United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service uses a spring loaded device that when touched shoots out a shower of sodium cyanide powder. The M-44 or cyanide bomb is used to control unwanted predators and according to the Wildlife Services, only deployed with a land owner’s permission and after residents in the area have been notified.
Which would have all been nice had 14-year-old Canyon Mansfield of Pocatello Idaho been told before he touched one such device last week.
The government agency’s response Here
AR-15s would have been used, but they were busy assaulting.
If that had happened to my Angus (its his two year Birthday today) I would severely reduce the population of The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the USDA
Their passing from this mortal coil would be as they described like they described the lives of Cave Man.
Nasty Brutish and Short
Their passing from this mortal coil would be as they described the lives of Cave Man.
Proof read, Poor Lazlo!
Can we put these in Sen Maxine Waters office?
She’s predator on common sense!
Killing his dog is what always sets John Wick off. Just sayen.
Have they lost their freekin’ minds?
I remember them using bait to kill unwanted predators, the tree huggers got all up in arms about it because it could kill pets, and rightly so.
I never heard of 14 year old kids wanting to eat carrion off the forest floor but they damn sure will pick up something ‘interesting’.
Put a bounty out, it worked before, it will work again.
Might even work in Chicago for their unwanted predators.
I’m guessing the dog shielded the kid from the majority of the poison, good dog, bad bureaucracy.
Signage, Foxes are smart but I doubt they can read.
I’d regret it just as much as these govt agents do if any APHIS thugs were “lethally taken” by beneficial wildlife predator control devices on local residents’ private property.
They can’t even say “kill” but have to make up a ridiculous euphemism it. This #@$& makes me want to stomp on gonads.
Hmmm … tie a dollar bill to them and send them to DC … the bombs, not the morons of the USDA …
izlamo delenda est …
They claim that they put up signs in the vicinity of these cyanide bombs. I’ve had some pretty smart dogs in my day but I have yet to have one that can read. I’d be a mad son of a gun if that happened to my dog or even madder if on of my kids or grandkids came across one of these.
So if a devout member of a certain church leaves a cyanide mine in an area – residential or otherwise – and an office manager from the church says that it wasn’t intended to kill any people, then it’s “all good”? No intent, no foul, not enough harm? Thank (somebody’s) heaven for respect for the “rule of law”.
Wow.
And here I thought only non-professionals did shit like this.
Violates all safety rules dealing with pest solutions that can affect non-target vertebrates.
I refuse to install pyrethrin auto-misting systems for mosquitoes for the same reason.
Unsupervised application of harmful substances is stupid, IMO.
Even then, 31 years in pest control has taught me even the best precautions can’t prevent stupid people from doing stupid things that defeat either your work or endanger themselves.
This situation is tantamount to setting a deadly booby trap. Like a shotgun set up to go off at the front door while you’re on vacation. Never a good idea.
An indiscriminate killer
“The APHIS acted stupidly.”
– Howdy Doody Obama
10,000 dollar dog? That’s fucking absurd.
This is just hard to believe anyone, {even a government worker} could be this reclessly stupid. The same hairbrain is probably submitting plans to control the fire ant problem with a nuclear launch.
“10,000 dollar dog? That’s fucking absurd.”
Sounds like he was a Duck Dog. I know guys that have twice that much invested.
Do they make any of these in Mexican flavor?
I guess USDAAPH must be out of land mines.
@ Burner
LOL. That is funny!!
You don’t want to put up warning signs; the coyotes can see those too. Duh!
I hope the woods of Chappaqua are riddled with these things.
Subpoena the USDA records, and find the name of the person who planted the device. Plaster that person’s name and face everywhere you possible can, and sue them personally for damages.
You’ll see the use of these devices vanish, as workers refuse to place them.
My favorite oxymoron; Wildlife Management
Fortunately the “officers” are clearly
marked.
Be a shame if something bad happened wouldn’t
it?
They lawyered up yet? Get a good one, a real
GOOD greedy son’s a bitch and hit them hard.
Why not just extend the hunting season and even offer rewards for such predators near populated areas?