There’s A Bunch Of Bull Here And A No-Brainer Solution

Well, now we know what you get when you cross an 1,800-pound Limousin bull with a Charolais heifer.

Two lawyers.

Cataldo, Idaho, neighbors Dave Daniel and David Bradley are going to waste time and money on legal fees figuring out who’s to blame for the abduction of Bradley’s heifer, Tara.

Two weeks ago, Tara eloped with Daniel’s Limousin bull, Alphonso, leaving behind a broken fence. She hasn’t returned since.

Meanwhile, Daniel, director of the Kootenai County Building and Planning Department, maintains his innocence because the bovine rhapsody took place on open range. Under Idaho law, property owners are responsible for fencing wandering livestock off their property.

Now, I don’t have legal training, but this case is a no-brainer. Good neighborliness dictates that Daniel help Bradley retrieve the heifer. And the two split fence-repair costs. My bill will be in the mail.

WSU students should wait to cohabitate

Seems like dorm students at Washington State University want an open range, too - so family members, friends and current heartthrobs can sleep over. “Cow U.” is the only public college in Washington state that doesn’t allow overnight guests in residency halls. A former student body president called the policy “the most puritanical, strictest rule of any school in the state.” (And the dorm residents expect us to believe that their complaint has nothing to do with sex. Ha!) Wazzu regents have staked out the moral high ground. Few parents want their freshmen introduced to a roomie’s coed living arrangement. After their freshman year, WSU students can live off campus - and carouse until mommy and daddy’s money runs out.

What’s normal for Spirit Lake?

Dee Dee Voves, leader of a recall effort against a Spirit Lake, Idaho, councilman and the city’s third mayor in three months, has a noble goal: “I want to return the city to normal.” Whatever that is. Spirit Lake has been embroiled in political flaps for almost as long as I’ve been here. In spring 1985, Spirit Lake residents recalled Mayor Jim Wilson because he disbanded the Police Department. Two years ago, Voves unsuccessfully tried to recall then Mayor Paul Korman, stating he was power-hungry. She was partly right. He was hungry. Korman resigned three months ago - after running up a city tab of about $5,500 for meals and travel. Korman was replaced by Bob Street, who quit faster than you could say “William Henry Harrison.” Now, Mayor Tina Spadt is in the tail-gunner’s seat and, of course, the target of a recall. Normal? In Spirit Lake it might just be.

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