Dead Cows Get Parking Tickets

[Mighty_Emperor]

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

Emps

 

[Anonymous]

The local sheriff's department later ticketed the cows, thinking they were asleep.

Ah, yes, that explains it all. Clearly living cows are vehicles while dead ones are not....

If this is the case, what do you call a cow loose on the road after finding a hole in the fence? "driverless vehicle"?

And did that farmer really think the garbagemen would take his two whole, dead cows along with the trash? I know many european countries have very stict laws on how to handle dead animals. How's the situation in the US?

 

[Vitrius]

Re: Re: Dead cows get parking tickets

Ah, yes, that explains it all. Clearly living cows are vehicles while dead ones are not....

If this is the case, what do you call a cow loose on the road after finding a hole in the fence? "driverless vehicle"?

And did that farmer really think the garbagemen would take his two whole, dead cows along with the trash? I know many european countries have very stict laws on how to handle dead animals. How's the situation in the US?

We eat them.