The Thugs of Redford Township
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Apr|29|2008
Are you having a hard time beleiving that Miles “Boss Hog” Handy made a living selling hog penises as dog treats? Perhaps these stories from The Washington Post and The Detroit Free Press will bring you around:
Saturday, March 2, 1996
This little piggy went to market . . . at least most of him did.
Cindy Skrzycki, Washington Post
Until a few months ago, one of Oink-Oink Inc.’s best-selling products was a pet treat called Pork Tenderloin. Made from hog penises, Pork Tenderloin was processed by the Detroit-based company into a doggie delicacy that was sold for $3.99 a piece at specialty pet stores. Dogs loved them.
But sales of Pork Tenderloin were halted last year when the Iowa Packing Co., Oink-Oink’s supplier, was told by a Department of Agriculture inspector that it had to dye the pig penises green, a ”denaturing” that characterizes them as not fit for human consumption.
That put an end to the production of Pork Tenderloin because R. Miles Handy, president of Oink-Oink, thought the green dye made the tenderloins look unappealing. Besides, he didn’t know how or if the dye would affect pets. So he stopped making the product, losing about $100,000 in sales. ”It killed the product.”
”It’s one more way the government is in our face,” Handy grumbled. Or, maybe it’s the government sticking its snout in the affairs of small businesses. ”We have dog owners going crazy because we’re out of this product.”
Handy said he got the idea of making pig penises into pet treats around the time of the Lorena Bobbitt trial. He and his staff were sitting around the office, cracking a few jokes, when a light bulb went on. Oink-Oink was already using ears, hoofs, snouts, hearts, feet and livers of pigs. Cow parts were processed, too. Why not pig penises?
Handy, however, avoids the P word when describing the product’s ingredients. ”You know what it is,” he said modestly. ”The product is not revolting. It’s not disgusting. We made them clean and nice for animals.”
Handy, a 30-year-old entrepreneur with an $8 million pet treat business, got so upset over the green penises that he wrote his congressman, Rep. Joe Knollenberg, R-Mich., who took the whole thing pretty seriously, too. He wrote a letter to USDA demanding to know why the penises suddenly were showing up green.
The Agriculture Department said some animal parts have to be marked with green dye or charcoal powder if they are going to a non-federally inspected plant to be further processed. It’s a sort of green alert.
Daniel Ochylski, president of the Iowa Packing Co., said an inspector at the company’s Des Moines plant got snippy over shipments of the product to Oink-Oink and told them to use the dye.
Iowa Packing had been selling ”pizzles” - as it prefers to call them - to Oink-Oink for about a year before the Agriculture Department stepped in.
Handy said he hopes the government will make an exception for him and let him go back to making Pork Tenderloins. If not, he says, he’ll be forced to import foreign pig parts.
February 28, 1996
POLITICIAN FIGHTS DYED PIG PARTS
By Hugh McDiarmid
Free Press Staff Writer
Making the rounds this week are copies of a letter from an Oakland County
congressman asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture for its take on a
complaint from Oink-Oink Inc., a Detroit producer of pet snacks.
U.S. Rep. Joe Knollenberg has asked about a recent regulation requiring
pork parts — specifically penises — to be dyed a deep green so they won’t be
marketed by mistake for human consumption.
Seems the green dye makes Oink-Oink’s retail product — a long, braided
piece of jerky that’s dried, smoked, shrink- wrapped and marketed in pet
stores as “pork tenderloin” for dogs — appear to have green mold on it.
That’s a turnoff for potential buyers, says Oink-Oink President R. Miles
Handy II. Handy, who lives in Redford Township, acknowledged Tuesday that his
complaint to his congressman — Bloomfield Hills Republican Knollenberg –
triggered the letter to the USDA on Feb. 5.
More Dillon thugs!
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Mar|18|2008
Andy Dillon hasn’t put the brakes to his thug machine after being embarassed on the news. Recall petition gatherers were pestered today by two more soldiers in Dillon’s thug army:
Who are Michigan House Speaker Andy Dillon’s Thugs?
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Mar|15|2008
Citizens in the 17th Michigan State House District are collecting petition signatures to recall Speaker Andy Dillon from office. ‘Dillon’s thugs’ are the (mostly) anonymous disrupters who use threatening tactics to intimidate citizens who may want to sign the recall petition.
Speaker Andy Dillon lead the legislature to increase the state income tax by 12% and the state business tax by 22%. These tax increases were used to fund an 8% increase in state general fund spending and a 7% hike in the legislators’ budget.
Many citizens of Redford, northern Dearborn Heights, and southeast Livonia believe Dillon’s tax hikes are hurting their families and damaging Michigan’s economy. These citizens believe Speaker Dillon should be held accountable. They have until May 1st to collect 8,724 valid signatures to place the question of recalling Speaker Dillon on the August 5th primary ballot.
Speaker Dillon has decided that no recall campaign should be allowed - and he will use whatever tactics it takes to stop the petitioners.
Dillon’s thugs have been deployed by Speaker Dillon to surround petitioners at public places like the library and post office. The thugs intimidate petitioners and potential signers by using threatening language, blocking tactics, lying to potential signers, and harassing the petitioner. Several of the thugs have been following petitioners to their homes and stalking them during routine errands.
When Speaker Andy Dillon is asked by reporters, he denies organizing or supporting the thugs. Yet, the two thugs that have been identified - Joan Gebhardt and Ian Douglas - are both listed as state employees working directly for Speaker Dillon at taxpayer expense.
Who are the other thugs? Are they also employed at taxpayer expense? We need your help identifying these thugs who so brazenly trample on citizens’ constitutional rights to petition their government and request a recall of an unfaithful politician. We are prepared to file a federal civil rights law suit to stop these thugs, but we need to first identify them.
We are offering a reward of $250 to the first person providing us with the name, address, and employer of the thugs pictured below. You will receive your reward upon verification of each thug’s identity.
Please email us and indicate the picture number to which you are referring.
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