\n
Ballereau and his wife both endured bruises and cuts. But despite that, the two pit bulls responsible remain just down the block. <\/p>\n
“Those dogs are dangerous and they can’t be on our street,” Dix Hills resident <\/p>\n
Helen Tarnaras and her daughter, Stacie, own the two dogs. She said a visitor left a side gate open and that is how the dogs got loose.<\/p>\n
“We don’t have vicious dogs,” Tarnaras said. “The gate was not latched properly the day before and we weren’t aware of it.”<\/p>\n
“This was horrible what happened to my neighbors. Horrible,” her daughter said.<\/p>\n
\u200bApologies and explanations aren\u2019t enough for neighbors, like Joe Campanelli. They want the dogs removed from the community, at least temporarily.<\/p>\n
\u200b”It\u2019s disturbing that the dogs were unprovoked, that they were loose,” Campanelli said. <\/p>\n
\u200bA Huntington spokesperson says the town has cited the dogs owners for code violations, and a Suffolk judge will hold a hearing Friday to determine if anything further must be done with the dogs.<\/p>\n
Both the town and Suffolk police say they have received no prior complaints about the pit bulls.<\/p>\n
“Why would we want vicious dogs, Stacie and I?\u00a0Why?” said Tarnaras.<\/p>\n
Neighbors, however, claim the dogs also attacked a 12-year-old boy on a bicycle in July. <\/p>\n
\u200b”I don\u2019t care what they do with the dogs.\u00a0They just can’t be on the block and it doesn\u2019t seem like these people are responsible for these dogs,” Ballereau said. <\/p>\n
Both the attack victims and the dogs owners will be in that Suffolk court Friday as a judge decides what, if anything, must be done with the two dogs.<\/p>\n
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