A chicken fined for crossing the road has walked free from court in the US after a judge threw out the charge.

Ophelia, a black Polish hen, earned her owners a £30 fine for illegally walking across the street in California.

California state law bans livestock from highways but not domestic pets.

But lawyers for Ophelia's owners Linc and Helena Moore successfully argued that Ophelia was domesticated and could not be charged as livestock - and the case was dismissed.

The Moores had been fined after their chicken wandered onto a road in the small rural mining town of Johannesburg in Kern county.

Linky... http://www.davesdaily.com/out.php?id=6308&...4083.html?menu=

With court houses overflowing why was this case ever taken seriously.

Why did the chicken cross the road?
To make it's owners pay!

Sory but with thisa and the last story the link took me to the 4 legegd chicken

What cop actually had the free time to write that ticket?

Tell me about it...... the cop probably just got finished with a dozen donuts and fell asleep in his car while driving and almost got into an accident and blamed it on the chicken . This is why I have no respect for authority ........

Why do I think the Cop on the scene spotted an ironic joke waiting to happen and took advantage of it?

^Indeed, maybe the guy heard too many "why did the chicken cross the road?" jokes and just didn`t believe that the chicken had a vaild reason to cross the road after all.