As a concerned animal owner, I want my counties resources and officers used for REAL complaints. every time they have to come visit me for a bogus complaint, that's someone else's starving horse that is waiting another day to get food, as the officer couldn't make it out because they had to investigat ethe bogus claim about me.
Yes, the AC officer has my cell and I have her's.. and she does courtesy call me now.. but I still havn't gotten her to enter the porperty without me being there yet. I have told her to call for the horses so they will come to the fence. that was the 2nd time.. and she got pics from the fenceline.. etc.
hopefully the complaints will NOT continue.. if they do.. hopefully ( wishfull thinking ) the county will take steps to find the accuser.....
the one thing I am concerned about.. well, two things really are:
1, I have a ever growing file of cases. Even if all the cases are open, investigated and closed, picture this as a fictitional headline. " Local farmer investigated for animal cruelty charges 13 times"
of course, not mentioning that they were all bogus.. etc. headlines are what people read / hear / see.
2, as someone else pointed out.. animal control, as a member of code enforcemnt, .. well, there are tons of things they can investigate. If this person falsely accusing me really has it in for me, as opposed to a ignorant concerned animal person, then.. they could eventually call code enforcement on me enough that an officer could fins SOMETHING.. I mean.. I'm sure if you look everybodies farm over with a fine tooth comb and a spot light.. you might find something.
Hey.. there is a driop of oil under this tractor.. and it's 69.9 ' from a well.. or.. all those tractors.. not all of them have batteries.. are they derelict vehicles??
etc.. that's a side concern I have. IE.. investigated till they eventually justify it with SOMETHING. kinda like 'vauge / grey area' probable cause for getting pulled over. if they check the car over enough.. they will likely find something to cite you with if they really, really want to.. some tire wit a section th=with less than minimum tread.. or a bulge.. or SOMETHING..
soundguy
Boy we sure do have a bunch of paranoid members or internet Rambo's on the site. A law enforcement agency was called about POSSIBLE animal abuse. It's their job it check it out and inform the owner they are doing so. I am surprised they had to have permission to enter the site, the game warden doesn't. Seems obvious to me that the officer, after checking three times realizes they have either another nut case calling, a horse ignorant concerned citizen or someone that doesn't like Soundguy. The officer exchanged phone numbers which seems to say the officer doesn't see any issue's, yet by law has to follow up on complaints. So give them permission to call first, go through the gate and check if there is nothing to hide. End of posted signs.
The suggestions coming in a are almost funny to me. Hire attorneys, freedom of information act, privacy fences on a horse pasture, multiple cameras, rewards for information, news stories, change the laws, confrontations with the accuser, fake burials, a government conspiracy to check the property. Come on, they have to check a complaint. With the current economy there are a lot of abused animals out there. A responsible animal owner, like Soundguy, would want them to follow up on reports. The LEO has the picture now or would not have exchanged phone numbers. I'll bet the problem is over and we will not have to set up land mines or pill boxes.
MarkV
