You gave me herpes, now give me $4M
A RUNAWAY dog unleashed havoc on the Brooklyn subway — until a kinder, gentler Joe Lhota came to her rescue.
Shelter adoptee Dakota, a bit worse for the wear after bolting onto the tracks at the Jay St. station Friday afternoon, was reunited with her equally skittish owner one heart-stopping hour later.
“I think she just got scared and ran,” said Caroline Francis, 27, after her injured dog was taken to the veterinarian.
“I’m worried. I guess I’m in a state of shock . . . They found her, and we’re hoping for the best.”
The 3-year-old, 11-pound poodle mix was rescued by a Metropolitan Transportation Authority train service supervisor after the agency shut down power to protect the rambling pooch.
Lhota, who was chairman of the MTA in 2012, famously declared as a mayoral candidate a year later (inset bottom) that he would not close the subway to save a pair of frisky felines named Arthur and August.
Lhota, who didn’t win the race for mayor, returned as chairman of the MTA in 2017.
Francis, who was working at her Brooklyn home when Dakota fled from a dog walker, said the MTA’s response was “amazing” as the pooch wound her way through a mile of electrified track to the Bergen St. station.
“She escaped from a dog park and ran into the subway,” Francis said. “It’s not so close to the subway but she commutes with me so she knows it. She ran in there and jumped on the tracks.”
The frantic dog walker clued Francis into what happened, but the owner absolved her of any wrongdoing, saying: “She did everything she could.”
Dakota suffered a fractured jaw, likely during her leap to the tracks, along with respiratory arrest during her mile-long underground jaunt along the F train route.
The pooch disappeared into the underground Brooklyn labyrinth THE MARRIAGE didn’t last — but the wife says her surprise herpes infection certainly will.
A Manhattan woman is suing her estranged husband for a whopping $4 million, claiming he “fraudulently and maliciously” concealed his herpes history and didn’t come clean about carrying the virus until four years into their 2010 marriage.
Plaintiff Adrienne Vanterpool (photo left) said she was shocked by the disclosure and tested positive two months later.
She now wants her soon-tobe-ex hubby Lionel Canton (photo right) to cough up $1 million in alleged damages and another $3 million as punishment. Vanterpool, 62, claims her husband, 63, admitted he first learned of his herpes status around 2005.
“The defendant’s actions as aforesaid were motivated by evil, reckless disregard, callous indifference and disregard of the plaintiff’s health and safety,” the complaint filed Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court stated.
Vanterpool filed for divorce in May 2016. Canton’s divorce lawyer Glen Dornfeld said the split is pending.