This reminds me of yet another story from Puerto Rico, when I was younger.
One family of relatives had this exceedingly annoying Chihuahua who just kept barking and attacking our ankles. We kids would sit down on the sofa in the living room, watching tv, and we had to pull our legs up because this dog kept nipping at them, nipping at them. My aunt would come out of the kitchen, as she basically never sat down, just cooking all day long, I kid you not, yell at him to stop, he would stop but then again a few minutes later he started again.
So one time we went there, and we didn't see him, so we asked. Well one day he's outside, and he went chasing after a pickup truck or something, attacking its wheel. The thing is he went towards the pickup truck as the truck was going towards him, and so, well, you do the math.