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Show The Park Record Sat/Sun/MorVTues, June 18-21, 2005 C-11 AlPlVt HEARD AROUND THE WEST by Betsy Marston "The chicken thing has nothing to do with the hapless Revenue Department learn of its expensive errors? Honest taxpayers contacted Travis Steele, a 31-year-old college-student, motorcycle thing." the state. An assistant attorney general repreCalifornia was a pizza-deli very man in Lewiston, Idaho, Speaking of chickens, police from nine senting the department said, "People were calluntil someone's complaint to his boss cost him his job. Steele's offense? His bumper sticker counties and the Humane Society raided an ing in 1and saying, 'I think you are giving me too read, "Darwin loves you," a play on the slo- alleged biweekly cockfight near Fiddletown, much. And that led them to do a complete gan, "Jesus loves you." In a letter to the reports the Fresno Bee, confiscating 58 roost- investigation." Colorado Lewiston Tribune, Steele said he was given a ers, arresting 28 people, and picking up $4,000 To make a long but amazing story short "choice" by his employer: "covering my offen- that someone dropped while running away. sive sticker or taking an estimated $3-per-hour The property owner, Richard Warren Bohn, about a tall young man who became shorter: cut to work inside the store." A science major, insisted that nothing untoward was going on: "I Kyle Martin, 21, always wanted to fly, and now Steele said he thought the $2 sticker was have chickens. You know why? They taste the Air Force Academy cadet can. But he "mildly funny" when he put it on underwent a lot of unwanted trauhis vehicle a year ago; now, he's ma tofithis six-foot-five-inch frame fighting mad that an overzealous into a pilot's seat without special • • The state says computer glitches, old waivers fundamentalist sought to silence from the Air Force, says the him. Lewiston Tribune columnist records and other mistakes brought an early Denver Post. During a climb of a Tom Henderson agrees. In his colcliff in Boulder Canyon. Christmas to more than 1,300 taxpayers, includ- 65-foot umn headlined, "Biddies attack, Martin accidentally kicked out a freedom loses," Henderson asked: ing a married couple who received an overpay- piece of equipment and fell some 50 "Who wants their pizza delivered feet to the ground, where he landed ment of $1.5 million/' by an evolutionist? The anchovies feet first. Martin spent months might walk off the plate." ^ ^ ^ M l H^^^H recuperating, painfully progressing Henderson said the "whiny busyfrom his bed to a wheelchair, and body" probably wondered what then to standing and walking. But Jesus might do, deciding that "of course, he good." Bohn does own a lot of chickens. the good news from doctors is that the fall would make sure Steele - a married man with Authorities found 800 on the 10-acre farm, caused him to lose an inch of height, and at sixtwo children - got canned. That'll teach him including 350 fighting cocks. It wasn't easy feet-four-inches, "he canflyany aircraft in the to mess with the Prince of Peace." counting all those chickens, said an undersher- Air Force." 1 Cafifornia Nebraska iff: "They're birds with an attitude." Arizona A curious deer entered a Wal-Mart in Why do chickens cross the road? The answer to that age-old question is disputed in A concatenation of errors, including sloppy Norfolk, Neb., bypassing the store's greeter Johannesburg, a mining community of 50 some typing, at the Arizona Department of Revenue and toppling once on the slick floor before it 220 miles northeast of Los Angeles, where made some taxpayers unexpectedly richer this scurried down several aisles. "The deer was chickens coexist uneasily with the off-road year: They were overpaid a total of $5.5 mil- tackled by a customer," reports the AP. Others vehicle enthusiasts who roar through town. lion, says the Arizona Republic. Keyboarding then tied the animal's legs so it wouldn't kick, Recently, a deputy sheriff ticketed a couple of was just part of the problem; the state says "placed it in a shopping cart and pushed it outchicken owners for failing to prevent some of computer glitches, old records and other mis- side." The deer was released in a nearby park. Betsy Marston is editor #/Writers on the their flock from crossing the street, reports the takes brought an early Christmas to more than Associated Press. The couple, however, says 1,300 taxpayers, including a married couple Range, a service of High Country News in they were cited because they've complained who received an overpayment of $1.5 million. Paonia, Colorado (betsym@hcn.org). 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