Caption: Bailey the pitbull, Credit: Photo courtesy of Terence Cantarella
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Bailey the pitbull 

Under the Sun: Miami Outlaw

From: Under the Sun
Length: 00:09:01

Terence Cantarella takes in a stray and battered dog--a pit bull. It's illegal to have a pit bull in Miami-Dade. Cantarella tries to find a way to get rid of the dog that sits well with his conscience. It doesn't quite work out. Read the full description.

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Transcript

INTRO:

Under the Sun tells the stories of South Florida.

I'm Alicia Zuckerman.

When the baseball player Mark Buehrle (BUR-ley)became a Miami Marlin last month, he didn’t move to Miami.

He moved to Broward County.

That’s because Buehrle// owns a pit bull. And in Miami-Dade County -- that’s illegal.

The ban was passed in 1989 after a series of gruesome pit bull attacks in South Florida.

But this month, bills have been filed in the Florida legislature that would overturn any law banning a specific breed of dog.

A while ago, we asked Under the Sun listeners for their six word memoirs about life in South Florida.

Terence Cantarella wrote this:

Little Haiti – Old House – Stray Dog.

Here's the rest of that story.

Miami Outlaw
By Terence Cantarella

Bailey was a fighting dog. A pit bull. But when he crawled out from under a parked car in Little Haiti last year, he didn’t l...
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Timing and Cues

9:01 long

Intro and Outro

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OUTRO:

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Musical Works

Title Artist Album Label Year Length
You Give Me Problems About My Business The Mercury Program Chez Viking. Lovitt Records 2009 00:00
Waterfall Raffa and Rainer Stolen Coal. Raffa and Rainer 2007 00:00

Additional Credits

Associate Producer Trina Sargalski

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