Bob CollinsA little girl rescued a baby woodpecker from being injured by her cat in Virginia.
But under the Federal Migratory Bird Act, it is a crime to take or transport a woodpecker. So not letting the woodpecker die resulted in a federal employee and a state trooper spending their time chasing after an 11-year-old girl and her mother.
That is, until another government employee with some common sense and an eye for a public relations nightmare in the making put a stop to things.
