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The Case of the Overzealous Police Department
Cops can be such cruel bastards sometimes, you know? Take, for instance, the case of William Davis, a nice 75-year-old man with a Santa Claus beard and crazy geriatric eyebrows. He loves animals. I mean, he really loves animals; Norman Bates loves. Dead or alive, it makes no damn difference to him.
So, naturally, Davis was taken aback – shocked(!) even – when the authorities came to his home and seized his stash of animal carcasses. So what if Davis had 114 dead cats and a dead German Shepard (named Snowy) hidden in three freezers. Give the guy a break – it’s hard to let go when your pet dies. All 115 of them. Even if he also had 46 cats and one dog that were still living, which were also seized. When a pet dies, it hurts. Every single time.
And it’s not like it’s easy to keep a place spic and span when you’re caring for a couple a hundred pets. A half-inch of animal feces grounded into the carpet and a stench so powerful that it makes the average laymen gag when he breathes – well, that’s just a necessary byproduct of real devotion to animals. And it’s ridiculous to consider that “animal cruelty” - this is just some fancy lingo animal hating cops use to keep the man down.
Well, Davis is fighting back, goddamnit. Ain’t no fucking police gonna come into his (filthy, stinking, deplorable) home and take his animals away from him. Davis was keeping those animal corpses in freezers for safe keeping, see. He’d planned on building a pet cemetery to bury them and, you know, say a few words. And now that the pigs have deprived him of that right, he’s suing. For $1.5 million. And for the emotional pain and suffering that Davis must be suffering right now, $1.5 million is a freakin’ bargain.
If I were counsel for the Murfreesboro, TN police department, I’d just go ahead and settle now. Before Davis’ lawyer decides to ask for more.
Comments
Was the man brought up on any charges?
Posted by Tabatha Curtis | January 10, 2007 3:07 PM