Security System Fails Oregon Mink Farm
It is unknown if security cameras at a Lebanon, Oregon mink farm have deterred the release of mink by the A.L.F. However this week, they failed to prevent the theft of the cameras themselves.
Police reported this week that two of an Oregon mink farm’s night vision security cameras had been stolen.
According to The Blueprint, the 32000 block of Fur Road is the home of three consolidated mink farms: Slack Farms, Masog Mink Ranch, and the Arnold Krull fur farm.
In addition to cameras, activists report that the farm at one time employed another curious security feature: a prominent scarecrow erected outside a mink shed, adorned with a sign: “A.L.F. Stay Away”.
None of the farm’s security devices deterred activists in 1997, when 80 mink were released in an overnight raid.
Losses from the video camera theft (and the additional theft of a gas can) were placed at $545.
– Peter Young
