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Threat of lawsuit takes life out of Possum Drop
New York Times via Houston Chronicle ^
| January 2, 2004
| JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
Posted on 01/02/2004 3:12:36 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: farmfriend
BTTT!!!!!!
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posted on
01/03/2004 3:12:05 AM PST
by
E.G.C.
To: Dog Gone
With just hours to go before the festivities, Clay Logan, host of the Possum Drop, said he got a call from a national animal rights organization threatening to sue him for animal cruelty if he used a live possum. On Wednesday, the day the New York Times published a piece on the Possum Drop, Logan got a call from a man who said he represented People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, headquartered in Norfolk, Va.
All I can say is...
AAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHH!!!
To: putupon
We have met the enemy, and he is us!
To: Pro-Bush
The PETAManiacs called about the live possums that they usually use...
To: Dog Gone; dep
A lot of lawyer jokes are flying round. May I submit that the real problem is civil trial lawyers. In that vein...
What's black and tan and looks good on a trial lawyer?
A doberman!
What do you call 2,000 trial lawyers chained to the bottom of the ocean?
A good start!
How can you tell when a person who's hit by a car is a trial lawyer?
No skid marks!
To: SpaceBar
I don't believe there's anything in the Constitution that gives individuals or organisations the right to file lawsuits or threaten to do so, day in and day out to coerce their own aggenda on others. This, along with tort reform would go a long way in freeing this country up from the deathgrip that lawyers and suehappy groups currently enjoy.Loser pays legislation...that would stop a lot of this sh*t. I assume the feds can do that for the federal court system. I don't think they can do it for state courts, however (that pesky Constitution thingy again).
To: dep
the proper response -- or, hell, ain't no need for a reason -- is to drop a live lawyer from a helicopter. If John Edwards could remember where North Carolina is I'm sure he'd volunteer. Although the helicopter might mess up his hair . . .
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posted on
01/03/2004 11:09:45 AM PST
by
JohnnyZ
(Abolish the food tax)
To: Dog Gone
Debbie Leahy, director of Peta's captive animals and entertainment issues, said she did not know which member made the call, but she said the event was "perverse, reckless and terrifying to the possum."
And she thinks the possum would have been scared of the heights one look from her and it would have had a coronary
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posted on
01/03/2004 11:17:32 AM PST
by
ATOMIC_PUNK
(I'm still pissed about 911 its a grudge that will be hard to shake)
To: Dog Gone
"Hell of a way to start the new year, saluting a dead possum," said Steve Barringer, a blacksmith.Best quote of 2004, and it's only Jan. 3.
To: Dog Gone
Ah, possum...
The other white meat.
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