Now this is a true story...
“The Walmart Bighorn Sheep”
One day my wife and I parked in Walmart and were on our way up to the doors when I saw a bunch of very young Walmart employees pointing and staring into a van. against my wife’s objections I just had to go see what was up. I circled around behind them listening to what the conversation was about.
“That is illegal”, “No one has the right to keep a Bighorn sheep in a van like that, “did you call the cops yet?”, “yes they are on their way”. I walked past them up to the van and looked in just to make sure I was right, but it was a normal barnyard Goat. I laughed and headed back towards my wife and the cop pulled up on a motorcycle. He asked me to stop for a minute and asked me if that was my van.
I laughed and told him “no it is not, but I sure wish it was!”. he looked at me funny and went to check out the crime scene with the Walmart “Bighorn”, Now keep in mind this is a very rural agricultural area with folks who own livestock of all sorts. There is no law against loading a goat into a van and transporting it anywhere you like, it is NOT a pet, and it was NOT a “Bighorn Sheep”.
As we were shopping I heard them page for the person who owns the white van with the “Bighorn Sheep” in it. On the way out I found out the officer did indeed try to arrest the owner of the van for being in possession of an “endangered species”. Apparently a supervisor was called and he told him to go away before they get sued for this stupidity...
City people... So the ignorance of those kids could have caused some real problems if it had been allowed to proceed based on “their” expertise. And what the hell was wrong with that Cop to even believe it? lol
That’s funny; but interesting that it happened in a ‘very rural agricultural area’ where you would think that people would know the difference.
We seem to be very ‘separated’ these days, even in our own local neighborhoods.