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Update: Michigan woman no longer going to jail for her garden but now in trouble for her dogs

Jul 15, 2011 03:44

Follow up to Michigan Woman could go to jail for planting vegetable garden.

Detroit Free Press: Oak Park woman faces dog trouble after veggie case is dropped
BY MEGHA SATYANARAYANA
DETROIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER Oak Park has dropped its case against a woman growing vegetables in her front yard, but she's not out of the weeds yet, the city's ( Read more... )

fail, food, people suck, michigan, facepalm, animals, environment

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simply_blah July 15 2011, 15:11:33 UTC

So if they can't get her for one thing they're going to try and get her for something else?

Nice.

llivla July 15 2011, 19:50:21 UTC

MTE. I hope the Petition site makes another one for Oak Park to drop these charges too.

(mostly because it would make me lol) llivla July 15 2011, 19:51:09 UTC

LEAVE JULIE BASS ALONE!

hashishinahooka July 15 2011, 15:21:24 UTC

This is incredibly ridiculous. I find here in Michigan that you either live somewhere police don't care about anything that happens, or you live somewhere the police will arrest you for breathing too much.

nutmegdealer July 15 2011, 15:29:49 UTC

this is pretty ridiculous.

aviv_b July 15 2011, 15:31:43 UTC

Seems to me that if this is the biggest problem Oak Park has to worry about, they could probably lay off some officers with out much of a problem.

layweed July 15 2011, 15:32:26 UTC

I don't get pet licensing at all. Tbh, as long as you keep your dog up on shots and maybe get him chipped, there isn't any reason why you should need a license.

lickety_split July 15 2011, 16:24:53 UTC

Don't they do it in case the animal gets lost? And that's why they have to get the little tracking chips too.

brewsternorth July 15 2011, 16:35:38 UTC

Could be that. Also, they might be paranoid about animal hoarders deciding to accumulate more pets than they can take care of.

blondebeaker July 16 2011, 00:26:43 UTC

In the county(counties really, two of them did this) I lived in, officials went door to door for licensing and it was more pet census and Rabies risk assessment for the area. Since it was quite wooded they needed to find out where the highest risk of rabid animal-house pet altercation could be and set out the vaccination traps.

The traps were not really traps just blocks of tasty something that contains the vaccination and animals eat it.

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