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Lions, Tigers, and Bears

  • Tiernan
    WHAT??? LJ wrong about something!?!? No effn way...the guys a genius on every subject.
  • thavoice
    Can ya imagine how much it cost to feed all those animals?
  • Sonofanump
    Ironman92;939467 wrote:Yeah.....he only scored a 27 on his ACT.....during his freshman year....with his mother very ill...and he just guessed on the math section.
    That would be mid range for the OC scores.
  • LJ
    Bigdogg;939568 wrote:Both you and your boy Kasich are wrong again. How long you going to keep defending this dumb ass?

    http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2011/10/19/humane-society-head-wants-ohio-exotic-animal-ban.html
    Did not know there was a prior convictions clause.
  • LJ
    Tiernan;939570 wrote:WHAT??? LJ wrong about something!?!? No effn way...the guys a genius on every subject.
    Except I was 100% correct that there was a grandfather clause...

    Tell me, is there a grandfather clause about arrests and coaching?
  • Tiernan
    I said your'e a genius...relax internet detective.
  • FatHobbit
    Does anyone know when he bought these animals? I'm assuming he didn't buy them all this year. (I could be wrong) If that is true, then his convictions were in 2005 and he was already violating the law, even when Strickland was governor. It would not have changed anything.
  • LJ
    So you aren't ashamed of being a lowlife? Good to know
  • LJ
    FatHobbit;939588 wrote:Does anyone know when he bought these animals? I'm assuming he didn't buy them all this year. (I could be wrong) If that is true, then his convictions were in 2005 and he was already violating the law, even when Strickland was governor. It would not have changed anything.
    Unless his wife took possession of them when he was in jail? I dunno.
  • gorocks99
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  • FatHobbit
    thavoice;939571 wrote:Can ya imagine how much it cost to feed all those animals?
    I can not. That couldn't have been cheap!
  • FatHobbit
    http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/19/us/exotic-animal-owner/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

    Hostetler with the Animal Shelter Society said Thompson was an animal collector who had a horrible reputation for the treatment of his animals.

    It's been a nightmare out there for a decade," Hostetler said. "I never thought he'd do something like he's done. But I knew eventually something bad would happen out there.
    He's had them for a decade
    The Humane Society said Thompson "would almost certainly have had his animals removed by May 1, 2011, if the emergency order had not expired."
    Lol, if they were there the entire time the rule was in place, how can they be so sure they would have been removed if the order had not expired.
  • bases_loaded
    Anything to make Kasich look bad duh. It's called journalism
  • LJ
    FatHobbit;939601 wrote:http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/19/us/exotic-animal-owner/index.html?hpt=hp_c2



    He's had them for a decade



    Lol, if they were there the entire time the rule was in place, how can they be so sure they would have been removed if the order had not expired.
    HSUS is just trying to gain more power through this incident. Wayne Pacelle had a statement out by like 9am yesterday. Ohio has been their target for a few years now, and they won't let any indcident go to waste. They are trying to make it sound like THEIR law exacted by the governer who buckled at the knees to their threats, was the answer. The real answer is that when the law expired, ODNR was tasked with creating the new law, which the findings were supposed to be reported in 6 weeks or so. That's how it should work. This state should internally make it's own laws, not let some out of state extremist group come in and dictate how our state should be run.

    /rant
  • OSH
    chicago510;939375 wrote:Ps---How did this guy afford all this ****? Its expensive to feed my dog, this guy must have had food bills out the ass.
    Drug money.
    namod65;939377 wrote:Just by looking at photos of the place on the dispatch site and then on google maps, how the hell did he have 56 animals?! Most of them are quite large too. It looks like he only had the one barn and his house. Where did he keep them all?
    He had 73+ acres.
    thavoice;939571 wrote:Can ya imagine how much it cost to feed all those animals?
    Drug money.
    FatHobbit;939588 wrote:Does anyone know when he bought these animals? I'm assuming he didn't buy them all this year. (I could be wrong) If that is true, then his convictions were in 2005 and he was already violating the law, even when Strickland was governor. It would not have changed anything.
    This is where I am baffled. The guy had been in trouble with the law NUMEROUS times. There is no reason why he should have been allowed to keep the animals. No reason whatsoever. The proper authorities should've came in and saved the animals YEARS ago.

    The guy was troubled, no doubt about it. It's common knowledge in the area. He has a long rap sheet. Things should have been taken care of a long time ago.

    I cannot believe I used to drive by his property on the interstate all the time. I thought it was a junkyard -- there were HUNDREDS of junk cars in the fields. That was just a barrier or a way of hiding the animals from the general public. I cannot believe it was a large exotic animal farm. Man, I wish I knew that so I could've seen all the exotic animals.

    My mom had a worker of hers at the Sam's Club in Zanesville get locked inside the Sam's. They shot a black panther in the parking lot. Another friend of mine has a son-in-law that works at the UPS packaging place have two lions get shot right there by the plant.
  • OSH
    I meant to add, a buddy of mine is a tattoo artist in Zanesville, here's what he is doing:
    so heres the deal people. its time to put your money where your mouth is. we all know whats going on in ur community. all weekend long heres what im doing to help out. startng today and thru the weekend im going to be doing wildlife tattoos. specifcally lions tigers wolves bears for $60-$100 and every penny will be going to charity we havnt figured out which ones. but i wont leave the shop until they are all done. i do have other appointents to work around so please come by so we can figure this out.
    Good idea. I guess the Columbus Zoo is taking donations to care for the captured animals. I wonder if the money will be going there?
  • power i
    Article on msn says one of the animals (most likely a big cat) chewed on his head soon after he shot himself.
  • TedSheckler
    gorocks99;939591 wrote:[video=youtube;-Ee-jnYYIC0][/video]
    You think those animals are alive? NOPE! Chuck Testa!
  • justincredible
    TedSheckler;939685 wrote:You think those animals are alive? NOPE! Chuck Testa!
    Reps.
  • HitsRus
    Bigdogg;939568 wrote:Both you and your boy Kasich are wrong again. How long you going to keep defending this dumb ass?

    http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2011/10/19/humane-society-head-wants-ohio-exotic-animal-ban.html
    You are an idiot. In your haste to turn this political and into a Kasich bash you didn't even READ the article.

    from the article from the legal counsel of the ODNR who would have been in charge of enforcing Strickland's order...
    Damschroder said legislation was not in place that empowered the agency to do the things required by Strickland’s order. In addition, it allocated no resources to do the statewide enforcement job.
    ....
    ....Instead of renewing Strickland’s order, Kasich put Natural Resources in charge of a working group to craft legislation controlling the sale and ownership of exotic animals. That group has been developing a proposal for several months, but has not completed the task.
    do you feel like a dumbass? you should.
  • Fred Flintstone


    Terry W. Thompson’s Muskingum County farm runs south along I-70, right. The farm was home to dozens of exotic animals before he released them on Tuesday and killed himself. The farm buildings, with animal cages in between, are in the center. Automobiles that Thompson collected are at far left and alongside I-70. .

    *From the Columbus Dispatch
  • WebFire
    Bigdogg;939568 wrote:Both you and your boy Kasich are wrong again. How long you going to keep defending this dumb ass?

    http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2011/10/19/humane-society-head-wants-ohio-exotic-animal-ban.html
    The order, issued by Gov. Ted Strickland but permitted to expire by Kasich last spring, prohibited anyone who had been “convicted of an offense involving the abuse or neglect of any animal pursuant to any state, local, or federal law” from owning exotic animals.
    Had he been convicted?
  • WebFire
    WebFire;940557 wrote:Had he been convicted?
    Never mind. I didn't see there was another page of posts.
  • FatHobbit
    WebFire;940559 wrote:Never mind. I didn't see there was another page of posts.
    I HATE when that happens!
  • Dthane
    What! Wait a minute! Life isn't a Disney movie?

    Where is Marlon Perkins when you need him? What about Dr. Doolittle? If I remember my pharmacology correctly, tranquilizers work alot better when you are on the Savannah and there is no cover in any direction for 5 miles, they shoot the cheetah and follow him for about 2 miles before he finally conks out. Seeing the feed a few pages back with the lion attacking, I am not too sure that if you have a life threatening situation, we want to take chances on needing a second or third dose on a ticked off, starving animal that makes the wrong turn and ends up on a soccer complex with 80 six year olds that all look like lunch to him. Certainly don't need to see the animals dead, but they had no choice, and I mean no choice, other than to take the animals down. Can you imagine the presser after 3 or 4 kids were eaten or mauled and the sheriff is up there trying to say "we never thought the lion would attack". To which the follow up question would be "how smart are you sheriff, it's a freakin lion, his purpose in life is to attack so he can eat". Shoot to kill was the only choice.