A woman was severely injured and is now suing Bundy. Bundy's response is that this is the govt's problem, not his responsibility.
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andPosted September 18, 2014
State faults Cliven Bundy in I-15 cow crash
By HENRY BREAN
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
State transportation officials are refuting rancher Cliven Bundy’s claim that they are ultimately responsible for keeping his cattle off Interstate 15 in northeastern Clark County.
In a statement Thursday, Mary Martini, district engineer for the Nevada Department of Transportation in Las Vegas, said that while the state maintains the fences along I-15 to “designate the right of way” and control access, “it is always the responsibility and liability of the owners to control their animals.”
The dispute could be headed for court.
Bundy was sued for negligence this week by a 34-year-old Las Vegas woman injured when her car hit one of the rancher’s cows on I-15 about 10 miles from his Bunkerville ranch.
The April 14 crash came two days after Bundy and his armed supporters made national news by forcing federal authorities to abruptly abandon an impound operation on public land where the rancher has been raising hundreds of cows without paying grazing fees for more than 20 years.
The collision with the cow sent Danielle Beck and her boyfriend, Matthew Zanatta, to the hospital.
According to the Nevada Highway Patrol’s accident report, authorities at the scene had to herd four other cows off highway through a hole in the fence.
Beck’s lawsuit in Clark County District Court seeks at least $20,000 for medical expenses, lost income and other damages.
On Wednesday, Bundy acknowledged the cow on the highway but said he bears no responsibility for the accident. He said the state is responsible for maintaining fences along I-15, so that’s where the liability lies.
“It’s a state problem. It’s not our problem,” Bundy said.
To reach the interstate from Bundy’s 160-acre ranch along the Virgin River, his cattle must cross miles of federal land for which the rancher holds no valid grazing permits. Twice since 1998 a federal judge has ordered Bundy to remove livestock from government range or risk having them impounded.
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Cliven Bundy Gets Sued, Hides Behind Skirt Of Big Government
by Gary Legum
Sep 18 4:48 pm 2014
Ho ho, Cliven Bundy, you fat sack of mooching crap! What shenanigans are you and your family of freedom-loving cutlery enthusiasts getting up to now? Applying for jobs as lecturers in African-American Studies at schools in wingnut-heavy districts? Threatening to tear off Harry Reid’s magnificent yarbles? Getting sued for letting your cattle wander onto an interstate, thereby causing a car crash that badly injured someone? Wait, that’s a new one!
It seems that back on April 14, just two days after the Bureau of Land Management backed down in its confrontation with Bundy’s army of ammosexuals and returned the rancher’s cattle to him, a woman named Danielle Beck and her boyfriend were driving on Interstate 15 in Nevada when they suddenly found all the lanes blocked by a herd of cattle. The boyfriend, Mark Zanatta, tried to swerve around the cows but hit one, killing it and sending the car into a culvert. Beck suffered a whole bunch of fractured ribs. She’s suing Bundy for $20,000 for medical damages and lost income, since the schoolteacher was unable to take a summer job like she usually does to earn some extra cash.
Bundy’s response? “Hey, I turn my cattle loose on all this land near an interstate. If there happens to be a fence with a giant hole in it, them’s the breaks,” basically.
He said it is the state’s job to maintain the fence that keeps his livestock off the interstate.
“It’s a state problem. It’s not our problem,” Bundy said. “We really feel bad when it happens. We sure don’t want it to happen. But we’re not liable.”
So Sagebrush Guy Fawkes, that rugged individualist who doesn’t recognize a level of government above the local county sheriff (to whom, you may recall, he tried to pay those grazing fees he owed because he does not believe in the existence of the federal government), now wants the state of Nevada to maintain a fence on land it does not actually own so that he may continue to let his cattle roam freely, without legal or financial consequence to himself. The conservative/libertarian model of self-reliance and small government without the power to enforce regulations of any sort continues to show itself to be one to which we should all aspire.
Just to add insult to injury, Bundy said he has the right to make a claim against Zanatta and Beck for the value of the cow they killed. Because those damn hippies should have expected to see a bunch of cattle wandering in the middle of the interstate at two in the morning and been more careful, we guess.
We look forward to Cliven Bundy’s next interpretation of the intersection of law and personal responsibility, when he will probably shoot someone multiple times and then demand the government return all the bullets to him.
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