What's the matter with Kansas?

A western Kansas sheriff is defending his decision to order a deputy to kill an ostrich that had wandered onto Interstate 70 near Colby, despite protests from a truck driver who called the shooting "inhumane and senseless."

Thomas County Sheriff Mike Baughn said he ordered a deputy to shoot the 6-foot-tall exotic bird Thursday morning because it presented a hazard to passing motorists.
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I wouldn't have shot the poor bird, but then I'm not a resident of the great repiglikkkan strong hold of Kansas, center piece of the kinder, gentler nation.

It isn't like there is a lot of traffic on Kansas interstates, Trigger Dude, who probably says stuff like "I'm the law in these here parts", an assertion that undoubtedly makes him tumesce almost as much as fondling his gun.

I know there's no traffic there because I lived in Kansas for a couple of peculiar years. Miles of almost nothing but nuclear missile silos and cows. And pigs, of course.