Peanut the Squirrel's owners are gearing up for an upcoming legal battle ... filing an official notice of their intention to sue the State of New York for the death of their beloved pet.
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00:00We have new developments about the squirrel, about Peanut, and the raccoon as well.
00:06We have told you about this, Mark Longo, the owner of Peanut and his wife, they are now
00:12making it clear they are going to sue the state of New York and the various agencies
00:18that were involved in seizing and killing the squirrel and the raccoon for all sorts
00:25of alleged misdeeds.
00:27Now, you remember, and we've had Mark Longo on the show before, that Mark is saying that
00:35this seems to be a subterfuge.
00:39That when, you know, if you have a squirrel that maybe is not domesticated or you're not
00:44allowed to have them in that area, maybe go knock at the door and say, can we have a discussion
00:50with you?
00:51Instead, what the authorities did was they went to a judge and they got a search warrant
00:56like he's a big criminal.
00:58And then they send 12 people over to his farm and they say, get out of the house.
01:04We are going to search the house.
01:06And by the way, do you have any cameras in there?
01:09Do you have cameras?
01:10Are you recording stuff?
01:11That's going to become important.
01:12And then they searched for five hours, five hours.
01:17They seized the squirrel.
01:19Their initial comment was, we seized the squirrel because the squirrel bit one of the employees
01:25and we had to test it for rabies.
01:27And then we find out they knew they were going to kill the squirrel long before they actually
01:31showed up at the doorstep.
01:33So they're nonsense.
01:34They're calling shenanigans and they're suing.
01:37Yeah.
01:38He's saying there's no legit basis that the squirrel or Fred, the raccoon who also was
01:42euthanized, he's saying that neither of them had any signs of rabies.
01:46And actually a 10 day quarantine would have sufficed if they did feel, in fact, that the
01:52pets or the animals had rabies.
01:55So usually if, you know, they did have the animals illegally, right?
01:58We know that.
01:59However, he claims that these animals were domesticated.
02:02They could not survive out in the wild on their own.
02:05So if, and when they did seize the animals, they could have easily taken them to maybe
02:10a sanctuary or given them a proper place where they could live out the rest of their life.
02:15But instead, you know, according to Mark and his, his wife, they killed them.
02:20They murdered the animals.
02:22By the way, they're planning to sue over many things, emotional distress, pain and
02:26suffering, violations to their constitutional rights and lost wages.
02:31So it's going to get nasty.
02:32So mentioned the cameras earlier.
02:35So I'm going to give my opinion about what I think is really good.
02:38What's the reason?
02:39I think it's the whole reason.
02:40So Mark and his wife are on OnlyFans and they have done porn.
02:47And I think that what's happened here is that neighbors found out about it because they're
02:52high profile.
02:53Yes.
02:54And, um, and I think that somebody complained because they're pissed off about that.
03:00And the authorities, first of all, 12 people raid a place right over a squirrel, right?
03:07Is there not, is there no crime in New York state by 12 people raid a place.
03:13It's the definition of government overstepping your first question or one of the first questions
03:18you have cameras in there, right?
03:20Exactly.
03:21What were they looking for?
03:22Peanut was a pretense in my opinion, for them to get at this guy who they did not like.
03:27It's actually a pretext, but we get pretext.
03:29I want to give the government their due a little bit here.
03:32They did get a valid search warrant.
03:34It looked as though he was running an illegal animal sanctuary.
03:37It was not just peanut and Fred.
03:40And those two alone.
03:41That's all they were looking for.
03:42Eric was where the two that they were looking for, but they weren't looking for anything
03:45else.
03:46They did yet.
03:47That's what the, that's what the search warrants said.
03:49It was for peanut and the raccoon and they stayed in his home.
03:52They did nothing.
03:53They had fans, hundreds of thousands of fans online.
03:56I am sorry, but Elon Musk right now is charged with looking at the federal bureaucracy and
04:04cutting waste.
04:05If New York is using 12 people to go and without giving any warning or talking to them in advance,
04:14sending going to a judge, sending 12 people to a farm to seize a squirrel.
04:20They got too many employees there in the taxpayer.
04:22Right.
04:23We know where to start cutting.
04:24I'm sorry.
04:25Hi, I'm Iris from Virginia and I feel as though if the owners were concerned about the animals,
04:32they should have registered them properly.
04:33I have a dog, my Yorkie.
04:36If my Yorkie is outside too long, the neighbors are going to call.
04:38I've had two people show up at my house from my city and I had my paperwork, my license
04:42show that my animal is vaccinated and well taken care of.
04:46Did they get a search warrant?
04:48Well, they didn't have a search warrant, but it was for Yorkie, not a wild animal.
04:52And while I think that it was horrible that Fred and peanut were lost, I also questioned
04:56the owner's responsibility as pet owners.
04:58Which is fair, but the overkill here, I guess I use that word literally and figuratively
05:04is ridiculous.
05:05It's not like it's a tiger.
05:06It's a little squirrel.
05:07Ridiculous.