Some people should have learned "NO WIRE COAT HANGERS!"

The funniest (and probably most absurd) search warrant I EVER wrote was NOT to enter a building. The WARRANT was to BREECH a wire coat hanger wrapped around a gate into a backyard.

It was an animal cruelty case where the dog was in plain view from the gate that had been open upon my initial inquiry.

With no obstruction upon my initial inquiry, I made entry into the backyard and I CLEARLY documented no food, no water, and no shelter.

I left a written NOTICE TO COMPLY on the front door of the house.

I came back the next day and the back gate was tied closed with a wire coat hanger.

I could CLEARLY SEE from outside of the gate, that nothing had been provided for the dog in the backyard.

I had TWO choices. Force entry and rescue this dog. OR, write a search warrant, go to a judge, and LEGALLY make entry and rescue the dog.

Later that day, after having written what I still believe to be the most ABSURD search warrant, I was LEGALLY granted permission to remove a wire coat hanger, and rescue that dog.

WHY did I write a search warrant to remove a coat hanger? Because it was the middle of summer in the south. Because the "person" in charge of that house saw my "Notice to Comply" and did NOTHING to help that dog, and instead did what they could do to stop my enforcement of the prevention of cruelty to animals.

And lastly. Because, I did my JOB. And obtaining a search warrant based on plain view meant that when this IDIOT called the sheriff's office and said "somebody stole my dog" they took the report, then arrested him for cruelty to animals.

He didn't get his dog back, but he got a conviction.