Pajarita wrote:People who really love animals don't allow things to 'spiral out of control'. They stop before it gets to that point. "
While I agree with you, I
decided to believe that he was sick and couldn't help it. It's what I needed to do to deal with the situation and deal with the birds once we got them. It would have been easy for me to get consumed with anger, especially as birds started to die. Especially as our lives and the lives of the birds we already had in the rescue were turned upside-down.
Being angry at him wasn't going to help the birds.
I was a few feet from that guy as we waited for him to sign things over. I had to decide to let it go right there. I never followed the court case. I never went to court. I wrote a witness statement, I guess, but I know from years of work on the fire department that if you let the idiots get to you, you make it harder to do YOUR job. My job was to help take care of the birds. Someone else had to be the one to be mad at him, punish him, or whatever they did. I can do one or the other, but not both.
Most car accidents had one idiot who was responsible for all the carnage. And he was usually right there, needing help too. You just have to skate your lane, as they'd say in hockey. You have to bury the anger. That's why God invented booze.