Apparently Democrats don’t like a squirrels or raccoons but they love illegal immigrants

This is one of those things that needs to go viral and people's lives need to be ruined forever. And quoting "the law" is a bunch of BS. This is a clear case where the law exists to prevent abuse and is not required to be strictly and rigidly enforced at all times. Think speed limits.

 

This story is ridiculous. It was an injured squirrel he rescued and tried to release, but it wasn't able to live in the wild. So he adopted it and did videos and they were a big hit. Then some loser complained (may they die of the slowest and most painful form of anal cancer) to the authorities and they send in a SWAT team to acquire the animals and kill them.

To be fair, this is the kind of bureaucratic bone-headedness - completely devoid of a shred of common sense - that fuels MAGA. And it's hard not to blame them when you see overreach like this.

 

It also requires that you do not exceed the speed limit, but we don't have radars and cameras every 1000ft to strictly maintain that do we? That's because - in both cases - the law is more of a tool to prevent abuse than something to be rigidly and strictly enforced at all times.

Common sense should have won out here. It didn't. Everyone involved here needs to pay a dear price so a message can be sent.

 

Somebody somewhere is busy printing Peanut the Squirrel t-shirts

Peanut the Squirrel euthanized: Social media reacts to the animal's death

 

I googled the story and got the detail you did. My take is it is an instance where laws and regulations are put in, with good intentions, but sometimes there are instances where enforcement leads to a poor outcome, yet everybody involved feels like they have to follow the letter of the law/reg.

In a completely different example, I have been arrested and my disabled autistic adult son has been arrested for family violence charges - I tried to restrain my violent and crazy bipolar daughter once and I was arrested. My autistic son got a butter knife and threatened me with me with it and he was arrested. Both sets of charges were eventually dropped. Police are bound by family violence laws to arrest somebody when they see anything that may look like family violence, regardless of what the parties in question want. These laws were put in because of battered wife scenarios where spouse won’t press charges, but then they are completely inflexible in other different situations.

Another example is anti abortion laws and impact in mothers with problematic pregnancy.

This isn’t a partisan problem. It happens on both left and right.

 

The fact that everyone in the process was so tone deaf is something I simply can't stand. Your situation is equally ridiculous. Couldn't have just held them until he gets the paperwork finished up? These exist not to be enforced rigidly, but as a tool for law enforcement so they can deal with a domestic abuse situation or if some goofball decides to run an animal farm out of his house.

The fact that nobody had the guts, brains or wherewithal to stop and say, "Hey, this is a really terrible idea!" is beyond sad. Especially when one considers the general political and social tone these days.

Again, I want people to pay, for their lives to be ruined. A message needs to be sent so that, hopefully, people will use their brains next time around instead of just slavishly following some script.

 

I don't see anyone suggesting it's okay or that this wasn't a bunch of morons doing morons work.

 

I can’t speak to what options they had in this situation, but in many cases laws and regulations are written such that you don’t have the choice to “do the right thing”, or if you do you risk your job or may even be breaking the law.

 

I think the squirrel should have been executed publicly, to send a message to other squirrels. All the "tough on crime" people are really showing its all for show here.

 

That doesn't seem like a good thing. . . outside of child abuse, etc. Again, we don't have cameras and radars evey 1000ft to insure nobody does 36 in a 35.

 

I was thinking about the person who called in the complaint. . . and REAL drawing and quartering. Or breaking on the wheel. Either works for me.

 

This is a story that overly online MAGAts will make some kind of difference tomorrow. You have to be down a Gateway Pundit rabbit hole of illogic to get it.

 

I dont care for narcs and Karens, but we have 100% gone the wrong way in the people having weird pets direction. Florida is a dumping ground for people's weird pets, I dont want to see some kind of deregulation either.

 

Again, this is clearly a unique situation and smarter heads should have prevailed. There's really no arguing that. That's why the law exists, so LEA's can deal with the kooks when they have to. But there is no requirement that laws like this need to be rigidly enforced, to the letter in every situation. It's horrible PR, it's pissed off millions and it's accomplished literally nothing positive.

 

I'm the farthest thing from a MAGAt and I'm am really, really pissed off about this. Stupid. Completely unnecessary. And, honestly, lends credence to a lot of the conspiracy nonsense floating around. Well played idiots.

Again, publish the names. Ruin their lives. They deserve it just for being that tone deaf and dumb.

 

Blame the idiots who think "broken windows" policing works, until then this is how its going to be. Our whole notion of policing is you have to punish petty crimes because society will collapse if you dont. We couldnt even handle people camping in public being legal for a few years, they ran back to the courts so they could arrest homeless people.

 

The outcome is unfortunate, and not what anybody wants, but once the neighbors reported it, best I can tell they were in violation of the law, they enforced the law as mandated, then the animal bit somebody at which point to do rabies testing it had to be killed.

It’s a shitty situation but I’m not sure how those involved could have reacted differently.

 

What is unique other than it’s a “famous” social media squirrel?

Some of these same idiots would no doubt call the exterminator or load up a small caliber rifle if they get squirrels in their attic or a raccoon in their garage/trash. Hell, as far as the right wingers go they give little f#^ks about entire species going extinct, but suddenly they care passionately about a squirrel and raccoon???? It’s really nothing more than another instance of social media driven madness.

We don’t have the full story about why the neighbors called in the first place. But my guess was the raccoon was allowed to roam outside or got loose. Raccoons are the #1 carriers of rabies. I doubt very much people gave a shit about the squirrel, in my view these people killed their squirrel as soon as they brought that raccoon into the equation.

 

The story is well documented. If that was the case , then apply the law. But none of what you suggested was the case. The guy ran an animal rescue that he was able to fund off the videos of the squirrels. If you want to play into the jackboot stereotype, then I guess it was a smart move.