I have never been called to jury duty in my 35 years of life here on earth. I was never called back home in Wisconsin or yet here in Dallas. But today I found one that I would have liked to have been on just for the spectacle of it. It actually happened here in Dallas as well and I was not called!! What! A travesty I tell ya!
DALLAS - The first witness in a lawsuit Wednesday between two neighbors was Buddy the donkey, who walked to the bench and stared at the jury, the picture of a gentle, well-mannered creature and not the loud, aggressive animal he had been accused of being.
The donkey was at the center of a dispute between oilman John Cantrell and attorney Gregory Shamoun that began after Cantrell complained about a storage shed Shamoun was building in his backyard in Dallas.
He said Shamoun retaliated by bringing Buddy from his ranch in Midlothian and putting him in the backyard.
Cantrell complained of donkey noise and manure piles.
"They bray a lot any time day or night. You never know when they're going to cut loose," he testified.
Shamoun said Buddy was there to serve as a surrogate mother for a calf named Lucy that needed to be bottle-fed.
Neither jurors nor Buddy had the last say.
The neighbors settled their dispute while jurors deliberated.
Shamoun agreed to buy some of Cantrell's land and Cantrell agreed to withdraw his complaint with the city.
The donkey was at the center of a dispute between oilman John Cantrell and attorney Gregory Shamoun that began after Cantrell complained about a storage shed Shamoun was building in his backyard in Dallas.
He said Shamoun retaliated by bringing Buddy from his ranch in Midlothian and putting him in the backyard.
Cantrell complained of donkey noise and manure piles.
"They bray a lot any time day or night. You never know when they're going to cut loose," he testified.
Shamoun said Buddy was there to serve as a surrogate mother for a calf named Lucy that needed to be bottle-fed.
Neither jurors nor Buddy had the last say.
The neighbors settled their dispute while jurors deliberated.
Shamoun agreed to buy some of Cantrell's land and Cantrell agreed to withdraw his complaint with the city.
Ya remember way back when, there was a "Buddy" Doll and 
the song went something like "My buddy and me like to climb up a tree, my buddy goes where ever I go". Well it goes something like that, scary that I even remembered that much of it. But this takes that song and doll to an extreme by taking buddy, a Donkey, to court as a witness.
the song went something like "My buddy and me like to climb up a tree, my buddy goes where ever I go". Well it goes something like that, scary that I even remembered that much of it. But this takes that song and doll to an extreme by taking buddy, a Donkey, to court as a witness.From the pic he is a
good lookin' witness, for a donkey.
Have I proven to anyone as of yet that this world is CRAZY?
2 comments:
Buddy is very cute. I think I would rather have him as a neighbor than the drunk frat boys I currently have to put up with!
perhaps you would have perfered my redneck neighbors I used to have, Eh, Toby?
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