{"id":6497,"date":"2012-03-01T13:45:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T19:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=6497"},"modified":"2012-03-01T13:45:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T19:45:36","slug":"throwing-some-stuff-at-the-wall-to-see-if-it-sticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=6497","title":{"rendered":"Throwing some stuff at the wall to see if it sticks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>HouChron<\/strong> has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/houston-texas\/article\/Kangaroo-at-center-of-fight-with-HOA-in-Spring-3372220.php\">updated story about Skippy the Therapy Kangaroo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/houston-texas\/article\/Kangaroo-at-center-of-fight-with-HOA-in-Spring-3372220.php\">He added, &#8220;What are they gonna do, go door-to-door and force everyone to give up their pet snake or gerbil or hamster, or even a dog or cat?&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, generally, gerbils, hamsters, dogs, and cats are considered &#8220;household pets&#8221;. If the HOA went to court over those, they&#8217;d almost certainly lose; I think you&#8217;d have a hard time convincing a judge and\/or jury to rule otherwise. Snakes may be a little more questionable as household pets (depending on the size and perhaps the number of snakes), but I think there&#8217;s enough precedent that the pet owner would probably win. A kangaroo? I still think that&#8217;s pushing things.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m Larry, this is my brother Darrell, and this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/sportsnow\/la-report-clipper-darrell-has-been-asked-to-drop-name-20120229,0,2391911.story\">my other brother <del>Clipper Darrell<\/del><\/a>. I think the most shocking aspect of this story, and one that I have not seen mentioned elsewhere, is: the Clippers have fans? We are talking about one of the most incompetently run franchises in sports history here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I think everyone knows by now that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/politics\/la-pn-andrew-breitbart-political-influence-20120301,0,5954547.story\">Andrew Breitbart passed away<\/a>. I don&#8217;t have much to say beyond that; if you&#8217;re looking for discussion, I&#8217;d recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/patterico.com\/2012\/03\/01\/andrew-breitbart-dead\/\">Patterico<\/a> or your other favorite web sites. I feel certain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/\">Battleswarm<\/a> will have a lively discussion once Lawrence has time to put up a post.<\/p>\n<p>This is a few days old, but worth noting: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-hitman-for-hire-20120228,0,6070854,full.story\">a longish <strong>LAT<\/strong> piece on HitmanForHire.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The HouChron has an updated story about Skippy the Therapy Kangaroo. He added, &#8220;What are they gonna do, go door-to-door and force everyone to give up their pet snake or gerbil or hamster, or even a dog or cat?&#8221; Well, generally, gerbils, hamsters, dogs, and cats are considered &#8220;household pets&#8221;. If the HOA went to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23,16,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-law","category-obits","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6500,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497\/revisions\/6500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}