SNAKE, OWNER LEAVING L.A.Byline: Amy Collins Daily News Staff Writer Angus Angus (ăng`gəs), council area (1993 est. pop. 111,020), 842 sq mi (2,181 sq km), and former county, NE Scotland. Under the Local Government Act of 1973, the county of Angus became part of the Tayside region in 1975. Johnson, the owner of the Chihuahua-eating boa constrictor boa constrictor largest of all snakes; squeezes its victims in a deadly grip. [Zoology: NCE, 317] See : Deadliness , says he's fed up waiting for Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. animal officials to issue a permit for Alissss, so he's having a yard sale today and moving out of town. ``They win,'' Johnson said Friday, lamenting his loss to red tape. Johnson's troubles started during an August 1997 heat wave, when his 7-1/2-foot boa slithered into a neighbor's back yard and swallowed a 2-pound teacup Chihuahua Chihuahua, state, Mexico Chihuahua (chēwä`wä), state (1990 pop. 2,441,873), 94,831 sq mi (245,612 sq km), N Mexico, on the border of N.Mex. and Texas. The city of Chihuahua is the capital. named Babette. After mega-media attention, Johnson even appeared on ``The People's Court'' with Babette's 74-year-old owner, Flossie ``Jackie'' Torgerson. In September, the city's animal control commission voted to return the snake to Johnson. The struggling hard-rock musician For the popular-music magazine, see . “Instrumentalist” redirects here. For followers of the philosophy, see instrumentalism. A musician is a person who plays or composes music. , who works as a telemarketer to pay the bills, even had to pawn a guitar to get the cash to apply for a snake permit. Since December, the city has had Johnson's money and application for the permit, but still he has gotten no word on whether he'll be able to legally keep the snake he once rescued from a cruel owner. For six months, the department has promised an inspection, but now they're not even returning his phone calls, Johnson said Friday. ``I'm sorry,'' said Linda Gordon, the administrative services officer for the department. ``I guess he just makes it up as he goes along.'' She said the department has had changes in personnel and hasn't been able to make inspections necessary to issue exotic-animal permits. And Johnson has not been waiting an unusually long amount of time, she said. But Johnson has had enough of the waiting. He's leaving Los Angeles. ``The least they could do is refund TO REFUND. To pay back by the party who has received it, to the party who has paid it, money which ought not to have been paid. 2. On a deficiency of assets, executors and administrators cum testamento annexo, are entitled to have refunded to them legacies my $70,'' he said. |
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