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Dead cows get parking tickets
10.55AM, 21 Feb 2004
Two dead cows have been issued with "unattended vehicle" tickets after they were left by the side of a road by a US farmer.
The Tennessee farmer had left them for collection by the local refuse department.
But, instead of removing them, authorities in Rutherford county deemed the dead livestock as "unattended vehicles" and issued them with the tickets.
The farmer from Murfreesboro, Tennessee had put the cattle down and left them by his house which backs onto the road for collection.
The solid waste department however refused to remove the carcasses saying they don't offer a curbside service for livestock.
The local sheriff's department later ticketed the cows, thinking they were asleep.
http://www.itv.com/news/1547651.html
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