http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2011/03/11/20110311arizona-man-pitchfork-trespass-case11-ON.html#ixzz1GOxHscfNKINGMAN - A Kingman man gets his pitchfork back after he's acquitted in a trespassing case.
Mohave County Judge Pro-tempore Paul Julien ruled March 5 that Mervin Fried was not guilty of third-degree trespassing.
The Daily Miner reports Fried was arrested for attempting to bring a pitchfork into the county supervisor's building on Feb. 16, 2010.
Fried was asked by County Manager Ron Walker to leave his pitchfork outside. Fried was arrested when he refused and tried to enter the building with the pitchfork.
The judge ruled Walker did have the authority to restrict access to the building.
However, Julien wrote Walker's decision allowing members of the public with holstered handguns access to the building but denying access to the defendant because he had a holstered' pitchfork was arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable.
Next time stick to tar and feathers.