Monkey Meat?

By Corey • December 12, 2009 • 2 comments

A woman from Staten Island, New York City, managed to avoid jail time after being caught smuggling 720 pounds (!) of baboon and Green Monkey meat into the U.S. The judge decided that despite her eleven prior arrests he would give her probation instead of jail time, apparently because she has eight kids. Moral of the story? It’s fine to smuggle animal products if you have kids. Whatever happened to blind justice?

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Corey

Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

2 Responses to “Monkey Meat?”

charlie Dec 13th, 2009 at 4:51 am
The bushmeat trade is wiping out monkeys and apes throughout western Africa, but that’s okay if you have a huge family? Un – fricking – believable.
jason Dec 15th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Pathetic. Just pathetic. I guess I’ll start fathering a bunch of children so I can use that as a get-out-of-jail-free card. Now which bank do I rob first…

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