given my absolute hatred for crows, i really don't feel sorry for her, specially since she HAS been warned... now if they would only put that crow posing as the POTUS in jail
Posted on 03/11/2014 4:08:33 PM PDT by PaulCruz2016
An elderly woman violated her probation by leaving bread crumbs out in her yard for crows and will remain behind bars.
Eighty-one-year-old Mary Musselman was first arrested last month for feeding bears in her backyard. One of the bears was euthanized over it because the Fish and Wildlife Service said the bears might learn not to be afraid of people anymore and then get aggressive.
The judge in the case warned Musselman not to feed any more wild animals of any kind:
A judge gave her probation at the time, and made it clear: Do it again, and go to jail. She did, was arrested in January, and the case ignited controversy when Musselman was held without bond.
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Feeding bears isn’t a good thing but I throw bread, suet and leftovers out for the crows, ravens and magpies every day.
I live in Sebring FL and know this family. The lady has significant dementia. She does not belong in jail
Sounds like my 100+ yo mother! Although she's very sharp in many ways, I see changes in her behavior that I find unexplainable.
Article doesn’t say where this is but at my wife’s family cabin in Cloudcroft NM you have to keep trash inside until you take it to the community bear-proof bins. Attracting bears to the residential area puts neighbors and their pets in danger. It sounds like this lady is mentally not there and a nursing home would probably be better than prison but her actions put her neighbors at risk and needed to be stopped.
Why, she’s almost a bird based supervillain!
Does she belong in a neighborhood drawing bears to that neighborhood by feeding them?
We will not be safe until she is in prison.
Same here with my 85 y/o Dad. I think it sometimes has to do with the ongoing and very visible loss of control over their lives and their physical environments. My Dad may say, I can’t walk as I used to, and I can’t drive a car either, but BY GUM I’ll be DAMNED if I have my children tell ME to move out of my own house!!! Never mind that the family house is literally falling apart. We stopped fighting it, my sister’s and me. We will enjoy my Dad on his terms while he is still here. I don’t wish to be on anybody’s Sh#t List. He does hold on to his grudges! Sometimes I catch myself doing the same thing.
She's endangering her neighbors by attracting bears and she's already gotten one bear put down. She needs to obey the judge's orders.
The DOW says the bear had become a danger to the area, becoming too comfortable around humans.
Bears which are habituated to people are dangerous to the entire community. This lady does no one any favors by taming the bears, including the bears themselves.
Her hobby will more than likely end with the death of bears, and/or injuries among her neighbours.
She was forbidden from feeding any animals only after she snubbed her nose at the judge's orders repeatedly. In her mind, the birds and the bears are more important than the people in the community.
If she has mental health issues and can't understand this, where is her family?
given my absolute hatred for crows, i really don't feel sorry for her, specially since she HAS been warned... now if they would only put that crow posing as the POTUS in jail
Was it in Atlas Shrugged where one of the characters says that it would soon be illegal to do anything?
But being senile does excuse her.
bread crumbs will attract bears
and
bears attract lead
Next up: Controlling birds to attack people!
[Easily done, I have a lovebird who will do just that.]
attack lovebirds... what WILL they think of next???
Peaches even has a pegleg, making the scene quite surreal.
We moved mom into assisted living when she was 99. She’s going on 101 now. She had broken her leg and had spent 100 days in rehab. She refused to have household help, and I live 2500 miles away.
She always cried “poor” although she has a nice monthly teacher’s retirement and savings. She fought tooth and nail, but we explained that social services was not going to allow her to go back to her home unassisted. We finally got her into assisted living where she is cared for royally, and she admits that. But, she still complains.
She has acquired odd food habits which make no sense. She insists that the young aides at AL are stealing her makeup and using her bathroom. Yet, she refuses to lock her door!
She carries a big hair pick clutched next to her purse at all times. She takes this down to meals. I try to get her to put it INSIDE her purse, and she refuses. This is a woman who, if I had brought a comb or a brush to the table when I was growing up, would lecture me 3 ways from Sunday about how unsanitary that was. But she’s 100 now and she does it all the time. I finally bought her a purse with an outside zipper pocket that would hold this comb with just a little piece of the handle sticking out so that it would not be so evident.
I think that when aides see the comb they will use it to fluff her hair sometimes, and I think she likes the attention. It is the only reason I can supply for this odd behavior.
In her absence from her house over the past year, Meth addicts broke in and stole a lot of her thinks and made a real mess. I shudder to think what might have happened to her if she had stayed there. The house has been sold and her car given to a granddaughter. The money is in the bank and supporting her in a lovely place.
can you climb up on her shoulder and, wait, nevermind...
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