Pay To Play

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.

2 thoughts on “Pay To Play

  1. 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?

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