“The Authorities could do nothing because of bureaucratic paralysis. “
Ah, our government, hard at non-work. “We’ll let the eagle die because we can’t chance doing something that might hurt the eagle.”
It is amazing the power of the word “liability’.
Even in government bureaucracies, the managers are so risk-averse, they avoid doing obvious, rational things if someone says “liability”.
It is like a magic phrase that brings everything to a screeching halt.
It does this even with people who have almost no chance of ever suffering from a lawsuit. People who are insulated by layers of law and bureaucratic structure.
It is an amazing thing to watch. I saw a lot of it during my bureaucratic career.