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9/1/2026 12:40:43 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Imzadi:

It isn't. That cop (and K9) had no right to be on the private property.
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Searching for a missing girl and open fields doctrine suggest otherwise
9/1/2026 12:41:38 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By anesvick:
I guess HeeHaw hee'd his last haw again, or is OP too lazy to search?


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Reading is fo suckas
9/1/2026 1:38:25 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By wyorock:

Searching for a missing girl and open fields doctrine suggest otherwise
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This is a good example of why that tool should be taken away from certain agencies. Ask the TWRA about it.
9/1/2026 1:46:14 PM EDT
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Harambe, Peanut, and now Eeor.
In my defense, I was left unattended.
9/1/2026 2:47:28 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By MikeDeltaFoxtrot:


Under the Open Fields Doctrine, they did.
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That open fields bullshit dont fly in TN anymore. Private property? You get a friggin warrant or you dont go on it.
9/1/2026 2:50:00 PM EDT
[#6]
Seems like the number of bad cops drastically higher than the number of good cops these days. Dental plan and all that...
9/1/2026 2:59:11 PM EDT
[#7]
You sure he wasn’t an ATF Agent or Game Warden in disguise as a policeman?
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
9/1/2026 3:02:30 PM EDT
[#8]
DLM  (hoof held high)
per aspera ad astra
9/1/2026 3:04:31 PM EDT
[#9]
A donkey? They shot a f-in donkey? Really? My how law enforcement has fallen
9/1/2026 3:09:09 PM EDT
[#10]
baby donkey named HeeHaw
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So I had to ask ChatGPT to get the numbers:

“How many humans have been killed by baby donkeys in the United States over the past 20 years?”, my best answer is: I cannot find evidence of a documented U.S. death caused specifically by a baby donkey during that period. There are documented fatal attacks by adult donkeys, but those are themselves exceptionally uncommon.

q: what about for the past 100 years?

...human deaths caused by baby/young donkeys over the past 100 years (roughly 1926–2026), the answer is still: there is no reliable worldwide count, but the documented number appears to be extremely small—possibly zero for foals specifically.
per aspera ad astra
9/1/2026 3:13:17 PM EDT
[#11]
The donkey in question belonged to a family friend we've known for years.
And then, he arrives at the last item on his bucket list...
9/1/2026 3:13:35 PM EDT
[#12]
A one year old baby donkey no less.  


Now with more political fatigue.
9/1/2026 3:13:43 PM EDT
[#13]
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Originally Posted By MikeDeltaFoxtrot:


Under the Open Fields Doctrine, they did.
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Originally Posted By MikeDeltaFoxtrot:
Originally Posted By Imzadi:
Originally Posted By wyorock:
Donkey made furtive movements, cop had to get it on.  In all seriousness they is some speculation he had a K9 with him.  If he did, donkeys like to get it on with dogs.  Not excusing it but IF there was a K9 and it was getting wrecked its an interesting twist.

It isn't. That cop (and K9) had no right to be on the private property.


Under the Open Fields Doctrine, they did.


That doesn't entitle them to trespass, that just says there's no 4A protection applicable to your "open fields" surrounding your curtilage.
Well respected cult leader.
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9/1/2026 3:14:28 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By GySgt_D:
The donkey in question belonged to a family friend we've known for years.
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Can you put me in touch with them?
Well respected cult leader.
Also Knight of Wonder.
9/1/2026 3:16:12 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By LawyerUp:


Can you put me in touch with them?
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Originally Posted By LawyerUp:
Originally Posted By GySgt_D:
The donkey in question belonged to a family friend we've known for years.


Can you put me in touch with them?

9/1/2026 3:21:23 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By LawyerUp:


Can you put me in touch with them?
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Hammer time!
9/1/2026 3:25:55 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Tn_Huntaholic:


That open fields bullshit dont fly in TN anymore. Private property? You get a friggin warrant or you dont go on it.
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Except under exigency circumstances…. TN law allows it for police officers.

One of those circumstances is searching for a missing person.
9/1/2026 3:28:00 PM EDT
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How come no one contacts the ASPCA and have them shame the PD.
9/1/2026 3:28:15 PM EDT
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It's really those cows you gotta worry about.

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which Trump is always right.

Modern life is one steep, perpetual tax on the mathematically impaired
9/1/2026 3:32:23 PM EDT
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Ive got a mini donkey, it is the friendliest little guy.   He rides little kids on his back.  Cop basically shot the friendliest farm animal in existence.
9/1/2026 3:38:34 PM EDT
[#21]
So is this kid still missing or what
9/1/2026 3:39:53 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By osprey21:
A one year old baby miniature donkey no less.  


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Updated your quote.  This happened right down the road.  We ride horses at their farm.  The owner used the donkey at kid’s petting zoos.
9/1/2026 3:41:48 PM EDT
[#23]
Poor Hee Haw.
Taste the biscuit . . . . .

Taste the goodness of the biscuit . . . .
9/1/2026 3:43:17 PM EDT
[#24]
Here is the entire department ..... apparently the one who shot the donkey is the white guy with the beard

9/1/2026 3:43:35 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By MikeDeltaFoxtrot:


Under the Open Fields Doctrine, they did.
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Ah yes, the old "you don't own your land the king does" doctrine.

Always a big FU to the lowly citizen.
9/1/2026 3:46:02 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By cyclone:
It's Cedartown........not really all that big of a shock.
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Nope
9/1/2026 3:48:14 PM EDT
[#27]
Geez it was an itty-bitty donkey.
9/1/2026 3:49:07 PM EDT
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I’ve worked with enough cops to learn to not be surprised by how many are absolute useless, criminally incompetent pieces of shit.
9/1/2026 3:49:07 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By mcantu:
wow, other thread got locked for "general police bashing" wtf. what do mods expect after something like this? I don't remember the Peanut the squirrel thread being locked when the cops were called out for being stupid
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I don't know why you expect a site populated by blue bootlicking boomers to tolerate insulting a cop.

Arfcom would be dead already if it wasn't for the tech forums.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.

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9/1/2026 3:53:39 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Never_A_Wick:


Except under exigency circumstances…. TN law allows it for police officers.

One of those circumstances is searching for a missing person.
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Originally Posted By Never_A_Wick:
Originally Posted By Tn_Huntaholic:


That open fields bullshit dont fly in TN anymore. Private property? You get a friggin warrant or you dont go on it.


Except under exigency circumstances…. TN law allows it for police officers.

One of those circumstances is searching for a missing person.

I’m going to go out on a limb and suppose that it’s not quite as simple as “search for missing person = exigency.”
9/1/2026 3:54:39 PM EDT
[#31]
Poor donkey.  
I bought all this equipment. What do you mean that the dead AREN'T coming back to life?
9/1/2026 3:59:59 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Villafuego:
Here is the entire department ..... apparently the one who shot the donkey is the white guy with the beard

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What a bunch of disgusting fatbodies.
9/1/2026 4:04:01 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By LawyerUp:


Can you put me in touch with them?
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9/1/2026 4:06:49 PM EDT
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What a jackass
Freedom and Justice come out of a box. Sometimes it is a Jury box. Sometimes it is a Ballot box. Other times it has to come from a Cartridge box!
9/1/2026 4:24:49 PM EDT
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9/1/2026 4:37:26 PM EDT
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Dude could have probably walked up and petted the donkey and scratched his ears and then went on his way........no way I would have considered that a threat
"The villainy you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction"
9/1/2026 4:39:26 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Morgan321:
Imagine being such a bitch that you're so scared of a donkey that you shoot it.

TLDR: Cop helping search for a missing kid in the middle of the night enters a field on private property looking for the kid, a donkey runs up to the cop, and cop shoots the donkey.  Donkey dies.
Article says nothing about cops getting permission to search the property....  Seems questionably legal.  
Donkey owner has gofundme that is over $100k already.   6 figures for a dead donkey.  I'm 100% with the donkey owner, but that sure sounds like opportunism.  
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They shoot horses, don’t they?  
9/1/2026 4:40:09 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Villafuego:
Here is the entire department ..... apparently the one who shot the donkey is the white guy with the beard

https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/55482/490294999_691986553505168_57859266078078-3820621.jpg
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9/1/2026 4:43:42 PM EDT
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his wife just motivated the crazies and ruined his career permanently, i am sure she probably pegs him and makes him wear the pink dress
9/1/2026 4:49:08 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Villafuego:
Here is the entire department ..... apparently the one who shot the donkey is the white guy with the beard

https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/55482/490294999_691986553505168_57859266078078-3820621.jpg
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The fat one?
History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which Trump is always right.

Modern life is one steep, perpetual tax on the mathematically impaired
9/1/2026 4:59:18 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Bohr_Adam:


The fat one?
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Originally Posted By Bohr_Adam:
Originally Posted By Villafuego:
Here is the entire department ..... apparently the one who shot the donkey is the white guy with the beard

https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/55482/490294999_691986553505168_57859266078078-3820621.jpg


The fat one?


I read that in Paul Lynde’s voice…
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9/1/2026 4:59:26 PM EDT
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It's a donkey... Yeah they can be assholes, but unless you're a retard or a soyboy you'll be fine.

Bad shoot by default.


My opinion would be more open if it were a bull.
9/1/2026 4:59:45 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By LawyerUp:


That doesn't entitle them to trespass, that just says there's no 4A protection applicable to your "open fields" surrounding your curtilage.
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Originally Posted By LawyerUp:
Originally Posted By MikeDeltaFoxtrot:
Originally Posted By Imzadi:
Originally Posted By wyorock:
Donkey made furtive movements, cop had to get it on.  In all seriousness they is some speculation he had a K9 with him.  If he did, donkeys like to get it on with dogs.  Not excusing it but IF there was a K9 and it was getting wrecked its an interesting twist.

It isn't. That cop (and K9) had no right to be on the private property.


Under the Open Fields Doctrine, they did.


That doesn't entitle them to trespass, that just says there's no 4A protection applicable to your "open fields" surrounding your curtilage.


The police are generally privileged against both criminal and civil trespass when acting in the performance of their duties. Otherwise, it would be pretty hard to do police work.  But I am not familiar with the nuances of GA law on the subject.
"If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." Romans 10:9 (ESV)
9/1/2026 4:59:53 PM EDT
[#44]
Best wishes to LawyerUp!
9/1/2026 5:07:15 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By MikeDeltaFoxtrot:


The police are generally privileged against both criminal and civil trespass when acting in the performance of their duties. Otherwise, it would be pretty hard to do police work.  But I am not familiar with the nuances of GA law on the subject.
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I don’t see a law enforcement exemption in the Georgia statute.  It looks like they have the same rights as anyone else.

https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/title-16/chapter-7/article-2/part-1/section-16-7-21/
9/1/2026 5:12:20 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By wyorock:
Donkey made furtive movements, cop had to get it on.  In all seriousness they is some speculation he had a K9 with him.  If he did, donkeys like to get it on with dogs.  Not excusing it but IF there was a K9 and it was getting wrecked its an interesting twist.
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If the K9 was harassing livestock, it is a good shoot in most any state.  I am not aware of any exemptions for dogs used for police work in any livestock protection laws.

Edited to clarify.  It would be legal to shoot to the dog doing the harassing - not the livestock.
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9/1/2026 5:15:17 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Villafuego:
Here is the entire department ..... apparently the one who shot the donkey is the white guy with the beard

https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/55482/490294999_691986553505168_57859266078078-3820621.jpg
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the gene pool doesn't seem to run very deep in that town
9/1/2026 5:16:35 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By SmilingBandit:

I don’t see a law enforcement exemption in the Georgia statute.  It looks like they have the same rights as anyone else.

https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/title-16/chapter-7/article-2/part-1/section-16-7-21/
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There doesn’t need to be a specific exemption.

“Without authority” is the key part.

Common legal principle and common law apply… officers are generally insulated from trespass charges in the performance of their duties under color of law.

No doubt there is a ton of case law to support that position as well.

I’m not saying that shooting the donkey was a good shoot(it was not IMO) but illegal trespassing is going to be a stretch.
9/1/2026 5:17:17 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By LawyerUp:


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Hell yea!  burn em down!
if i was on a jury i would award $10 million
9/1/2026 5:18:14 PM EDT
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I was waiting for that. Didn't take long!
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