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lynnf
09-13-2010, 09:17 PM
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/24979774/detail.html



DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. -- DeKalb County is suing a local farmer for growing too many vegetables, but he said he will fight the charges in the ongoing battle neighbors call “Cabbagegate.”


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Kotin
09-13-2010, 09:42 PM
always look for The Onion links for these kind of stories.. and I barely ever find them..


yikes..

phill4paul
09-13-2010, 09:44 PM
always look for The Onion links for these kind of stories.. and I barely ever find them..


yikes..

It has been said that truth is STRANGER than fiction. Not funnier. ;)

lynnf
09-14-2010, 05:52 AM
well, here's another one for you -- sad, but true.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/25/business/la-fi-raw-food-raid-20100725

With no warning one weekday morning, investigators entered an organic grocery with a search warrant and ordered the hemp-clad workers to put down their buckets of mashed coconut cream and to step away from the nuts.

Then, guns drawn, four officers fanned out across Rawesome Foods in Venice. Skirting past the arugula and peering under crates of zucchini, they found the raid's target inside a walk-in refrigerator: unmarked jugs of raw milk.

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Dr.3D
09-14-2010, 07:12 AM
well, here's another one for you -- sad, but true.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/25/business/la-fi-raw-food-raid-20100725

With no warning one weekday morning, investigators entered an organic grocery with a search warrant and ordered the hemp-clad workers to put down their buckets of mashed coconut cream and to step away from the nuts.

Then, guns drawn, four officers fanned out across Rawesome Foods in Venice. Skirting past the arugula and peering under crates of zucchini, they found the raid's target inside a walk-in refrigerator: unmarked jugs of raw milk.

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Holy crap, the crime of the century! :eek:

Elwar
09-14-2010, 07:13 AM
When I was a kid I wished that I could sue my mom for too many vegetables.

Danke
09-14-2010, 07:24 AM
always look for The Onion links for these kind of stories.. and I barely ever find them..


yikes..

Just wait for the No-Knock warrants with swat teams in the middle of the night searching for mattresses with torn off tags.

fisharmor
09-14-2010, 07:31 AM
well, here's another one for you -- sad, but true.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/25/business/la-fi-raw-food-raid-20100725

With no warning one weekday morning, investigators entered an organic grocery with a search warrant and ordered the hemp-clad workers to put down their buckets of mashed coconut cream and to step away from the nuts.

Then, guns drawn, four officers fanned out across Rawesome Foods in Venice. Skirting past the arugula and peering under crates of zucchini, they found the raid's target inside a walk-in refrigerator: unmarked jugs of raw milk.

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Always remember: the brown people in the middle east hate us for our freedoms.

Dr.3D
09-14-2010, 07:36 AM
Always remember: the brown people in the middle east hate us for our freedoms.

Yeah, so do the white people. :eek: