St. Bernard parish, NOLA

[sparkie]

Do NOT go to St. Bernard Parish, NOLA by yourself!!

In fact, only go in presence of friendly, law abiding police. I would suggest law enforcement outside of Louisiana for now.

BE CAREFUL..............AND get anybodies business card who threathenes you w/ arrest, gator food, or whatever.

Better yet, take along a news camera crew too! I am not joking even tho I am using some humor.

[sparkie]

Link: http://livewire.fm/forums/showthrea...ghlight=bernard


Hi,

I wanted to slightly edit my info/comments given about animal rescuers in New Orleans: (Keep in mind that if I asked 50 different people I would get 50 differnt answers)

After talking to a representative for NOPD at the EOC about animal rescuing, I located the rep. for LASPCA at the EOC. She said w/in Orleans Parish which includes the city of New Orleans (NOT any other parish), that as of 1 Oct 2005 only officially endorsed, accredited animal control workers can rescue & take to appropriate shelters. I said that wasn't being enforced yet and she seemed to agree.

Several reasons for this:

1. They are trying to return animal controlling to more normal procedures that are practiced during normal times. (I don't think they are quite ready for this yet)

2. "Someone is going to get shot!", accidently by a homeowner/pet owner. Example: Last week several volunteer animal rescuers broke thru a front door to rescue animals but were greeted by the family eating dinner. Oops!
This could of been easily prevented if they repeatedly knocked on doors/windows, identified themselves as animal rescuers & try to confirm info w/ any neighbors, etc.

***St. Bernard Parish****....Very DIFFERENT Situation:

From my personal experience, on friday, 7 Oct 2005, approximately 5:50 pm central, I was clearly told by 3 supposedly endorsed by St Bernard animal control, to GET OUT & STAY OUT! "If I see you in St. Bernard again I will have you arrested by the sheriff!". They approached me in an aggressive & rude manner, 1 man in his late 50's w/ salt & pepper hair and 2 masculine looking younger women. They were in a new unmarked white extended pickup, maybe F150.

Coincidentially, I was directly in front of one of the St Bernard public schools. and they had been driving into the school property until they spotted me & turned around to "chat" w/ me. Hmmmmmm....

I clearly told them that I was not in their parish as animal rescue but as Red Cross, licensed electrician & concerned american. (I wore many hats while down in the gulf. I am also former MP Sgt). I did not have rescueing equipment in my vehicle either which they immediately discovered as the 2 masculine females confirmed w/ their thorough visual inspection as they surrounded by car.

They said they had an agreement w/ local animal control & only there group was allowed in St. Bernard parish. (I was not as observant as usual so I did not remember all the details.....BUT, by pure chance, they were accidently recorded on a voice mail message I had just left as they were approaching me. Even tho I attempted to end call it did not & continued to record most of what took place via my cell headset. Oops! And the person I had been calling is an animal rights activist. Douple Oops for them!)

That was the FOURTH time I was threatened w/ arrest in the gulf coast. Twice by "official" animal control.

I'll crosspost this & w/ more details later. Have limited time now. I ran into these same 3 people about 5 minutes later and they were even more aggressive. Fortunately, 3 military personal w/ M-16's were between us.

More to tell about St Bernard, now that I am safely home in the midwest.

Bye, Sparkie Pam