Posted on 12/07/2024 7:17:31 AM PST by Libloather
P’Nut can’t rest in peace.
The headless body of the world’s most famous squirrel is currently being held in a refrigerated room somewhere in upstate New York, The Post has learned.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation is preserving it as “evidence” from its agents’ harried November raid on a home in Chemung County, where they seized P’Nut the Squirrel and his raccoon pal, Fred, and then euthanized the beloved pets, according to an agency spokesperson.
Their heads were cut off for rabies testing, which proved neither animal was infected with the deadly disease.
The whereabouts and status of the animals’ actual noggins, meanwhile, are entirely unknown.
A state Department of Health spokesperson refused to confirm the location of their remains or whether the critters had been shipped off to the agency’s Wadsworth Center rabies lab in Slingerlands, citing pending litigation by the animals’ grieving owner, Mark Longo.
Longo had hoped get his pets’ bodies back for a formal burial and funeral.
He said he immediately put in a request for the remains but received only radio silence.
“We filed paperwork for it, and that’s what kind of hurt the most — they didn’t answer to it,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I’m going to guess they would call it a ‘Winter’ or ‘Holiday’ party before they call it a ‘Christmas’ party.
Chemung County Sheriff’s Office will arrest your naughty Elf on the Shelf
“The state Department of Environmental Conservation is preserving it as “evidence”
Yeah it was quite the caper wasn’t it?
Nice to know Barney Fife is on the case. SMH
Maybe I’m dense, but that is just stupid.
Rabies expert says NYS’s own data reveal why it was ‘insane’ to kill, decapitate P’Nut the squirrel
And from the UK...
BTW, did we ever find out what Mrs. Largo's immigration status had to do with this...?
Especially since there is a plethora of migrants running around NYS that state and local LE have zero interest in...
When it comes to government, that’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
The reason Americans are worked up about P’Nut being seized in an illegal swat-style raid by government goons and then decapitated is that the entire episode is emblematic of government brutality and overreach in the United States. Our public “servants” in government need to be smacked down hard and taught how to behave.
I hope hot pants Hochul is proud of her police state. What’s next? Raids on family dogs? Cats? Despicable.
> Maybe I’m dense, but that is just stupid. <
Well, let’s see. You’ve got a toy elf on your shelf. And there are young children in the house. A bunch of deputies come into your house and grab the elf.
This program is supposed to teach children how law enforcement works. More likely it will just confuse and scare them.
So, yeah. It’s a very stupid idea.
Which budget did this come out of...Waste?...good grief. Total insanity. He’ll probably get $100,000 from Hochul...to make it right.
These Government agents Break into a home with a Warrant to search same for a wild animal and in the process of taking the animal the animal allegedly scratches the idiot taking him from his home.
The Officer then claims he may be infected by the Rabies virus when the owner of the pet Knew the animal never exhibited any such symptoms. So the state Murders that Pet as well as a pet Raccoon.
The government at all levels wonder why the citizens hate these bastards so much.
You’re dealing with unelected bureaucrats — they answer to no one.
What is needed is a nationwide social media campaign that makes fun of and condemns Governor Jackboots herself, as well as the goons who work for her. Trump and Elon need to weigh in, constantly, until this crap drops.
Evidence - of WHAT, exactly. This case is over, and the thugs in NY are only holding the bodies of these animals to increase the emotional distress and sense of powerlessness of the owners.
The owners should sue the state - even if they can’t win, the will win in both the court of public opinion and by having a GoFundMe campaign.
P’nut died so we may have Trump! May he rest in peace in squirrel heaven(along with Fred!)
Have the kids meet the deputies on the lawn and yell “Squirrell killers!!” and “Justice for P’nut!”
“..Our public “servants” in government need to be smacked down hard and taught how to behave....”
In this case, they should get the EXACT same treatment they gave Peanut.
In Fauxi’s case, he should get the EXACT same treatment he gave those beagle pups.
The county sheriff’s department has denied any involvement in the raid.
FWIW.
But A) the idea is still incredibly creepy.
And B) crime is high, manpower low.
But I daresay playing with darling kids beats dealing with drunks, murderers, domestic abusers, thieves...
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