Posted 1/23/2008 05:39:00 PM by Douglas

Small town scandals: They're as boring as they are pointless, but the mayor Alice, Texas, sounds like a complete nut-job.

City commissioners have voted unanimously for a resolution urging the mayor to resign over legal problems stemming from her alleged theft of a neighbor's dog.

Grace Saenz-Lopez was indicted Friday on two felony counts of tampering with physical evidence related to the Shih Tzu, according to jail records.

A neighboring family has accused Saenz-Lopez of refusing to return their dog, Puddles, after they left it in her care while they went on vacation.

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This summer, the mayor agreed to watch the dog belonging to Rudy Gutierrez and Shelly Cavazos. A day after her neighbors left with their children for vacation, Saenz-Lopez called to tell them that Puddles had died.

Three months later, a relative of Cavazos saw Puddles — renamed Panchito — at an Alice dog groomer. When Saenz-Lopez refused to return the dog, the family filed a criminal complaint and a civil lawsuit.

What? Pretty funny stuff. Not really. Too bad the writers are still on strike, or The Daily Show would have already dispatched a camera crew, although it could never be as funny as the drunken, castrated goat-mayor.

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