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    cheerful_exgirlfriendHudson Hongo
    6/14/15 11:28pm

    I hope he has to pay the fine for each eagle and that every time he parks his car this happens

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      MantisAeroplanecheerful_exgirlfriend
      6/15/15 12:12am

      I was about three feet from a bald eagle as it fed on some kind of rodent. Watching those talons and beak rending flesh like it was tissue gave me a new respect for raptors.

      What I’m trying to say is that photographer was some combination of brave, lucky, and stupid.

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      cheerful_exgirlfriendMantisAeroplane
      6/15/15 12:20am

      It was a video, maybe from in another car? I would be shitting bricks.

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    PeteRRHudson Hongo
    6/15/15 7:53am

    Thompson could face additional charges for violating the federal Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, which threatens lawbreakers with one year in prison, a $100,000 fine, or both.

    And yet if your windmills cut 100s of raptors to pieces, politicians sing your praises and hand you subsidies to build more of them.

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      skefflesPeteRR
      6/15/15 8:10am

      [citation needed]

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      PeteRRskeffles
      6/15/15 8:24am

      Windmills kill nearly half a million birds a year, according to a Fish and Wildlife estimate. The American Bird Conservancy projected that the number could more than double in 20 years if the administration realizes its goal for wind power.

      The American Wind Energy Association, which represents the industry, disputes the conservancy’s projection, and also the current Fish and Wildlife count, saying the current bird kill is about 150,000 annually.

      Over nearly 30 years, none of the nation’s 500 wind farms, where 35,000 wind turbines operate mostly on private land, have been prosecuted for killing birds, although long-standing laws protect eagles and a host of migrating birds.

      If the ongoing investigation by the Fish and Wildlife Service’s law enforcement division results in a prosecution at Pine Tree, it will be a first. The conservancy wants stronger regulations and penalties for the wind industry, but the government has so far responded only with voluntary guidelines.

      “It’s ridiculous. It’s voluntary,” said Robert Johns, a spokesman for the conservancy. “If you had voluntary guidelines for taxes, would you pay them?”

      The government should provide more oversight and force operators of wind turbines to select sites where birds don’t often fly or hunt, the conservancy says. It also wants the wind industry to upgrade to energy-efficient turbines with blades that spin slower.

      The lack of hard rules has caused some at the conservancy to speculate that federal authorities have decided that the killing of birds — including bald and golden eagles — is a price they are willing to pay to lower the nation’s carbon footprint with cleaner wind energy.

      WP

      There are dozens of articles talking about Bald Eagles, Golden Eagles, owls, and other raptors being killed by windmills, with emphasis on the newer, taller units being especially deadly.

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    gramercypoliceHudson Hongo
    6/14/15 11:23pm

    These comments from the Dispatch-News story sort of run the gamut. From “He’s sick about it because he says it was an accident, and I believe him!” to “Take him to the dump and run him over.”

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      Porxaderpgramercypolice
      6/14/15 11:37pm

      Funny how they point to his nickname Opie as proof he’s a good person. The only other Opie I knew was a murdering outlaw biker who died in prison.

      RIP Opie

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      Defender90CAPorxaderp
      6/15/15 9:19am

      Opie Taylor?!

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    TRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)Hudson Hongo
    6/14/15 11:34pm

    The only way this could be less patriotic is if he hit the eagle square in the middle of his rebel flag vanity plate.

    P.S. Yes, I know Oregon requires front plates, so let’s just assume that such a raptorcidal scofflaw has no time for your automotive niceties.

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      62imperialcrownTRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)
      6/15/15 12:26am
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      HarryPooter62imperialcrown
      6/15/15 1:41am

      What's the difference between unlawful and illegal? One is a sick bird. Oh, you heard that before. Sorry.

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    PopChipsHudson Hongo
    6/14/15 11:33pm

    Another person suited for placement in a Petco drying cage.

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      Book AkiHudson Hongo
      6/14/15 11:32pm

      Uhm....RUDE!!!!!

      GIF
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        newcellphoneburnerBook Aki
        6/15/15 12:47am

        Oh my god, you and I were thinking the same thing. 9/11 Myspace Blingee!!! I miss tacky Myspace.

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      freetibetwithapurchaseofanentreeHudson Hongo
      6/14/15 11:26pm

      Some people like to kill things. Some dudes I knew in college were rifle toting hunter gatherers. I remember them joking around at a party about finding a bunch of turtles migrating across a field while deer hunting. They thought it would be super duper funny to shoot the shit out of all the turtles so they did. My drunk friend was so mad she decided to poop in their dishwasher. The dishwasher they never, ever used.

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        Armageddon T. Thunderbirdfreetibetwithapurchaseofanentree
        6/15/15 10:40am

        Dishwasher Pooper: Real American Hero

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        LRonsCupboardfreetibetwithapurchaseofanentree
        6/15/15 10:47am

        Typically I don’t approve of passive-aggression but your friend...I like her.

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      Pink SkullHudson Hongo
      6/15/15 12:08am

      I knew Chip Kelly was having a questionable off-season in Philadelphia, but this is getting out of hand.

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        Icecold DavisHudson Hongo
        6/14/15 11:26pm

        I believe that under Alaska’s new Prometheus sentencing guidelines they can chain him to a pillar and let the eagles eat his liver every morning.

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          MattHudson Hongo
          6/15/15 3:58pm

          How exactly he got his car up in that tree is still being investigated...

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