Supporters Stand by Dog
Get her, Dog! Before she goes and drinks out of your water fountain again...
Fans and neighbors of the Dog defended the bounty hunter yesterday and expressed hope his A&E reality show is not in jeopardy from his use of racial slurs in a taped conversation.
"What he does in private shouldn't affect the show whatsoever," said Amy Lusk, 23, of Aubrey, Texas, who hoped to catch a glimpse of Duane "Dog" Chapman and his son Leland at his Honolulu Da Kine Bail Bonds office.
"Hopefully, you're wrong," she told a reporter who informed her the show might be suspended. "There'll be a lot of upset people."
A&E suspended the show yesterday after the conversation was posted on the National Enquirer Web site in which Chapman uttered the N-word six times in a talk with his son Tucker about dumping his black girlfriend.
Tori Brown, 24, and her fiance specifically traveled with Lusk to Hawaii to search for the Dog and had made three trips to the Queen Emma Street office, disappointed at the sign that said, "Closed for Halloween."
"We came to give him a hug," she said. "Hasn't he gone through enough stuff?"
She added, "With all that he's had to deal with in Mexico when he's taking a rapist off the street, give him a break."
She referred to his being wanted by the Mexican government after he took custody of Max Factor heir Andrew Luster, who was wanted for rape and kidnapping. Bounty hunting is illegal in Mexico, unless supervised by Mexican authorities. That case has been dismissed.
Lusk criticized the media's exploitation of celebrities' voice mails and said, "Everybody says things they don't mean."
She added, "That's the way our society is. We build somebody up, then we knock 'em down."
Business neighbors of Chapman's bail bond business were shocked at the news.
"Oh, my goodness," said Lani Nguyen, owner of Skippy's Vietnamese Food next door to the bail bonds office. "He very, very nice person."
She said everyone has good and bad in them, "sometime very good with a little bit bad."
"He talk nice with everyone," she said, pointing to photos of herself taken with Chapman. "All family very nice."
Chong Kum Park, who owns the Queen Emma Mart next to the Dog's memorabilia store, agreed. She said Chapman often buys candy for the neighborhood children who hang around the store.
Park said when Chapman's son worked at the office, he had come and introduced his girlfriend, who is black. "Son doesn't work there no more," she said.
"Went to wedding," she said, pointing to the photo of Duane and Beth Chapman's wedding photo on a shelf. "We thought really nice family."
"I like the Dog," Park said.
Brown said if she could send Chapman a message, she would say, "We love you and support you, and that's that."
Here is a transcipt of Dog's conversation with Tucker.
Chapman: Don't care if she's a Mexican, a whore, whatever. It's not 'cause she's black. It's because we use the word "n_____" sometimes here. I'm not going to take a chance ever in life by losing everything I've worked for for 30 years for some f____ n_____ heard us say "n_____" and turned us in to the Enquirer magazine -- our career is over. I'm not taking that chance at all, never in life, never. Never. ... If Lyssa was dating a n_____, we would all say f___ you. And you know that. If Lyssa brought a black guy home ... It's not that they're black. It's none of that. It's that we use the word "n____." We don't mean "you f___ scum n_____ without a soul." We don't mean that s___, but America would think we're meaning that. And we're not taking a chance and losing everything we've got over a racial slur. Because our son goes with a girl like that, I can't do that, Tucker, you can't expect Garry, Bonnie, Cecily, all them young kids ... 'cause I'm in love for seven months, I ... f___ that. ... So I'll help you get another job, but you cannot work here unless you break up with her and she's out of your life. I can't handle that s___. I've got 'em in the parking lot trying to record us. I've got that girl saying she's going to wear a recorder. ...
Tucker: I ... I ... don't even know what to say.
This is my personal favorite part: "It's that we use the word "n____." We don't mean "you f___ scum n_____ without a soul." We don't mean that s___,".
Because we all know that when a family of white trash rednecks with mullets and huge overbites say nigga, it's always for a credible reason.
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