Posted on 03/18/2017 5:56:03 AM PDT by PapaBear3625
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - A "cyanide bomb" planted by U.S. predator-control agents targeting coyotes near homes and hiking trails in Idaho exploded when a boy handled the device, injuring him and killing his dog, authorities and relatives said on Friday.
Canyon Mansfield, 14, was playing with his yellow Labrador retriever, Casey, on Thursday afternoon near his home east of Pocatello when he saw what he thought was a sprinkler head on the ground and touched the device, causing it to detonate.
The explosion sprayed the boy and his 3-year-old, 90-pound (40 kg) pet with toxic cyanide gas, according to the boy's mother, Theresa Mansfield.
“Canyon said there was a bang like a bomb, then an explosion of an orange substance that covered him and Casey, who was writhing in pain on the ground before he died right in front of Canyon,” she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
Predator Control Manager: I know! We’ll plant poison landmines to kill the coyotes!
Manager Assistant Johnson: Isn’t that kind of dangerous, sir?
Predator Control Manager: It’s safer than my other plan.
Manager Assistant Johnson: What’s that?
Predator Control Manager: Claymores! Front Towards Enemy, Johnson.
Manager Assistant Johnson: Yeah, let’s go with the cyanide bombs, sir.
More than likely, PETA or some such group is behind the story.
Or climate change deniers. Do not give them any ideas.
News segment on the incident
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU98a0GbIIQ
Any device which sprays enough poison to kill a large Labrador dog is also likely to kill a human, especially a child.
If you, as a private individual, had emplaced one of these on your property, with the result of causing death or serious injury to a human, you would be looking at prison time.
It looks like it was on public land which is commonly visited by hikers and such. I would like to see whoever authorized its placement there be prosecuted.
Excusing governmental stupidity and culpability isn’t conservative. I don’t care if this was a PETA story. Placing such devices in the reported manner and place is nothing short of criminal.
Good post - thank you. This is sensational “fake news” headlines that I abhor. After your video, I watch one with the family. Dad is a doc, son is ok - angling for a lawsuit, IMO. It’s unfortunate, but it seems sensationalized.
The US hasn’t signed the Ottawa treaty on landmines. So its use is probably legal.
“There was a time when a hunter would have picked up some bounty money for bringing in culls.
Was this cyanide bomb an attempt at cutting costs? Who approved the deployment of devices such as this?
I pray the lad is going to fully recover.”
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The dog won’t.
Your point is well taken. Let hunters benefit. Let livestock owners protect their own herds. (Cowboys?)
Poison “BOMBS” and poison “COLLARS”???? You’ve got to be kidding me! I’ve never heard of such things.
Who thought THIS was a good idea?
Solution #1. Gun in the house, coyote/mountain lion in the yard, problem solved.
Solution #2. Father/son or daughter hunting outings. Healthy, bonding, firearm safety/skills, bounty. “Family” time.
Solution #3. A 3 letter word, J O B S. Hire people to watch over your own herds.
Solution #4. Second Amendment concealed carry permit. People/predator confrontations will end poorly for the predators.
Solution #5. Live and let live. This random killing with “bombs” is indiscriminately killing wildlife that may have done nothing wrong.
Solution #6. Fox in the hen house? Build a better hen house, Guard your own hen house, get a dog.
Solution #7. Eliminate the “Wildlife Services” unit of the USDA. Save money.
The statement:
“The Wildlife Services said on Friday that the incident near Pocatello was the first “unintentional lethal take of a dog” by an M-44 in Idaho since 2014.”
“Weasel words”:
“first”. No it wasn’t the “first”. Only AFTER you add all the qualifiers can they say “first”.
“unintentional”. Are there “INTENTIONAL” killing of dogs? That would be a “YES”.
“Lethal”. That just means they don’t all DIE right away.
“take”. We want to sanitize this buy not saying “KILLED”
“dog”. Let’s be very specific, so as to rule out all other pets or livestock.
“by an M44” Let’s narrow this down to this ONE particular device.
“Idaho” It’s a USDA program (federal), so let’s narrow it to only this ONE state.
“Since 2014”. All the way back to 2014, eh? December 2014 or January 2014. This could hide a whole year, depending. Must be 2014 and years prior were not years they are proud to talk about.
I’m sure that you noticed that in that “carefully crafted” statement that almost EVERY word in it was a “weasel word”.
If a human had done this, he would be in jail. The government bureaucrat who did it needs to be in jail.
Regardless of the “Ottawa treaty on landmines”, setting booby-traps is generally a legal no-no.
I’ve always thought the ‘Iowa Spring Gun Case’ was wrong. But it was in a locked building. Here, the booby trap is out in the open. Wonder if a BLM employee was running a marajuana grow operation on the side and trying to discourage sight-seers.
I guess the feds didn’t post warning signs because they didn’t want the coyotes to read them and avoid the area.
These devices have been used for decades for predator control. I grant you, this one was a bit close to a house. I have had chickens, cats, and dogs attacked by coyotes. They are vicious killers and predators and much like liberals I have known. They have killed my chickens, cats, and inflicted serious wounds to my dogs. Signage for the traps should have been in place.
Chemical munition—WMD depending on how deployed—land mine.
The movie “Escape from, New York” comes to mind. The main character Snake Pliskin was injected with a lethal pellet that would kill him after a red-digital-countdown-clock-rundown scene if he didn’t carry out orders.
We don’t have sheep. Have sixteen and a half acres, but
much of it is river bottom land that floods. - I pity the
coyote that tangles with either our big dog, Dub, or our
cat, Cattbutt. The cat eats wildcat food and is a slasher.
She has eaten all the lizards on the place. Our last cat
would snap off the lizard tails, eat the tails & let the
lizards regrow their tails for later. Cattbutt, on the
other hand only lives for today and eats the whole lizard.
Cattbutt even slashes Fang if he gets on her bad side.
She won’t slash me for some reason (she hates to see me
cry) but leaves Fang bleeding every time he picks a fight
with her. Neighbor cats used to visit Cattbutt (Brutus),
but she was jealous and ran them all off - afraid they
were going to get petted by us. She’s a BUTT.
According to the news report it was on BLM land adjacent to the family’s property. And numerous other private lots.
It was on BLM land.
Agreed. The field of wildlife damage management has developed very sophisticated nonlethal techniques for dealing with these types of conflicts. It is the USDA Wildlife Services that is inefficient and inhumane, a total relic of the past.
Along with an overhaul of the decision making process the Wildlife Service should be integrated with other federal wildlife programs in the Department of Interior. Why it is in agriculture, spending millions of taxpayer dollars to kill millions of animals, when most of their budget has nothing to do with that I have no idea.
The real purpose of government is to provide lifetime employment for Democrat voters. Thus, functions get duplicated and multiplied.
That’s why welfare programs are spread across dozens of departments (Section 8 in Housing, Food Stamps in Agriculture, a separate “Women, Infants, and Children” program in Agriculture, etc, etc, each with its own staff to administer it).
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