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 $902 to a representative of state Senator Brian Dahle.
The mother, after seeing her daughter sob by the goat's pen at the fair, decided to steal back the animal at the last minute and 'deal with the consequences later.'
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Here is my question. If the family wanted to withdraw the animal from the auction before it ended why couldn't they? I know items are pulled from ebay's auction before it's over with no reason ever given so what is the problem here?
Muslims be like: there are more fun things to do with a goat than barbecue it
Once the give it to the Auction house it is up to them to agree with what they do with it.
What the hell did they think the auction was for in the first place?
I heard this a long time ago.
“If the family wanted to withdraw the animal from the auction before it ended why couldn’t they?”
You sign an agreement when you put anything up for auction, and the terms are defined there. If there is a period when you can back out, it’s in the contract, otherwise you can’t (unless nobody bids and you get the thing back).
If she really wanted the goat back, the solution was probably to make the winning bid, not to steal it.
>>Cedar, described as a beloved white goat with beautiful chocolate-colored markings<<
The new owners described him as “simply delicious.”
There is no merit to this case. When you sell something, you sell it. And the child cannot be a party to anything as mom had to be the one who signed the contract.
I’ve eaten plenty of BBQ Goat as a kid, the American Legion in my home town use to have a BBQ nearly every Saturday, quite often my father would take me to get some BBQ for dinner, he would buy me a BBQ goat sandwich, which was sliced goat with a little sauce between two slices of white bread....it’s actually quite tasty.
At 902$ that’s some spendy Goatbecue. Probably muzzie oil money tho?
Sounds like the mother is the cause of all of this and should suffer severe consequences.
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.
I never had BBQ goat. It sounds pretty good. I do like a good stewed curry goat served over rice.
It’s RAMADAN, I think!
Maybe they thought it was a ‘Beauty Contest’?..................😜
Getting tasty vitals. I would no longer roast a whole one but have in the past. Good meat!
I really don’t see that they have a case. What did they think was going to happen to a goat they SOLD?
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?
I won’t speak for California but in Wyoming we don’t put our pets up for auction.
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
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