Judge: Wear chicken suit or serve time

Painesville, Ohio's municipal judge Michael Cicconetti is my sort of guy.

Three men who solicited sex from an undercover cop in the small Ohio town were given a choice: 30 days in jail or take turns wearing a chicken suit and carrying a sign saying 'No Chicken Ranch in Painesville'. The reference is to Nevada's famous bordello of the same name -- where, by the way, it is NOT a crime to pay for sex.

Since the sentence is being carried out today, there is a chance you will get a peek on this evening's news programs. Or maybe it will show up on YouTube.

Painesville lies astride US 20, the main drag through the area in which I grew up, lying about halfway between Cleveland and Ashtabula and about a mile south of Lake Erie.

The judge has had other interesting sentencing ideas, but you'll have to read the story...I don't want to be a spoiler.

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Of chickens, creches and pigs --

• San Francisco Chronicle: "Men who solicited sex ordered to wear chicken suits"
  

-- Dan Damon

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