You gotta love the stupidity of (some of) our conservatives.
(d) Pull rabbit out of hat.
(If you’re a real magician)
If he wanted to mess with the government, he could write:
A)Place rabbit in hat.
B)Rabbit disappears.
But, seriously, I fill out this kind of stuff from time to time, and he could just write something as simple as “I have a sister/friend/aunt that lives in [city 20 miles away] that has agreed to take the animal should there be an emergency or disaster.” That’s it, done. Nothing’s going to become of it, in all likelihood, with a small time act like him (as opposed to Sigfried and Roy as someone mentioned above) no one will even read the paper beyond a quick check to make sure it’s all filled out. They’re more concerned about looking at it after the fact when they go to raze his house after the tornado and find a bunch of dead rabbits in his basement. Then they have proof that he knew he was supposed to deal with those in some specific way.
Someone mentioned Katrina. IIRC, after Katrina, I think I heard that research labs and schools no longer keep animals/rats in basements or anywhere below grade because of how many of them drowned in the flooding. They now are required (either by law or by internal policy) to be kept on at least the 2nd floor. And not only did they lose the animals, in some cases, they may have lost months or years of research.
Here is the actual letter that was sent.
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I’m glad you put the “(some of)” in there. I admit to being liberal but I find a good many of our conservative posters to be intelligent and informed even thought I have vast ideological differences with them.
That being said, humpy is not worthy of a single ounce of respect regarding his politics. He may be a very nice person in real life but his politics are simply odious.
This has precedent folks. Stalin’s first post in Bolshevik Russia was Commissar for Illusionists Affairs. This man’s only “Disaster Plan” should be the Holy Bible and the Second Amendment.
Jesus Christ, that place is coo coo for Cocoa Pops. You might as well just hang out at Free Republic, Clothy.
So, all he has to do (assuming he can legally keep the rabbit at his house) is to write “I am the sole employee and only care taker of the animal. The only disasters that are likely are weather related (tornado/local flooding) or personal emergency (fire, personal sickness). In each of these cases I have made arrangements with a family member who lives in [city about 20 miles away] to take care of the rabbit. All the supplies are located near the cage and she has been instructed on the daily needs of the animal as well as being well acquainted with it. She also has a copy of the vet’s phone number, emergency vet and her own copy daily care requirements should the one that’s here get lost or destroyed”.
That’s all he has to do. Write that down, send it in. Or he could raise a stink about it, even though it makes sense. It makes research labs that keep all their monkeys in the basement stop to wonder if that’s a good idea. It makes bigger magic acts with lots of animals say “Hey, if John gets stick, someone else should know how to deal with all those animals”. And it gives the government someone to blame when 25 doves die because John ended up in the hospital and no one had any idea what to do with any of them. It would be nice if someone had to fill something like this out and it made them say “Hey John…” and John could say “Call my buddy Jake, he can walk you though what to do if I get sick, here’s his number…that makes you responsible for dealing with them if I get sick”
Similarly, at my work I have to file paperwork with the city each year that says who’s responsible for picking up trash in my parking lot. Took me by surprise the first year, but then, I’m sure a lot of times the city writes tickets for that kind of stuff and the store owner says the landlord should do it and the landlord says the store owner should do it. Honestly, the city doesn’t care WHO does it, they just want it clean. Now they don’t have to get involved in that dispute or have another case clogging up the court system, they just pull up that paper and write the ticket to the name on that line (FTR, it’s part of a bigger form).
So Clothy, I guess you didn’t delete your bookmarks for the Dope after all.
That trick never works.
I demand to know how the government protects talking moose and squirrel.
Some hospitals in New York also lost years of research, except it was due to Superstorm Sandy and not Hurricane Katrina. And now some of those hospitals and many large buildings in the New York area are rethinking where they locate their mechanical systems and electrical closets, so that they’re not vulnerable to flooding.
Another example. New York City found that restaurant grease that was illegally dumped in the storm drains was causing a lot of clogs. The city required that restaurants certified that they had contracted with a vendor to legally and properly remove the grease. They cross-referenced the locations of the grease clogs with the locations of restaurants that hadn’t filed the paperwork, and was able to identify many of the illegal dumpers.
I love it when these kind of posts are made. You can’t refute what I post, but you disagree with it, so you attack me personally. Perhaps someday you will learn that ad hominem responses are an open admission that you can’t refute what was said.
My post simply pointed out an example of the rampant stupidity in our government. Please explain to me, and to us all, how doing that warrants the assholishness of your response. I’d really like to know.
I did for a while. But the Derp like watching a massive trainwreck unfold. Just can’t turn away.
What was so special about this instance? You could fill the whole rest of your posting days with examples and not even scratch the surface.
This sort of thing has gone on since Washington’s first day in office.
And yet, the only thing, literally, that you did was call the government stupid but not actually told us why you have an issue with this, specifically. Why don’t you start responding to some of these posts.
You can’t say that someone didn’t refute you when you haven’t given anyone anything to refute yet.
It was posted on another board that I read. It was so far over the top that I felt like sharing it. Apparently, however, many on this board think that crap like that is perfectly normal.
As it’s been pointed out upthread, this was intended for keepers of groups of animals(circus, labs, etc.). The mistake was the regulation was written with no lower limit. Would you rather that the civil servants decide for themselves what to enforce and what to ignore?
As has already been pointed out the article is bullshit. The post you made references an example of dishonest reporting that you latched onto for the sole purpose of shrieking lie a harpy.
The invective is warranted because you employ this asinine tactic of promoting half truths with links to unreliable sources.
It doesn’t appear he even has to do that much. The letter seems to say that he only has to keep a copy of his plan on hand in case there’s ever an inspection.
In terms of anti-government rage, this is less than I felt when they raised the overdue fees at my local library by a nickel.