Associated Press -August 25, 2008:
Politicians are known for lame jokes. But when Otis “Bullman” Hensley tried a generations-old Appalachian jest on a woman and two girls at the grocery store, the family thought it was downright criminal.
The ordeal began last week when Hensley’s wife sent him to a local grocery store to buy ground beef. While there, Hensley encountered a woman with her two nieces, ages 11 and 13. “I offered to trade her a fattening hog for those girls,” Hensley said. “I meant it as a joke. I’ve said it a million times. Most people get a kick out of it.”
The woman didn’t laugh. Instead, the family obtained a warrant for Hensley’s arrest from the local prosecutor, claiming the comment was intended to entice the children into illegal sexual activity.
Prosecutor J.D. Smith asked the judge to dismiss the charge, saying both sides want to put the matter behind them.
In Kentucky, citizens can obtain arrest warrants simply by filing a complaint with local prosecutors.
“I offered to trade her a fattening hog for those girls,” Hensley said. “I meant it as a joke. I’ve said it a million times. Most people get a kick out of it.”
Wow this guy is in dire need of some new material.
In Soviet Russian, two fattened pig for tractor.
The moral of the story is, Stay out of redneck Kentucky.
I’d still check his alibi on dates kiddies went missing.
” ‘trade her a fattening hog for those girls’ … claiming the comment was intended to entice the children into illegal sexual activity.”
Worst pick-up line ever.
Maybe she was upset because the kids were little pigs already.
Being in Kentucky, she probably got better, more serious offers earlier that day.
You can’t even talk to a kid anymore without worrying that someone’s going to call you a pervert.
When I want a good laugh I come to DU!
bobbo, Fusion, Karmababy… LOL.
You ain’t gonna buy my kids.
Perhaps mom was insulted at the price offered. A fattning hog is not worth much as you have to feed it before you can eat it or sell it.
#6 – Works for me all the time.
I predict these girls will be called “empowered women” once they grow up and will never get a stable marriage, blaming their exhusbands for their inability to sustain a relationship.
Joking about anything requires a certain level of awareness and acceptance in a community. People have to get it, and they have to enjoy getting it. The fact that this very bad taste joke is defended shows that the concept of raping little girls is well-enough known and accepted to be defended as the subject of a joke. Not a good thing. You who defended this joker need to think about what being raped is like from the point of view of the person being raped. There is nothing funny or acceptable about it.