Citizen Wants Carcass Dumping To Stop

WAITSBURG - Waitsburg resident Clyde Burdine is offering a reward of $200 for prosecution or to fine the person who has been dumping animal carcasses in a drainage ditch near Whoop Em Up Hollow about a half-mile outside of city limits.

Burdine has lived need the hollow since 1984 and he said the offender has been dumping carcasses in this area over the past two years. Burdine drives by that area about five or six times a day and has seen two deer carcasses a sturgeon carcass, and most recently, the carcass of a hog, head and all. The land is farmed by the Mc- Caw Family, he said. Burdine is concerned about the carcasses because local walk and run near that culvert and he fears the carcasses could make people sick because they are dumped so close to town.

Burdine himself has never reported the incidents to law enforcement, and is hoping his reward will enable the sheriff's office or the community to find the offender and make him or her stop.

"They need to stop this bad habit," Burdine said.