We can all feel safer knowing that the long arm of the law is in relentless pursuit of dangerous criminals like Skylar Capo.
GOVERNMENT TURNS TLC INTO CRIME, FINES THE CULPRIT
By Chuck Shepherd
News of the Weird
September 2, 2011
The heavy hand of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service landed on 11-year-old Skylar Capo and her mom in June, after an agent happened to spot Skylar holding a baby woodpecker in her hands at a Lowes home improvement store in Fredericksburg, Va.
Actually, Skylar had minutes before saved the woodpecker from the primed teeth of a house cat and was providing temporary TLC, intending to release the bird when the trauma had passed.
The agent, apparently, was unimpressed, reciting a provision of the Migratory Bird Act, and two weeks later, another Fish and Wildlife agent knocked on the Capos' door (accompanied by a Virginia state trooper) and served Mrs. Capo a citation calling for a $535 fine.
Finally in August, according to WUSA-TV, Fish and Wildlife officials relented, calling the agent's action a mistake.
1 comment:
I have never had a positive experiance with any fish and game officer.
There is no disgretion used by the folks that patrol our wildlife as with other officers in this state and I have always wondered why they are so heavy handed when enforcing fish and game laws?
Must be their love for animals...
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