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Woman Fined for Stinky Pigs
Fox News ^

Posted on 07/29/2005 9:24:52 AM PDT by Dutch14

HOBART, Ind. (AP) — The owner of pet pigs has been convicted of violating the city's nuisance ordinance following complaints from neighbors about the obnoxious odor of the animals. Debra Fields kept two 300-pound hogs — Bacon and Molly — as family pets in her home in the northwestern Indiana city. Earlier this month, during a court trial on the nuisance charge, she argued that under city code she is allowed to keep pigs in a residential area. "The issue before the court is not whether the defendant may keep her pigs, but whether the odors generated are something her neighbor must accept," City Judge William Longer wrote in a ruling last week. "They are not." The two pigs, according to evidence submitted during the trial, could generate as much as 35 pounds of solid waste and several gallons of liquid waste every day. Fields testified there is no odor because she did not smell it, and that the odor detected by a Hobart code enforcement officer was attributable to swine flatulence. In his ruling, the judge said that testimony was "not credible." He ordered Fields to pay a fine of $250 plus court courts for violating the nuisance ordinance. Longer suspended $200 of the fine on the condition that no other violations occur through the end of the year. Fields, who could have been fined up to $2,500, declined comment after the Thursday ruling. One neighbor, Robert Tosch, said it was a shame the odor dispute ended up in court. "I don't think anybody won in this," he said. But, "The ruling bears out what neighbors have said about the odor."

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35 pounds a DAY? Yikes!
1 posted on 07/29/2005 9:24:53 AM PDT by Dutch14
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To: freepatriot32; prairiebreeze; tiamat; Dutch14

ping


2 posted on 07/29/2005 9:26:29 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Dutch14

Only 35lbs of solid waste and only a few gallons of liguid...

I had an aunt that easily tripled that and did it on Jenny Craig.



(the diet not the person...jfyi)


3 posted on 07/29/2005 9:29:03 AM PDT by joesnuffy (The state always has solutions to the problems it creates...more freedom will never be a solution)
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To: Calpernia

where is this? the Russell senate building??


4 posted on 07/29/2005 9:31:30 AM PDT by InsureAmerica (the only free cheese is in a mousetrap)
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To: Calpernia; farmfriend; Gabz; netmilsmom; solitas; mtbopfuyn; thtr; Motherbear; Esther Ruth; ...

Thanks for the ping, C!


4-H ping (sorta) for the rest of you guys!


5 posted on 07/29/2005 9:32:43 AM PDT by tiamat ("Drink your drink, Laddie, and never mind the Klingon!")
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To: Dutch14; tiamat
....Fields testified there is no odor because she did not smell it, and that the odor detected by a Hobart code enforcement officer was attributable to swine flatulence.......

Ha!

6 posted on 07/29/2005 9:36:14 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: tiamat; Diana in Wisconsin

Not sure I want to wallow into this one................


7 posted on 07/29/2005 9:39:30 AM PDT by Gabz (USSG Warning: Portable sewing machines are known to cause broken ankles)
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To: Calpernia

Swine flatulence? Has Dick Durbin been visiting over at Debra Field's?


8 posted on 07/29/2005 9:43:30 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (I am an Americanist. Deal with it.)
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To: Dutch14
The owner of pet pigs has been convicted of violating the city's nuisance ordinance

Well then, please tell Chappaqua Bill to deal with his wife.

9 posted on 07/29/2005 9:53:09 AM PDT by beyond the sea ("If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." - Jack Lemmon)
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To: Gabz

"The two pigs, according to evidence submitted during the trial, could generate as much as 35 pounds of solid waste and several gallons of liquid waste every day."

First of all, what does she feed them? Chili and beer? LOL!

Secondly, how'd you have liked to be the Law Clerk gathering THAT evidence! ROFLMAO!

I'll stick with chickens. They stink, too, but I can handle three or four "poops" per chicken per day. It's Nature's most perfect compost pile activator, Baby!


10 posted on 07/29/2005 10:28:28 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

Chili and Beer!!! Good one.

Actually, I put pig and beer in my chili :)


11 posted on 07/29/2005 10:36:52 AM PDT by Gabz (USSG Warning: Portable sewing machines are known to cause broken ankles)
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To: Dutch14

Well, at least the pigs weren't driving SUVs...


12 posted on 07/29/2005 10:38:58 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Many Democrats are not weak Americans. But nearly all weak Americans are Democrats.)
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To: tiamat
"..two 300-pound hogs — Bacon and Molly — as family pets IN her home.."

Oh my, bet Bacon and Molly are always hogging the couches. They probably like watching the movies Babe and Gordy over and over. Ya think she lets them take baths in the bath tub? Oh this is so crazy. Was through Hobart today on the way home from the Dunes with the kids. It is a very nice city. Who would think....

"Now Bacon and Molly, You clean your rooms right now, I will not tell you again, or we will not go out into the yard and roll in the mud after breakfast! Do you hear me!"
13 posted on 07/29/2005 6:29:15 PM PDT by Esther Ruth
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To: Esther Ruth

Bacon won't let anyone else have the remote, either!

:-)


14 posted on 07/29/2005 7:05:44 PM PDT by tiamat ("Drink your drink, Laddie, and never mind the Klingon!")
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