California police raid home under court orders to kill a 9-year-old girl's pet goat

[thomdunn]

@Mister44

If they were willing to pay for the cost of the goat, I don’t see the reason why not? Put that in the contract in the future, where one can opt out of the auction at the end. I am not sure what lesson they are trying to teach other than brain dead, heartless bureaucracy of a county fair board.

The kid didn’t exactly sign up for any of this, at least according to the article, the parents are the ones who did. Maybe don’t enter a program where there isn’t an exit into keeping the animal. I know, one would reasonably think there would be an option to buy the animal at the end, but what if there isn’t?

The LA Times also notes that the family’s lawyers are arguing that there’s a California law that allows minors to pull out of contracts within a reasonable period of time.

[knoxblox]

Thanks, Columbia Records! /s

[anon61221983]

@anon23281680

Giving these kids single or a few animals to raise, which they must do in a hands-on, highly interactive way, and then taking them for slaughter is a disgusting way to treat the children

bUt hoW wiLl kIdZ lEaRn abOuT ReaL liFe iF wE doN’t dO tHiZ!?!A!!!111!! /s

@Brainspore

I just can’t wrap my head around how the county allocated resources this way to settle what should have been a civil dispute rather than a criminal one.

What are you, SOFT ON CRIMEZ!!! /s

[zeiche]

so what did the little girl learn from this experience?

ACAB

[dabeyc]

and the state fair is where animals go to die.

[smulder]

@Tribune

I hope so. The thought that this is a regular occurrence is a bit disturbing.

… the annual Goat Purge

[MagicFox]

[Shuck]

Also, “Fair officials kill a little girl’s goat to ‘teach her a lesson’” probably not turning out so well in the PR department, either.

[Purplecat]

If they want to make sure the police don’t come near the goat, just hide it in a school during the middle of an active shooting.

[drsdl]

Just to help keep everyone up to speed, Shasta County, CA is well and truly deep into The Great Unhinging:

Far-right county throws out voting machines – with nothing to replace them

As idiotic and tragic as this is, it is not at all surprising.

[Adrian_Hillier]

@PsiPhiGrrrl

it’s important to learn about following rules.

It certainly is, along with the corollary that rules are also there to be broken. Even rules of science, nature…

[Adrian_Hillier]

@Mister44

is that what you goons signed up for when you wanted to be a cop?

If it involves wilful abuse of power, then yes, absofuckinlutely!

[Brainspore]

Shasta County is an epicenter of the kind-of-ridiculous-and-never-gonna-happen “State of Jefferson” movement so that certainly fits.

[Carbonman]

@anon61221983

bUt hoW wiLl kIdZ lEaRn abOuT ReaL liFe iF wE doN’t dO tHiZ!?!A!!!111!! /s

Isn’t that what school shootings are for? /S

@anon61221983

What are you, SOFT ON CRIMEZ!!! /s

Isn’t using the police for a purely civil matter a form of SWATting?

[kschang777]

Additional development. Nobody really knew what happened to the goat. Those who really knew aren’t talking. We suspect it’s been slaughtered after its retrieval by the deputies, but nobody can trace where it went EXACTLY.

[kschang777]

Fair Officials Send Cops to Seize Child's Pet Goat

[Alan_Wendt]

Yeah, they Streisanded the hell out of that one.

[hecep]

Centuries and centuries of Cruel Imbeciles with Power.

[smulder]

@Carbonman

using the police for a purely civil matter

Grand Theft Ungulato

[ejeffrey]

@dabeyc

Were those “rules” carved into tablets

I mean, even God relented and spared Isaac’s life in the most traumatic bible story from my childhood.