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Woodpecker-Saving Daughter Costs Mom $500, Possible Jail Time (year in jail)
WUSA TV
| August 2, 2011
| Kristin Fisher
Posted on 08/02/2011 10:21:08 AM PDT by CedarDave
Title and link only -- Gannett station
http://wusa9.com/news/article/161065/158/Woodpecker-Saving-Daughter-Costs-Mom-500
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: bird; birds; fishandwildlife; fws; govtabuse; rapeofliberty; woodpecker; zerotolerance
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Synopsis: Eleven-year old girl saves baby woodpecker from being eaten by family cat at Dad's house. Mother puts woodpecker in cage to take to her home to make sure it's o.k. On way home, brought into store out of sun. Female US Fish and Wildlife agent shopping there shows badge, confronts mother about violation of migratory bird act and takes name. Mother releases bird when she arrives home and notifies F&WS.
Two weeks later agent shows up with VA state trooper at home to issue citation. Mother refuses to sign and is issued court warrant.
Update: According to the website, F&WS this p.m. now says its all a big mistake and citation should never have been issued and is sending an apology.
Your federal government at work.
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posted on
08/02/2011 10:21:11 AM PDT
by
CedarDave
To: CedarDave
Oh, I don’t know. Once we start getting lax with our woodpecker laws it’s a slippery slope to all hell breaking loose!
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posted on
08/02/2011 10:22:38 AM PDT
by
sand lake bar
(This bag may be used as a toy)
To: CedarDave
Hopefully the overzealous agent is fired. Bad cops need to go.
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posted on
08/02/2011 10:22:52 AM PDT
by
EDINVA
To: CedarDave
I had to read it twice to make sure they weren’t talking about England.
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posted on
08/02/2011 10:25:37 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(You know, they invented wheelbarrows to teach government employees how to walk on their hind legs.)
To: CedarDave
Update: According to the website, F&WS this p.m. now says its all a big mistake and citation should never have been issued and is sending an apology. Translation: They got caught, and realized what a PR nightmare they had stepped into.
Without publicity, this woman would have been sunk.
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posted on
08/02/2011 10:25:47 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Palin is coming and the Tea Party is coming with her.)
To: CedarDave
I’m from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and I’m here to help.
~~NOT Ronald Reagan
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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posted on
08/02/2011 10:26:57 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(The views and opinions expressed in this post are true and correct. Deal with it)
To: CedarDave
“Your federal government at work.”
It shows how many of these malefactors are crawling around, too.
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posted on
08/02/2011 10:26:57 AM PDT
by
Psalm 144
(Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
To: CedarDave
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posted on
08/02/2011 10:28:54 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 922. When your only tools are a Hammer & Sickle, everything looks like a Capitalist...)
To: CedarDave; Clintonfatigued; GOPsterinMA; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; justiceseeker93; ...
She should have walked out of the store immediately and definitely not called them later!
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posted on
08/02/2011 10:29:00 AM PDT
by
Impy
(Don't call me red.)
To: CedarDave
Your federal government at work.
How much salary? How much benefits? How much medical? How much pension?
Fire!
Fire!
Fire!
Cut!
Cut!
Cut!
Defund!
Defund!
Defund!
To: CedarDave
“Mother releases bird when she arrives home “
No mention if the cat got it again?
To: CedarDave
Thank you Cedar, your synopsis made more sense than the article.
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posted on
08/02/2011 10:30:33 AM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(You can't forfeit the game Chuck! If you go home you forfeit!)
To: fieldmarshaldj
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posted on
08/02/2011 10:30:58 AM PDT
by
Impy
(Don't call me red.)
To: CedarDave
The moral of the story is that it’s a bad idea to play with strange peckers.
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posted on
08/02/2011 10:31:45 AM PDT
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: sand lake bar
To: Rebelbase
“Mother releases bird when she arrives home “ No mention if the cat got it again?Typical family these days; Mom and Dad have different homes.
To: CedarDave
Why don’t they prosecute the cat?
To: sand lake bar
Off with their head.
They had someone dyslexic in the office, they wrote up the report instead of reading Wood Pecker, it said Pecker Wood.
They assumed it was a threat against Congress.
To: EDINVA
Even though it was US F&WL, it sounds like the VA Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries. A couple of their agents were stationed at a dock on the intracoastal waterway in Chesapeake, VA some years ago. They were near a favorite spot for boaters to gather and were indiscriminately waving boats over. They waved me over and demanded I take a sobriety test. Even though I showed them that the strongest drink I had on board was O’Douls (NA beer). Only when they found that I was NOT intoxicated, did they even mention that I was violating the No Wake Zone there. I tried to explain that I was barely making steerageway with the current there but they ticketed me anyway.
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posted on
08/02/2011 10:48:23 AM PDT
by
fredhead
(I'm not sleeping, I'm checking my eyelids for cracks.)
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posted on
08/02/2011 10:57:33 AM PDT
by
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