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I may lose all my plants

  • #201
Okay, here is the thing.
I noticed it was close to April's Fools Day, and I almost asked in an early post, but I did not want to add salt to the wound.
Like Superimposedhope, I kind of also noticed lack of notice from some prominent members. I had an episode with the legal system that was unbelievable, but really happened.
I actually emailed Dr. Charles Clarke(no reply) like I said I was going to and I told the whole list serve about this yesterday.
I will be the biggest fool of the bunch if this is a prank.
 
  • #202
i kinda think this is over and above what a long time member like Ozzy would do for an April Fools joke as it could potentially do a lot of bad publicity for him when it comes to future dealings with members. i have seen lots of idiotic stuff like this happen in court. part of the reason i live in the country is so i dont have to deal with city ordenances, just state and county and the town i live in is fairly sane. state ordences against banned plants and animals list out the species that cant be kept. the counties do no such bans here. i have seen ppl like Ozzy get railroaded before even if they were in the right. i highly doubt it is a joke and my offer still stands Oz, ill help you in anyway i can just shoot me a PM.
 
  • #203
After reading and assessing the situation again I find myself quite suspicious...this has the ingredients to be a potentially and uproariously good joke, one for the record books.
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Sorry if this is not the case ozzy, but if it is, I will hunt you down and laugh my *** off...
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  • #204
Well I showed up at the court house and did what I said I was going to do. I was pretty much laughed right out of the court house. I was told that the judgement has been made and if I wanted to fight it, then I need to file an appeal.
I got home to find an eviction notice on my door. I'm being evicted for violation of town laws. I have made a call to all the TV stations, and I'm also going to the town newspaper in a few minutes.

You know, all I can say to the people that are laughing and saying this is a joke, is tomorrow my plants and pets will still be gone, and you guys are going to feel pretty bad when you wake up and this topic is still here with no puch line at the end.
 
  • #205
anyway you can box up plants and ship them off? hell send your snakes up to me for the time being, ive got extra food as long as they will eat F/T mice and rats. ive got years of experiance in keeping similar snakes and can have extra cages set up today. dont have room for all your plants but i bet there are members here who could make room.
 
  • #206
[b said:
Quote[/b] (rattler_mt @ Mar. 31 2005,11:56)]anyway you can box up plants and ship them off? hell send your snakes up to me for the time being, ive got extra food as long as they will eat F/T mice and rats. ive got years of experiance in keeping similar snakes and can have extra cages set up today. dont have room for all your plants but i bet there are members here who could make room.
Well, if this is not a joke, he can't do that because of this quote from an earlier post.


She ordered that all of the carnivorous plants execpt for the Utricularia be confisacted and destroyed. She ordered two of the baliffs to escort me to my house and I have to give them the plants and my snakes.
The balliffs had the list that I gave the court of all my plants and they marked of every plant untill they had them all. I asked what would happen to the snakes and plants. They said they will be heald for 30 day to give me a chance to appeal. Then they will see if they can place the snakes with a reptile rescue group. They plants will be destroyed after 30 days.
 
  • #207
so they are allowed to destroy potentially rare and endangered plants(havent seen your growlist Oz, not sure what all yah got) because he got railroaded by an idiot judge and prosicutor? from all that Ozzy has said the judge ignored all Ozzys evidence and went on the prosicutions word. sounds like Ozzy has the makings of a potential law suit to me.

Ozzy the press is your friend, i bet after talking to the newspaper(s) this will be far from the first time someone who was innocent got railroaded by this idiotic duo.
 
  • #208
I wouldn't say that I "know" Ozzy, I know of him and some of his joke and I have dealt with April Fools day all my life. However outrageous it is, there are many a case of such ignorance and it is possible, even more possible the smaller the city/town you live in. If it is not a joke, I mean no harm. After all this I DO hope I see a punch line tomorrow. Maybe you'll wake up and it will all just be a dream.
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  • #210
This goes to show you that the REAL danger to the general population are lawyers and stupid judges who's inflated egoes will not allow them to admit that they don't know their butt from a hole in the ground when applicable.

Just watch Judge Judy and you'll know what I mean.

I mean, if that lady had one more brain cell, she'd have one brain cell!

>>> Rick <<<
 
  • #211
I don't know which disturbs me more: That this could really have happened to Ozzy, and people are treating it like a joke, or that it is a joke, and the American judicial system, especially in small towns, is so screwed up that it is entirely plausible.
 
  • #212
I have only just noticed this thread. Ozzy, you my sympathy. Its a real shame when people in the legal profession twist the law for 'winning' arguments or getting their own way. Shame on them. Words simply cannot express what you must be feeling..
 
  • #213
Who cares if this is a joke. If it is, we don't lose anything... we just gain the faith that this possibly might not happen in a real court. The only way this could hurt us as a joke is if he didn't tell us later and we stayed paranoid about our collections' safety. Better to just give Ozzy some support and not worry about it.
 
  • #214
Thanks, endparenthesis, that's a nice way to put an end to the "it's a joke" thing. If it is, then tomorrow we can look silly, since it doesn't look like a joke, let's move on and see what we can do to help the situation.
Well, Ozzy, you know that any one of us here will help you out in any way that we can- now if only one of us was a lawyer... Wait.. Then we'd need to put up with a lawyer- if only one of us had a relative that was a lawyer. Be kinda like "My Cousin Vinny"... In any case, good luck Ozzy, I hope that going to the papers helps. At least you can always put some of the newspapers with the story in 'em up for aution in the next NASC auction.
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In any case, I think it's definitly time to get a lawyer, at leastyou can have someone behind you shouting "I object, your honor". :-\ We can always start a "Save Ozzy, help hmi get a lawyer" fund if there are monetary issues, I know I'd be happy to help you as I really hate seeing an upstanding citizen pushed around in court. Well, best of luck.

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  • #215
In solidarity with Ozzy, I post these inspirational lyrics.

"God has smiled upon you this day
The fate of a nation in your hands
And blessed be the children who fight with all our bravery
'Til only the righteous stand

You see the distant flames
They bellow in the night
You fight in all our names for what we know is right
And when you all get shot
And cannot carry on
Though you die, La Resistance lives on

You may get stabbed in the head
With a dagger or a sword
You may be burned to death
Or skinned alive, or worse
But when they torture you
You will not feel the need to run
For, though you die, La Resistance lives on."

Viva La Resistance!
Capslock
 
  • #216
They should make people pass an insanity test before they become a judge.
 
  • #217
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]I got home to find an eviction notice on my door. I'm being evicted for violation of town laws.
WOW! I didn't think they could do that. You have been there only a few weeks, right?
Take it to a higher court if you have to...
 
  • #218
Oh, I'd certainly fight to stay there. But at least you weren't flown to Guantanamo or a country willing to torture a confession out of you.
 
  • #219
excuse my lanuge but holy poop! wat the hell? this is crap, wat next? ur trees roots tripped me! it has to die!
 
  • #220
hehe, they switched poop to poop, hehe
 
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