"Nuisance Cow Mooing."
"Yer a dead man."
Posted on 06/28/2007 6:09:22 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
You can accuse Wally the steer of a lot of things.
His kisses are a little sloppy and his nudges might be a little too much.
But these days Wally's crazy ways are going beyond the pasture because Wally is apparently a nuisance. Why? Because Wally, shockingly, is mooing and apparently he's mooing loudly.
"I'm being charged with a criminal complaint," Wally's owner Karyl Hylle said.
That's right the Washington County Sheriff's Department cited Hylle, who owns the 33 acre farm where Wally resides, with a misdemeanor. The ticket specifically cites her for ongoing nuisance cow mooing.
"I honestly am speechless," Hylle said.
It seems Hylle's next door neighbor has called authorities more than 20 times claiming Wally is a moo-maniac. But in the more than an hour we were on the farm, we couldn't get Wally to make a peep.
"I mean he does moo, he's a cow, but it's rare and it's few and far between," Hylle said.
Karyl says Wally lets out a moo about twice a day. Hardly enough, she thinks, to warrant 21 complaints that have been filed with Washington County by the neighbor.
It's important to note too that Karyl's land is a zoned farm. She could have 50 head of cattle if she wanted to.
The beef on the complaints is the mooing but when officers showed up to the farm, the complaint says the cow didn't moo for them either.
So after one court appearance Karyl faces a $1,000 fine and or 90 days in jail for Wally daring to do what all steer have done before. Moo.
The Hugo city attorney says in his 15 years of prosecuting for the city he has never seen a case like this. He says the next step is to find out if this really is an enforceable citation. He says his hunch is, that it isn't.
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Where’s the beef?
My great aunt had two pet steer. My mother’s cousin (God bless her she’s the only one of that generation still alive) lives alone outside of St. Joe TX on several hundred acres. She’s about 80, runs 200 head of cattle and has several oil wells on the property but she also has a pet cow, dog and two cats. Her son drives about 100 miles every other day to check on her and feed the cattle.
Precedent set for getting Rosie O’Donut to shut the heck up?
The jerky neighbor needs to get a life.
They filed a complaint/suit against their neighbors' jackass - braying at dawn woke 'em up!
Got laughed out of court...
Around here, they move out to the rural areas and whine about the smell.....
No doubt..
"Nuisance Cow Mooing."
"Yer a dead man."
Perhaps the cow’s owner can corral some support among her fellow farmers in the area, and then the yoke will be on the county officials...
Everything here sounds normal to me. Put yourself in the steer’s place (painful thought I know) here you are in the pasture skarfing up some fine grass grub and you look across the fence where these gorgeous cows (broads) are and you have no equipment to do a damn thing about it. Wouldn’t you moo
or more likely bellow also ?
On second thought, if you were PC (poor critter) raised you would not.
Mahalo
And just when you think it can’t get any weirder...
Just how stupid is this neighbor? Cows MOO!
And if I was Wally’s owner (since the land is zoned FARM) I WOULD go get me 49 more Steers.
This citation can’t be enforceable, it just can’t be.
I would sue the neighbor in return. Excessive and dangerous stupidy.That should be against the law.
“And if I was Wally’s owner (since the land is zoned FARM) I WOULD go get me 49 more Steers.”
I’d get about 2 dozen peacocks and a boatload of guinea hens, some Leghorn roosters and a sh!tload of Banties.
You want noise? Noise we can give ya!!
Oh, and a few dozen hogs in the pen. You wanna talk sqealin and hollerin in the dead of night?
Don’t mess with an old farmer.
Exactly. Happens here too. As farms that have been in families for generations sell off land to survive, et al, developments arrive only to bring such complaints. F ‘em.
I would not take that bet in a million years. You are spot on with this one. It is so irritating when city moves out to the country and want to make suburbia.
The same thing happens when the “Luppies” (Liberal Yuppies) move in to certain city neighborhoods too.
Here in Baltimore some old blue collar neighborhoods have gone upscale and some of these neighborhoods like Fells Point and Canton always had a lot of bars and restaurants and some of them are pretty good places to go for good meal and a night out, but shall we say, some are a bit “rowdy”.
So someone buys a house next to an existing bar, restaurant or nightclub, spends mucho bucks renovating it, moves in and then complains about the bar being next door to them.
Mind you, I think they have a legitimate right to complain about illegal activity or drunks “soiling” on their steps or being loud or unruly on the streets, but complaining about loud music coming from the bar or their patrons needing to park someplace? That’s happened.
They bought a house next door to a bar! What did they expect?
I’ve lived in the city and I like city living for what it is. I’ve also lived in the country and I can’t imagine complaining about the cows. I like cows.
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