Sad beyond belief.

FTA"I'd lost an awful lot and a didn't want to lose my cats as well because they are the only family I've got," she said.

Magistrate Michael Hogan fined her $4000 and ordered her to pay the RSPCA $5000 for veterinary care and to pay $73.80 in court costs.

Where does the magistrate expect her to get the funds from? Not that I'm siding with the woman, but sometimes I wonder.

b2e44: FTA"I'd lost an awful lot and a didn't want to lose my cats as well because they are the only family I've got," she said.

Magistrate Michael Hogan fined her $4000 and ordered her to pay the RSPCA $5000 for veterinary care and to pay $73.80 in court costs.

Where does the magistrate expect her to get the funds from? Not that I'm siding with the woman, but sometimes I wonder.

Thats what I was thinking, she's already living in her car so where is this money gonna come from?

Sell the car to someone with a fetish for the smell of animal feces? Something that well aged should be worth a few thousand to the right buyer.

b2e44: FTA"I'd lost an awful lot and a didn't want to lose my cats as well because they are the only family I've got," she said.

Magistrate Michael Hogan fined her $4000 and ordered her to pay the RSPCA $5000 for veterinary care and to pay $73.80 in court costs.

Where does the magistrate expect her to get the funds from? Not that I'm siding with the woman, but sometimes I wonder.

Completely agree!

Also wouldn't getting her mental help be more productive for society?

Well, if she doesn't pay the fine, she'll soon have a home.

I think I Noah
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The Gold Coast Bulletin reported Carol Lynette Samuels, 66, said she was a successful cat breeder but tough financial times last year had forced her to move out of a $1.5 million mansion on Macleay Island in Moreton Bay.

Um. How the living fark could you possibly go from a 1.5 million dollar house to instantly being unable to afford a trailer? Worst case she should be able to sell one of the farking breeder cats for rent money for months. How retarded would you have to be to own a 1.5 million dollar house and not have even a couple hundred dollars in liquid (or any) assets?

Barakku: The Gold Coast Bulletin reported Carol Lynette Samuels, 66, said she was a successful cat breeder but tough financial times last year had forced her to move out of a $1.5 million mansion on Macleay Island in Moreton Bay.

Um. How the living fark could you possibly go from a 1.5 million dollar house to instantly being unable to afford a trailer? Worst case she should be able to sell one of the farking breeder cats for rent money for months. How retarded would you have to be to own a 1.5 million dollar house and not have even a couple hundred dollars in liquid (or any) assets?

Would you rent your place to someone with 23 animals?

The RSPCA seized the animals and one cat had to be put down.

Well it's a good thing they came to the aid of those poor animals!

great journalism here, I feel as if I have all the facts

Barakku: The Gold Coast Bulletin reported Carol Lynette Samuels, 66, said she was a successful cat breeder but tough financial times last year had forced her to move out of a $1.5 million mansion on Macleay Island in Moreton Bay.

Um. How the living fark could you possibly go from a 1.5 million dollar house to instantly being unable to afford a trailer? Worst case she should be able to sell one of the farking breeder cats for rent money for months. How retarded would you have to be to own a 1.5 million dollar house and not have even a couple hundred dollars in liquid (or any) assets?

My thoughts exactly. Tough financial times can mean different things to different people, but going from a 1.5 million dollar house to a car?

Listen to the Radio Lab episode on parasites.
Cats have a virus that has mind control properties.

Cat ladies are just responding to the genetic programming of an infection.

Cool and true story Bro

Always kick people when they are down to make sure they stay down.

thelovelytigger: b2e44: FTA"I'd lost an awful lot and a didn't want to lose my cats as well because they are the only family I've got," she said.

Magistrate Michael Hogan fined her $4000 and ordered her to pay the RSPCA $5000 for veterinary care and to pay $73.80 in court costs.

Where does the magistrate expect her to get the funds from? Not that I'm siding with the woman, but sometimes I wonder.

Thats what I was thinking, she's already living in her car so where is this money gonna come from?

Debtors' prisons don't seem so unlikely these days...

She does sound like a *bit* of a dumbass, or mentally ill, if her story about the mansion is true, but you might as well fine her 100 brazillion dollars.

I'm going with mental problems. No sane person would decide that keeping all those animals in a car was a better solution than selling some of them to get a motel or a short-term rental or something. And only the nutty ones think that keeping a bunch of animals in poor health, because they love them so much, is better than finding them a good home.

Okay, am I missing something?

If your $1.5 million dollar home was to much to financially upkeep, you could probably get a reasonably decent one that allowed animals for a third the price, right?

You can't sell adult pets these days for much of anything. People want kittens and puppies they can get with papers, if they are paying good money for them. Doubt she had all those papers neatly filed in her station wagon.

And if she has enough debt, including medical debt, credit card, home improvement, or children-sponging-off-of-her debt, she could easily go from nice house to nothing at all, and beyond. Bankruptcy is harder to file these days, even if you have your act totally together. If her credit is destroyed, she couldn't rent anything allowing pets in most markets.

So yeah, judge, fine her and take all her pets away. That taught her a lesson, all right.