A Good Deed That Makes Me Sick

[Uffda]

I thought I was reading a heartwarming story of volunteers at a raptor recovery center caring for a maimed bald eagle.
An engineer led a team that built a temporary upper beak and is working on a permanent prosthesis.

Then in the last sentence of the story I find they have had the eagle for two years and spent $100,000 so far to fix the beak
and that the total cost might be twice that.

I an seeing red twice over: First that they spend that kind of moolah on a single wild animal - think how many animals that
would save at the local SPCA. And second that the newspaper portrays the story as a warm fuzzy instead of an expose of an
absurd waste of (probably donated) money.

-Phil

[exray]

Sounds like 'grant' money.

I agree, the $100-200k would be a lot better spent elsewhere. Sorry for Mr. Eagle but thats life in the wild.

[signaltracer]

Nothing like what I've heard called "white guilt" to get the dollars flowing.