Well, lots of us try to blame the dog to cover up a fart, but a guy in the Northern Territory  went much further, and tried to blame the ecstasy tablets police caught him with on his dog.

Steven James Dwyer, 48, contested the charge of possessing an amount of ecstasy tablets, saying he thought the pills would stop his pet shar-peis from breeding.  Dwyer claimed the tablets had come into his hands when he was outside a Katherine laundromat, after he met a man with a female shar-pei dog.  He told the Court the man had told him he used birth control tablets on the dogs, but he had since had his own dog desexed and had no use for the tablets he had in his car.

"I knew she was due to come on heat, I thought, ‘That’ll be very handy for her’,"

he said, claiming no money had changed hands.

Not surprisingly, the court didn’t believe his excuses. The magistrate didn’t swallow his bullshit story, plus I’m sure the fact he also pleaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine tablets at the same hearing didn’t help establish his credibility. (He claimed he bought that to help keep up with his workload as a painter).

He scored himself a 2 month suspended sentence for his troubles.  That’ll teach him to try to blame his dog for his sins.

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