...CLEAN UP AFTER YOUR CHICKENS!!
or even better: The moral of the story is "A bird in the hand is worth...$10,000 in fines!"
Monsey Kaparos Organizer Face $10,000 in Fines
October 11, 2008
The Journal News reports: Organizers of a religious ceremony involving chickens face up to $10,000 in fines for failing to properly clean up after the ritual, the Rockland County Health Department said today.
The group running the kapparot ceremony was cited for two violations of the Rockland sanitary code each of the five days that thousands of chickens were kept on the grounds of the former Monsey Jewish Center, said Thomas Micelli, director of environmental health for the Health Department.
Inspectors found there was a large amount of offensive material - including chicken feces, feathers and blood - on the site each of the five days, resulting in five the violations, Micelli said. Five additional violations were issued to the group for creating a public health nuisance.
The county got a court order Wednesday - the last day the ritual was performed - ordering the organizer and the property owner to stop the ceremony.
Chickens were still on the property yesterday, but had been removed by early this afternoon.
