So there was this no-kill animal shelter in Wisconsin. Someone brought in an abandoned fawn. The shelter doesn't do deer, but they housed it and made arrangements for the fawn to go to a wildlife rescue place when they had an open slot in two weeks.
It's apparently illegal to rescue wild animals in Wisconsin without a permit. Somebody ratted them out to the Fish Cops. The Fish Cops confirmed it with "aerial surveillance". They they showed up to get the fawn. The Fish Cops raided the animal shelter like it was a meth lab: Nine Fish Cops and four deputy sheriffs showed up, allegedly in full raid gear, to capture the illegal fawn.
The Fish Cops killed the fawn, stuffed it in a body bag and carted it away.
Brave, brave Fish cops.
In a rational world, one or two unarmed Fish Cops would have shown up, asked for the fawn and taken it away. They'd not have needed to fly a freaking airplane over the place then come with thirteen armed cops to confiscate one fawn from an animal shelter-- places that, in my experience, usually aren't heavily armed.
Most game wardens operate in remote places where they deal with hunters who are armed with rifles and shotguns and the wardens usually work by themselves. In Wisconsin, given the amount of craven cowardice that the Fish Cops showed in dealing with an animal shelter, they probably do their field work in platoon strength.
On Wisconsin, fighting those terroristic animal shelters. Might as well change the state animal from the badger to the weasel.
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Another reminder that the Mitchell and Webb video from just below should be required viewing for all types of cops.
Gots to justify all that military gear... sigh
Bambi got what she deserved, these four-hooved rodents are causing massive habitat degradation because of overpopulation due to lack of large predators hunting them. But *14* cops? To raid an animal shelter? WTF? Marshmallows. Ain't nothin' clanging with *those* cops, that's fer sure. The big brass ones that cops had when I was a kid, when cops would go into bad situations armed with nothing other than a 6-shot revolver and a truncheon? Extinct, apparently.
Well, we have the technology .........
The only possible explanation that comes to my mind is that there was an emergency closure of all of the donut shops within fifty miles.
I just discovered that there is a game called "Natural Fawn Killers"...
Perhaps they had been playing it and lost track of reality?
-Doug in Oakland
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