Columbia ( S.C.) denies PETA’s permit
By Adam Beam Published: January 5, 2010
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals want to display an elephant statute on Gervais Street for three weeks while the circus is in town, but Columbia officials have denied their permit request.
Columbia Police Officer Robert Taylor denied the request because the statute would be unat-tended (meaning it’s not a parade or an assembly), it would pose a hazard for people with disabilities and because it would block the sidewalk.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals want to display an elephant statue on Gervais Street for three weeks while the circus is in town, but Columbia officials have denied their permit request.
Columbia Police Officer Robert Hall denied the request for four reasons:
1.) The statue will be unattended (This does not constitute a parade or assembly)
2.) The statue will be in place for three weeks
3.) The statue would pose a hazard to persons with disabilities
4.) The statue would block pedestrian traffic.
PETA officials plan to appeal the decision during City Council’s meeting tomorrow night at 6 p.m. at A.C. Moore Elementary School.
Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus will be performing at the Colonial Life Arena from Feb. 4 through Feb. 7.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
3 comments:
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
It's sure funny ---- I got this very same comment --- word for word , and about the same time , on my blog 1-10-2010 ---- from anonymous --- looks suspicious to me !
I figured! I delete 99% of the Anonymous comments unless it has something to do with the picture. I let this one slide as not being malicious.
Post a Comment