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Driver turns up to police station to pay traffic ticket with 137 origami dollar bill PIGS . . . and cops make him unfold every one 13&14SEP12

THIS is hysterical!!! And he put them in donut boxes!!!!!
A man arrived at a municipal court this week and attempted to pay a $137 traffic violation ticket with 137 origami pigs fashioned with dollar bills and boxed in two Dunkin Donut trays.
A city clerk refused to accept his creative payment method however, and forced him to unfold each every one of his painstakingly made creations.
The unidentified man, who goes by the name of Bacon Moose on YouTube, posted a recording of the exchange and explained his motives in a description of the video.
Scroll down to watch the 'pig payment' as it happened...

Creative: An unnamed man posted a YouTube video this week of his attempt to pay a $137 traffic ticket with 137 origami pigs fashioned with one dollar bills

Painstaking: The 137 pigs took the man over four hours to fold but just four minutes to disassemble

'I got this ticket in a town where the cops (and absurd redlight cameras) are pretty much a money trap and that's it,' he wrote. 'I decided to pay in an appropriate manner...'
Approaching the window at the clerk's office, 'Bacon Mouse' films as a staff member behind the window asks him how he intends to pay the fee without hardly even looking at his customer.
'Cash,' he replies with what sounds like a poker straight face.
While the clerk disappears out of the office for a minute the protagonist then opens the two boxes and slides them under the window ready to present.

No go: After arguing with the municipal courts clerk about whether the pigs are 'legitimate tender' an officer is fetched who, while admitting it's 'cool' forces the man to unfold the 137 pigs

On returning to the cubicle the clerk looks at the neatly arranged origami pigs and asks, taken aback: 'What is that? I am not going to take it like that.'
'Why not?' 'Bacon Moose' replies slowly in a casual manner. 'It's legal tender. It's legitimate currency. I would have paid by card but you charge a five per cent fee for that.'
Asking him repeatedly to unfold the pigs and return to the window with flat, un-crumpled bills, the clerk begins to lose patience.
But the customer is unwilling to do as he says given that he has spent over four hours making the little paper creations.
'You can count them,' he suggests, and starts counting the pigs.

Drove: The unnamed man explained to YouTube viewers that he thought his payment was a good reflection of how traffic violation tickets are a money trap

Labour of love: The police office and clerk finally managed to see the funny side of the prank taking pictures of the man's work with cameras

Clearly annoyed and uncertain of how to proceed the clerk then picks up the phone to call for back up from a senior officer.
A policeman in uniform who arrives on the scene shows more of sense of humour and though he insists the man unfold each because they have 'no way to store it', he commends 'Bacon Moose' for his work.
'I agree with you, that's pretty cool, that took a lot of time,' he says, chuckling as he snaps pictures with his camera: 'Little piggies in a doughnut box, I got I got it.'
The artistic ticket-holder took only four minutes to unfold each pig, calling it 'the Great Dollar Pig Massacre of 2012', as the clerk finally bursts out laughing.
'I will give you props, you've made me laugh for the day,' he admits, safe in the knowledge that he has won the battle.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2202872/Man-137-traffic-ticket-pays-137-origami-pigs-Dunkin-Donut-boxes.html 

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TYSON FOODS AND FARM ANIMAL ABUSE 4JUN12

THE video made me sick, it is graphic, and shows just how twisted and cruel some people are. They should not be able to profit from their cruelty and so I hope you will watch the video and be outraged enough to sign the petition and boycott tyson foods until they end buying from business farms using gestation crates. From the SumOfUs and the Humane Society....

Watch the video and take action

The Humane Society just released an undercover video of extraordinarily cruel treatment of animals at a pig supplier for Tyson Foods, the largest meat producer in the U.S.
The video is shocking. Baby pigs are being kicked around like soccer balls. Sick mother pigs are being beaten. And sows are being locked in “gestation crates” – cages so small the animal can barely move, and can’t even turn around…for their entire lives.
There is no reason to treat animals this cruelly.
Sign our petition to Tyson telling the company to immediately stop allowing gestation crate confinement in its supply chain.
After the video was released online, a massive public outcry caused Tyson to pull the plug -- temporarily -- on this one factory farm’s contract. But the reality is animal mistreatment is systemic in Tyson’s supply chain, and gestation crate confinement creates a culture of callousness toward animals. This callousness will only end when this practice does.
Burger King, McDonald's, Wendy's, and Safeway have all committed to eliminating gestation crates from their supply chains. But Tyson doesn't just condone this cruelty, which scientific evidence proves causes extreme animal suffering -- it defends it.
It shouldn’t take intrepid animal welfare activists going undercover to document mistreatment. Tyson should be making every effort to root animal mistreatment out of its supply chain. And with so much momentum building around this issue now, we have a huge opportunity to make the second-largest meat producer in the world stop this abuse for good.
Sign the petition to Tyson Foods demanding the company eliminate cruel gestation crates from its supply chain.
Thanks for standing up for the pigs,
--Emma, Taren, Kaytee and the rest of us

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Background Information
What is a gestation crate?
Gestation crates are metal stalls measuring approximately 0.7 m (2 ft) by 2m (7 ft)—barely larger than a sow. This crate is specifically designed to severely restrict a sow’s movement and thwart her natural behaviours. A breeding sow spends most of her reproductive life (normally 3-5 years) in such a gestation crate. She endures a continuous cycle of impregnation and birth (beginning at seven months of age) producing more than 20 piglets per year, 15 percent of whom will die by the age of 2-3 weeks. The piglets who survive are taken away from her and crowded into pens with metal bars and concrete floors, destined for the same life as their mother or the dinner plate. After about three litters, she is spent, deemed “no longer profitable” and sent to the slaughterhouse.
Do gestation crates cause animal suffering?
Yes. The horrors of gestation crates are well documented, and include joint damage, leg weakness, decreased muscle mass, weakened bones, overgrown hooves, lameness, impaired mobility, obesity, abrasions, urinary tract infections, chronic stress, depression, frustration, aggression, abnormal neurotic behaviour, cardiovascular problems and diseases such as Salmonellosis, epidemic transmissible gastroenteritis, bratislava and respiratory disease.
In addition to being subjected to suffering, pigs are fed massive doses of antibiotics to keep them alive in these conditions, but many pigs will still die from infection.
Undercover investigations show that pigs forced to live in gestation crates develop infected sores and abscesses, live in their own filth, and are abused at the hands of factory farm owners. Pigs bite at the bars of their crates and try to push their crate doors up – demonstrating their deep frustration. Many pigs are abused, and dead pigs have been found in crates and pens.
Are gestation crates banned anywhere?
Growing public awareness about the cruelty of gestation crates has led numerous companies to eliminate them -- notably McDonald’s, Burger King, and Wendy's. National governments have begun to ban the crates. The European Union and eight U.S. states -- including California, Ohio, and Michigan -- have bans. Despite progress, 70% of the U.S. pork industry still confines pigs in these crates.
Citations and further reading:
Undercover Investigation Documents Pig Abuse at Tyson Supplier, Humane Society of the United States, May 8, 2012.
REPORT: Undercover Exposés at Two of the Nation’s Largest Pork Producers, The Humane Society of the United States
Pigs Prove to Be Smart, if Not Vain, The New York Times, November 9, 2009.
Gestation Crates in Canada, Humane Society International/Canada, 2010.
Undercover at Smithfield’s Foods, a short video on gestation crates.

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