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Today I learned that a rooster was prosecuted in Switzerland for laying eggs and thus, going against the laws of nature in the 15th century and again in the 18th century. The rooster was condemned to be burned alive in public.
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I get it. It was a repeating offender.
I bet it got off with a warning in the 15th century, those things never correct behavior.
Time traveling rooster
The real story here is that a rooster lived for 300+ years.
That must have been some wicked chicken!
In 1731 in Brazil, some monks tried to take a colony of termites to court for eating their monestary. The judge, who was clearly having none of their shit, ruled that since the termites were there first it was the monks who were guilty of trespassing and he ordered them to compensate the termites by providing them with new foraging grounds of equivalent value.
Damn. I messed up with the title. Of course, they were two different roosters.
That is such a Swiss thing to do
And this is why the Swiss stay neutral.
Living from the 1400s to the 1700s is the bigger defiance of the laws of nature in my opinion.