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.
When we were house-hunting a few years ago, we were especially wary of new subdivisions anywhere near a goat farm. Those are the worse! (We eventually bought in an in-town, established neighborhood.
Moo Ping!!
Got Chicken?
Don’t forget a couple geese. They can make a heck of a racket.
Yeah, we’ve got nitwits around here who built high-dollar homes in a subdivision that was built around a sewage treatment plant that had been there for 20 years. Now their homeowner’s association is suing the city to get the plant closed down because it stinks. It’s not like the plant just dropped out of the sky right next to their house one night! When they bought their lot did they not know that $h!t stinks or what?? It just boggles the mind!!!
nope, we’re eating fooooooooooooooood tonight :)
“Steer’s owner ticketed for “Excessive Mooing” (MN)”
Actually that wasn’t just “mooing”.
It was “steer-eze” for “Where’s the rest of me?”.
Kuessu sind suesser als Wein.
This would get chucked out of a regular court. They should take it to arbitration by somebody who doesn’t have a steak in the solution. That’d loin ‘em.
LOL Aren’t they cute? I love cows. My grandparents raised a few when I was really young. One of them had a calf and he became my pet. I named him Pat Boone.
Now that's the Gods truth! Someone I worked for had a peacock, and boy could that bird scream!
My grandmother had guniea hens, and I remember her stories about the noise that they made as well! Excellent suggestions! I sincerely hope Wallys owner read this, and takes your suggestions.
And that is no Bull.........
You are so correct about this. If one dose not likes the noise of bars, boats, airplanes then don’t live there. She has every right in the world to have a cow that “mows”. I feel that that the neighbor should be arrested for harassment and excessive use of police force.
So I think that a dog barks too much in a few houses away. Ya think that I’m going to call the police or animal control? Get real
Bill
Vancouver, WA
Is the next door neighbor the pants-suit judge?
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