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Stench Leads To 200 Animals In Apartment
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Lone_Star replied on Thu May 6, 2004 @ 11:37am |
 Coolness: 153775 | Stench Leads to 200 Animals in Apartment (Thu May 6, 4:53 AM ET)
GERMANTOWN, Wis. - It was a stench of decay that caused authorities to search an apartment in suburban Milwaukee. They found a home crawling with life: About 200 creatures — including alligators, scorpions and carnivorous beetles — formed a bizarre menagerie kept alive by a woman who fed them roadkill. "The smell was just unbelievable," said William Mitchell, a state conservation warden who found about 70 ducks cramped in a basement pen with droppings covering the floor. "It was really stinking. ... It made my eyes water." Neighbors had complained about the foul smell. Animal carcasses were in a freezer and decaying carcasses were in an adjacent garage. Among the dead animals were raccoons, rabbits, opossums and squirrels. Jamie L. Verburgt, the apartment resident, was given two state citations for possessing game animals out of season, Mitchell said. Verburgt's phone number is unlisted. "She said they were car kills," Mitchell said. "I warned her that it is illegal to take dead animals off the side of a road. ... The dead animals were used to feed the live animals, and some were given to flesh-eating beetles." Among the other live animals found were snakes, rats, turtles and toads. The live animals were seized by the Washington County Humane Society, pending investigation by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Mitchell said. Mitchell said federal wildlife officials plan to investigate those who sold animals to Verburgt through the Internet. "She intended to sell the animals to pet stores," he said. Verburgt's boyfriend, John Walters, was prosecuted in 2000 for mistreatment of exotic animals. At that time, police found a female cougar, female leopard, silver-tailed fox, monitor lizard, two caracals, a coatimundi, chinchilla and a reticulated python in Walter's apartment in Greenfield, another Milwaukee suburb. //Written by the A.P. Looks like someone found a loophole before signing on the doted line for her bail. I would have also mistreated exotic animals if I'd have to live with a animal freak that haves 200 animals in the house too... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Thu May 6, 2004 @ 12:50pm |
 Coolness: 340385 | holy shit? the associated press is a person?! fuck! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Lone_Star replied on Fri May 7, 2004 @ 7:41am |
| Coolness: 153775 | erm... no? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Fri May 7, 2004 @ 7:59am |
| Coolness: 340385 | "//Written by the A.P."
suuure? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Lone_Star replied on Fri May 7, 2004 @ 12:08pm |
| Coolness: 153775 | It was! What els did you want me to write... omg stop staring at me... (cries) |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» julie_eaves replied on Tue May 11, 2004 @ 10:35pm |
 Coolness: 94995 | this same thing happened like a year ago in kanata....it was like literally a five miniute walk from my old house.. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Lone_Star replied on Wed May 12, 2004 @ 3:20am |
| Coolness: 153775 | Damn... good thing you moved. |
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