Posted on 01/30/2022 11:06:58 AM PST by nickcarraway
The trial of a Limestone County, Alabama, man who allegedly kept a squirrel supplied with methamphetamine to make it attack people has been delayed.
Mickey Joel Paulk’s trial was scheduled to start Monday, but it was continued until Feb. 28, according to court documents.
Paulk faces charges for possession of a wild animal, stolen property and possession of a weapon by a felon. He was arrested in June 2019.
Paulk, 39, has other charges to deal with, too, according to court records.
He was arrested Dec. 23, 2021, on charges of chemical endangerment of a child and trafficking methamphetamine, as well as some drug and weapons charges. According to documents, Paulk was indicted back in June 2021 of the chemical endangerment charge and in January 2021 of the trafficking count.
A manhunt began for Paulk on June 18, 2019, when a drug bust in Athens turned up meth, ammunition and body armor.
Also found was a caged squirrel. Before authorities acted on a search warrant, they were told that Paulk fed meth to the animal to keep it aggressive. The sheriff’s office said it released the squirrel into a wooded area.
“There was no safe way to test the squirrel for meth,” Limestone County Sheriff Mike Blakely’s office said in a June 18, 2019, statement shortly after the bust. The squirrel garnered national fame when the story came to light.
Paulk released a video the day after the bust with a squirrel that he claimed was the same one released by sheriff’s deputies. He denied that he fed the squirrel meth.
Everybody needs a hobby.
The picture should have a caption “Hunter Biden if he had been born poor.”
The perp can go directly to hell, but God help that poor abused squirrel.
So it’s a rodent. So what? I buy squirrel food for my adorable squirrels and feed them every night. By the time I get up, they’ve eaten everything. I would never buy anything for that monstrous excuse for a human.
I don’t think Hunter has the persistence or work ethic to train a squirrel like this.
Okaaay…when HE says he didn’t give the squirrel meth…I believe him!
You ever notice how pets and their owners sometimes resemble each other???
I heard that there was so much cocaine at the Playboy mansion that the dogs were addicted due to so much spilling on the floors.
“Paulk faces charges for possession of a wild animal a wild animal, stolen property and possession of a weapon by a felon.”
Any more possession of a wild animal is a felony and possession stolen property and possession of a weapon by a felon are misdemeanors.
Uh-oh. Has anyone tested Punxsutawney Phil?
That’s One
Tweaking Rodent!
wonder if his name was “rocky”... 😁...
I know squirrels are rodents, but I admit I have come to both enjoy and admire them over time!
I think it is because they are like some subspecies of humans…they remind me of us…
From the story the “training” was just this methhead feeding meth to the squirrel so therefor I think Hunter Biden could pull it off. Hunter might be incapable of sharing though..
Waiting for the story of the squirrel who attacked a man on a motorcycle.
You’re theory that squirrels are similar to primates is pretty accurate. The first primate-like mammals are referred to as proto-primates. They were roughly similar to squirrels and tree shrews in size and appearance. It is a good example of convergent evolution where an arboreal existence exerts natural selection pressures to evolve similar physical attributes, intelligence, and behaviors.
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