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posted by on Sunday April 16 2017, @05:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the now-with-nerve-gas! dept.

The USDA will stop using sodium cyanide "bombs" in Idaho (at least temporarily) following an incident that put a 14-year-old in the hospital and killed his dog:

About a month after an anti-predator device spit sodium cyanide in the face of an unsuspecting boy and killed his dog, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced it is ending its use of the M-44 mechanisms in Idaho indefinitely.

"We take seriously the incident in Idaho," Jason Suckow, western regional director of the USDA's Wildlife Services agency, told conservation groups in a letter Monday. "We immediately responded by removing all M-44s from the area, initiating an inquiry into the incident, and launching a review of current [Wildlife Services] operating procedures."

Suckow noted the agency has "removed all M-44s currently deployed on all land ownerships in Idaho" and has refrained from planting new ones.


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  • (Score: 2) by Lagg on Sunday April 16 2017, @10:45PM

    by Lagg (105) on Sunday April 16 2017, @10:45PM (#494989) Homepage Journal

    I have no interest in debating the obvious problems with fucking cyanide sentries. But for what it's worth Joe Rogan isn't stupid. He's lived in the Colorado mountains and is very well versed in natural history. I don't even like the podcast that much anymore and I disagree heavily with a lot of what he says. But it's dumb to imply he doesn't know what he's saying.

    Also I'm not sure where that left field war rant came from but how 'boutchu and the rest of the cunts go back to twitter. The liberals turn you on so much because they're a lot like you and you're a lot like them. You deserve each other - and you know it.

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