Satires and Parodies by Jungle-Man: 13- Kenny Seized?

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"It's a bird!"

"It's a plane!"

"No, it's a silverfish on your glasses"

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Satire, by its very nature, is not simply to make us laugh or to poke fun and ridicule on something. It should make us laugh at ourselves, while opening our eyes to a deeper message. Like an editorial cartoon, it should make us think -which is rare in today's world.

Satirical works of JungleMan first began appearing in another now-defunct blog, "Topdogsroartoo," by the same author. The blog was discontinued for personal reasons, but the satires continued, on facebook and elsewhere. The major purpose of this blog is to archive the JungleMan satires as well as some favorites by others. Those of other authors will be given credit whenever the author is known. All JungleMan works are marked as such.

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September 18, 2011

13- Kenny Seized?

This is an older one that I've just found in my files. Seems when they conduct a search and seize under color of a warrant, they take whatever they please. They'd take the kitchen sink too, if they could only find your monkey wrench to unhook the pipes. (Then they'd keep the wrench as well.) It's my guess that most raids and seizures result in a lot more being taken than the warrant authorizes. They just don't include the extra booty in the Officer's Return, and it's rarely questioned. It's even more rare that anybody gets prosecuted for these thefts under color of law.

Yes, they'd take Kenny too if he'd been there. And he'd have faced the same fate as our cats, poultry, and fowl. -Those bastards.

In the background of this parody is an actual photo of Caroline Wedding, the one-woman Marion County Humane Society, and a volunteer, loading up her car with empty pet store-quality multi-level bird cages taken out of our semi -even though the seizure warrant only called for animals and not cages, food, bedding, feed bowls, and other equipment. These cages were eventually returned, in poor shape and with rusted legs from sitting outside. Other items remain missing to this day.

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