Sonic fan gets town's pet hedgehog ban overturned
by Alexander Sliwinski 
on Jan 5th 2009 10:15AM
An 11-year-old
Sonic fan's crusade has overturned a citywide ban on hedgehogs in Lawrence, Kansas. As reported by
KTKA, young Judson King wanted one of the super-fast and incredibly agile rodents as a pet, but they were illegal, so he spent three years getting a brief together petitioning city commissioners to overturn the law. The town elders couldn't find a reason behind the blue creatures' banning in the first place, so Master King now has his own pet hedgehog -- Luke.
After doing some research of our own, we've discovered the reason Lawrence banned hedgehogs in the first place. In 1944, a Dr. Eikopf Robotniksky settled in Lawrence, and he just so happened to own a pet echidna. Echidnas and hedgehogs do not get along well, and thus hedgehogs were given the boot. No, really. We're not making this up.
[Via
GamePolitics]
