11-year-old Sonic Fan Goes to Court

**gameoverDude** · 04 Jan 2009, 08:31 PM

ORIGINAL ARTICLE SOURCE: http://ps3.qj.net/11-year-old-Sonic-.../49/aid/127678

Originally Posted by ps3.qj.net

How far would you go for your favorite video game character? This kid went all the way to court.

11-year-old Judson King was such a Sonic the Hedgehog fan that he decided he wanted the real thing - only to find out that hedgehogs were illegal in his city of Lawrence, in Kansas.

What's a boy to do but convince the court that hedgehogs are fudgy-wudgy creatures and not a danger to civilization as we know it? After three years of work, he finally built up his case enough that when he finally got his day in court, it was "no contest."

The court found no real reason to maintain the ban, and the woodland critter was legalized. Judson finally got his first hedgehog last Christmas. Now let's hope he won't paint his new pet blue and throw it through rings.

Maybe he'll try to get echidnas legalized next. Discuss.

**Josh** · 04 Jan 2009, 10:41 PM

**Fe 26** · 04 Jan 2009, 10:44 PM

good for him

**James** · 04 Jan 2009, 10:45 PM

Originally Posted by buttcheeks

good for him

Exactly. The law was pointless and he wanted a pet hedgehog, so he got it overturned. Good job all around.

James

**Wildkat** · 04 Jan 2009, 11:50 PM

He is 11 years old.

The entire time he has been alive, Sonic games have sucked ass.

**Opaque** · 05 Jan 2009, 12:00 AM

I'm gonna get an Italian plumber for a pet.

**sleeve** · 05 Jan 2009, 12:12 AM

The thread title and the accompanying article are misleading.

The kid didn't "go to court," he appeared before the city council and they voted to rescind the ordinance banning ownership of hedgehogs.

**The_Meach** · 05 Jan 2009, 12:18 AM

Originally Posted by sleeve

The thread title and the accompanying article are misleading.

The kid didn't "go to court," he appeared before the city council and they voted to rescind the ordinance banning ownership of hedgehogs.

Exactly what I was thinking...

lol at some judge saying, "y'know, I'm going to get rid of this city ordinance"