Reply #16: I tried very hard for several hours to believe it was done out of hunger, [View All]

[The Stranger]

but food isn't that expensive (food isn't expensive at all) nor hard to find in Florida, and it isn't expensive anywherein the U.S. The time, premeditated and calculated effort and expense that it would take to track, kill and use illegal "gopher pullers" to kill these protected animals would not be done by someone who was hungry. Nor would it take 100 turtles to feed someone if they were starving.

This was not done by someone poor or hungry. This was poaching, plain and simple, and should be prosecuted as a crime, and the crimes for this should be given real teeth.