Political Protection Act, Rats Protected In D.C.

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[Sean]

The problem is, from the very first page of the act, rats are exempted. Or does your illiterate blogger not know what "commensal rodents" means?

 

[Peregrinator]

You people talk about me a lot.

 

[Sean]

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
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To require the District Department of the Environment to license individuals performing
wildlife control activities, to create qualifications and conditions for licensure, to set
restrictions on the capture, handling, and transport of wildlife, to set restrictions on
euthanasia of wildlife, to establish control requirements for specified species, to require
the compilation of service records and annual reporting, to create standards for
suspension of licensure, and to authorize the Mayor to establish fees for licensure.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this
act may be cited as the “Wildlife Protection Act of 2010”.
Sec. 2. Definitions.
For the purposes of this act, the term:
(1) “Animal Care and Control Agency” means the agency established by section
3 of the Animal Control Act of 1979, effective October 18, 1979 (D.C. Law 3-30; D.C. Official
Code § 8-1802).
(2) “Department” means the District Department of the Environment.
(3) “Director” means the Director of the District Department of the
Environment.
(4) “Licensed wildlife rehabilitator” means a wildlife rehabilitator licensed in
any state or the District.
(5) “Wildlife” shall include any free-roaming wild animal, but shall not include:
(A) Domestic animals;
(B) Commensal rodents;
(C) Invertebrates; and
(D) Fish.
(6) “Wildlife control” means to harass, repel, evict, exclude, possess, transport,
liberate, reunite, rehome, take, euthanize, or kill wildlife.
(7) “Wildlife control operator” means a person who is licensed to perform
wildlife control services under section 5, but shall not include the Animal Care and Control

I highlighted the relevant bit for the hard of thinking.

 

[LadyFairfax]

In related news, the D.C. Bureau of Animal Control has noted that left over cans of corn used as bait in the 1989 prostitute roundup also work for the 2012 rat roundup.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I saw this:

By Christopher Goins

and it made me think of him:

On October 14,1994, Christopher Goins entered the home of 14-year-old Tamika Jones, who was seven months pregnant with Goins' child. Goins proceeded to brutally murder Tamika's parents, her nine-year-old sister, Nicole, her four-year-old brother, David, and her three-year-old brother, Robert. Goins shot each of these victims at least once in the head.

http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/goins680.htm



How odd . . . .

 

[Sean]

I saw this:



and it made me think of him:



http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/goins680.htm



How odd . . . .

Maybe Vettebigot was one of the people shot in the head. It would explain how anyone could be dumb enough to believe this bollocks.

 

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[RobDownSouth]

Yawn!


While the law exempts “commensal rodents”–varieties of which most people know (or have seen) as common rats or house mice–the rice rat and deer mouse, which are found in the District, are not defined as commensal and apparently are not exempt from the law. In addition, the new law expands the definition of wildlife and sets the rules for handling it to include raccoons, squirrels, skunks, and other animals that can carry disease, such as rabies. The law applies to trained animal control officers, not to homeowners.

The Vettefag is fundamentally incapable of owning up to his mistakes.

It's a "Marine Corps Honor" thing....you civilians wouldn't understand.

 

[Sean]

Yawn!


While the law exempts “commensal rodents”–varieties of which most people know (or have seen) as common rats or house mice–the rice rat and deer mouse, which are found in the District, are not defined as commensal and apparently are not exempt from the law. In addition, the new law expands the definition of wildlife and sets the rules for handling it to include raccoons, squirrels, skunks, and other animals that can carry disease, such as rabies. The law applies to trained animal control officers, not to homeowners.

I just read the whole act, you're full of shit. The act doesn't says they can't be exterminated. It says it's preferable to trap them alive.

 

[Peregrinator]

Yawn!


While the law exempts “commensal rodents”–varieties of which most people know (or have seen) as common rats or house mice–the rice rat and deer mouse, which are found in the District, are not defined as commensal and apparently are not exempt from the law. In addition, the new law expands the definition of wildlife and sets the rules for handling it to include raccoons, squirrels, skunks, and other animals that can carry disease, such as rabies. The law applies to trained animal control officers, not to homeowners.

The rice rat, Oryzomys palustris, isn't the one people think of when you say "rat." It's only commensal if you live in a swamp.

People say "rat" when they mean either Rattus rattus or Rattus norvegicus, the black and brown rat, respectively. Those are very definitely commensal.

 

[Sean]

Sec. 3. Wildlife control service providers.
(a) A wildlife control services provider shall recommend and employ nonlethal means
in preference to lethal means for the control of problem wildlife.

Again, highlighted for the dumb.

 

[miles]

More proof that Liberalism is a mental illness.

 

[Sean]

More proof that Liberalism is a mental illness.

LMAO. You're dumber than a rock, Miles.


BTW, wtf kind of news source is "beliefnet"???

 

[Peregrinator]

More proof that Liberalism is a mental illness.

Jesus, you look like a dick when you put people who know what the fuck they're talking about on ignore.

 

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[Sean]

Please inform the Attorney general of Virginia he's in error, thanks.

Did you read the act?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Maybe Vettebigot was one of the people shot in the head. It would explain how anyone could be dumb enough to believe this bollocks.

Somehow, I think not, since the ones he shot in the head seem all to be dead now.

 

[Sean]

Somehow, I think not, since the ones he shot in the head seem all to be dead now.

I've had my suspicions about Vettebigot for years...

 

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[miles]

Please inform the Attorney General of Virginia he's in error, thanks.

It's hard to understand the written word when you're hammered to the gills.

 

[Sean]

For the dumb in Britain:

A wildlife control services provider shall recommend and employ nonlethal means

Now post the following line.

 

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[LadyFairfax]

Please inform the Attorney General of Virginia he's in error, thanks.

I have done so and regularly. Mr. Cuccinelli is one of the greatest bigots (you'd like him a lot) ever to hold public office.

 

[Sean]

You mean where the government says it prefers this over lethal means?

You're full of shit and you know it. Nothing in that act bans killing vermin. You fucked up, be a man for once and own it.