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California girl, 9, sues state fair after her pet goat was sold and BARBECUED after her mom entered it for auction - and cops are sent hundreds of miles to retrieve it when family took it back
Daily Mail UK ^ | March 30, 2023 | Claudia Aoraha

Posted on 03/30/2023 12:50:41 PM PDT by Morgana

A woman has sued a California county and its district fair after her daughter's pet goat was sold for $902, slaughtered, and barbecued despite the family wanting to withdraw its entry for auction.

Jessica Long's family bought Cedar the goat, a seven-month-old white Boer, in April 2022 and the animal soon formed an attachment to her nine-year-old daughter - who fed and cared for it everyday.

However, the family decided to enter Cedar into the Shasta District Fair’s junior livestock auction on June 24, 2022 - where the animals are sold off to be used as meat.

But long before the auction started, the Long family changed their minds and wanted to take Cedar off the ticket. The fair denied the request and sold it - so the mom brazenly stole the goat back before it was given to the buyer.

What followed was a wild goat chase - sending officers hundreds of miles across the county to retrieve the goat via a search warrant, before handing it to individuals who are believed to have killed Cedar and roasted him on a barbecue for their guests.

The federal civil rights lawsuit lodged by the Long family, seen by the Sacramento Bee, is now demanding actual, general and punitive damages. It wants to establish the young girl’s 'free expression or viewpoint with respect to livestock in future livestock activities.'

Cedar, described as a beloved white goat with beautiful chocolate-colored markings, was sold at the Shasta District Fair for $902 to a representative of state Senator Brian Dahle.

The mother, after seeing her daughter sob by the goat's pen at the fair, decided to steal back the animal at the last minute and 'deal with the consequences later.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: auction; goatmeat; goats; livestockauction; statefair; theft
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FReepers I don't attend state fairs much anymore so I don't know how they work.

Here is my question. If the family wanted to withdraw the animal from the auction before it ended why couldn't they? I know items are pulled from ebay's auction before it's over with no reason ever given so what is the problem here?

1 posted on 03/30/2023 12:50:41 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Muslims be like: there are more fun things to do with a goat than barbecue it


2 posted on 03/30/2023 12:52:34 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Morgana

Once the give it to the Auction house it is up to them to agree with what they do with it.


3 posted on 03/30/2023 12:53:48 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: Morgana

What the hell did they think the auction was for in the first place?


4 posted on 03/30/2023 12:54:39 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Morgana

I heard this a long time ago.


5 posted on 03/30/2023 12:54:45 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Morgana

“If the family wanted to withdraw the animal from the auction before it ended why couldn’t they?”

You sign an agreement when you put anything up for auction, and the terms are defined there. If there is a period when you can back out, it’s in the contract, otherwise you can’t (unless nobody bids and you get the thing back).

If she really wanted the goat back, the solution was probably to make the winning bid, not to steal it.


6 posted on 03/30/2023 12:56:20 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Morgana

>>Cedar, described as a beloved white goat with beautiful chocolate-colored markings<<

The new owners described him as “simply delicious.”

There is no merit to this case. When you sell something, you sell it. And the child cannot be a party to anything as mom had to be the one who signed the contract.


7 posted on 03/30/2023 12:56:38 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Difference between a cow and the US Capitol 1/6 "riot:" you can only milk a cow 3 times a day)
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To: Tell It Right

I’ve eaten plenty of BBQ Goat as a kid, the American Legion in my home town use to have a BBQ nearly every Saturday, quite often my father would take me to get some BBQ for dinner, he would buy me a BBQ goat sandwich, which was sliced goat with a little sauce between two slices of white bread....it’s actually quite tasty.


8 posted on 03/30/2023 12:56:46 PM PDT by srmanuel
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To: Tell It Right

At 902$ that’s some spendy Goatbecue. Probably muzzie oil money tho?


9 posted on 03/30/2023 12:58:58 PM PDT by OldWarBaby
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To: Morgana

Sounds like the mother is the cause of all of this and should suffer severe consequences.


10 posted on 03/30/2023 1:01:04 PM PDT by Ex-Episcopalian
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To: NorthMountain

Our family visited relatives that had a ranch and the kids loved sitting on the pet calf called “Norman”. (Born during the Iraq war, “Stormin’ Norman”.) Norman hung out at the house where the wife took care of him while the “real” cattle were out on the range.

We visited again a year or two later and got in late. While eating a late dinner of hamburgers one of our little girls (6 years?) asked if they could go out and “ride” Norman again.

The hostess said “I’m afraid not - the hamburgers you are eating are Norman.

Being city kids and little I thought they were going to cry and get upset.

The daughter that asked looked down at her plate and said “Well - he sure tastes good!” and took another bite.


11 posted on 03/30/2023 1:01:20 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: srmanuel

I never had BBQ goat. It sounds pretty good. I do like a good stewed curry goat served over rice.


12 posted on 03/30/2023 1:01:30 PM PDT by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: Tell It Right

It’s RAMADAN, I think!


13 posted on 03/30/2023 1:02:11 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: NorthMountain

Maybe they thought it was a ‘Beauty Contest’?..................😜


14 posted on 03/30/2023 1:02:32 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: NorthMountain

Getting tasty vitals. I would no longer roast a whole one but have in the past. Good meat!


15 posted on 03/30/2023 1:02:56 PM PDT by foundedonpurpose (Praise Hashem, for his restoration of all things! It's )
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To: Morgana

I really don’t see that they have a case. What did they think was going to happen to a goat they SOLD?


16 posted on 03/30/2023 1:04:35 PM PDT by fwdude (Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
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To: Morgana

I hope the 9 year girl takes the idiots to the cleaners. Don’t the police have bigger fish to fry in that benighted state?


17 posted on 03/30/2023 1:05:34 PM PDT by odawg
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To: Morgana

I won’t speak for California but in Wyoming we don’t put our pets up for auction.


18 posted on 03/30/2023 1:07:07 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: OldWarBaby

In fair (the headline is confusing —- this was not the California State Fair) auctions, the price is commonly bid up sort of an “attaboy” to the young person who raised it, often a member of FFA. $902 for a goat, at least in my county, would not be any big shakes


19 posted on 03/30/2023 1:12:12 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (22 years on Free Republic, 12/10/22! more then 6500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Morgana
This is an old old story, rehashed again.

20 posted on 03/30/2023 1:12:21 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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