*Red Alert for all exotic pet keepers in us*

[Rick]

C'mon guys, if someone is sent to jail for 20 years because he had 4 mantids you will certainly have more serious problems over there than pet keeping...

I could see that taking place. Can't worry about the real criminals.

 

[PhilinYuma]

C'mon guys, if someone is sent to jail for 20 years because he had 4 mantids you will certainly have more serious problems over there than pet keeping...

No one mentioned "four mantids," Christian. Probably closer to five or six.

You are apparently unfamiliar with the capriciosness of American justice. This from the (Texas) Herald Banner last year:

"Whittaker was found guilty in the 196th District Court in April 2007 of possession of between one and four grams of cocaine in a Drug Free Zone. The next day the same jury sentenced Whittaker to 85 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice-Institutional Division."

The sentence doesn't really get stiff until you are caught with 5+ grams, and charged as a dealer! :angry:

In California, under the "three strikes" law, Leandro Andrade, recieved two successive sentences for shoplifting nine DVDs from two stores. He recieved 50 yrs to life. The ruling was appealed to the Supreme Court, who upheld it in 2003.

On second thoughts, 20 years for four mantids doesn't seem unlikely at all!

 

[Christian]

:blink: Ok, you have more serious problems than pet-keeping...

Some people should be taught what commensurability means. Incredible.

 

[Morpheus uk]

I reckon we should have your death sentence over here but those sentences are a little tight :lol:

 

[hibiscusmile]

:blink: I gotta say it... kill someone and u get maybe 3 years, jaywalk and u r put away for life! <_<

 

[rayg]

- i hope a brown snake bites that legislator from Guam right on her big butt! Also, why is the Humane Society working on passing this? Shouldnt they be busy euthenizing dogs or something?

Just for the record the brown snakes have pretty much wiped out the bird life on Guam(extinction is not funny), that is until they get the European house sparrows out there. There are thousands of non-native species here in North America and most fall into some kind of balance, and it's only a few that wreak havock, but man is it bad when they do. Most of the really bad ones sneak over in wood pallets and boxes or ballast water right under homeland security's nose. We need those cheap Asian imports. Us white folk may be the worst of the invasive species though.

I agree that this kind of generalized uneducated reactionary legislation is bad, it wittles away at the already diminishing rights that we have in this county, but at the end of the day we are the ones responsible for what happens in this county. Like Phil said it is not hard to get in touch your Congressman/woman.

Ray