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Residents upset after Md. deputy shoots groundhog blocking traffic
Fox Baltimore ^
| 05/07/18
Posted on 05/08/2018 8:31:38 AM PDT by Simon Green
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To: Simon Green
Now we will never know why the ground hog “tried” to cross the road,
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posted on
05/08/2018 12:41:30 PM PDT
by
ThomasThomas
(Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions.)
To: Simon Green
Now we will never know why the ground hog “tried” to cross the road,
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posted on
05/08/2018 12:41:40 PM PDT
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ThomasThomas
(Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions.)
To: Hot Tabasco
Right. Same with this pair. Very busy WM. I hope she’s not being harrassed as rotten people always have to eff with animals or other people’s property. There was a nesting pair where I have a storage unit...this was last year. I noticed her egg had been destroyed a few weeks later. Not sure if from an animal or a human did it.
To: Simon Green; 100American; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; ...
Snowflakes, anyone?
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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posted on
05/09/2018 6:50:23 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
( The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Guess there weren’t any dogs around they could pump bullets into as they are prone to doing at the drop of a hat
All he had to do was walk towards the darned thing, what a big sissy
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posted on
05/09/2018 6:57:06 PM PDT
by
100American
(Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
To: Simon Green
In Maryland, groundhogs are rodents and may be hunted year round no license needed (I think).
Plus, if properly prepared are kind of tasty.
A groundhog running around playing on the road was probably sick and needed to be dispatched.
Safe transit is also more important than a rodent.
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posted on
05/09/2018 7:46:20 PM PDT
by
cyclotic
( WeÂ’re the first ones taxed, the last ones considered and the first ones punished)
To: Blue Jays
“In a sane world, decent men and women would humanely put down sick or injured wildlife without getting a dozen levels of official clearance to do so.”
Probably had to get permission to discharge his duty weapon. These days CYA is Job #1.
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posted on
05/09/2018 7:52:15 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Reminds me a scene from the movie “Patton” where the general dispatches donkey holding up a relief column.
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posted on
05/10/2018 4:00:04 AM PDT
by
Jimmy Valentine's brother
(Crush the Democrats; see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of the girly men.)
To: PLMerite
"...permission to discharge duty weapon..."
Oh, I have witnessed that scenario firsthand, too.
Same situation, a young deer seriously messed-up from a vehicle crash.
Officer had to radio-in to get clearances from a sergeant and a lieutenant to shoot a deer 3-feet away twisting in the underbrush.
It was heartbreaking the officer was not given trust to make a correct decision and then notify superiors. For goodness sake, it was a humanitarian task.
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posted on
05/10/2018 8:52:32 AM PDT
by
Blue Jays
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To: Blue Jays
It’s probably a liability thing. Someone probably did something stupid in the distant past and screwed it up for those coming after.
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posted on
05/10/2018 8:58:01 AM PDT
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PLMerite
("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
To: PLMerite
Very good point and I am sure you are correct.
The pathetic part is the layers of approval needed for an obvious task that needed to be done.
A hunter out in the field would never let an animal needlessly suffer 3-4 minutes.
I guess it is what it is with bureaucracy and all.
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posted on
05/10/2018 9:40:10 AM PDT
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Blue Jays
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