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Lead investigator behind seizing of P'Nut the squirrel is unmasked - as officials give an update
Daily Mail ^ | 11-9-24 | ALEXA CIMINO

Posted on 11/09/2024 3:09:21 PM PST by dynachrome

State investigators are probing the circumstances surrounding the death of the beloved Instagram famous P'Nut the squirrel.

The DEC is conducting an internal investigation into the controversial raid on Mark Longo's home, where both P'Nut and Fred the raccoon were seized and euthanized.

Despite Longo's claims that officers wore protective gloves, the animals were killed and decapitated for rabies testing after P'Nut allegedly bit an agent's hand.

'An internal investigation into the matter is ongoing, and we are reviewing internal policies and procedures to ensure we continue serving this core mission,' a DEC spokesperson told The New York Post on Friday.

State and local health departments, including the DEC, the state Health Department, and the Chemung County Health Department, have been tight-lipped about the rabies test results and the condition of the injured agent.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: dec; fred; fredtheraccoon; governmentoverreach; joshuacrain; longo; marklongo; murdered; newyork; pnut; pnutthesquirrel; raccoon; richardrich; richardwrich; richardwrichjr; squirrel; wildlife
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To: dynachrome

What animal control officer handles a wild animal with bare hands? No leather?

No buying it.


21 posted on 11/09/2024 3:43:47 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: abb

The judges name is in the article. But you kind of have to read the article. 😏


22 posted on 11/09/2024 3:48:27 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: dynachrome

There was no rabies concern, until they went to the house and someone got bit.

They went there in the first place because the animals were being kept without a license.


23 posted on 11/09/2024 3:49:51 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Georgia Girl 2

I read it and found the name, even though it is kinda against FR rules to read articles, lol!


24 posted on 11/09/2024 3:50:56 PM PST by abb
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Reading the article!?! Unheard of!


25 posted on 11/09/2024 3:52:02 PM PST by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Billthedrill

First, they came for Peanut . . .


26 posted on 11/09/2024 4:00:57 PM PST by omni-scientist
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To: dynachrome

‘We ask that the public keep in mind that [DEC officers] are their friends, family, and neighbors and do not deserve to live in fear for upholding the law,’ the union said.


article conclusion


27 posted on 11/09/2024 4:04:23 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: dynachrome
P'Nut allegedly bit an agent's hand.

Good.

28 posted on 11/09/2024 4:04:37 PM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us )
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To: dynachrome

a sane and rational bureaucracy would have handled this with a letter

please register your wild animals

if you do not by xx date you will be fined


29 posted on 11/09/2024 4:06:23 PM PST by joshua c
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To: j.havenfarm

Giving small people just enough power to feel big....


30 posted on 11/09/2024 4:11:12 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: dynachrome

What is the point of killing the animal to determine if it had rabies? Isn’t there some blood test available? Not buying their excuse.


31 posted on 11/09/2024 4:16:29 PM PST by Albion Wilde (“Did you ever meet a woke person that’s happy? There’s no such thing.” —Donald J. Trump)
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To: dynachrome

Hopefully Joshua Crane is running for his life right about now.

L


32 posted on 11/09/2024 4:19:52 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Albion Wilde

I’ve always heard the virus lodges in brain tissue. So to find the virus or not you have to go there.

The stormtrooper animal control officer wouldn’t have been bit if had left the squirrel alone.


33 posted on 11/09/2024 4:20:02 PM PST by Reily
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To: dynachrome


34 posted on 11/09/2024 4:21:34 PM PST by Albion Wilde (“Did you ever meet a woke person that’s happy? There’s no such thing.” —Donald J. Trump)
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To: abb

You vill zee DEMERITZ! MANY DEMERITZ!!


35 posted on 11/09/2024 4:26:56 PM PST by Spacetrucker
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To: CivilWarBrewing
Wow. What a statement for the 21st. Century.

Bravo. Wish I’d thought of it.

36 posted on 11/09/2024 4:28:49 PM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
But you kind of have to read the article.

Not going to happen. Won't do it.😏

37 posted on 11/09/2024 4:34:13 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: telescope115

I wish it was my idea as well. I found it on the web. Indeed very poignant. P’nut didn’t die in vein!


38 posted on 11/09/2024 4:37:24 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Reily

I undertand that. But killing the animal would have done nothing to determine whether or not the agent got it. One of my neighbors when I was a kid had a pet squirrel in a very large cage on her screen porch. One day it bit her, and her doctor then made her take the painful rabies shots as a preventative step. No killing of the animal needed to happen.


39 posted on 11/09/2024 4:43:00 PM PST by Albion Wilde (“Did you ever meet a woke person that’s happy? There’s no such thing.” —Donald J. Trump)
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To: Reily

Unless the squirrel developed symptoms, that is.


40 posted on 11/09/2024 4:43:55 PM PST by Albion Wilde (“Did you ever meet a woke person that’s happy? There’s no such thing.” —Donald J. Trump)
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