Chicken's Citation for Impeding Traffic Dismissed

[Sam]

OF all the crime going on out there..an officer has to take time to write a ticket out on a .........A CHICKEN???
Not to mention the cost and waste of court time!
How much does a lawyer charge a chicken anyway? a wing and a leg ? or.....??? LOL

OOoooooooooooooK....I wonder if the chicken would have been sentenced to KFC or Tyson, or Banquet, if it was convicted....
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http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article ... 03&cid=936

Chicken's Citation for Impeding Traffic Dismissed

RIDGECREST, Calif. (May 29) - A chicken that got a ticket for crossing the road has clawed his way out of it. The $54 citation for impeding traffic was dismissed Friday after Linc and Helena Moore's attorney argued that the fowl was domesticated and could not be charged as livestock.

State law restricts livestock on highways, but not domestic animals.

The chicken was ticketed March 26 for impeding traffic after it wandered onto a road in Johannesburg, a rural mining community southeast of Ridgecrest.

The Moores said they got the ticket because they were among several people who complained that deputies have done little to curb noisy off-road vehicle riders.

"For the last two and a half years, no one has been able to stop the kids riding their bikes in the middle of the road or the neighbors' dogs running around our neighborhood," Linc Moore said. "But when our chicken escaped and crossed the road once it became a huge issue."

Sheriff's officials said the ticket had nothing to do with the Moores' complaints.


05/29/05 10:15 EDT

[ragtopW]

So.... Why did the chicken cross the road????

[Sam]

So.... Why did the chicken cross the road????

This one seems to have been out to have it's day in court and publicity...to perhaps write a book and do the talk show circuit ( Leno, Lettermen, Oprhah,etc....and have a mini series.

I really do wonder why the PETA nuts,did not get involved and I don't mean the People Eat Tasty Animals group.

No doubt Ammesty International and other groups, would have gotten involved with the case too.

Perhaps the Key West Chickens would form a terrorist group and go on a rampage...Oh my .... the HORROR....The MADNESS...

[Brown Eyed Girl]

I think he was just playing Chicken....

[DonnaKayDunbar]