Boomer the Dog to Remain Gary the Human

Thursday, 12 August 2010 | by Pat's Picks

He will remain Gary the Human. A Pennsylvania judge has denied a 44-year-old man’s request to legally change his name to Boomer the Dog. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Gary Guy Mathews is a “fan of the ‘furry’ lifestyle,” which encourages anthropomorphism. The judge’s logic was sound. He told Mathews the name would likely cause confusion down the line and offered up this brilliant example: “Sometime thereafter, Petitioner witnesses a serious automobile accident and telephones for an emergency medical response. The dispatcher on the phone queries as to the caller’s identity, and the caller responds, ‘This is Boomer the Dog.’ It is not a stretch to imagine the telephone dispatcher concluding that the call is a prank and refusing to send an emergency medical response.” Mathews’ response? “Doggone it.”

Scroll down to see Gary the Human perform as Boomer the Dog: