[QUOTE]Annick Richardson doesn't fit the profile of someone who could be facing jail time, and if you ask her, she'll tell you her only crime is caring too much."It's very dishonest to make me the villain or make me look like the monster," Richardson says.
But Richardson found out in Kettering Municipal Court Friday that she could serve up to 60 days in jail and be forced to pay a hefty fine for turning her neighborhood into a squirrel buffet.
"It is excessive that is true," Richardson told 2 News about her feedings. "I'm am trying to refrain myself."
Richardson's actual charges are two counts of criminal trespassing for going on other people's properties to pass out the peanuts.
When 2 News talked to neighbors they told us she's been doing it for years and that it's gotten out of hand to the point where the squirrels are ruining gardens, clogging air conditioners with peanuts and even chewing through car wiring.
"She won't stop," says neighbor Don DuBon. "She won't listen to police. She won't listen to the animal control officer."
One woman even told us of how she had to move, in part, because of her grandson's severe peanut allergy.
Richardson says she felt bad about that situation and relocated one of her feeders.
"It's the parents or guardians responsibility to make sure the child is not going to pick up anything and it's my responsibility not to put any on her side," Richardson says.
Richardson showed 2 News letters from six neighbors who think the charges are overblown.
Most neighbors have told us they would be okay if she just fed squirrels in her yard.
So 2 News asked her if she would consider packing away some of her peanuts.
"What I will do is reduce dramatically in the springtime and feed them mainly on my property but I will have a few exceptions," Richardson says.
At Friday's hearing Richardson was appointed a public defender.
She'll be in court for a pre-trail hearing in December.[/QUOTE]
[URL]http://www.wdtn.com/dpp/news/strange/squirrel-feeder-could-be-jailed[/URL]
So she is a crazy squirrel lady?
You could go as far to say she is nuts!
is she using them as a kind of guided squirrel weapon?
how bizarre
[quote]"What I will do is reduce dramatically in the springtime and feed them mainly on my property but I will have a few exceptions," Richardson says.[/quote]
"Mainly" your property?
If you love the damn squirrels so much, keep it to "completely" your property?
Ahahahaha! Whatever country is that,their laws are [I]nuts[/I]!
I may be jailed?
[IMG]http://i43.tinypic.com/mmst8w.jpg[/IMG]
But who would care for Mr. Jingles?
Mr Jingles looks sick
[QUOTE=TheTalon;33370168]Mr Jingles looks sick[/QUOTE]
I think that's because he's in the middle of taking a shit on the couch?
[QUOTE=TheTalon;33370168]Mr Jingles looks sick[/QUOTE]
Just young, that is an old photo. I found him on my college campus during a rainstorm. After failed attempts to return him to his "family" the biology department decided that he would need to be rehabilitated and released in the spring; which is what I am doing. (I have rehabilitated wild animals in the past)
He now has all his fir in and has put on quite a bit of weight. Here is a picture of him on the first day so you can see how far he had come even to that photo
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What a [I]Nut[/I]-job would do something like this?
We have a squirrel that lives under the deck that resembles a Basketball with legs. We keep feeding him :v:
That's just weird
Squirrels need food, crazy lady needs love. This is a win-win for everyone involved
[QUOTE=EmZajex;33373447]Squirrels need food, crazy lady needs love. This is a win-win for everyone involved[/QUOTE]
Except for the people who are allergic to peanuts and end up dying on their own lawn.
[QUOTE=CB1993;33373833]Except for the people who are allergic to peanuts and end up dying on their own lawn.[/QUOTE]
they were polluting the gene pool anyways
[QUOTE=imptastick;33370157]I may be jailed?
[IMG]http://i43.tinypic.com/mmst8w.jpg[/IMG]
But who would care for Mr. Jingles?[/QUOTE]
why did you shave your squirrel
I don't think he did it because in his second post he said all his fir is back?
[quote]When 2 News talked to neighbors they told us she's been doing it for years and that it's gotten out of hand to the point where the squirrels are ruining gardens, clogging air conditioners with peanuts and even chewing through car wiring.
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I can understand the neighbourhood's anger at her but a jail sentence is asinine. She said she'll now keep the peanuts in her own property and the thing says most neighbours are fine with that so if she does stick to that then no trouble will have to occur.
[QUOTE=fskman;33377705]they were polluting the gene pool anyways[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Zeke129;33377744]why did you shave your squirrel[/QUOTE]
Squirrels grow their hair in in strips
1. Top/back
2. Belly
3.Sides
4. Tail
I just found him when he was so young he did not have any hair, he was not even eating solid food at the time.
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