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Little girl was part of a county fair agro-educational program where they raise an animal for a few months and at the end it’s slaughtered. Supposed to teach them about the economics of farming and stuff.

But the little girl loved her goat so much she was crying on the day her goat was supposed to be taken away, so her mom sent the county fair people an email saying “I’ll pay for the goat and any expenses. We’ve had several deaths in the family in the past year, I don’t wanna take away one more thing my little girl loves.” Technically the goat had already been sold at auction, so the mom was on the hook for about $1000, only about $70 of which would have been profit for the county fair.

The county fair people were irate and got law enforcement involved, over this “breach of contract”. They literally got a fucking judge to sign a search warrant, authorizing them to go to this little girl’s house and search every room and every cabinet or box “large enough to contain a small goat”. The sheriff’s deputies seized the goat, and whoever they gave it to immediately slaughtered it, though they were supposed to wait until some kind of agreement had been worked out.

They broke multiple laws in order to “teach” a little girl the “lesson” that “everybody has to follow the rules”.

My dudes, I cannot emphasize enough that the little girl's emotional attachment to the goat is in fact the least of the issues with this story. The main issue in this story is the fact that a bunch of cops broke multiple laws, including the unlawful entry to the property the goat was being held, the unlawful seizure and destruction of said goat, and the unlawful use of a criminal search warrant in a civil dispute case, just to start with.

The little girl owned the goat. At no point in the proceedings - and indeed at no point in the proceedings in the course of the normal auction-purchase-slaughter of a livestock animal in this program - did the fair own the goat. At no point in the proceedings did the person who successfully bid on the goat actually own it - he had made the winning bid to purchase rights to the meat. He hadn't even done that yet! The goat legally and incontrovertibly belonged to the little girl. The very worst that should have happened in this story is a brief property ownership dispute in a civil court.

The fair CEO decided to unlawfully force the auction of the goat, and, when the girl's mother began to dispute her actions, to make a false claim of theft, with precisely ZERO legal basis, calling the cops on an already emotionally fragile child, and then had the temerity to be angry with the child's mother because the story was making them look bad on social media.

GIRL WINS $300,000

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Now come grab your piece of meat !

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(I have blurred the blog name for their own safety, but have since blocked them after getting several reports of this. Any attempts to ping or name-drop them will have you immediately blocked, I am very serious about this)

Thank you for notifying me! I like to take people at face value and try to look for ages on blogs and make it VERY clear that I am uncomfortable interacting with minors in any sort of, especially given the fandoms and content I'm connected to. I guess the assumption that most would respect that basic boundary is something I need to be a lot more pessimistic about. I like supporting artists, writers and other creators across a lot of topics, often ones that are very sensitive or otherwise very inappropriate for minors to be interacting with.

The Freak Circus is an adult game for those over the age of 18. I do not want to interact with minors with this fandom at all, that is a hard boundary and I make that abundantly clear.

I can't control other people on the internet and I don't inherently think minors should mark their blogs as such (that is something very dangerous, never mark yourself like that as there are people who will try to target) but god, that makes it so hard to feel comfortable to interact with random fans. Tiktok was bad enough, though it's not at all a far toss for tumblr and twitter to be the same.

It's just.... disheartening, especially when I just assume people will 'follow the rules' and I know that's just a strong aspect of my autism (and yes, I know it comes off very naive of me, but that's just the internet culture I grew up with).

Thank you @shadowcarnivalen because I think, especially pulling back the perspective to include other adult content creators in this fandom and other fandoms related or equally adult-oriented, this is a point I think really needs to be repeated.