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San Jose Woman Fined for Illegal Collection of Stuffed Wildlife
NBC Bay Area ^ | Wednesday, Mar 18, 2015

Posted on 03/20/2015 9:27:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A San Jose woman will have to pay $3,000 for her illegal collection of stuffed wildlife.

In addition to the fine, Dora Zepeda's must serve 300 hours of community service for possessing illegal birds of prey in her apartment.

Authorities caught Zepeda after she bought a stuffed French barn owl on eBay.

That bird is a protected species.


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1 posted on 03/20/2015 9:27:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

If you REALLY want to collect birds and not go to jail, you need to get a windmill.


2 posted on 03/20/2015 9:36:07 PM PDT by RW_Whacko
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To: nickcarraway

I don’t think a stuffed barn owl should be protected after its stuffed.


3 posted on 03/20/2015 9:38:24 PM PDT by poinq
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she should have just collected illegals.


4 posted on 03/20/2015 9:41:53 PM PDT by willywill
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To: nickcarraway

This is perhaps the stupidest thing I’ve ever read.

Other than liberal lunacy, why the hell is it illegal to own stuffed animals?

She ought sue the state for absolute unbridled stupidity, and offer a plea bargain to move out of the state, permanently.


5 posted on 03/20/2015 9:46:46 PM PDT by TheZMan (Buy more ammo.)
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To: willywill

Do you know the way to San Jose?


6 posted on 03/20/2015 9:47:54 PM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: RW_Whacko

Or a solar cooking tower.


7 posted on 03/20/2015 9:48:49 PM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: nickcarraway

Pick a bald eagle feather off the ground and see what happens to you.


8 posted on 03/20/2015 9:53:24 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If obama speaks and there is no one there to hear it, is it still a lie?)
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To: RW_Whacko

Sure am glad we’re a free people. Imagine what it would be like to live in a totalitarian society!


9 posted on 03/20/2015 9:57:50 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: TheZMan
There are real, live people that actually believe they're doing good work by finding these things, bringing charges against someone and going through all the paperwork BS

I mean .... listen ....

When you sit down to fill out ANY form ... or compose something .... YOUR HEAD ACTUALLY SPEAKS TO YOUR SELF

So not only are you being an asshole, you actually TELL yourself you are one and go on and describe exactly what kind of an asshole you are !!

THEN, you go and turn in your report of how and why you're an asshole and ANOTHER asshole actually commends you for such good work ... sends your asshole report up to ANOTHER asshole who sets a date for all the assholes to gather together so ONE asshole (you) pay the rest of the assholes for your all being assholes


I'm pretty sure I have that right ..... and all the time I was typing that, I could hear myself telling my self the words

I may not have proof ... but they're true !

10 posted on 03/20/2015 10:01:10 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And Bald Eagles aren’t endangered anymore.


11 posted on 03/20/2015 10:02:12 PM PDT by poinq
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Pick a bald eagle feather off the ground and see what happens to you.”

the packers in Idaho shoot them on sight!


12 posted on 03/20/2015 10:03:57 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: poinq
The government assumption is trading in a protected species causes it to be killed for the trade. Kenya and Botswana used to have competing systems for elephants.

Botswana would sell a limited number of tags to control elephant populations and allow their ivory or anything else from the animal to be harvested.

Kenya took the approach of draconian fines and jail terms for anyone shooting elephants. They would also hold periodic public events where seized tusk, ivory products and other items made from poached elephants were displayed and then tossed into a bonfire using the same logic as the government here.

Funny thing was, Kenyan elephants turned up dead all the time missing only the tusks or other parts sought by the poachers. Harvested Botswana elephants were used to their fullest, populations thrived and the fees generated from selling elephant tags let to better protection of the rest of the herd and enhanced enforcement against poaching.

13 posted on 03/20/2015 10:14:59 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: TheZMan

I got my wisdom teeth out in January, and CA prohibits a person from taking their own teeth in case they want to use them to attack someone and infect them. This state is so messed up. This doesn’t suprise me in the slightest.


14 posted on 03/20/2015 10:17:48 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo (You know it's bad when you actually wish that someone would replace your senators with horses.)
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To: Politicalkiddo
My mother had 10 children. She kept all our baby teeth. I sent her one of my wisdom teeth for Christmas one year.

A couple of years ago, I found a lower cow jaw that still had some molars on it. I took some pliers and pulled one of them out and boxed it up nice and sent it to my mother for Christmas.

She still talks about that one.

15 posted on 03/20/2015 10:24:34 PM PDT by Slyfox (I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever)
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To: nickcarraway

So, the buyer gets fined, but what about the seller?


16 posted on 03/20/2015 10:55:34 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: nickcarraway

Notice how the media douches keep implying collecting stuffed animals is illegal as opposed to 1 animal in the collection was illegal to own...


17 posted on 03/20/2015 10:57:51 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: nickcarraway

Only in California.

Thank God I don’t live in that state.

For all those who are able, get out! Get out of California while you can!


18 posted on 03/21/2015 1:14:18 AM PDT by jonrick46 (America's real drug problem: other people's money (the Commutist's opium addiction).)
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To: Politicalkiddo

"CA prohibits a person from taking their own teeth in case they want to use them to attack someone and infect them."

They're making laws high on crack! They're delusional. Psychotic is the word for the California Legislature. I hope it bites them in the rear.

19 posted on 03/21/2015 1:20:44 AM PDT by jonrick46 (America's real drug problem: other people's money (the Commutist's opium addiction).)
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20 posted on 03/21/2015 2:46:14 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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