I recently pointed out to some complete twat that his dog met the legal definition of being out of control after he was very tardy at recalling his dog then failed to put it on a lead after it bounded up to a woman barking and jumping leaving her screaming on a bench.
He considered half-heartedly arguing back but decided that it was easier to humour this interfering little woman by temporarily using the lead until she buggered off out of his way. (Naturally when I saw him again 5-10 mins later the dog was off lead)
I'd say that leaving someone screaming on a bench is very much meeting the legal definition of out of control. He wasn't even embarassed by his dog having that effect on another park user.
I wish there'd been someone else to help out last year when a dog randomly took exception to me, ran up barking and growling, scratching my leg while its gormless human continued her phone call and just groped around one-handed. Being the person being threatened, I went in to freeze and quiet mode.
My children are rather cagey around dogs due to numerous incidents of being approached, sniffed all over, bowled over, sticks taken from their hands and food stolen through their younger years. Growing up, and getting bigger than dogs has helped make their fears more managable, but progress was slow and regularly set back byuntrained "friendly" dogs approaching them. I have been known to respond to "it's ok he's friendly" by growling "my child isn't"
It's no wonder these blithering idiots can't train dogs because they can't even recognise distress in their own species.
The more people point out that their untrained animals are illegally out of control, the better. Hopefully some of them may even have enough brain cells to be capable of learning. They're a bloody nuisence to everyone else in public spaces, human and other animals including well-controlled dogs.