A BLOW TO CREEPING FASCISM
A courageous city attorney upholds the First Amendment rights of Wally the cow.
« Previous | Main | Next »
July 15, 2007
Comments
Verify your Comment
Previewing your Comment
This is only a preview. Your comment has not yet been posted.
Your comment could not be posted. Error type:
Your comment has been posted. Post another comment
As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.
Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.
Download your 'Fins iPhone application
mooooo!
Posted by: insomniac | July 15, 2007 at 07:35 PM
What a mooving story!
Posted by: Bethie | July 15, 2007 at 07:36 PM
(that was bovine for 'first'!)
Posted by: insomniac | July 15, 2007 at 07:36 PM
What a moo-ving testament to the proper use of jurisprudence. Wonder if neighbor Mark isn't somehow related to the dry-cleaner suing judge?
Posted by: Doc Rick | July 15, 2007 at 07:37 PM
Fifth! OK, now I'll read the story.
Posted by: Kristina L. | July 15, 2007 at 07:41 PM
I think Mark just needs to chill out and try not to be so MOOdy.
Posted by: Doc Rick | July 15, 2007 at 07:41 PM
"Mark called Washington County sheriff's deputies to the farm 21 times before the citation."
Yikes!
Posted by: Kristina L. | July 15, 2007 at 07:43 PM
Well, since the property is a farm and therefore allowed to have livestock, whether or not Wally makes too much noise is a moot point.
Posted by: Just Ducky | July 15, 2007 at 07:45 PM
They shoulda cited the neighbor Mark for being a nuisance and calling them 21 times to have a cow about a cow.
Posted by: Cheryl Howard | July 15, 2007 at 07:54 PM
Wally is a steer, not a cow, so I see an appeal on a technicality....
Posted by: CJrun | July 15, 2007 at 07:55 PM
Right, Cheryl. And I'm sure Wally is a little miffed at being called a cow, anyway, since he's a guy.
Posted by: Just Ducky | July 15, 2007 at 07:55 PM
hello, sheriff's dept? i'd like to report a disturbance of the peace.
what's the problem, sir?
the neighbors cow is mooing.
mooing?
yeah, you know, mooooooooooooo.
you're reporting a COW for mooing?
yeah.
bwahahahhahahahahahahahha
who are these people who have nothing better to do than complain about a cow and deputies who have nothing better to do than respond?!?!
Posted by: crossgirl | July 15, 2007 at 08:05 PM
I posted this in comments last week! Always a bridesmaid, never a bride. And y'all didn't even use a local media outlet to cover this important event!!
Posted by: MareBear | July 15, 2007 at 08:21 PM
"Excessive Mooing" WBAGNFARB?
Posted by: Richard the Weasel-Hearted | July 15, 2007 at 08:30 PM
Wally to Mark: Meet me in Pamplona, baby.
Posted by: SW | July 15, 2007 at 08:43 PM
Mark also complained that Wally was walking around naked in public.
Posted by: SW | July 15, 2007 at 08:45 PM
Yeah Stevie and he's got his danglies out all over the place!
the nerve!
Posted by: Siouxie | July 15, 2007 at 08:49 PM
Away in a pasture, he waits to be fed
The farmer’s steer, Wally, starts shaking his head
He walks by the fence, and repeatedly moos
While Mark, who lives nearby, is trying to snooze.
Yes, Wally is mooing; and Mark cannot sleep
He wants that steer charged if he makes just one peep
The DA said no laws were broken; tough break
So Wally, watch out; you might wind up as steak.
Posted by: Just Ducky | July 15, 2007 at 09:08 PM
very cute, jd.
Posted by: SW | July 15, 2007 at 10:50 PM
Thanks, SW!
Posted by: Just Ducky | July 15, 2007 at 10:53 PM
We're starting to get a lot of this in my neck of the woods.City people moving to the country,and getting all upset because,cows moo,roosters crow,and hogs smell bad.
Posted by: deb | July 15, 2007 at 11:00 PM
Okay, but let's not forget that freedom of religion is also mentioned in the first amendment. (Sorry, Donovan.)
He'a a Cattle-lick, a Him-moo, a Jersey-ite, a Steer,
A Mooddhist and a Calf-tist and a Moo.
And he knows he shouldn't fart,
But it comes right from his heart,
Producing methane by the ton for you
He's the Hugo purple Holstein
And he really ain't to blame
His odors come from far away no more
They come from eating hay
And stomachs three
And Hugo can't you see
This is not the way to satisfy Al Gore...
Posted by: SW | July 15, 2007 at 11:33 PM
The cows across the road bug me when they start a chorus of mooing at night, but you know what? If I can't handle the mooing, I'll move to freakin town. Sheesh. I'm just glad my neighbors aren't complaining about the donkey alarm clock I have in the pasture beside my house!
Posted by: TNjen | July 15, 2007 at 11:35 PM
Why would you keep a 900# steer unless you are finishing him out. I got from the story that this critter is more pet than groceries. Sure would be an expensive pet to keep around.
Posted by: pete | July 15, 2007 at 11:37 PM
*snork* @ SW's Universal Bovine!
Methane came softly through my window today...
Posted by: Just Ducky | July 15, 2007 at 11:40 PM
Is this guy related to the stewardess who put the toddler off the plane for making happy noises?
Posted by: Betsy | July 15, 2007 at 11:44 PM
LOL to both of yours, Stevie!
Posted by: Siouxie | July 15, 2007 at 11:52 PM
Thanx, galpals. Don't encourage me. But it was a great era, no? (Here's one for Roger McGuinn, with apologies to the Fantastic Bobby Z. Heck, even Cher did a good job with this one.)
I ain't lookin' to wake you up
Eat your hay or steal your stuff
Pasture-ize you, tenderize you
Undress, molest, or fertilize you
Wally really wants to moo-ooo
And stay 'cross the fence from you
Stay 'cross the fence from you
Wally really wants to moo, yeah
And stay 'cross the fence from you
Stay 'cross the fence from you
Posted by: SW | July 16, 2007 at 12:53 AM
Hmmm can't place that Stevie.
but it's good!!I blame the vino.
Posted by: Siouxie | July 16, 2007 at 12:57 AM
Can't place it? Sxi, you shock me!! Here's some early, early Dylan.
Read more here.
Posted by: SW | July 16, 2007 at 01:35 AM
Ahh...yeah...NOW it does come back. I really was never much of a Dylan fan. (sorry).
Posted by: Siouxie | July 16, 2007 at 07:43 AM
Then how about the Byrds?
Posted by: SW | July 16, 2007 at 10:58 AM
Byrds, yes!
Posted by: Siouxie | July 16, 2007 at 12:06 PM