killing butterflies for fun???

[Paul Cherubini]

Stan wrote:

> Someone commented this looks like bait. The response 
> below does not give the impression of an innocent bystander
> shocked for the first time that insects on pins are not alive. 
> The tone of the response does sound like someone familiar
> with this list, and possibly who has responded in it
> before. I wonder what the true purpose of 'Joseph' is.
> Stan

I agree Stan - this is just like what happened two months ago: 
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From: b swallocks [SMTP:bswallocks2000 at yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 11:38 AM
To: leps-l at lists.yale.edu
Subject: You evil bastards!
 
You people are really evil. You take poor sweet innocent 
butterflies and kill them by sticking pins in them.
 
You evil cruel bastards!

Betty Swallocks
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To add some perspective, below I have  substituted 'flowers' for
'butterflies' in Joseph's post:

Hi flower lovers,

I am new to this group and did a lot of searching to 
find you all.  I recently attended an audubon meeting
in my county and the speaker did his talk on flowers.  
I went expecting to see pictures of live flowers
and to learn more about them.

Instead, this guy (I won't mention his name - I 
don't want to get a lynch mob goin ;)), brought in his 
collection of flowers that he killed and mounted FOR FUN!

Since this is a flower group, I know you will be disturbed 
to hear this, but I was wondering if there are any laws
to protect them?  Can just anyone go out an collect flowers
just for the fun of it? It would seem to me that we would 
have laws to protect some of our most beautiful 
creatures.  What this guy does, and others like him,
is morally wrong and I intend to turn around this
disturbing trend that murder is okay as long as 
the perpetrator is having fun.

Just looking for direction on where to go, 
and sorry if the discussion of dead flowers has 
ruined your breakfast.

 
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