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Cops nab bizarre Prospect Park poachers (Brooklyn, NY)
The Brooklyn Paper ^ | 7-29-2011 | Natalie O’Neill

Posted on 07/30/2011 6:37:18 PM PDT by Renfield

Cops have busted a group of oddball poachers in Prospect Park — a band of vagrants that was trapping and eating ducks, squirrels and pigeons.

Parks officers wrote four tickets — two for killing wildlife and two for illegal fishing — totaling $2,100 in fines during a two-day period last week. BoroDeal

The city would not immediately release details of the incidents, which occurred on July 17 and 18 — just days after park-goers told rangers about a “Beverly Hillbillies”-like scene on the southeast side of the lake, near the ice skating rink.

“This is a dodgy group,” said park-goer Peter Colon, who spotted one of the men catching a pigeon while his friend started a fire. “They are the most threatening people in the park.”

The disheveled — and possibly homeless — tribe in question uses “makeshift” fishing poles and traps to catch the critters, then grills them over the fire, according to park watchdogs.

“One woman uses a net to bag the ducks,” said wildlife advocate Johanna Clearfield.

Wildlife advocates have long pushed the Parks Department to crackdown on illegal hunting and fishing in Prospect Park — especially after a stunning array of cases in which geese and cygnets were injured by illegal barbed fishhooks and lure.

In the most-dramatic case, a plucky little goose who lost the top half of his beak to a fishhook earned him endless sympathy and the nickname, “Beaky.”

The fishing and hunting ticket blitz comes while park-goers collect and document large mounds of fishing wire, claiming waterfowl are frequently get tangled.

And it’s not the first time that poachers have been busted. Last year, park-goers confronted a man after spotting him catching fish and secreting them into a bag — a violation of the city’s “catch-and-release” rules.

After being confronted, the man dumped the dead fish back into the lake.

The new poaching busts bring to mind last year’s wave of animal murders by the so-called “Butcher of Prospect Park,” whose death toll included waterfowl, chickens, turtles and a goat.

For now, wildlife advocates were hailing this month’s busts.

“The fact that they’re ticketing is great — it’s so badly needed,” said goose lover Mary Beth Artz. “I hope they keep it up.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: brooklyn; default; economy; poaching; shtf; teotwawki; vagrants
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1 posted on 07/30/2011 6:37:21 PM PDT by Renfield
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To: Renfield
What good does it do to ticket a homeless geek?
2 posted on 07/30/2011 6:40:27 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Renfield
When Vietnamese go hunting they shoot everything that moves. Tree rats, chipmunks, crows, starlings, it's a pretty wild scene.

Americans will be doing the same around the country just to survive in another decade.

3 posted on 07/30/2011 6:42:22 PM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
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To: Renfield
was trapping and eating ducks, squirrels and pigeons.

Wait... That's not allowed? The squirrels here are rejoicing. We haven't had pigeons around here for a while. Mmmm. Squab.

/johnny

4 posted on 07/30/2011 6:45:05 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Renfield

Central Park will soon be renamed as the Baraq Hussein Obama Hunting Preserve. It will be a legacy of his destruction of the US economy, and when unemployment payments run out.

Next come the soup lines.


5 posted on 07/30/2011 6:47:14 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: JRandomFreeper

I’ve seen some nice, fat raccoons in my neighborhood.


6 posted on 07/30/2011 6:47:34 PM PDT by Macrinus
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To: Renfield

Ironic in that only recently the city caused a public uproar over its plans to thin the overpopulated herd of geese making its home in the park.


7 posted on 07/30/2011 6:47:58 PM PDT by lbryce (BHO:Satan's Evil Twin)
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To: Candor7
Brooklyn is loaded with Muslims.
8 posted on 07/30/2011 6:50:02 PM PDT by angcat (DEAR GOD PLEASE SAVE US!)
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To: blackdog
Americans will be doing the same around the country just to survive in another decade.

I disagree. It will be next year.

9 posted on 07/30/2011 6:50:34 PM PDT by 2111USMC (Not a hard man to track. Leaves dead men wherever he goes.)
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To: 2111USMC

I didn’t want to start a panic and let all the fat squirrels get eaten before christmas.


10 posted on 07/30/2011 6:52:52 PM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
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To: angcat
Brooklyn is loaded with Muslims.

Thanks, but I like squirrel and duck just fine.

/johnny

11 posted on 07/30/2011 6:53:05 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: angcat

Is it legal to cook them//?????


12 posted on 07/30/2011 6:56:43 PM PDT by org.whodat (What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)
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To: angcat

I read a few years ago about Muzzies killing and barbecuing swans in Windsor Park. Of course THEY practically had immunity.

I guess these people were neither Muzzies nor Meskins.


13 posted on 07/30/2011 6:56:56 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: angcat

Do they last like chicken are more like possum.!!


14 posted on 07/30/2011 7:00:37 PM PDT by org.whodat (What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)
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To: angcat

I know, I was there three weeks ago visiting a friend who was in town for a few days from Japan.The schools have Muslim names.


15 posted on 07/30/2011 7:02:13 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Renfield

I wonder how many “Coney Island whitefish”, as Law and Order’s Lenny Briscoe Jerry Orbach) called them, these poachers caught.


16 posted on 07/30/2011 7:02:32 PM PDT by Mobties (Reduce the government footprint! Let the markets work!)
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To: Renfield

Imagine how the left would spin this during a Republican administration...


17 posted on 07/30/2011 7:02:45 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Renfield

‘said goose lover Mary Beth Artz. “I hope they keep it up.”’

Well, it struck my funny bone...


18 posted on 07/30/2011 7:07:26 PM PDT by mrsmith
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To: org.whodat
A few years ago the NYC Gov brought in and released a large amount of opossums to control the rat population. Now we still have rats and Opossums. Along with the Raccoons and the occasional Coyote. And about a Billion Pidgins.
19 posted on 07/30/2011 7:08:08 PM PDT by JimC214
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To: hinckley buzzard

Bush`s fault.


20 posted on 07/30/2011 7:12:58 PM PDT by weldAllday (Elections have Consequences)
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