WATCH: Biden tells one 'freaking weird' story about the time he left a dead dog on a woman’s doorstep



While reminiscing about the good old days serving on the New Castle County Council, President Joe Biden shared a strange tale about the time he put a dead dog on the doorstep of a female constituent who was "not of the same persuasion as I was politically."

Speaking at the National Association of Counties Legislative Conference on Tuesday, Biden told his audience “I know from personal experience how hard the job you have is,” before launching into an amusing little anecdote about the time a mean, rich lady (who was surely one of those awful Republicans) called the council to insist a dead dog be removed from her yard.

"I represented a middle to working class district. There was one very wealthy neighborhood. And I got a call one night, a woman said to me – obviously not of the same persuasion as I was politically – called me and said, 'there’s a dead dog on my lawn,'" Biden said.

“And I said, ‘yes ma’am, did you call the county?’ And she said, ‘Yes, they’re not here.’ And I said, ‘Well, I’ll get 'em in the morning,’” he continued.

“She said, ‘I want it removed now, I pay your salary.' So I went over. I picked it up. She said, 'I want it out of my front yard.' I put it on her doorstep,” he added, grinning at his own cleverness.


A video clip of Biden's unusual speech made the rounds on social media with mixed reviews.

RNC research pointed out that Biden had told this story before but, interestingly, it had a different ending at the time.

In December 2020, Biden told the same group this story but said he \u201carrived in a pickup truck and **removed** the animal himself that night.\u201dhttps://www.naco.org/articles/biden-harris-roots-lie-county-government\u00a0\u2026
— RNC Research (@RNC Research) 1645033481

Some people actually liked Biden's story, or at least they didn't completely hate it.


I must say I found his story humorous and this was probably one of the most coherent speeches I've seen him make in a while.\n\nAm I missing something??
— Max (@Max) 1645029061


Wasn\u2019t a terrible story actually. I laughed. It\u2019s better than wanting to curse every time he opens his mouth
— RJ (@RJ) 1645032488
Yeah, I\u2019m going to say this was actually funny.
— Z (@Z) 1645037729

Then there were those who just couldn't bring themselves to appreciate Biden's comedic genius:

We\u2019re living through a Left Behind bookhttps://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1493980777960419336\u00a0\u2026
— Steve Deace (@Steve Deace) 1645027911


He is so freaking weird.
— BuckeyeMom72\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@BuckeyeMom72\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1645028353
So, basically, Biden has never been good at helping his constituents.
— GeorgeWasherballs (@GeorgeWasherballs) 1645044362
Did corn pop kill the dog. ?
— ann (@ann) 1645039393


Confirms he is an ineffectual and spiteful civil servant.
— Ricky Turner (@Ricky Turner) 1645037560


Biden revives controversial claim he was 'shot at' overseas, a story he previously walked back



President Joe Biden told State Department employees that he was "shot at" overseas. Biden has made this claim in the past, but had to walk back the story after it was revealed that it wasn't necessarily the case.

"You have great personal courage. I've been with some of you when we've been shot at," Biden told a group of diplomatic aides in Washington on Thursday.

During a 2007 Democratic presidential debate, then-Sen. Biden alleged that he was "shot at" inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone.

"Let's start telling the truth. Number one, you take all the troops out — you better have helicopters ready to take those 3,000 civilians inside the Green Zone, where I have been seven times and shot at," Biden said during the debate, according to Fox News. "You better make sure you have protection for them, or let them die, number one."

Biden's aides attempted to clarify the politician's alleged harrowing experience by naming three instances where he was near danger. Aides claimed that there was a mortar attack inside the Green Zone in 2005 while Biden and another senator were shaving, the New York Post reported. The blast purportedly rattled the building.

During the same trip to Iraq, the helicopter he was flying in was supposedly shot at when traveling to the Baghdad airport. There was an alleged incident in 2004 when a C-130 cargo airplane Biden was flying in engaged its anti-missile system over Iraq, possibly indicating it had been fired upon.

Biden ended up walking back the story.

"I was near where a shot landed," he said of his 2005 experience in the Green Zone.

"No one got up and ran from the room — it wasn't that kind of thing," Biden later clarified. "It's not like I had someone holding a gun to my head."

Patrick Campbell, legislative director for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, told the Hill in 2017 that Biden should be careful on how he describes his experiences in combat zones.

"Veterans don't like it when people mischaracterize their service, people who overstate what happens to them," Campbell explained. "We have names for them."

Campbell said the verbiage "shot at" implies that "someone with an AK-47 pops up and is taking shots at you."

Biden has been caught exaggerating and making unsubstantiated claims in the past.

Biden has alleged that he marched in civil rights marches as a student in the 1960s. A Washington Post fact check asserted that Biden overstated his civil rights activism and gave him "two Pinocchios" for his statements.

In 2008, Biden told members of the United Mine Workers, "I am a hard coal miner." A Biden spokesperson said he was not a coal miner and was only joking.

In Biden's 1988 presidential campaign, it was revealed that he plagiarized Neil Kinnock, the leader of the British Labor Party.