In one incident, a large, vicious dog was coming at an officer and he was able to Taser the dog rather than shoot it, Llewellyn said.

This suggests that it was a mergeburst of a K-type main sequence star and a lower mass companion. The distance estimate is uncertain and the peak luminosity is ≈ −6mag. It is plausible that other Galactic events also have similar[…]

Looking at the breakdown of the budget, I see a few items we could cut.

Coordinate term: tear stick