Canines Targeted

Gee, you think that the big blue and white squad car parked out front might be a clue that a police canine lives there?

• Police are investigating whether a pile of green rat poison found on the front doorstep of a Canine Unit officer's home Tuesday is in any way related to recent suspected arsons of at least two Canine Unit vehicles on the Northwest Side, Chicago police said.

  The officer returned home in the Edison Park neighborhood about 4:15 p.m. to find a pile of green rat poison on his front stoop...

Targets of opportunity. Driving by a parked squad car late at night, bust out the windows or maybe torch it. You see the squad car there, run to the local hardware store, grab some poison, toss it on the porch. You might get lucky and poison the dog.

Good thing the exempts can all park in their garages.