The Sandlot

Remember that movie? It's the one about the huge child-eating dog that lived next door to a baseball field where young boys would play.

Well, when I was young, a dog much similar to this one lived under my back porch, or so I thought. There was wooden fencing around the sides of the porch, so I couldn't see in. I remember picking up speed and launching myself from the porch into the back yard so that the dog couldn't bite off my foot on the way down. I was scared to death of that non existant dog.