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"Like most human perpetrators of violent crimes I'm sure the bull had some psychological or personality disorder", she sad sarcastically. 

He was just determined to have a date for Friday night. 
Poor kitty though....

Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Police in Maine said a bull that escaped its enclosure and tried to break into a home was captured, but escaped a second time with a cow in tow.
Maine State Police said in a Facebook post that Trooper Jeff Taylor responded about 10 a.m. Friday to a report of a "bull at large" on a Harrington road and he arrived to find the animal has destroyed a moped, killed a cat and "attempted to gain entry" to a house.
Taylor and Warden Bayley Grant enlisted the help of a passerby, an experienced cow farmer, to wrangle the bull into a nearby pasture.
"Assuming the animals were secure, [Taylor and Grant] were preparing to clear the scene. The [bull] found another hole in the fence and effected another escape, coaxing the cow to follow suit," the post said.
The bull and cow returned "to the scene of the initial crime for reasons unknown," police said, and the same bystander who initially helped capture the bull wrangled the animal a second time while Taylor and Grant walked the cow back to its pasture.
"Contact was made with the Bull's owner, and reinforcements, in the forms of friends and persons familiar with that particular bull, were sent over to mitigate the situation and all was well. No charges are expected," the Facebook post said.

Oh, I have a mountain of a compost pile
All grass clippings and leaves go in my pens, the chickens add fertilizer and turn it rigorously, then every spring that layer is cleaned out and put in the compost pile. I learned the hard way not to put it in the garden the first year

Toss in some bunching onions for spring and a layer of wood chips, and you won't have to till in the spring.  Your soil will be much richer and have better tilth, more worms and each year you will get closer to a perfect soil.  Fewer insects, less fertilizer, healthier plants with more disease resistance and better water retention.

Just getting ready for the winter garden

I know lots of folks love autumn, I do too, but to a point. I hate that everything is dying. I love spring when everything is coming to life. I had my annual cry in my garden this week. It's just so sad that it's almost over and we have to wait until next May to plant again, 8 months away.   

I'm here with the boys now and will take pictures for you.  They are iridescent and so beautiful.

First, my job is to notice it before my employees do. Second, if my lead operator said he was afraid to be on the hill, I would damn sure be concerned that something was wrong. If you want to play the scenario out, I would move the entire tipping operation to a safe area of the landfill, then I would call my GM, area Ops Manager, and area Environmental Engineer to come and evaluate why the hill was moving. That's called "differential settlement", and is a sure sign that one area is settling much faster than the rest of the landfill.
I'm not going to comment what the other guys should have done, hindsight and all, but you asked me what I would do, not the company I work for. That's how those questions should be asked on the other side as well...

Let me put it this way. Landfillguy. If yer employees came down from the garbage and said that it was splitting apart and unsafe and wasn't going back up there because they where afraid what would you do?. Then I ask anyone working at advanced what they think would have happened if they did that.

A fixed sludge cap is what I hoped to see come out of this, but I'm afraid this is going to fade away. My last hope is something more serious coming out of the DEP investigation, but I'm not holding my breath

When the average citizen feels there isn't a way they can help fix it, they fade away, and this may be what happens.  It's sad and a shame for our legislators.

Huge cabbages!

Unless a way is found to stir up the media or the workers find a way to keep this moving I fear the whole thing will fade into obscurity.  That is extremely sad.
From a media view, this isn't the hot headline of the day and we are in a very small market for them.  We aren't dealing with the first string players.  I'm not even sure those who report locally could be the "B" team.  If a motivated reporter could get immersed in this and make it national news it could be a career making story.  I don't see any indication of that happening currently.
From the workers side they need to find a way to keep the media interested and investigating deeper and deeper.  That may require someone, or several someones, to put their jobs at risk.  Not an easy thing to do or expect someone else to do.

not hourly we aren't we work a lot of overtime we are working 12+ hrs/day and not to clean up managements mess we will be working 12+ on our every other sat so dont say we are well paid because hourly its pathetic and we only get the cola for raises got nice raise couple years ago like 6% but took away our bonus that just made up for our shi%%y raises we have no incentive program at all.

what needs to happen is the media needs to blow this up because it was not an accident as ive said before we knew this was going to happen but management blew it off. our DEP inspector is a real piece of work too she would just ride with our regional manager and he would just stop for a couple of minutes at working face with her,  she had to be a total idiot seeing those huge piles of sludge that were there, did she actually think that would get mixed in? Our engineer well ADS doesnt have site engineers so he is the whatever actually said to some people those guys up on the hill are babies its not going anywhere. well low and behold Andy. anyway anyone want to know any details just message me on here.

union would never work we have too many old schoolers but that is right we do need one. 

That's exactly why I don't want this story to just disappear. It could well be that a union is what those guys need moving forward, but it doesn't help Mr. Pierce, and it doesn't help expose the cause of the collapse in the first place

Have you actually used these laws or are you just expressing your opinion?  I have been on both sides of labor-management issues and negotiations and seen these laws used more than once.  The results always favor the employee when the employee is acted against without additional proof of misconduct or some other allowable firing offense.  In those cases where the company prevails they have proven other causes that would have resulted in firing under a union shop also.  The only time these laws don't work for otherwise good employees is when they don't use them for their benefit.

The green seem to be hardier than the natives. It is just the opposite around here. We'll drive on anything but the greens don't do much even in the greenhouse. I had a friend who was all excited about growing kale all winter in an unheated greenhouse. It sat there and looked at her until spring. 

Climate change is a normal thing for the planet. It is the concept that I am changing it by burning my trash and using hair spray that I find difficult to accept. I think they are reaching to find a man made reason for what is an normal phenomenon. 

That would be better than to have another person die such a horrible death.

Sounds good on paper but does not exist in the real world.

I understand and appreciate the concerns of the employees when they say they fear for their jobs and their livelihood.  What LFG posted above should address those concerns just as much as a union does or can.  Unfortunately the protection offered within those rules does not react as quickly as would a union presence on a job.  It takes at least two sides to make improvements and the old adage frequently comes to mind, It's not what you say it's how you say it.  Good working relationships are built over time and require solid communications from all involved.  I've never seen a business succeed, long term where management didn't listen to worker concerns.  That doesn't mean that the worker is always right, but management must allow workers a voice and at least respond where it is within reason.
People's concern that the fine issued wasn't enough is valid on the surface and can't be discounted in the larger picture.  What many seem to be overlooking is the significant possibility of much larger settlements still on the table for the family of Mr. Pierce.  We may or may not know what those are based on the terms of any settlement.  Using a little experience as a guide I believe the settlement will be quite significant and paid by an insurer if the company has one or from the corporate treasury if they are self insured.
My hope is like LFG's, that this will result in improvements in landfill operations across the country, not just a bump in the road for the industry to move past and continue to do what has become somewhat of a standard practice.

The only thing that will slow down the winter garden here is snow, but the greens will pop back up as soon as it thaws. 6 inches is a blizzard here. The state will shut down, every ditch will be full of cars, and kids will be out of school for a week