Donkey has his day in court
Dallas: Buddy was at the center of neighbors' dispute08:38 PM CDT on Wednesday, April 18, 2007
The star witness paced outside the courthouse Wednesday, breathing hard, his head down, an American flag bandanna around his neck.
He said nothing to the media swarming around him. He just twitched his huge ears and swatted flies with his tail.
People had accused him of all sorts of things: He was loud. He was aggressive.
He smelled bad, too. He was there to show the men and woman of the jury that he was none of those things. "Call your first witness," Judge Steven Seider said. "Your honor, we call Buddy," attorney Jeff Sandberg replied. "The donkey." With that, Buddy the donkey came clip-clopping down the black-and-white tile hallway of the North Dallas Government Center, where two neighbors were fighting about his presence in a back yard just west of Preston Hollow. "Bringing a jackass into the courtroom? Don't y'all see enough of them?" an onlooker asked. As he got to the courtroom, the 3-year-old, 300-pound donkey For several minutes, Buddy held his own. He remained calm. He was polite. He didn't crack under cross-examination and confess. If he had to go, he held it in.
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