A 39-year-old woman has been charged with animal cruelty after she tried to air-mail a live puppy in a sealed box to Atlanta from downtown Minneapolis.
The woman, Stacey Champion, tried to send the male 4-month-old Schnauzer and poodle mix, named "Guess", from the post office on 12th Street North last Tuesday afternoon. The box was wrapped entirely in packing tape that completely sealed air holes. Had the box been sent along in an airplane's unheated, non-pressurized cargo hold, the dog would almost certainly have died.
Champion paid $22 for the puppy to be sent to Georgia by priority mail. A clerk asked her the standard questions about the box's contents, including whether there was anything perishable, liquid or hazardous. She responded no, but did tell the clerk that the package may make some sounds because it contained a toy robot. She asked postal workers to be careful because its contents were so delicate.
After she left, postal workers noticed the box was moving. Scared clerks listened - and heard puppy panting inside. They contacted the Postal Service's enforcement arm because they needed approval to open priority mail and let the puppy out.
The postal inspector also contacted Champion, whose return address was on the box. She returned to the post office and tried to demand a refund for the $22 she paid to have the box mailed. Her demand was rejected.
Stacey Champion was cited for misdemeanor animal cruelty. She has 10 days from being cited to appeal. If she declines or loses her appeal, Guess would go up for adoption. The dog is now at the city's animal control facility.
Source: Charge: Mpls. woman tried to mail live puppy in sealed box - Star Tribune
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Comments
Let me guess. Champions also voted for Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann?
Most likely Obama as her last name is Champions, kinda like when they spell Greene with an E. Just check your local housing project ghetto.
You're incredibly ignorant. Names do not need to be spelled correctly, so trying to make a racist joke about the spelling of someone's last name is idiotic. Ghetto? I'm surprised you get internet access in your trailer park.
ha i agree obama hater nobody wants to hear your racist hillbilly comments. plz keep them to urself.
why is it acceptable to criticize Palin (or any republican for that matter), but never ok to criticize Obama? Just curious.... never been able to understand the double standards.
I can see that some people are as stupid as this woman, arguing about who she voted for. This lady put a live puppy in a box and tried to mailed it to another state!! Who cares who, how or whether she votes? I'm hoping none of you vote, either.
The judge should have stuffed her fat a** in a refrigerator box and shipped it to Georgia.
No one should ever do what that woman did. She should go to jail
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