[DRB]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13069505/

There will be no Pamplona-like running of the buffaloes in Deadwood, officials in the South Dakota town have decided.

The city where gunslingers once faced off and Wild Bill Hickok was gunned down rejected the idea after liability insurance issues came up, Mary Jo Nelson, Deadwood’s finance officer, told Reuters on Wednesday.

She said local businessmen had supported the idea of turning American bison loose on the one street running through the gulch into which the Black Hills town is squeezed.

The amazing thing is that anyone even bothered to ask the insurance company if it would be okay.....

 

[Echo]

"Hey mom, can I pound nails into the coffee table?"

 

[DRB]

"Hey mom, can I pound nails into the coffee table?"

Okay there is now like a gallon of diet coke on my computer and desk.

 

[JRB]

I am usually opposed to insurance intervention, but we used to work a set of buffalo in Brenham. The pens were made of 4" pipe set 6' in the ground and had guard rail from old bridges for railing. They were 7' tall to keep them from jumping. They would flatten pieces of the railing like a train hit it. Running scared buffalo ranks up there with one of the most stupid things I have heard someone suggest.