Emma Watson photographed by Mariano Vivanco (2010)
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Story is wild
Little girl was part of a county fair agro-educational program where they raise an animal for a few months and at the end it’s slaughtered. Supposed to teach them about the economics of farming and stuff.
But the little girl loved her goat so much she was crying on the day her goat was supposed to be taken away, so her mom sent the county fair people an email saying “I’ll pay for the goat and any expenses. We’ve had several deaths in the family in the past year, I don’t wanna take away one more thing my little girl loves.” Technically the goat had already been sold at auction, so the mom was on the hook for about $1000, only about $70 of which would have been profit for the county fair.
The county fair people were irate and got law enforcement involved, over this “breach of contract”. They literally got a fucking judge to sign a search warrant, authorizing them to go to this little girl’s house and search every room and every cabinet or box “large enough to contain a small goat”. The sheriff’s deputies seized the goat, and whoever they gave it to immediately slaughtered it, though they were supposed to wait until some kind of agreement had been worked out.
In the county fair’s initial email correspondence with the girl’s mother, they made it clear that they were pissed off because the story of the little girl who loved her goat was circulating on social media making them look bad, and they felt the girl needed to be taught a lesson about keeping your promises or whatever. So they refused the mother’s offer to pay for it, and insisted they get the goat. Even if it meant sending the fucking cops into her house lmao.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-30/goat-slaughter-shasta-county-fair
“Also, in this era of social media this has been a negative experience for the fairgrounds as this has been all over Facebook and Instagram.”
And they thought sending armed state agents to forcibly remove and slaughter a grieving child's pet animal was going to make them look /better/ on social media?
They're weren't even right on the law, a child can't be held to a contract the way an adult can, and they were required to keep the animal alive as long as ownership was contested, and the person who bought the goat was fine letting the girl keep it. i hope the fair sued into the ground. i hope the person in charge who decided they needed to "teach that little 9 year old girl a lesson" dies in a fire.
I'm begging you to turn the sound on
Spring.
Spring.
Spring.
Spring.
Spring.
✨️GOLDEN.......✨️
Mouse 🐁
Everytime this crosses my dash my eyes light up because I know my favourite part is coming. Spring. Spring. Spring. Spring. Spring.
wuffers-the-fluffers asked:
What was it like adjusting to earth when you first got here?
ask-the-biker-mice-crew answered:
Vinnie: The hell do you mean by ‘shocking’?! My points are always on point.
Throttle: Oh my god
Modo: I dunno about 'always’, bro…more like…'on occasion’.
I SHOULD be writing the next chapter of my fic……but mice.
Also, I just picked a random expression sheet from google for most of these:
Only, there weren’t enough to split up evenly so bonus screenshots of funny Throttle expressions VVV
