The city of Enoch, Utah, population 3467, has an annual animal-control budget of $25,000. A budget this small means that Enoch's Animal Control must display some creativity when it comes to dealing with the problem of stray or unwanted animals. Mark Havnes of the
Salt Lake Tribune describes
Enoch's solution:
"No sterile lethal injections here. No pressurized bottles of toxic gas. Enoch attaches a hose to the back of a city-owned Dodge pickup and funnels lethal carbon monoxide into a shedlike death chamber. The unwanted, unadoptable critters then are placed inside...'We have no trouble sleeping at night,' says...the city's part-time animal-control officer... 'We can't see a darn thing wrong with what we are doing."
posted by mr_crash_davis
on Jul 14, 2002 -
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In October 2000, in the mountains of Utah, three-year-old Gage Wayment
wandered away from his father's truck and died of exposure.
In July 2001, his father, Paul Wayment, was due to begin serving a 30-day jail sentence for negligent homicide. Instead, he
killed himself in the area where his son was found.
Now, Paul Wayment's parents have
filed two million-dollar claims against the search and rescue teams alleging that had they "conducted an appropriate and proper search," the boy and his father would still be alive.
It appears the search teams are protected by the
Utah Good Samaritan Act, unless they can be shown to have been grossly negligent, but this lawsuit may still have a
chilling effect on future search-and-rescue operations.
posted by mr_crash_davis
on Dec 3, 2001 -
29 comments
