Seven-year-old schnauzer Dou Dou was enjoying his first unleashed runaround in the park on Sunday afternoon when tragedy struck in the shape of four small wheels and a plastic chassis.
Distracted by one remote control car, the poor pooch, whose name literally translates to “peas,” didn’t see the second one coming right at him.
Next thing he knew, he was airborne, flying head over tail.
His owner Irene, 44, told the Apple Daily said she had never before free-leashed her dog, who ended up with a broken leg.
But she decided to do so this time to let Dou Dou play with the other dogs at Nam Sang Wai in Yuen Long.
At one point, she said she noticed Dou Dou playing with two other dogs, then suddenly he came running towards her.
“At first I thought he was tired, and then he bit me when I carried him. I thought he sprained something and that it was nothing serious so I put him inside his bag. But then I felt his paw and noticed something wasn’t right.”
At this point, a man came up to Irene and showed her a video on his mobile phone. He was filming his children at the time but had caught the exact moment when Dou Dou was hit by a remote control car and is sent flying through the air.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvPpIr2Lsec
Irene then went to find the owner of the remote control car that hit her dog.
She said: “I thought the owner of the car would say ‘let’s see if your dog is hurt’ or offer to help pay for some of the medical expenses. But then he said ‘so what do you want?’. But he was driving his remote-controlled car really fast at the time.”
The newspaper also reported another witness, known only as Nick, had to keep his 5-year-old son away from the grass because the cars were driving too fast.
Police confirmed that at about 3:40pm that day, a 44-year-old woman surnamed Lam called the police to report that a 33-year-old male and a 29-year-old female using remote-controlled cars had broken a dog’s leg. However, no one was arrested.
