Foul smell leads authoritites to apartment zoo

[snooper2]

"They found a home crawling with life: About 200 creatures -- including alligators, scorpions and carnivorous beetles -- formed a bizarre menagerie kept alive by a woman who fed them roadkill."

big snip

"Verburgt's boyfriend, John Walters, was prosecuted in 2000 for mistreatment of exotic animals.

At that time, police found a female cougar, female leopard, silver-tailed fox, monitor lizard, two caracals, a coatimundi, chinchilla and a reticulated python in Walter's apartment in Greenfield, another Milwaukee suburb."

edit to add link
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Midwest/05/06/apartment.zoo.ap/index.html

[placton]

1. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?

[ellie]

2. Who has room for a cougar, a leopard

a fox, etc. in their apartment? I barely had room for my furniture!

[prodigal_green]

3. Condi?

"They found a home crawling with life: About 200 creatures -- including alligators, scorpions and carnivorous beetles -- formed a bizarre menagerie kept alive by a woman who fed them roadkill."

Really, CNN should know Dr. Rice's name by now.

[nolabels]

4. The local Road Kill Cafe probably didn't like them eating their profits

"Science is like sex: Sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it. (Feynman)"

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