Not sure what was more profound, the sad or the mad. Sad for a beautiful sick bird, or mad for animal control.
So I called in a pizza order and hit the drive thru pickup. As I stop at the window I see a hawk standing on the drive in my way at the corner of the building about 4 car lengths ahead. He isnt budging, and appears to be staring me down. Odd. Worker tells me hes been there for a while and wont budge. She said they called animal control, and were told "we cant help you. You have to have special permits to handle endangered animals like that." Seriously? Hendricks county animal control cant handle ALL animals? How sick and perverted are our laws that those in charge of caring for animals in need are hamstrung and prohibited from helping?
I told them to call the DNR (because the idiot at animal control didnt) and tried to leave. I figured rolling forward slowly would get him to at least walk away. Nope. He wasnt budging. He was like the dude in Tienanmen Square and I was the tank driver. They finally had to get one of the delivery drivers to move his car so I could drive around the poor little guy. It saddened me that there was nothing I could do to help.
Well, I COULD have put him out of his misery with my G19 from 3' away, (yes, he would let you get that close) but I dont think the patrons eating dinner would have appreciated my "To Kill a Mockingbird" method of putting an animal out of its misery.
Oh, and some idiots thought they would try to feed the hungry, CARNIVOROUS bird... by throwing club crackers to it. *facepalm*
So I called in a pizza order and hit the drive thru pickup. As I stop at the window I see a hawk standing on the drive in my way at the corner of the building about 4 car lengths ahead. He isnt budging, and appears to be staring me down. Odd. Worker tells me hes been there for a while and wont budge. She said they called animal control, and were told "we cant help you. You have to have special permits to handle endangered animals like that." Seriously? Hendricks county animal control cant handle ALL animals? How sick and perverted are our laws that those in charge of caring for animals in need are hamstrung and prohibited from helping?
I told them to call the DNR (because the idiot at animal control didnt) and tried to leave. I figured rolling forward slowly would get him to at least walk away. Nope. He wasnt budging. He was like the dude in Tienanmen Square and I was the tank driver. They finally had to get one of the delivery drivers to move his car so I could drive around the poor little guy. It saddened me that there was nothing I could do to help.
Well, I COULD have put him out of his misery with my G19 from 3' away, (yes, he would let you get that close) but I dont think the patrons eating dinner would have appreciated my "To Kill a Mockingbird" method of putting an animal out of its misery.
Oh, and some idiots thought they would try to feed the hungry, CARNIVOROUS bird... by throwing club crackers to it. *facepalm*
