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As Ye Sow …

by Bryan

So shall ye reap.

CBS reports that AZ man who brought pitchfork to meeting acquitted

The Daily Miner reports Mervin Fried tried to bring the farm tool into the Feb. 16, 2010, meeting.

Mohave County Manager Ron Walker told Fried to leave his pitchfork outside. Fried was arrested when he refused and tried to enter the building anyway.
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The judge said officials did have the authority to restrict access to the building. But because members of the public with holstered handguns are allowed inside, denying access to the defendant because he had a “holstered” pitchfork was arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable.

Hmmm … Isn’t “arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable” pretty much the definition of elected officials in Arizona? There was no ruling on the status of torches.

2 comments

1 Steve Bates { 03.12.11 at 4:35 pm }

So would a church choir director be charged with carrying a pitchfork in her pocket to a Sunday service? And some of the older sopranos have voices that are surely weapons of glass destruction…

2 Bryan { 03.12.11 at 8:18 pm }

I think it would depend on whether the pitchfork was sharp or flat …