Eleven-year-old Skylar Capo rescued a young woodpecker about to be eaten by a domestic cat. On the way home, she and her mother stopped at Lowe’s. As it was hot outside, Skylar brought the caged bird inside, where an officer of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service accosted them.
The problem was that the woodpecker is a protected species under the Federal Migratory Bird Act. Therefore, it is illegal to take or transport a baby woodpecker.
When they got home, they released the bird, which was old enough to fly away. They informed the officer, who agreed that was the right thing to do.
But roughly two weeks later, that same woman from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service showed up at Capo’s front door. This time, Capo says the woman was accompanied by a state trooper. Capo refused to accept a citation, but was later mailed a notice to appear in U.S. District Court for unlawfully taking a migratory bird. She’s also been slapped with a $535 fine.
The offense also carries a one-year prison sentence.
When CBS affiliate WUSA9 ran this story, their video mentioned that repeated attempts to contact Fish and Wildlife went unanswered. However, WUSA9 posted an addendum today, where Fish and Wildlife claimed the citation was “processed unintentionally despite our office’s request to cancel the ticket,” and that they sent the Capo’s a written apology.
CBS deserves commendation. Let’s also praise CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson, the only Old Media journalist who published early investigative reports on Fast and Furious. Hopefully this is a trend.
Gee, with all the important media circuses and kabuki dances the congress has to take time off from drinking booze on jet planes and attend, they still have time to micromanage woodpeckers. What would’ve happened if the kid hadn’t happened along? Arrest the cat? Where do they get all the feces they use to stuff in the heads of these people?
“Where do they get all the feces they use to stuff in the heads of these people?”
HA! Excellent question.
I am jealous of your username.
I must agree with “Suthenboy”, that is a great screen name. It made me smile and at this early hour that is rare.
Advice to Kid:
Next time say: “Bon Appetit, Chat” to cat.
Life is easier that way…
Did the US Fish & Wildlife agent have no say over whether or not to serve the citation two weeks later?
If no one is personally held accountable for a little bit of shaming, it’s another story for the “Oh, That Crazy Federal Government!” file, and nothing will ever change, but if the agent chose to be a hardass, or her boss directed her to be a hardass, somebody ought to be called out and pointed at.
Like the Sun, bless them, has chosen to do with the London rioters
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3742163/Do-you-know-a-riot-yob.html
Defund the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Oh, oops, I guess by saying this I am a terrorist since I am terrifying these people about the loss of their jobs.
If CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson is part of an honesty in media trend, I think it means she will be one of the first among many to knock at your door seeking new employment.
(Columbo voice): There’s just one little thing that bothers me. They just happened to have an empty birdcage on hand?
If you look at the container on the video, it’s designed for a small rodent. For emergency purposes, it worked for the bird. Reportedly, the girl wants to be a vet, so it’s not impossible that she has animals at home she needs to transport.
Thank God I live in Germany, a country that knows all too well the dangers inherit in a state where the police overstep their mandate to trample on the well-being and livelihood of the common man. The state looks after its people whilst allowing them to live as they see fit without undue interference. The US seems more and more to be following a fascist route; as its influence diminishes around the world, it seeks to enforce its dominance upon its own people. There doesn’t appear to be any hope given the general decline in its education system and completely ignorant, unqualified people who run for office and are given headlines due to notoriety rather than experience and ability. What a dystopia the US has become, and we in Europe, grateful for the US of three generations ago, can only shake our heads and bemoan the loss of a former model and friend.
And what happens if you put your garbage cans out one day too early? Tell us, oh free one…
It looks like we’re all flushing down the toilet of socialism together.
Europe on Brink of ‘Major Financial Collapse’: Guggenheim CIO
http://www.cnbc.com/id/43988195
Since we’re all running out of other people’s money, the real question to all is what are we willing to do differently to turn things around? Keir?
["...the real question to all is what are we willing to do differently to turn things around?"]
Whan a nations people have little ‘skin’ in the game and seeking even less, while demanding more benefit, the answer is rather obvious…is it not? And, I’m NOT addressing the block of folks receiving Social Security and Medicare. I’m addressing ALL the capitalist socialists in denial or in complete ignorance!
Tee hee! “All capitalist socialists”? A new socio-political class, created by Troll Troll. If you weren’t so funny you’d be a sad case. Maybe you should step away from the keyboard for a bit and read a good book like Bastiat’s The Law.
Don’t you get embarrassed by constantly parading your “denial” and “complete ignorance” in public? Not to mention your hate for anybody who doesn’t agree with you. (From what I’ve read in readers’ responses to your myriad posts, that would be everybody else.) That’s probably the saddest aspect.
Help is available. Just ask.
Theres one thing I do know better than you kids and the self annoited intellectuals.
The people and private sector commerce of all sizes have long had their hands in the government honey jar and both lips securely locked to the teats of the government.
At the slighest hint of a problem both the people and commerce go running to the government to fix it.
The ‘peoples and commerce own special interest groups live in the hall and back rooms of the government with their hands out demaning the government give them special attention, special favor and above all special monetary entitlements.
The private sector economies, no matter their size, exist by their own demands, on government handouts…government backed subsidies.
So, if one defines a society and commerce that relies on the government funding as socialists…as I do, then they are capitalist socialists….the concept of European socialism, Democratic socialism, etc. The U.S. problem is that 1) they deny being reliant on the government and 2) they don’t want to pay the taxes to the government necessary to sustain their demands of their individual and commerce socialist entitlements.
Want me to keep going or do you need a break to apply some more Preperation H?
Don’t you worry for a second about me or those who respond to me as children. I have thick skin and broad shoulders. What you can’t measure is the opinions of the traffic who come to this site, read, ponder and move on without commenting. I could care less about what most of the commenters have to say. I have every right to message and you or any others on here so long as I somewhat respect the rules. You want to censor me and ban me go right ahead as it would say far more about you than me.
“I have thick skin and broad shoulders.”
When people start protesting their attributes, I remember Shakespeare’s “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
“Theres one thing I do know better than you kids and the self annoited intellectuals.”
Like yourself. You keep posting here like you know something. By the way, my wife thinks you’re a fake. That you’re actually a kid with a keyboard courtesy of mommy and daddy.
“I could care less about what most of the commenters have to say.” See Shakespeare above. Also, your entire existence is tied up in responding when people point out your logic errors and downright bombastic, unsupported statements. So yes, you do care, more than you ought to. Maybe you should get a life away from the internet.
“Capitalist socialists”? Maybe when you write that economics book, we’ll consider you an expert on something.
Take your Shackspear books to the gas station and see how much gas they will buy you. Thats one of the problems with you self annoited intellectuals. But for some past literary, you run on empty in the real world.
Just try to remember thant out side of this site nobody has ever heard of Howie Nemerov and for certain, when yuou die not a sole in the world will give a hoot about how you self ordained yourself as some intellectual.
Wow! You invoke your wifes into your drivel! What a man!
What’s a ‘Shackspear’ book. Are you so proud of your stupidity that you insist on parading it in front of everybody? This is just more proof you’re a child; product of the modern education system. No thoughts, just feelings matter.
“Just try to remember thant out side of this site nobody has ever heard of Howie Nemerov”
It’s your own fault you don’t get out to the wider world and find out the truth. Maybe you should spend less time at the keyboard. By the way, what’s a ‘thant’?
“you self ordained yourself as some intellectual”
You keep posting here like you are some sort of intellectual. This is projection on your part, plain and simple.
My, my what an inflated ego you have! Like I said, you’re not even a blip on anybodys radar screen! If you were a BIG blip, as your ego tells you, you’d be in the top slot rolodex postion of every world leader.
Nope! You’re just another nobody pretending to be somebody!
My, my what an inflated ego you have! Like I said, you’re not even a blip on anybodys radar screen! If you were a BIG blip, as your ego tells you, you’d be in the top slot rolodex postion of every world leader.
Nope! You’re just another nobody pretending to be somebody!
By the way, I’ve read you puny litle resume at news busters and it says exactly what I stated above.