Owner bereft after state takes away her pet duck

Seattle Times ^ | 17 AUG 05 | By Maureen O’Hagan

[Publius6961]

Put down that duck and back away... slowly!

These wildlife Keystone Kops are an embarrassment.

[momf]

" She found a Web site that sold custom-made duck diapers and had a pair fitted for Gooey.

"....speechless....""

I certainly would think so. The "Web site" comment seems appropriate, though

[momf]

That was a young boy who had to watch them confiscate the bird he'd saved.

[Publius6961]

She got the duck back, on the condition that she release it when its ready to fly.

Did the duck-Taliban get a few sessions of sensitivity training? Did they get fired?

How about if when the duck is "released" it decides to hang around? They gonna machine-gun it away?

[Prime Choice]

Their seizure of the duck is therefore illegal, and they are therefore guilty of a Federal crime

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for them to be prosecuted for it. The feds cover for their own.

[Prime Choice]

One day the "authorities" are going to hassle the wrong person.

What do you think happened at Waco?

[Not A Snowbird]

From the King County Journal:

Under the release agreement, Erdmann ``must release the duck within several months, once it is ready for flight,'' Koenings said. Also, Erdmann must allow a Fish and Wildlife biologist to check on Gooey's welfare, ``as needed,'' Koenings said.

Whether Gooey would actually fly away from Erdmann, or whether state biologists actually have the time to make house calls on ducks wasn't clear Friday night.

Clearly they haven't thought that far ahead.

[Hildy]

A duck walks into a hardware store and says to the attendant "have you got any grapes?"

The attendant replies "NO this is a hard ware store we don't have any grapes"

The duck shrugs his shoulders and walks out.

The following day the duck walks back into the same hardware store "you got any grapes?"

The attendant looks at the duck and shouts "I told you yesterday that we dont have any grapes, now get out of my store!"

The next day the duck walks back into the hardware store and quacks "you got any grapes?"

The attendant looks at the duck in disbelief and screams "Look I have told you three times now that we dont have any grapes and if you come in here again asking for grapes then I am going to nail your flat webbed feet to the floor, you got it ?. Now get out of my store!!!"

Next day the duck walks back into the store "You got any nails?"

The attendant, surprised, says "No, we're all out of nails."

"Good", says the duck. "You got any grapes?"

[Casekirchen]

I'm glad to see that Wash State is ignoring all of those "trivial" problems such as murder, rape, drug use, voter fraud, pollution and Mount St Helen's so that they can focus on this much more "important" crisis.

[Andy'smom]

"WHERE IS PETA WHEN YOU NEED THEM????"


PETA would kill the duck. They would rather see an animal dead than have it be someone's pet.

[somemoreequalthanothers]

I still am amazed the media gives the clinton administration a free pass on that.

[Dust in the Wind]

"Meanwhile, Hansen gave very clear orders: No search warrant, no duck.
The officers didn’t see it that way.

The wildlife officers are like that in many states.

[Dust in the Wind]

BUT; Migratory birds (ducks) are regulated under international treaties that are administered by Federal law and it's agents. In this case being the state DOW officers. See why they get overzealous.

[zeebee]

How's this:

[Focault's Pendulum]

Viaduct....vy not a chicken?

[Prime Choice]

I still am amazed the media gives the clinton administration a free pass on that.

I'm not. If Bush did a fraction of the atrocities against Americans as Clinton did, the Leftists would be crying for his head on a pike. ...but since ol' Billy Jeff had "the best of intentions," it's all A-OK in the eyes of the mainstream (sic) media and other anti-American bigots.

What really steamed me was when Clinton blamed the OKC bombing on Conservative radio hosts. Un-frickin'-real. Imagine if Bush had blamed 9/11 on anti-American liberals. The Leftists would have gone nuclear.

[Marine_Uncle]

"How's this:"
Looks like Maj. Wolfgang Hochstetter is going to be in trouble with Warner Bros..

[Prime Choice]

ROTFLOL! That's perfect! (Or should I say, Thaaaat's despicable! *spit flying everywhere*)

[sourcery]

Migratory birds (ducks) are regulated under international treaties that are administered by Federal law and it's agents. In this case being the state DOW officers.

Title 18 Section 242 does not exempt Federal officials. And the Fourth Ammendment cannot be repealed by a treaty. The point here is that the law necessary to remedy this situation already exists. What is lacking is the requisite political pressure to get the law enforced. Hmmmm...I wonder how that could be changed...

[Dust in the Wind]

"Title 18 Section 242 does not exempt Federal officials. And the Fourth Ammendment cannot be repealed by a treaty."

That is how I understand it also, but you know how they treat the law at the federal level, forgetting they are at the bottom and not the top of the trickle down hill.