A Rooster's Crow
If Laura Miller or
anyone in Oak Cliff wonders why Serbs, Croats, and Kosovars can't get along,
they need only look at themselves.
I once knew a person
who had a pet raccoon in a city that had a law which forbade the keeping of wild
animals within city limits. This person lived next door to a woman whose husband
was an invalid.
Well, this busybody
lodged a complaint about her neighbor's raccoon, and two burly policemen came
calling. They asked the raccoon's owner if he in fact did own one and if they
could see it. He took them into his bedroom, lifted the covers on the bed, and
revealed the little animal fast asleep. This raccoon was anything but a wild
animal; it was more domesticated than the average house cat. Nevertheless,
raccoons were classified as wild animals, so the owner was told to rid himself
it or face charges.
About a week later,
the busybody's husband fell out of his wheelchair and she was unable to lift him
back into it. So guess who she called, and guess where he told her to
go!
If this society has
lost its moral direction, it is because the people in it have lost all sense of
civility and have forgotten that living together requires that we live and let
live. That people in a city filled with the noises of sirens, trucks, trains,
and trolleys should complain about the innocuous crowing of roosters shows just
how insensitive and crassly selfish they have become. Why anyone should pay any
attention to them is a mystery, for it would certainly seem foolish to make an
enemy of a neighbor over a rooster's crow.
Laura
Miller and her fellow council persons should be ashamed of having abetted this
incivility, and the next time one of them feels the urge to utter platitudes
about the need for people to come together, I hope they all hear the cock crow
hypocrisy! (2/23/2008)
If Laura Miller or anyone in Oak Cliff wonders why Serbs, Croats, and Kosovars can't get along, they need only look at themselves.
I once knew a person who had a pet raccoon in a city that had a law which forbade the keeping of wild animals within city limits. This person lived next door to a woman whose husband was an invalid.
Well, this busybody lodged a complaint about her neighbor's raccoon, and two burly policemen came calling. They asked the raccoon's owner if he in fact did own one and if they could see it. He took them into his bedroom, lifted the covers on the bed, and revealed the little animal fast asleep. This raccoon was anything but a wild animal; it was more domesticated than the average house cat. Nevertheless, raccoons were classified as wild animals, so the owner was told to rid himself it or face charges.
About a week later, the busybody's husband fell out of his wheelchair and she was unable to lift him back into it. So guess who she called, and guess where he told her to go!
If this society has lost its moral direction, it is because the people in it have lost all sense of civility and have forgotten that living together requires that we live and let live. That people in a city filled with the noises of sirens, trucks, trains, and trolleys should complain about the innocuous crowing of roosters shows just how insensitive and crassly selfish they have become. Why anyone should pay any attention to them is a mystery, for it would certainly seem foolish to make an enemy of a neighbor over a rooster's crow.
Laura Miller and her fellow council persons should be ashamed of having abetted this incivility, and the next time one of them feels the urge to utter platitudes about the need for people to come together, I hope they all hear the cock crow hypocrisy! (2/23/2008)
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