Rabies [it's over now]

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

Final note from my sister Dede.... 

By the way, Paul says:  These scenarios are why we live way out in
the boondocks.  My political views lean towards anarchy (the anarchy
of personal & individual responsibility).   At the first
sighting, I would have filled the animal with so much lead it could be
sold for scrap.  Sigh.  

> O.k, so first thing this a.m. I got in touch
> with the Health Dept. They
> said they were not interested in testing the animal because they
> already
> know there are rabies in the county. They did apologize for the lack
> of
> response- there is a list of people from the dept. to contact after
> hours but somebody (or in this case quite a few) screwed up and did
> not
> refer us to these people. So I ask, now what do we do with this
> thing?.
> Bury it, she says. Your problem. After I took a short time looking
> into
> the phone receiver I wondered why I bothered to go through all this,
> and
> realized that the idea of living here any longer than we have to
> would
> be not only stupid, but dangerous! We have contaminated water,
> stupid
> people and health departments that apparently don't even know what
> 'health risk' means. Duh...

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