Posted on 09/03/2022 11:40:35 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
A California lawsuit brought by the girl’s parents accuses law enforcement of traveling hundreds of miles to confiscate a beloved pet.
When a young California girl purchased a baby goat last spring, the intention was to eventually sell it at a county fair livestock auction. But after feeding and caring for the animal for months, she bonded with the goat, named Cedar, and wanted to keep it.
Jessica Long sued the Shasta county sheriff’s department seeking damages and accusing the agency of violating her daughter’s constitutional rights and wasting police resources by getting involved in a dispute between her family and a local fair association.
In July, “two sheriff’s deputies left their jurisdiction in Shasta county, drove over 500 miles at taxpayer expense, and crossed approximately six separate county lines, all to confiscate a young girl’s beloved pet goat”, the lawsuit states. “As a result, the young girl who raised Cedar lost him, and Cedar lost his life.”
Instead, law enforcement officers allegedly travelled hundreds of miles to confiscate the pet, who was eventually slaughtered.
The story is laid out in a lawsuit, first reported by the Sacramento Bee, filed by the child’s parent this week, in a case that has sparked outrage and criticism that the police and the county fair went too far to reclaim the goat and send a child’s beloved pet to slaughter.
Jessica Long sued the Shasta county sheriff’s department seeking damages and accusing the agency of violating her daughter’s constitutional rights and wasting police resources by getting involved in a dispute between her family and a local fair association.
In July, “two sheriff’s deputies left their jurisdiction in Shasta county, drove over 500 miles at taxpayer expense, and crossed approximately six separate county lines, all to … (more)
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One of the reasons they tell kids not to name food animals. Dogs, cats, horses, etc. = yes.
I went to a three day concert and goat roast in Arkansas and they literally had a small hill of goats stacked up there and roast them they did. It was truly awesome roasted over pits.
Regarding lamb, I only like lamb chops and even they have to be prepared right. My mother loved leg of lamb and had it often. I ate it, but never craved it. But most everyone raved about it.
If the original agreement was that she surrender the goat at a specific time and place, she would have to honor her agreement. But as you mention, she could then have attended the auction and bid for the purchase of the goat. Yes I think you are correct that telling others why she wanted the goat would probably have resulted in folks refusing to bid for it and her bid would have won the day. This is so obvious an answer that I assume there are many more extenuating details not mentioned in the story as to why the simplest, most humane outcome didn’t prevail....
If the original agreement was that she surrender the goat at a specific time and place, she would have to honor her agreement. But as you mention, she could then have attended the auction and bid for the purchase of the goat. Yes I think you are correct that telling others why she wanted the goat would probably have resulted in folks refusing to bid for it and her bid would have won the day. This is so obvious an answer that I assume there are many more extenuating details not mentioned in the story as to why the simplest, most humane outcome didn’t prevail....
> This is now the SECOND published incident of California police unlawfully acting on behalf of a personal vendetta. <
With evidently a powerful person involved. If I went to my local sheriff and asked him to sent two deputies 500 miles to retrieve a goat of mine, he’d laugh me out of his office. And rightly so.
Bit then again I’m not a powerful, well-connected person.
sheriff Michael L. "Jackboot" Johnson
untersturmfuhrer Brian "Brain" Jackson
Captain Gene Randall
Captain Jesse Gunsauls
Captain Logan Stonehouse
Lieutenant Rob Sandbloom
Lieutenant Caleb MacGregor
Lieutenant Tyler Thompson
Lieutenant Dale Marlar
Lieutenant Chris Edwards
Lieutenant Joseph Danis
Lieutenant Jerry Fernandez
Lieutenant Tim Estes
In the 4H sale the boys and girls received well more than the animal was worth and the person or business buying it received advertisement for purchasing them. The family of the animal sold, would then, theoretically, purchase product from the business.
It's more tasty. When you order goat meat at a restaurant, it's usually comes with some sort of sauce to offset the strong taste. When I eat at the Curry Hut, an Indian restaurant in Fullerton, Calif., where I sometimes go after church, I usually order goat meat smothered in a spicy curry.
When I cook lamb chops, I don't use sauce at all but add pepper and rosemary.
Rent a goat is standard operating procedure at fairs?
The word ‘purchased’ seems to be the incorrect word then.
Once one purchases an item, it’s theirs, right?
Unless the purchase is being financed..
Can’t imagine buying a goat on installment is something a fair would engage in (?)
Weird story for this suburbanite..
It is strange! The winning bidder gave up his rights to the goat. Why didn’t he give the goat to the girl.
Must be more to the story.
Traumatizing! How could they be so cold hearted.
The round trip was probably 500 miles.
“Once one purchases an item, it’s theirs, right?”
Once one enters the animal into a 4-H competition you agree to give up the animal.
[Jessica] Long [the girl's mother] offered to “pay back” the fair for the loss of Cedar’s income, but the fair association ordered her to return the goat and said she would face charges of grand theft if she failed to do so , according to the complaint. She contacted Dahle’s office to explain the situation and representatives for the lawmaker said they would “resist her efforts to save Cedar from slaughter”. She also appealed to the fair association.The fair association said "screw you, stand and deliver the goods."“Our daughter lost three grandparents within the last year and our family has had so much heartbreak and sadness that I couldn’t bear the thought of the following weeks of sadness after the slaughter,” Long said in a letter to the fair association.
I guess if everybody started breaching their goat-sale contracts, we'd be in a serious world of hurt.
I can't believe there were no sane, cool heads at the fair association or at the sheriff's office.
Is goat as tasty as lamb?
Better.
“Weird story for this suburbanite..”
Try a vacation away from home.
I usually like gamey and stronger flavored meats but I’ve not had any goat meat that I’ve enjoyed.
“So idiotic as to sic the police after a 9yo girl?”
AND, those cops had to cross SIX county lines and drive 500 miles to get her goat!
Liberals always get my goat for a lot less than that. All it takes is an article or two on FR and they’ve got my goat for the day.
Parents could have bid on the goat like anyone else if they wanted it.
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