While New Yorkers continue to enjoy a rent control system, animals at the Bronx Zoo will be soon sent packing in the search of zoos due to the economic downturn. Hundreds of animals may soon be put out on the curb, including deer, bats, foxes, and antelopes.
To the credit of the council, they decided not to eat the animals. However, their years of sponging off the city is at an end. Of course, one would expect a bit of a moral obligation to such animals after keeping them captive for so long. Yet, the council will close four exhibits to meet a $15 million budget shortfall.
The Bronx zoo is 114 years old.
It appears that they are going to locate zoos rather than have the homeless animals eat the increasing homeless human population in New York. What I find increasingly difficult to reconcile is the hundreds of billions that we have poured into Iraq (an oil rich nation) and Afghanistan while we are shutting down public facilities and cutting school budgets in the United States. Likewise, we are giving hundreds of billions to failed banks and corporations while we close public resources like zoos and parks. We have a political system that is not only fundamentally broken but pursuing a ruinous path for this nation.
We may want to send the animals to Iraq. I hear they are flush with cash.
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What ever happened to that Billion Dollars in US Dollars that the Army found?
Did it go to the C-I-C’s Golden Parachute?
You know I have heard of showers before. I just did not know what a Golden Shower was. OMG.
And Water Boarding ain’t close to Water Sports and water sports has nothing to do with the lake. OMG.
What will people do?
Those people who believe Mike Bloomberg is a wonderful mayor have been deluding themselves. He is a member of and representative for, the NYC monied elite. People of the “lesser” classes take their children to the Bronx Zoo, unable to afford the tonier attractions. Infrastructure in the outlying boroughs is paid minimal attention, while the flowers should soon be blooming on Park Avenue. I had to move from NYC, City of my birth because although not poor, I could no longer afford to either buy or rent there. Yet corporate subsidies abound and taxes fall squarely on the middle and lower economic classes. Given this can anyone wonder that the zoo will be underfunded and animals moved out. Tourists almost never go to the Bronx and neither do those of privilege.
Dear Bronx Zoo:
I can give a good home to the following animals:
1. Eland
2. Wilde Beast
3. Wild Boar
4. Elk
5. Sitka Deer
6. Red Stag
the are delic uh magnificent animals and I can assure you they will have a pleasant home for the rest of their naural life, however long that may be.
At what temperature are they considered rare er at what teperature should their enclosure be kept?
thank you,
A nature lover
I am making a joke and Ruark is the name of a hunter that wrote a book about his adventures in Africa.
So kind of you Ruark(?).
Since they were being fed by the owners, thereby precluding a non-payment proceeding, I reckon the animals will be treated as hold-over tenants.
A New York hold-over tenant is entitled to a 30 day notice.
Predicate notices must not only set forth the information required by statute, but the must also be legible to the tenant.
Query: Will Dr. Doolittle, Esq. move the court to stay an eviction pending confirmation that said animals comprehend the predicate notice?
Your courtesies in connection with this matter are greatly appreciated.
Well like I have said. I am all for PETA.
People Eating Tasty Animals.
Thats all folks.
Another way of looking at this is that the animals were “at will” employees working for Room and Board.
Gyges,
If they were at will then I suppose that it could be inferred that they now have a tenancy at sufferance.
I still think that proper notice must be given in order to evict. I would be happy to assist any and all of the prospective clients with the exception of Mr. Lyons.
I understand that these clients have been denied the right to collective bargain and certain rights may have been abridged.
I am sure, that, we could make a case for involuntary servitude, False Imprisonment, Travel Across State Boarder for an Immoral Purpose, Kidnapping, Libel, Slander, Specific Performance and depending on the age of the respective clients will see if we needs to get a Guardian Appointed for them.
As you see it is not cut and dried on any level. We may, if they become my clients invoke Federal Jurisdiction and see if we can obtain Class status.
Now all of this nonsense can be avoided, if they are adequately compensated for services, rehabilitative incentative for an alternative career, special, consequencial and punative damamges not to exceed the value of the current estate value.
As you are aware, we have numerous laws to rely upon as well as the US Constitution specifically, USC 1983, Const 1, 2, 4, 8, 13, 14 and 15.
I will be seeking under a separate count Reparations for my clients.
Please remember that this is contingent upon my being retained. This is not a solicitation for business, this is merely an offer to have the rights explained to them.