Florida Man Being Cited For Storing Animal Parts In Freezer

[matcom]

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TAMPA, Fla. -- A Tampa man is getting a citation for storing animal parts in a freezer .

Police say Lester Huckaby can be punished by up to 60 days in county jail and a $500 fine. He had birds that wildlife officials say are protected under the Federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

Authorities say an anonymous caller told police that Huckaby was storing part of a migratory bird and pieces of sea turtles inside a freezer in his house.

When authorities searched they house, they say they found one room filled with hawk wings, talons and a raccoon in the process of being skinned. When they opened the freezer, police say out came animal parts: alligator heads, turtle chunks and sandhill cranes.

Huckaby was arrested in 1990 for the possession, sale or transportation of alligator skin.

According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Web site, Florida sandhill cranes are found in pastures, prairies and freshwater wetlands in peninsular Florida from the Everglades to the Okefenokee Swamp. The two subspecies found in Florida have gray plumage and an unfeathered carmine red crown.

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[Hugin]

1. Mmmm... Spotted owl stew!

*Nothing* like it!

[democrat in Tallahassee]

2. Bastard, those sea turtles have had a hard time. Leave em alone,

Was this Jeb, by the way?

[Jamastiene]

3. I have cow and chicken parts in mine right now. Will I

be arrested? :sarcasm:

I dunno how to feel. The though of having that many dead animals in my house would be too much. I couldn't imagine living like that, per se. Why do people feel the need to collect the rare animals' skins and parts? Aren't the plentiful ones enough?