man caught leaving water bottles in the desert for illegal immigrants has been senten
 

An Arizona man caught leaving water bottles in the desert for illegal immigrants has been sentenced to 300 hours of community service and a year of probation, an aid group said.

Walt Staton, a member of the group No More Deaths, left full water bottles in December in Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge for the illegal immigrants who routinely pass through the 18,000-acre refuge, according to court documents.

Noting the phrase scrawled on many of the plastic water jugs -- "buena suerte," or "good luck" in Spanish -- the prosecutors said, "The obvious conclusion is that the defendant and No More Deaths wish to aid illegal aliens in their entry attempt."

They also said, as did the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, that leaving the full plastic jugs on the refuge is detrimental to the health of the animals that live there. Citing a biologist, the prosecutors said that animals could eat the plastic and that others could get feet or antlers caught on the bottles.


http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/13/...ate/index.html

that's fucked up on so many levels

don't leave water that can save a human's life because some fucking coyote might choke on a piece of plastic

Plastic bags i could understand, but when was the last time wildlife ate a plastic water bottle o_O?

Good, he should go to jail for 6 months... anyone who thinks ILLEGAL immigrants have special rights and are above the law should go to jail themselves.

We don't have special rights and others immigrants go through the full proper legal process to get into the U.S.A. there's no exceptions, and then these illegal immigrants just waltz in, how do you think those other immigrants who did it the right way feel?

thought so too, thats a great thank you for taking time out of your day to go to the desert and drop water bottles off for potentially dying people.

and why would an animal chew on plastic? its tasteless, they may as well be concerned about the coyote choking on a desert rock

Legal or illegal I don't give a shit either way. I just don't think that people need to die needlessly.

he's lucky they didnt tack on "littering" and slapped him with $1,000 fine for trashing a national wildlife area LOL

I'm gonna paypal him money for his bailout
its good to see there are still people with good soul in Arizona
:-)

exactly

they may be coming here illegally, but that doesn't mean they deserve to die

Human life is more important than borders to me. And I normally vote republican. We wouldn't have people having to sneak across the border if the immigration process was fair, or open to those that don't have much money. As someone who went through the process of getting a spouse permanent residence its retarded expensive bullshit. There is no way some poor mexican that just wants the chance to make a better life for themselves to do it legally. The inscription at Ellis Island says it all, and how it was and how it should be.


"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" :2 cents:

It's their prerogative to enter the country and wander through the wilderness... we aren't going to setup watering stations throughout to help them lol...

i saw a story about one on Discovery or National Geographic with shootings how he does his stuff. his face wasn't blurred and the town where he was living was called

once he met an illegal woman, but he just told her how to reach the nearest city and refused to ride her because of the law.

thats insane

How about put a team of snipers shooting down every illegal that show up.:321GFY

So, let me get this straight, instead of sending CEOs of companies that employ illegals to jail they are sending this guy to jail?

That's typical government b.s. --- "fix" a big problem by sending the smallest poorest people to jail.

I didn't say human life is not important... it is of the highest importance and concern...

However like i said, it's their prerogative...

So if an illegal immigrant ventures out into the world of business in the USA.... and they are failing, there should be random piles of money out there that they can grab.... ?

fucking government and prosecutors deserve zero respect when they come up with shit like that :2 cents:

Oh, its those illegals asking for billions of dollars in govn't aid and pay out millions to its executives. Go shoot them kid. :1orglaugh

I think i saw something similar on crash, except the water was poisoned

that would upset the president that they dont allow that

not only do these illegal fucks come here w/o permission, they litter, and god knows what else during the proccess.

when is that giant wall being built?

I have provided water, food and transportation for illegal aliens. To leave a suffering person in the desert would be unconscionable.

Ok so you WOULD drink some random bottle of water you found in the desert? Perhaps some other guy puts out poisoned water bottles? I'd drink my own piss before I'd drink some bottle of "water" lying around.

Hey I didnt say those guys are off the hook... And I never said anything about it being ok to shoot anyone... lol

if they are so stupid that they don't bring/have the proper supplies so much so that they risk death, fuck em. Its not like they are escaping alcatraz.

they are often at the mercy of what the coyote's have provided for them, and sometimes are not given what was expected when the transportation arrangements were made :2 cents:

What the heck?

and it's not like they can sue the coyotes for not providing what they said they would...

i dunno, call me a bleeding heart, but i grew up in san diego and counted a more than a few illegals as my friends (as a child, i barely even realized what it meant - and i definitely didn't care) and so i don't have it in me to just brush them off and forget about them, even if what they're doing is lawfully wrong.

youre one funny guy. In one thread you scream up and down all day about how socialism is bad, that you dont want your taxes going to help out other Americans... then here you are trying to act like your brothers keeper? LOL

this shit is hilarious.

I am all for helping out my fellow man, but you "anti-health care reform" folk crack me up.

You dont want to help your own fellow americans get affordable health care, but want to save evey illegal coming into the country to use your tax dollars. as you say it is "stealing from one to give to the other" yet you support illegals coming into US???

BUAHAHAH :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

if you reply at all make sure you quote the yellow...

If they are running around through the fucking desert with no water its their own fault

come the fuck on

your view is simplistic


picture a scenario, young guys in a poor guatemalan village get phone calls from relatives that are working two jobs and 16 hour days in the u.s. and sending back money to support their families, the coyotes have connections and can get them to the u.s., but the cost is high, thousands of dollars, they are willing to take the chance and huge risks in crossing multiple borders and relying on shady coyotes for the arrangements and travel across the borders, some of the coyotes will work on credit, when they arrive at their destination they may owe $5000 or more, which will have to be paid out of their small wages, so they travel from their small village to the border where they may wait for hours to meet up with an arranged coyote, who will rush them into a vehicle, probably crammed and with no ventilation, where they may travel for hours, then they might be dumped off at a remote part of the border and dumped off and told to RUN, across dangerous rocky or desert paths, where they hope to not be seen and hope that the coyote that is supposed to pick them up will be there when they get there, perhaps after a few hour walk/run, then they are crammed into another vehicle and driven for hours to the next destination, then they may have to walk for a day or two, hoping not to get robbed or harrassed by corrupt officials, then another vehicle, then another run across dangerous land, probably without any supplies, where they are driven by hope for the chance to work hard and earn money to better their life and the life of their families..... they might get very sick on the trip, some might die, and when they do get to their destination they might face more problems as life as an illegal holds stresses of its own and some are not lucky to find work that treats them well

these are people, like you and I, born onto this earth..... the arbitrary borders weren't always there, and we are all immigrants or descendents of immigrants, who came based on arbitrary decisions of legislators or lack thereof

just my :2 cents: it's like leaving food out on a table with hungry people and charging someone with theft if they eat some, the economic realities and the american desire for cheap labor to do the menial types of jobs makes the situation one where you are inviting them in a way, at the very least dangling the irresistable carrot and then some are shocked when they come

Right on Kid...They along with all the other people that want to come to this Great Country should go through the proper legal process. And those people that say they should not are disloyal Americans.. :thumbsup:thumbsup

Wow that story almost makes me want to go to the border and snipe a few of them then they would not have to worry about "Life as an illegal" because of all the "Stresses" or worry about finding a job that "Treats them well".... Your funny...LOL

idiot ....

Now that this guy has been convicted for a crime, dont let him shoot porn, he may fruad all of you.

This has got to be one of the most moronic things said on here in a long long time.

You are comparing giving water to someone in 110 plus degree weather with giving a pile of money to someone who is broke.

You do understand what you are saying here right?

Because there is quite a difference.




So, what you are also saying is that if someone came to your door, or up to you on the street and they were severely dehydrated and suffering from heat exhaustion you would check to make sure they were legal here before helping them? Because they made the choice right?

he won on appeal , it turns out he was sticking rat poison in the water bottles , so the judge had a good laugh and threw the case out, plus he got a reward and medal.