FAIRBANKS, Alaska—Alaska State Troopers have dismissed a charge against a man accused of trading moose meat for firewood.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (http://bit.ly/ybOFUt) says the case against Chad Gerondale has been dropped.
Gerondale said all he wanted to do was keep his family warm when he offered to swap 125 pounds of moose meat for two cords of firewood last week on a Fairbanks radio show. But a trooper showed up at Gerondale's house and cited him for illegal barter of game meat.
Heaven forbid people be allowed to keep themselves warm when money is tight.
The story goes on to state that it used to be illegal, but the State game board changed the regulation last week, removing "barter" from the wording.
3 comments:
They would probably be happier about bartering if there was a handy way to tax it...say a couple of chops and a rump roast.....
Yeah, it's ALL about taxes... sigh... Glad they overturned that one though!
So the trooper didn't know the law. Color me shocked! /sarc
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