More unintended consequences from where else? Augusta!

I know that shocks you, too, but...

Get this: Feed wild turkeys and deer with cracked corn from the local feed store and you may be fined. Do it again and you'll pay big, according to a proposed law.

Rep. Scott Lansley, R-Sabattus, "submitted the bill on the behalf of a vegetable farmer in Greene whose crops suffered from deer that were attracted to the area by feed left for wild turkeys."

One legislator submits one bill to serve the complaint of one person. Nice going.

Uh, hello. That's not what you're there for! You're in Augusta to serve the greater public good, not individual special interests, even if it is a well-meaning vegetable farmer.

Another dumb piece of legislation on the books that can't be enforced. Even DIFW "questioned how easily such a law could be enforced."

How many hundreds more laws similar to this are concocted every session? More than you or I would really care to know about, I'll wager!

I was just last evening having a conversation with a friend where we both asked, "what if the Maine Legislature, never mind the U.S. Congress, took a couple of years off. No sessions, no meetings, no hearings, no new laws, no BS.

Would anybody notice? Would anybody care?

But I digress...

Back at the feedbag, complaints surrounding the bill are pouring in... "Farmers, gardeners and people who fear that their expensive shrubs will become meals for deer if their neighbors stop putting out feed."

The unintended consequeces of a poorly conceived idea.

People have been feeding deer and turkeys around their homes for a long time for the pure enjoyment of it, to make a simple connection with nature. Has the practice really been that harmful? So much so that we need another law?

Let this one go. Please.

Can't we all just get along, you and me and the deer and the antelope, er, turkey?