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Quarrel over bear trap goes to court
New Jersey Star Ledger ^ | September 12, 2004 | AMANDA GERUT AND JIM LOCKWOOD

Posted on 09/12/2004 5:54:15 PM PDT by ZULU

Then Leonard and Priscilla Smith encountered longtime animal rights activist Angi Metler, who ended up locking herself inside a bear trap in the front yard of the elderly couple's cottage in Highland Lakes when their discussion about the area's black bears went bad. That meeting that warm late summer day has lead to a series of legal charges being levied by the Smiths against Metler, by the police against Metler, by Metler against Priscilla Smith -- and most recently by the state against Metler. As a result, Metler will end up taking her battle into Vernon's municipal courts. And the Smiths now find themselves reluctantly thrust into a battle involving one of the most heated issues in the state. Priscilla Smith is scheduled to make her first court appearance on Tuesday, and both women are expected to go to trial on Oct. 12.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: animalrights; animalrightswackos; bears; hunting
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1 posted on 09/12/2004 5:54:15 PM PDT by ZULU
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"...who ended up locking herself inside a bear trap in the front yard of the..."

He should have tranquilized her, put a collar on her the driven her out into the woods and dumped her.

2 posted on 09/12/2004 5:56:20 PM PDT by CWOJackson
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To: CWOJackson; ZULU

It is really time to move away from New Jersey.


3 posted on 09/12/2004 5:58:41 PM PDT by jocon307 (Ann Coulter was right)
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To: jocon307
It is really time to move away from New Jersey.

I finally fled the Garden State, moved to PA in June. Best thing I ever did!

Tom

4 posted on 09/12/2004 6:01:25 PM PDT by fatboy
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To: ZULU
"These people came on my property," Priscilla Smith said. "They're like terrorists."

Yet another citizen finally comes to appreciate the true nature of envirowhackos.

5 posted on 09/12/2004 6:01:43 PM PDT by Prime Choice (The Log Cabin Republicans AREN'T.)
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To: Prime Choice; farmfriend; AAABEST; SierraWasp

A must read about least coast envirowhacko ping.


6 posted on 09/12/2004 6:04:43 PM PDT by Issaquahking (U.N., greenies, etc. battling against the U.S. and Constitution one freedom at a time. Fight Back !)
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...who ended up locking herself inside a bear trap in the front yard of the elderly couple's cottage in Highland Lakes when their discussion about the area's black bears went bad.

This is why one should avoid even talking to left wing nutjobs whenever possible...
7 posted on 09/12/2004 6:09:15 PM PDT by Welsh Rabbit
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To: Welsh Rabbit

Is this a live trap, or something like that? What's the whacko's problem?

Never mind...I don't really want to know.


8 posted on 09/12/2004 6:11:52 PM PDT by Judith Anne (Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Grandma is beating off the Indians, and they keep on coming.)
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To: ZULU

Once again we have clear evidence that the "animal rights" business is not about animals but about hatred of people.


9 posted on 09/12/2004 6:17:35 PM PDT by bad company (What's the font kenneth?)
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To: ZULU

It must have been a live trap, so what's this person's darn problem?


10 posted on 09/12/2004 6:18:55 PM PDT by Beaker (They're coming to take me away haha...)
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To: Beaker

Dead from the ears up.


11 posted on 09/12/2004 6:25:31 PM PDT by Old Professer (The enemy is among us; he is us; we know it, we dare not say it - someone will be offended.)
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To: ZULU

That meeting that warm late summer day has lead to a series of legal charges being levied by the:
1. Smiths against Metler, by the
2. police against Metler, by
3. Metler against Priscilla Smith -- and most recently by
4. the state against Metler.

I would say metler may have a problem - does this mean their is some sanity in the govt in NJ?


12 posted on 09/12/2004 6:29:15 PM PDT by steplock
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for the language gestapo:

"does this mean their is some sanity in the govt in NJ?"
should read:
"does this mean THERE is some sanity in the govt in NJ?"


13 posted on 09/12/2004 6:30:12 PM PDT by steplock
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To: ZULU

When I trap critters in a live trap, I either shoot them at the base of the skull with bird-shot or suffocate them with auto exhaust. Drowing, of course, is another option, but the reservoir of water available might limit the size of the beast one could handle. Surely there must be a convenient middle ground in dealing with these varmints...


14 posted on 09/12/2004 6:32:27 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (What freakin' frequency are you on, Kenneth...NPR?)
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To: ZULU

Never a lack of stupid people in the world....


15 posted on 09/12/2004 6:34:29 PM PDT by TheBattman (ISLAM - The SATANIC CULT of DEATH)
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To: Old Professer
Dead from the ears up.
Hahaha. :-) This woman reminds me of the nut job that lived across the street from me that tried to steal my dog!
16 posted on 09/12/2004 7:01:41 PM PDT by Beaker (They're coming to take me away haha...)
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To: Issaquahking

Does the bear poop in the trap? I know it poops in the woods!!! Did she bathe after squeezin into that trap? Why didn't they release that whacko back into the wild so she could crawl back under them rocks and hibernate fur the winter???


18 posted on 09/12/2004 7:51:27 PM PDT by SierraWasp (God Bless AMERICA...The most exceptional nation ever to exist on EARTH!!! (except to Demonicrats)
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To: ZULU
Leonard Smith told the activists to leave his property, and that was when Metler jumped into the trap and locked herself in, DiPirro said. Police arrived, removed her from the cage and charged her with obstruction.



Leave her in there, turn on the water sprinkler and turn off the hearing aid. If the woman is still there after about 4 hrs, call the cops.
19 posted on 09/12/2004 8:51:13 PM PDT by taxcontrol (People are entitled to their opinion - no matter how wrong it is.)
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"I would say metler may have a problem - does this mean their is some sanity in the govt in NJ?"

I wouldn't be so sanguine.

It probably will wind up before little Debbie Poritz and the other half-baked political loons who sit on Chrissie Wgitman's State Supreme Court. You know - the nutjobs who let the Dems get away with the Torricelli bait and switch, and illegally let McGreevey violate the New Jersey State Constitution by floating bonds to balance the State Budget -
but just this one time!


20 posted on 09/13/2004 4:17:23 AM PDT by ZULU (Fear the government which fears your guns. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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