A Florida woman named Kris Hedstrom has filed a lawsuit against her neighbor, Heather Dayner. Hedstrom seeks a paternity test for five Nigerian dwarf goats — Bella, Gigi, Rosie, Zelda and Margoat — that she bought from Heather for $900.
According to the lawsuit, Hedstrom believed the goats… could be registered with the American Dairy Goat Association, a group that records goat pedigrees. Registered goats have higher values than unregistered goats.
Dayner, who has been selling goats at Baxter Lane Farm for about 10 years, typically provides information to her clients so they can register their animals themselves.
She said the father goat was registered, but the Tampa Bay Times reports the American Dairy Goat Association rejected Hedstrom’s application to register the babies because Dayner is not an active member.
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Dayner offered to refund the money in exchange for the goats.
Apparently, Hedstrom had been calling the police on Dayner constantly for three months straight and even trespassed on Dayner’s farm.
What are your thoughts about this one?
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You are NOT the father
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My thoughts are that you lose any sympathy for even genuine (minor) slights against you when you call the police on someone daily and trespass on their farm. That's more than a slight-increase-in-the-cost-of-5-goats worth of inconvenience. And illegal.
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