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Originally Posted by AndyJWest
Seagulls? Fight them on the beaches! Fight them on the landing grounds! Never surrender!
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Are you insane? There is no defense against a dedicated aerial bombardment like that! I say make for the shelters, or at least the local pub.
I don't have a headline, but a great many years ago we had a big to-do in the small town of Magna, on the west side of the Salt Lake Valley. They still had hitching posts in front of the bars and the fast-food places in those days, and still might for all I know. One day the
Salt Lake Tribune's local section carried a story about two friends who were having a few too many in a bar and got into an argument. One of them went outside, unhitched his friends horse and tried to sell it to people walking by on the sidewalk. The other man called the police and demanded his friend be arrested. The local Assistant District Attorney reported that he spent several hours searching the law books for some inoffensive charge, since Horse Theft was still a "hanging offense". He finally charged him with "Attempting to sell property that was not rightfully his." The whole thing blew over when the pair sobered up and the charges were dropped. It wasn't long after that Horse Theft was removed from the books.