Posted on 10/09/2004 9:27:17 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
(Waterbury-AP, Oct. 9, 2004 11:30 AM) _ Waterbury animal control officers say there's no easy explanation for why two sheep have shown up in one of the state's biggest cities this week.
Though there are no farms nearby, a sheep was spotted running down a city street Tuesday. The animal had a tag on its ear, and officials think it may have fallen of a truck passing through the city.
Not unaccustomed to housing sheep, they took the animal to the dog pound and started looking for a home for it.
A second sheep was spotted yesterday in a wooded section of a residential neighborhood. The animal was clearly sick and animal control officers killed it.
They say they have no idea where this sheep came from. One officer suggested an out-of-town-farmer might have dumped the sick animal in Waterbury to keep it from infecting the rest of the livestock.
Zoonoses are diseases that are transmissible between humans and animals.
SHEEP AND GOATS
Actinobacillosis
Anthrax
Brucellosis
Campylobacter
Cryptosporidiosis
Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae
Foot and Mouth Disease virus
Giardiasis
Leptospirosis
Louping-ill virus
Orf virus
Psittacosis (Chlamydia) Q Fever
Rabies
Salmonellosis Tick-borne encephalitis
Tularaemia
Yersiniosis (Plague)
well then. I hope these sheep were clean. :)
Were the editors sleeping in this morning?
Any Moslems living in the area? They sacrifice sheep at certain times of the year. Maybe some got away.
Is that ewe, Harold?
Sheep On The Lamb
"The animal had a tag on its ear"
With that they should be able to trace the owner. So why aren't they doing THAT, instead of "looking for a home for the sheep"?!
Hmmm... risking further transmission of possible diseases... dogs carry even more than sheep - and they live in people's homes.
Ottilie Lundgren is watching carefully. One of the anthrax victims of the mail contamination in 2001, she lived only about 10 miles from Waterbury.
Reminds me of the rams jumping off the cliff when they heard "There'll never be another ewe"
"Waterbury Mayor Arrested On Federal Sex Charges
(Associated Press and ctnow.com)
Jul 26 2001 12:00AM
WATERBURY Conn. - Mayor Philip Giordano of Waterbury was arrested this morning on federal charges of using an interstate facility to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity, and conspiracy to use an interstate facility to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity.
He is being held without bail.
Each count is punishable by up to five years in prison.
FBI Special Agent Michael Wolf said there were multiple victims under the age of 16, but said the charges involved only one youth. Investigators would not provide any other details on the victims.
Giordano, 38, was charged with using an interstate facility to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity, and with conspiracy to commit that act. If convicted, Giordano could be sentenced to a maximum of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
State and federal officials, including representatives from the Internal Revenue Service and the state Department of Children and Families, held a midday news conference but provided scant detail.
Investigators would not define the "interstate facility" or say why the IRS was involved.
"If the allegations in fact are true, this is a huge violation of the public's trust and of the trust of these children," DCF Commissioner Kristine Ragaglia said.
The three-term mayor announced last week he would not seek a fourth, two-year term.
FBI agents were searching Giordano's office Thursday Giordano, a Republican, made an unsuccessful bid for U.S. Senate last year against Sen. Joseph Lieberman. He ran despite public warnings from Gov. John G. Rowland, a fellow Waterbury Republican, and encountered financial problems in the campaign. The Federal Election Commission threatened to audit Giordano's campaign finances.
The agency said he did not properly identify numerous donors and failed to list a host of expenditures. The agency also said the campaign had failed to clear up questions about a $300,000 loan that made up the bulk of his campaign war chest.
Giordano was elected in 1995 and has served three, two-year terms. He also was a state lawmaker.
Earlier this week, the owner of a towing company filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city claiming Giordano is choosing towing companies based on political contributions and race.
J.C. Curry, who is black, claimed the mayor excluded his Harry's Auto Body from the city's towing list despite his qualifications and longtime presence in the community.
In February, the city filed a lien against Giordano for failure to pay sewer and water fees on property he owns with his brother, Rocco.
Shortly before the 1997 mayoral election, Cheshire police found Giordano and a female staffer parked in a Chevy Blazer in a nearly empty parking lot at an industrial plant.
Giordano said he met the woman on a Sunday afternoon after she called him, distraught about rumors she would be fired over suspicions she was leaking information to his opponent's campaign.
He said his aide drove him to meet the woman, then he and the woman drove off together so they could talk privately. He said no physical contact took place.
Waterbury, known as the Brass City, is the fifth largest city in the state with just over 100,000 people and has a history of political corruption. Giordano's predecessor, Joseph Santopietro, is serving time in a federal halfway house on corruption charges.
Santopietro, a Republican, was 26 years old in 1985 when he beat the popular incumbent Democratic mayor, Edward D. Bergin Jr. In 1992, Santopietro and six others were convicted of conspiring with bankers and land developers to trade favors on land deals for bribes and kickbacks disguised as loans.
Bergin had his own legal problems. He was was arrested in 1988 on a charge of taking a bribe over towing contracts. He was acquitted three years later.
Fifty years ago, the Waterbury Republican-American won a Pulitzer Prize for helping put Mayor T. Frank Hayes and more than a dozen of his Democratic cronies in prison for raiding city coffers.
Absentee ballot fraud was common enough years ago that the newspaper published the names of voters requesting absentee ballots, and their reasons, in an effort to keep the vote honest.
Widespread fraud in a 1986 gubernatorial primary resulted in 10 arrests in Waterbury.
A local prosecutor was imprisoned in 1985 for taking bribes to fix cases. The same year, the chief clerk of Waterbury Superior Court resigned after being charged with tampering with his son's court record.
I am starting to suspect these are jilted girlfriends of a "domestic relationship".
Runaway brides, perhaps.
Two of these threads in one day? What are they....sheeper by the dozen?
you're ba-a-a-ad!
Ewe are two much.
abewezed, no doubt.
LOL *rimshot*
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