I posted earlier about a couple of bored, idiot typical teenagers who harassed a herd of wild burros who graze late at night near my workplace in an industrial complex in Riverside,CA.

We are rather protective of the burros. They are completely wild, probably number over 15 and only come down from the mountain late at night. The Mishies were on mountain bikes and bothering them last week.

So I found the Riverside MP's website and posted a comment that this behavior is unacceptable and that we will call the police on them. Not like the cops would respond, of course, but I hope the message was circulated.

So, anyway, update, tonight there was a calf with the herd. They were grazing around the buildings. They look very healthy.

The Riverside MP's website is hilarious. Well, to me anyway. Photos of "the passing of the phone" to new MP, airport arrivals, etc.. But truly, if any of us at work who get to see wildlife (including a bobcat) are going to be very pissed if those guys show up again.

BTW, one coworker identified the bobcat as being a mountain lion, and another spotted the burros and exclaimed, "look! deer!"

I don't know if the message got across about leaving animals alone got across, but as a poster mentioned about this earlier, they are kids. Very, very bored kids. Sad. Wish they were attending UC Riverside, not just hanging around it.

Correction: there was a foal, not a calf

"Wish they were attending UC Riverside, not just hanging around it."

Or at least if MP bothered to arrange some college prep / future career counseling activities for them.

Yes. Thank you.

Very familiar with Riverside-DS lives there and I'm not too far away. What are mishies doing riding bikes late at night? Sorry I might have missed the time frame.

Is there a link to the MP website?

http://preparetoserve.com/missionary-blog-index/

Scroll down to Riverside mission for the pics and blogs.

My question is also why the mishies were out in the middle of nowhere at around 12:30 a.m.?

Maybe they don't have AC and needed to be outside, but they were in uniform.

It was asked what were missys were doing bothering Borrows?.

Boredom

In the wild west Arizona Navajo mission many years ago there were ( and most certainly still are ) many juvenile inappropriate even sadistic activities born of sheer boredom. So as not to incriminate myself I will not specify which of the following I may have taken part in and those I only knew about:

Running rabbits down in empty fields with the Lord's vehicles .
Shooting deer.
Shooting porcupines.
Racing down dirt roads.
Driving Construction equipment.
Throwing a cat off Canyon Duchelly (not me).
Taking skulls from ruins.
Leaving mission boundary.
Throwing heavy wet snowballs at people off a rather high roof.
Etc.

That was just the antics of one corner of a large area.


Now that the age group is lower you can look for elders to be even less mature, for mission presidents to fill the discipline role of Dean of Students from their old high school- because lets face it these kids were just in high school a few months ago. Hope they have their hands full.

This list reminds me of the scouting activity in S. Utah years ago involving rolling tires off the hills into the canyons below.

Then someone thought adding flammable material and setting it on fire would be fun; in the Virgin River Gorge that cuts through the Northwest corner of Arizona off the divided highway leading to Las Vegas.

They nearly didn't get that hill side fire out before the emergency crews got there. Some Boy Scout leaders!


Or the missionaries who used a BB gun to shoot squirrels in Central Park, New York City.

Or roping fire hydrants from the back of their bicycles.

The worst?
Shooting the crosses off of rural Christian churches!

Actually, the most heinous of action on the Navajo nation was kidnapping children and placing them in all-white homes in other states, later claiming that their skin became lighter (therefore more delightsome). Yes, removing the children from there beloved families and grandparents and the sheep camps and corn farms prevent skin from sun exposure.

But I watched a co-worker silently seethe in anger as missionaries walked around Ganado, near the medical campus. She was one of the victims of that program. She escaped and got home.

The animal cruelty just makes me sick. What the Mormons did to "lamanites" is beyond disgusting.

http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/info/newsroom/2014/March/BLM_Sets_Meeting_of_National_Wild_Horse_and_Burro_Advisory_Board_for_April_14_15_in_Sacramento.html

Like you, cruelty to wildlife makes me mad--even madder when there is a baby animal now involved.

Saree

Bored kids light fires and burn their own houses down, and blow themselves up with stupid bombs they made out of household items. Why don't the missionaries do that for a change?

Someone stole a baby burro in Reche Canyon Jackasses!



https://www.facebook.com/DonkeyLand?fref=photo

Thank you for this link, Dennis! I think that foal was reunited successfully with his mom. What a great organization, and I will try to contribute to them.

I also like the California Wolf Center.

I don't think they posted my comment on the MP's blog. How strange....