Final words on the peacocks

This will be the last I write on the peacocks, unless something else comes up.

I emailed many of the people involved, every one of them blamed the other. None of them took responsibility. The doctor sent me a stupid response, not even worthy of publishing and all the others blamed each other, which leads me to believe that something wrong was done here or someone would have the balls to stand up and take blame.

I emailed about seven people at the Discovery Channel, they totally ignored the emails, usually, tv shows and producers are the first to be publicity whores. Not in this case. The people at the farm were totally rude when I contacted them, now they are trying to backtrack, although I think they are probably the only innocent people here.

When I first started asking around, the first response I got was "ask the Herald of you want info." Which was a dubious reply since that is not a way to defend yourself when someone thinks you are guilty. Is the Herald everyone's attorney now?

The only office that did cooperate with me was that of Comm. Marc Sarnoff. I think you all should know that.

The rest of the parties, including one city employee who was involved, told me that if I didn't like it, I should work to change the laws. Ironically, the assistant city manager who gave the final "do it" approval is no longer with the city, he was let go as part of the cost saving measures due to the budget crisis.

I know it seems like a lot of broo haha over a bunch of birds, but if you check the comments on each story here, we have gotten more feedback on these stories than many in a long time, so it does strike a nerve with people. Even the other media in town were all over it and most contacted me, so they all felt there was a story there. Not just us "grapewhiners" as some rude commenters called us (we didn't publish those put downs).

The consensus is that most are unhappy with the way things went and in the future, when the peacocks need to be thinned out, perhaps we should try to keep them within our village limits and try to do it in the open and not secretly when no one has a clue, because apparently most of us didn't know what was up until months after the fact and I think that was deliberate.