Pit bulls do get blamed... and the vast majority of it could be avoided if the stupid owners were a tad smarter. I still think they can be quirky.... however...
I had the pleasure of meeting "Hammer" the bowling pit bull (he is long gone, unfortunately.) He was profiled on 'That's Incredible' and the National Enquirer also had a pic of him.
He'd lick you to death.. lovely animal.
I do respect pit bulls and I don't think I'd want to push one to test them.
Reminds me of a story from years ago about some woman who had a st bernard. For some reason, some kid was in her house... don't know if it was grandkid, neighbor. The dog had never shown so much as a lip curl. Woman was in another room and heard a hell of a lot of screaming... the dog really was mauling the kid and she coudlnt' pull it off the kid. She got her shotgun and killed the st bernard. It was too late for the kid as well.
When the dog was investigated, it had a ball point pen jammed clear into its ear... terrible, terrible.
Not sure how that one panned out though.