Comments on: Blasting Some Owls To Save Others?

Government Proposes Selectively Killing Cousins Of Threatened Spotted Owls To Protect The Species

[petesis]

This backwoods campfire is burning as this game warden approaches out of the dark. The Ranger hails the ragged old man hunched over what is unmistakeably the remains of a roasted Northern Spotted Owl.
The Ranger is aghast. He tells the old man, "Hey, Old Man, those birds are protected. Don't ya know that?"
The old man replies. "I live out here in the woods. I eat what I can catch." The ranger says "The penalty for killin one of them birds is 2 years in prison and a 500,000.00 fine. The old man is shaking as he says "Sir,I didn't know that owl was anything special. I promise I won't do it again sir". The ranger looks at the poor old man and feels pity. He says to the man "Ol timer, just this once I am gonna let this slide. But tell me one thing... I have always wanted to know myself, .. What did that spotted owl taste like?"...
The old man thought for a second or two and replied..."sorta like a cross between whooping crane and Ivory Billed woodpecker."

[rudy654-2009]

Sometimes I just can't understand where these people get their education. It makes one doubt the institutions that can produce such stupidity. Why not kill butterflies to save the bees? It makes about as much sense.