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Calparsoni
at Sun Jun 13 15:41:36 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Calparsoni ]
This law has some serious flaws and quite honestly could be easily turned over as passed when they tried to implement it on the people of the town.
The restriction on wolves lists them simply as Canis lupus with no regards to subspecies. Current research on wolves no longer considers the domestic dog to be classified as Canis familiaris it is recognized as Canis lupus (sp) familiaris so this law effectively makes it illegal to own domestic dogs with it's lack of being specific to subspecific status. There is a lot of case law out there where poorly written ordinances such as this one have attempted to ban wolf/dogs but were written poorly and in the end thrown out of court.
The restriction on "poisonous" insects(I prefer venomous myself as it is more accurate) is also quite amusing as well. First off there is the whole poisonous/venomous debate Ladybird beetles and lightning bugs as well as many types of butterflies are poisonous if one were to eat them. Is this what they are banning? Bees and ants have venom and a delivery system for that venom both are quite edible btw, This begs the question of if they are going after local beekeepers and children with ant farms.
Which ever they are going after they will surely not be able to go after those who keep spiders or scorpions both of which have deadly venomous members in their groups and neither of which are insects as they are both arachnids.
I can see it now, "sorry son, we have to confiscate your ant farm, but that death stalker scorpion your big brother has is just fine."
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RE: New Legislation Pending - Mt. Horeb - Calparsoni, Sun Jun 13 15:41:36 2010