Sleep Soundly, America: 81-Year-Old Lady Jailed for Feeding Birds
Melissa Melton
The Daily Sheeple
March 8th, 2014
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Thats right.
An elderly woman violated her probation by leaving bread crumbs out in her
yard for crows and will remain behind bars.
Eighty-one-year-old Mary Musselman was
first arrested last month for feeding bears in her backyard. One of the
bears was euthanized over it because the Fish and Wildlife Service said the
bears might learn not to be afraid of people anymore and then get aggressive.
The judge in the case warned Musselman not to feed any more wild animals of
any kind:
A judge gave her probation at the time, and made it clear: Do it again,
and go to jail.She did, was arrested in January, and the case ignited controversy when
Musselman was held without bond.
Apparently where it got really serious is when officers recently
went by to check on her home (as they reportedly did over and over) and
found bread crumbs in her yard one day:
Her attorney, William Fletcher, told FOX 13 that officers issued a new
arrest warrant after checking on her home and seeing that she was leaving
bread out for crows.
That violates her court order not to feed any wild animals.
Yep. An elderly lady was caught leaving out pieces of stale bread for the
birds.
This is a clear violation of her probation not to feed any wild
animals even birds, apparently.
(What is this, an
Alfred
Hitchcock movie?)
She was arrested and put back in jail.
Her attorney has argued that his client is mentally ill, suffering from
Alzheimers and Dementia, and should be allowed to live with her brother under
supervision. The judge instead ordered that Musselman remain in jail until she
receives a more thorough mental evaluation.
Its a good thing we live in such a complete and utter nanny state that we
now have Fish and Wildlife Service officers serving and protecting us all by
repeatedly checking peoples yards for bread crumbs and making sure to
reserve our already overburdened criminal justice system and jails for those who
pose the absolute biggest threat and are most dangerous to society at large
Sure, this lady may have mental health issues, but being left in jail for the
crime of
feeding birds? Is that really in her best interest (or that
of, well, anyone else including her elderly husband who is ill and now all
alone)?
So the mega banks
are too big to
fail or prosecute, and the lobbyist-bought politicians and criminals on Wall
Street can roam free to continue to wreck the country hand over fist, but were
jailing elderly people for sprinkling a little stale bread in their yards for
the birds?
Wow, America. Wow.