Posted on 05/28/2008 11:36:11 AM PDT by sheana
When her neighbor's roosters and chickens persisted in running through her yard, G. Stone took matters into her own hands.
She marched next door and issued a warning: Do something about the uninvited guests or the birds "were going in my pot."
The incursions stopped. But Stone, a retired Los Angeles County librarian who lives northwest of Watts, shook her head in exasperation as she recalled the incident.
"I've lived here for 50 years," she said. "All of a sudden, there's an influx of chickens. You're not supposed to have chickens in the city."
For many, the image of South Los Angeles is that of a paved, parched, densely packed urban grid. But increasingly, it is also a place where untold numbers of barnyard animals -- chickens, roosters, goats, geese, ducks, pigs and even the odd pony -- are being tended in tiny backyard spaces
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I mean perhaps you should consider a new handle.
Thank you for the suggestion, I will consider that.
because I work with them everyday and almost to a person they are libs. In fact, the vast majority are of the barking moonbat variety.
We Celebrate Diversity
/sarc
...the diverse shall inherit the earth....
Plus, my pit bulls enjoy the shade under the bus. My kids' pony is kept in the backyard, or staked to a chain at a nearby highway cloverleaf, and the cow lives in a stall just off the alley.
What I do on my 25'X 50' lot is my business. The sand-filled abandoned fridge is a perfectly adequate backstop for my pistol range and I never practice after dark.
Let's keep this in perspective: there used to be sheep on the White House lawn, and a coop out back.
And???
No clue about what is de rigeur in the SF area as I live on the East coast. But this is probably going to make me sound redneck-lol-we have a friend who slaughters his yearly hog and then does his pig roast in a huge oil drum barbeque that is powered by a motor from a Toyota. He rigged it up himself and hosts his yearly pig roast in his backyard down the road, with the haybarn doors open and picnic tables set up inside. An event we all look forward to. But his is only one of many - there are always pig and bull roasts going on around here. Nothin’ better than a big ol’ beef sandwich right out of the pit ;)
OMG! Now I know where my old neighbors moved to!
My mom kept chickens in the back yard of their bungalow in Glendale.
Of course, that was 1937.
“She is a librarian. By default she is almost certainly a lib and favors unchecked immigration.”
I thought the librarians nominated Bob Barr?
You visit L.A. often?
Goaty-goat!! I love it; too bad he had to mess up:)
In Mexico, stewed goat is called ‘chivo’ and it is delicious.
I’ve got to wonder what conservatism is coming to when we get in a huff about people who “happen” to be Hispanic keeping a few chickens in the yard and -— gasp -— having a vegetable garden, and when one of the leading conservative columnists wants to dictate what women can and cannot wear because her paranoia was triggered by a fringed scarf.
You can see this if you ride the train from Long Beach up to LA’s Union Station. I had no idea that in the inner city it was looking so much like a rural third world shanty town.
I would not want to see that part of town any other way (than zipping past on a train).
If I were faced with the choice of $5 per day, or $10 per hour a short hard hike away, I'd be walking with them and taking my damned chickens with me. Repeat: it is not Mexico's fault that we have an ineffective border and do not enforce our own laws, and in fact, allow a foreign power to dictate our de facto, extra-legal immigration policy.
For many, it is easier to dislike Mexicans than to think the problem through. That many are easy to dislike only compounds the problem and the stupidity.
And recreate third world diseases also. There are reasons so many new diseases come from countries where people live with their animals.
And so what? WHat I posted is still true for the VAST majority of librarians. Get a clue.
And what? What are you trying to ask me?
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