Ride, doggy, ride

It's confirmed -- 45 percent of New Jersey residents are morons:

It’s by a narrow margin, but New Jersey voters actually do support a proposed law that would require dog owners to put their animal in a safety restraint or crate when in the car.

According to today’s Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll, 45 percent of registered voters in the state support the law, with 40 percent opposing it. The bill, introduced by Assemblywoman Grace Spencer last month, would require that pets not traveling in a crate be restrained by a harness or similar device, with violators subject to a $20 ticket and possible animal cruelty charges.

Earlier this year, officials from the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals held a press conference in which they said that failure to restrain animals would be construed as animal cruelty, subject to criminal fines and penalties. Spencer says confusion over the current state of the law led to the introduction of her bill. That confusion has also led to the introduction of a rival measure that would specify that driving with an unrestrained dog does not constitute cruelty to animals.

The real animal cruelty would be taking a dog for a ride and buckling it in so it can't stick its head out of the window. Love to see somebody try to strap in a cat, by the way.