@DreamingInCode ("selectively adjacent symbols") wrote:
Low level bureaucrat and mindless jackboots team up in desperate hunt to deny precedent of allowing little girl’s goat to go un-killed
“Allowing creatures to have agency threatens our way of life” -Sheriff
“What is the price of one little girl’s happiness? $63” -County official
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@JMShumway ("Julia Shumway") wrote:
A young girl didn’t want to slaughter the goat she raised for 4H. The state senator who bought the goat at auction agreed to let it live out its days eating weeds. But sheriff’s deputies drove 500 miles to kill the goat and teach a 9-year-old a lesson.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-30/goat-slaughter-shasta-county-fair