I wonder this guys Mom is at???
Posted on 08/11/2005 10:37:35 AM PDT by ElCapusto
TAMPA — A Tampa man is getting a citation for storing animal parts in a freezer.
Police say Lester Huckaby can be punished by up to 60 days in county jail and a $500 fine. He had birds that wildlife officials say are protected under the Federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
Authorities say an anonymous caller told police that Huckaby was storing part of a migratory bird and pieces of sea turtles inside a freezer in his house.
When authorities searched they house, they say they found one room filled with hawk wings, talons and a raccoon in the process of being skinned. When they opened the freezer, police say out came animal parts: alligator heads, turtle chunks and sandhill cranes.
Huckaby was arrested in 1990 for the possession, sale or transportation of alligator skin.
According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Web site, Florida sandhill cranes are found in pastures, prairies and freshwater wetlands in peninsular Florida from the Everglades to the Okefenokee Swamp.
The two subspecies found in Florida have gray plumage and an unfeathered carmine red crown.
I have a dangling conversation in my front parlor.
In my freezer I have a good assortment of Catfish, Deer, and of course frog legs (I gigged em myself!).
All he has to do is claim them as religious artifact, i.e. sacrificial animals. I have sacrificed fish, turkey, chicken, pigs, cows, lambs, and the occasional deer in my freezer.........
I don't sacrifice amphibians.......
I have no animal parts in my freezer - just some frozen Tyson "chicken" and Groton fish sticks...
The authorities have been contacted. Stay where you are. ;-)
So, this is all it takes for a search?
I have more animal part stuffs than I know what to do with thanks to the future bride-groom.
"When authorities searched the house..."
I wonder what the search warrant said. "He has animal parts in his freezer."
Not probable cause in my view. And how would they know they were endangered without seizing them and testing them first?
Mmmmmm, turtle chunks.
A quick inventory of the frozer section turns up - Dead chickens, dead cows, dead elk, dead bambi, dead fish, dead pig, dead lamb, 3 frozen glass mugs(for emergency use only) and a package of frozen crab cakes.
I need to go buy some coffee cream. :-)
According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Web site, Florida sandhill cranes are found in pastures, prairies, [and Lester's freezer].
It's a poorly written story.
He wasn't arrested for having animal parts in the freezer, it was the TYPE of animal. I'm thinking it's the cranes and alligators that got him in trouble.
Of course, I'm wondering why authorites could enter his house and search his freezer based on one person's tip.
Hannibal Lecter
I have animal parts in my belly.
MMMM Good!
Oh, so you get someone else to do your killing for you, eh?
The animals in question are protected. Probable cause and the guy's past history say "yes" to the search warrant.
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