Bill Would Restrict Police From Stopping Chicken Trucks On Hot Days

[The Straight Story]

Bill Would Restrict Police From Stopping Chicken Trucks On Hot Days

POSTED: 11:43 am EST February 1, 2006

ATLANTA -- A Georgia lawmaker has drafted a bill that would restrict police from stopping any truck hauling live poultry on a hot day.

It would bar police from stopping trucks carrying chickens when the temperature is above 85 degrees unless the officer suspects illegal activity.

Even then, it limits the stops to 10 minutes unless an arrest is made.

http://www.local6.com/news/6652119/detail.html

[Atman]

1. Note to terrorists: Travel in chicken trucks on hot days

Hey, you're from the desert, 85 should be like a winter carnival.

I'm glad such smart people are running the government.

[seabeyond]

4. my one and only thought too, lol n/t

[JeffR]

2. In between this and the "Merry Christmas" bill the other day

I'm wondering if somebody dumped acid in the Georgia reservoirs.

[0007]

8. If they had of there would be some great Georgians running

around. And super pissed at their pass behavior.

[JeffR]

10. Maybe it comes down to the weather in a different way

Maybe everyone's brain is just baking.

[0007]

14. I'll go for that one JeffR. It does get a tad warm in Georgia.

[CAcyclist]

3. What they should do is draft a bill to not allow truckers to

truck livestock when the temperature is over 85 degrees. They can truck them at night.

[The Straight Story]

5. Or make em use trucks with AC

Chicken coolers, that's the ticket.

[benburch]

6. The poor things die if you do stop the truck.

They literally bake.

Maybe the real thing to do is to make it Illegal to haul chickens in un-air conditioned trucks on hot days?

[William769]

7. Have you ever been by one of these trucks on a hot summer day?

Horrifying!

[undergroundpanther]

9. funny they just found Bird flu over in Iraq..

and we are laxing laws on chicken imports..

Fancy this...law....now..

Can you say ...coming cull of the poor,homeless and dissadents?
Ever wonder?

[Sequoia]

11. otherwise....Georigia Frid Chicken!

[BushOut06]

12. What if it's a truck carrying chickenhawks?

Does that mean if Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, and Limbaugh are cruising around Georgia in their pickup truck, they can't get pulled over?

[JeffR]

15. Too funny

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Lasher]

13. Oboy, next time I drive through Georgia in my pickup...

I'm gonna have at least one live chicken with me. I don't like driving alone anyway. Think I could let him ride up front with me to qualify as a protected vehicle of poultry commerce, or would I have to put him in the back?

Gonna be a boatload of fun, blowing through all those speed traps any time the temperature gets above 85.