The New Englanders hanged animals caught in bestiality; there's a documented case of a pig being executed alongside a human.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Betsy HP - May 11, 2005 10:25:46 am PDT #3298 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Hayden - May 11, 2005 10:26:21 am PDT #3299 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Ever see The Advocate? It opens with a farmer and a mule being led to the gallows as they've been convicted of indecent relations. At the last second, a monk comes running out with an affadavit signed by the rest of the community saying that the mule was a non-consenting participant, so she's freed. Apparently based on a real court case (in France, not Georgia, and it the middle ages, not now).
That's the one where it turns out that the mule is a equinne fatale and planned the whole thing, right?
Nutty - May 11, 2005 10:28:04 am PDT #3300 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
The real question is, if you subsequently made sausages out of an animal you'd hanged, was it considered cannibalism?
Because, like, allowing an animal to stand trial is tantamount to considering that animal a human, in the eyes of the law.
Also, what was the pig's crime called? It's not bestiality, from the pig's point of view.
tommyrot - May 11, 2005 10:28:35 am PDT #3301 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
That's the one where it turns out that the mule is a equinne fatale and planned the whole thing, right?
Well, if the mule hadn't dressed so provocatively....
Betsy HP - May 11, 2005 10:29:32 am PDT #3302 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I'm pretty sure it was "crimes against nature".
Hayden - May 11, 2005 10:30:27 am PDT #3303 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Also, what was the pig's crime called?
Ape love.
Well, if the mule hadn't dressed so provocatively....
It's that Veronica Lake thing with the mane.
DavidS - May 11, 2005 10:33:26 am PDT #3304 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Who the hell has sex with mules?
I thought that's what sheep were for.
hopes Nilly skips this whole discussion. msbelle too, actually.
Hayden - May 11, 2005 10:35:44 am PDT #3305 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Ah, but mules can't get pregnant.
Man, I'm glad I came out of the woodwork for this discussion.
Betsy HP - May 11, 2005 10:36:24 am PDT #3306 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I really, really shouldn't have asked a labor law question right after the discussion on mules began.
Connie Neil - May 11, 2005 10:36:51 am PDT #3307 of 10001
brillig
I thought that's what sheep were for.
"... they give you warmth in the winter and wool in the spring, sheep sheep sheep."
or there's the Moose Song.