Pay To Play
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
An individual who kills an eagle can be fined $100,000 and sentenced to a year in jail. An organization, $200,000. Penalties increase for subsequent offenses.
But a windmill energy company will be paying less than $30,000 each for dead eagles, with no jail at all.
Quite a deal: a bulk discount on dead birds and immunity from imprisonment. I guess that’s the price Mother Nature pays for saving the planet from global warming.
Joe Doakes
I fully (and only partially satirically) expect electric car drivers to get away with traffic tickets for running down pedestrians.
May 4th, 2022 at 9:26 am
You can’t make an omelet without breaking some legs.
May 4th, 2022 at 10:44 am
Years ago, when I was a small town lawyer, I constantly had people asking questions like:
If the city cuts down trees on my boulevard, who gets the wood?
If I hit a deer with my car, can I keep the meat?
Now, I see power companies killing eagles and find myself wondering what they do with the dead bodies and more importantly:
Do eagles taste like chicken?