Brickbat: Not Our Fault

Jose Gil / Dreamstime.com

The U.S. government says it is not responsible for any damages from a cyanide device planted by the Department of Agriculture that sent a 14-year-old Idaho boy to the hospital and killed his dog. The devices are used to kill coyotes and other predators. A lawsuit filed by the family says an Agriculture Department employ told law enforcement the device was placed in error on land managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

Comments

[Adans smith]

You know who else liked to use cyanide?

[Rat on a train]

Doctors treating cesium or thallium poisoning?

[MatthewSlyfield]

Johnny Appleseed?

[Adans smith]

That's arsenic. You have chosen ..,,.. Poorly.

[Rat on a train]

apple seeds

[Adans smith]

Huh you learn something new every day.

[loveconstitution1789]

Joseph Goebbels?

[loveconstitution1789]

Herman Goering?

[Deconstructed Potato]

Ruth Lessing?

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

Where is PETA when you need them? Off celebrating the liberation of animal crackers.

[Adans smith]

They need to go after those damn peeps at Easter. Just leave the chocolate bunnys alone.

[Rat on a train]

Tofurkey needs their attention.

[Adans smith]

Oh they love that. I bet they stuff it MANually

[TGGeko]

Probably cheering the death of an animal.

[perlchpr]

Oh, well, if the things don't transfer fault when they hurt people, just start randomly mailing them, in different packaging, to the Dept. of Agriculture.

It'll be negligence when the employees open the packages and get a faceful of cyanide.

[AlmightyJB]

Hey, this is government efficiency. They found a less messy way to kill dogs rather than shooting them.

[Adans smith]

At least it's time for football. oSU will be loaded and I may be able to wear my Browns stuff in public this year.

[AlmightyJB]

Heard Stanley Jackson on local radio radio yesterday morning. He predicted Bucks will put up 70 points Saturday:)

[Fist of Etiquette]

Rather than apologize for having a poisonous device on public lands that injured a young boy and killed his dog, the government instead is using a tactic to blame the boy...

Look, the plan was flawless. The central planners can't be faulted when some random element screws it up.

[Longtobefree]

Two points:
1. Where are the unions in this? The cop union should be raising hell about non-union dog killers.
2. How would this play out is someone put these things all around his house, and a cop with a drug dog tripped one?

[Unicorn Abattoir]

#2 would depend on whether the dog tripped it by accident or thought it smelled cocaine and touched the thing.

[perlchpr]

I suppose it would be excessively cruel to paint them with marijuana residue...

[Unicorn Abattoir]

I wouldn't want to hurt a dog. Even a police dog.

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[Quo Usque Tandem]

The government determines who is culpable.

Ergo, the government is never culpable.

AKA shit happens.

[Duelles]

Sooo . . . It follows that psychos that shoot up schools aren't any more responsible than the government if the government illogic follows

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