BECAUSE IT DIDN’T KNOW JAYWALKING WAS ILLEGAL!
Straight from the annals of Barney Fife, a California chicken (technically, it’s owners) was recently ticketed for venturing out into the roadway.
Local residents claim the chicken-ticketing was in retaliation for criticism of local police department.
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<scruples>Actually, I don’t know who’s right in this story, and technically it wasn’t jaywalking but impeding traffic–but the gag was too good to pass up!</scruples>
(CHT to the reader who e-mailed!)
Author: Jimmy Akin
Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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BECAUSE IT DIDN’T KNOW JAYWALKING WAS ILLEGAL!