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Well that’s a fine “hidey ho”

hankey.jpgKathleen Ensz is a 63-year-old retired French professor from the University of Northern Colorado. She’s been trying to enjoy her retirement years, but it seems that the local politicians were getting in the way. In particular, Ensz, a Democrat, was getting more and more pissed off at all the mailings she was getting from a local congresswoman, Representative Marilyn Musgrave (a Republican). It got to the point that Ensz was so mad, mad as hell if you will, that she couldn’t take it anymore.

So our kindly old retired Professor went into her backyard, scooped up some dog shit, wrapped the dog shit in one of Musgrave’s mailings, and left the poo-present at the Representative’s office. At the time, Musgrave thought it was a political “dirty” trick, and demanded apologies from her opponent. But now that the truth has come out, the matter has moved from the political arena to the court, as Ensz faces a misdemeanor charge for the “use of a noxious substance.”

The trial date is set for May 15, but Ensz’s attorney is already pleading her case, saying it was Ensz’s constitutional right, protected by the First Amendment, to leave that poo. Sure, she acknowledges, it was “probably crude and boorish.” (Probably?) But, the lawyer says, it’s common these days to equate a disliked or distasteful person with shit.

Meanwhile, the highlight of the story comes, again from this fine attorney, during a hearing in the matter last week:

At a hearing Tuesday, she also cited Mr. Hankey, an animated, talking piece of human excrement depicted on “South Park,” as evidence that it is commonplace to use feces to express disdain.

And now? …poo videos:

(Hat tip to Overlawyered)