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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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)
where is this? the Russell senate building??
Thanks for the ping, C!
4-H ping (sorta) for the rest of you guys!
Ha!
Not sure I want to wallow into this one................
Swine flatulence? Has Dick Durbin been visiting over at Debra Field's?
Well then, please tell Chappaqua Bill to deal with his wife.
"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!
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
Chili and Beer!!! Good one.
Actually, I put pig and beer in my chili :)
Well, at least the pigs weren't driving SUVs...
Bacon won't let anyone else have the remote, either!
:-)
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