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Title: Government Agents Hunt Woman Down After Seeing Facebook Picture Of Her Rehabilitating Baby Squirrels
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Information Liberation/WPVI
URL Source: http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=54036
Published: Feb 8, 2016
Author: Chris Menahan
Post Date: 2016-02-09 15:18:47 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 1197
Comments: 10
A New Jersey mom was given a $500 ticket and is facing a possible 6 months in jail for helping rehabilitate two baby squirrels.
From WPVI:
HOWELL, N.J. (WPVI) - An animal lover from New Jersey is speaking out against charges she's facing for taking care of baby squirrels.
Maria Vaccarella of Howell said she was only trying to help one squirrel, and then it surprised her and gave birth to two baby squirrels.
"We left the babies in the cage outside for 24 hours. (The mother) never came back. I brought them in, kept them warm, bottle fed them," Vaccarella said.
She said there's no way the baby squirrels could have survived without their mother.
Vaccarella reached out to registered wildlife rehabilitators. When they could not take the squirrels in, she became their foster mom.
In fact, all of the Vaccarellas became their foster family, her husband and son included.
Maria Vaccarella posted videos of the squirrels on social media, and kept in touch with rehabilitators. The animals were part of their family for four months.
But on October 31, the Division of Fish and Wildlife came knocking at her door.
"They said they saw a picture on Facebook and asked me if I had squirrels. I said yes. I had no problem telling them the story. I was proud," Vaccarella said.
She told WABC-TV she didn't think caring for the squirrels was illegal.
"They said I could not have them, that they had to be rehabilitated. I complied. I said no problem," she said.
She said she even gave the officers the cage.
Days later, she received a ticket in the mail.
"$500. When I was in court, the judge told me up to a $1,000 fine," Vaccarella said.
She said the judge also said she could face up to six months in jail, because having the animals was a criminal offense.
Last week the state offered Vaccarella a plea deal saying they would drop the hefty fine if she plead guilty to "unauthorized possession of wildlife" and paid a $35 court fee, yet she refused.
"I can't plead guilty to saving a life," she said.
"It's ludicrous."’
Her trial is scheduled for Wednesday.
There's an old saying, "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
When you employee an endless army of bureaucrats to regulate everyday life, they have to justify their job titles and stories like this are what comes of it.
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" Government Agents Hunt Woman Down After Seeing Facebook Picture Of Her Rehabilitating Baby Squirrels "
Sounds like some government agents, and a judge that should be demoted, and assigned new duties more in line with their mental abilities.
Something appropriate, like picking up trash.
And soon, the usual suspects will be along screaming "It's the law,It's the law !"
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
There are no Carthaginian terrorists.
President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood
#2. To: Stoner (#1)
§ 7:25-10.6 Game animals and game birds for which a permit is required for possession
(a) A permit shall be required for possession of game animals including the following mammals:
5. Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis);
#3. To: misterwhite (#2)
LOL !!
I knew it, I knew it!! Right on que!
ROFLMAO !!!
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
There are no Carthaginian terrorists.
President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood
#4. To: Deckard (#0)
I used to work for a tree trimming company. I was with a crew and a branch was cut down that had some baby squirrels in a nest. No way to put the nest back in the tree, so one of the guys was going to put the squirrels through the wood chipper and give them a quick death.
I opted to save them instead. Took them home and took care of them as best I could for a week or two. Seemed I wasn't doing too good a job, so I called the humane society who said they'd take them in, so I delivered. I was told they'd take care of them until they were grown, then taught to be afraid of people and released.
Any law against this woman's actions are obviously intended for those keeping animals permanently as pets or similar, and charges against her for saving the animals is obviously a misapplication of the intent of the law, and any people carrying out that miscarriage or defending it, including someone on this forum who apparently has enough time to dig the law up are simply enjoying the destruction of what America is supposed to mean.
But I guess if that's what one has to do to put food on the table....
#5. To: Pinguinite (#4)
"Any law against this woman's actions are obviously intended for those keeping animals permanently as pets or similar"
Obviously? Wrong.
The intent of the law is to look after the well-being of wild animals. Taking them into captivity interferes with their learning how to survive in the wild.
#6. To: misterwhite (#2)
#7. To: misterwhite (#5)
Your philosophy isn't limited to allowing human babies to die in the name of the law, but animals as well.
#8. To: Pinguinite (#7)
"Your philosophy isn't limited to allowing human babies to die in the name of the law, but animals as well."
I'm not willing to put thousands of babies at risk to maybe save one.
#9. To: misterwhite (#8)
You want to deprive loving and informed parents of the treatment they see fit to give. That puts the babies at risk. particularly of certain death in the case we were discussing.
You have no regard for innocent human life.
#10. To: VxH (#6)
LOL, very well expressed !!
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
There are no Carthaginian terrorists.
President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood
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