“Mongo the steer is now Mongo the steak, but his case lives on in a lawsuit against officials who took away the animal’s championship ribbon at the Illinois State Fair.” Mongo was disqualified, and his ribbon given to Scooby, when urine tests showed he’d been given banned medicine, perhaps to keep him from limping in front of the judges. The family complains that they weren’t able to get the rulebook off of the Internet because their dial-up connection was too slow to obtain the file, and ask for the rules to be struck — is a lawsuit against the ISP next? (“Champion disqualified; family sues”, AP, Nov. 8; “Steer scandal stirs state fair”, AP, Aug. 13).
Mongo lawsuit
“Mongo the steer is now Mongo the steak, but his case lives on in a lawsuit against officials who took away the animal’s championship ribbon at the Illinois State Fair.” Mongo was disqualified, and his ribbon given to Scooby, when urine tests showed he’d been given banned medicine, perhaps to keep him from limping in […]
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