This is nuts.
An upstate man whose beloved squirrel was cruelly killed by the state said he was treated like a “terrorist” when 10 government agents descended on his home during a five-hour raid.
Mark Longo, whose pet P’nut captured the hearts of 3 million social media users, was stunned when a convoy of vehicles carrying officials from the state departments of Environmental Conservation and Health arrived at his Pine City home Wednesday.
They served him with a surprise warrant allowing them to snatch away P’nut the squirrel and Fred, a raccoon he’d taken in.
“They treated me like I was a terrorist. They treated this raid as if I was a drug dealer. They ransacked my house for five hours,” Longo told The Post Saturday.
“They asked my wife, who is of German descent, what her immigration status was. They asked if I had cameras in my house. They wouldn’t allow me to go to the bathroom without a police escort, who then checked the back of the toilet to see if I was hiding anything there.”
But worse than all of that, they delivered his gray fur baby to its death.
The state claimed it had to euthanize both animals Friday so that they could be tested for rabies — because the squirrel sunk its teeth into the hand of an official during the disturbing raid. The test results are not yet known.
Longo, 34, cared for “P’Nut” for more than seven years, rescuing him when his mother was hit by a car.
“We rehabbed him for eight months, we released him for a day and a half, but he ended up getting attacked. He never developed the instincts to survive outside,” Longo told The Post.
More at the NY Post
It took 10 freaking agents to apprehend a squirrel. This is what’s important to New York. I hope the cretins whose calls led to this burn in hell.
NY authorities didn’t stop there.
After they’d killed two of his pets they threatened him over his wife’s legal status in this country.
Why threaten to deport her?
Kind of like how these same types of authorities are threatening to deport Elon Musk over something 20 years in his past.
I witnessed a dismal glumness last time I was in a store where all the employees are kamala supporters, over a week ago.
But since then, a lot of kamala supporters are becoming violent or abusing whatever authority they still have.
Is this what’s really going on?
I can’t recall the last time I met a veterinarian who didn’t treat “wild” pets on the sly.
It is – technically – against the law to have such animals as pets all over the country, but no one is collecting them all up and killing them.
Seems like a little bit of mass insanity played out as hysterics and threatening behaviors.
I’m betting it doesn’t intimidate even one voter.
How did those screwballs from PETA react to this?