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Council Rejects Horse Ordinance, ‘Peter Rabbit’ to Leave Town — I love these podunk stories.
On Tuesday, the Hickman City Council voted two to four against passing a city ordinance which would have allowed horses within city limits.
If you drive down south 68th Street in Hickman, you will notice a peculiar sign which sums up one side of the issue in three simple words. “Save the Horse.”
Kari Jones lives across the street from Peter Rabbit, the horse. His owner gave him the name because of his ability to hop around during his younger years.
“It’s kinda nice. I grew up on a farm, so it’s nice to have him around,” Jones said. “I understand in a city you don’t want animals or people to have chickens. I think they should make an exception.”
“We’re trying to recruit and attract businesses and retail services. Does a pasture ground in the middle of town promote that. I’m not so sure,” Hanson said.
These folks obviously know nothing about what attracts a business. And let it be known that most cities and towns in California and elsewhere allow chickens.
related links:
One Horse Town Website
Listing from the e-Podunk database
Sounds like the Mayor of that town has some expert executive experience on transportation and environmental issues.
Good fall back candidate for McCain should (you know who)drop out to run a day care center, or whatever.
Is this the town where they based the Gilmore Girls series?
Yeah that house is the reason no businesses are comming out to the middle of nowhere.
“If we can just solve this horse problem, everything else will fall into place.”
My city has an ordinance that says if you have more than 5 acres of land, you can have horses. My little sister bought one with babysitting money and brought it home. Nobody told her to get rid of it.
Horses?
I thought this was a map of how the country will vote in November!!
Only time will tell if Hickman is the only red dot in the nation.
Editor,
Why not do a story about that village in Texas that wants their idiot back.
#7: Angry evangelicals aren’t entertaining either. Try searching for sexy photos of your VP candidate and report back…
Hickman. Boy. Yes. If you really want to become just like the wonderful areas of the country, get rid of the horse, build crack houses, import homeless scum, allow gay marriage and encourage boys kissing boys in public, refuse to prosecute immigration criminals, don’t ever prosecute gang bangers for murdering each other, increase the parking fines to $75, charge people $100 if they leave their garbage cans out past 6PM on collection day, generally harass working people for petty infractions while allowing defectation in the streets, and soon, you’ll be just as progressive as San Francisco.
The city council is making such a huge mistake here. They should be embracing the horse, its a great marketing opportunity. The town is oddly enough available on Google Street View! The city should focus on getting rid of crappy homes and trailer parks if they want to attract new businesses. The horse is a novelty and promotes the small town America “brand”…something that is becoming increasingly hard to find these days. What a mistake.