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Kid loves Sonic, gets hedgehog ban repealed
Sean Ridgeley - Sunday, January 4th, 2009 | 10:32AM (PT) 0 Like


When you just love too much..

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Judson King must be the ultimate Sonic fan. A young child, resident of Lawrence, Kansas, he loves Sonic so much he had about 5,000 pictures of hedgehogs on his computer ("Dear God, if ever an entire species needed a restraining order.." as Kotaku puts it), and worked for three years to get the local ban on the animals repealed, and succeeded.

He put together a hefty "Hedgehog Primer", got on the agenda for the city council, and made a case strong enough the board agreed there was "no good reason for the continued outlawing of hedgehogs".

While the kid's obsession is worrisome (surprised he didn't paint the thing blue), you've gotta admire that kind of determination. Let's just pray he's played the original Sonic games.

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    gerard way owns you since Aug 2007 | Jan 4, 09
    I admire this kid actually. He fought for what he believed in. And who wouldn't want to fight for a nice little blue hedgehog?
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    Jarhead255 since Sep 2008 | Jan 4, 09
    Lawrence!? Jesus that's only 12 miles from me.
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    MikeyW since Apr 2005 | Jan 4, 09
    The little man did what I could never do :'(
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    gerard way owns you since Aug 2007 | Jan 4, 09
    quote MikeyW
    The little man did what I could never do :'(
    What I could never do is talk my parents into buying me a hedgehog haha.
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    Special K since Apr 2007 | Jan 4, 09
    I wonder why they banned hedgehogs in the first place?
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    Jarhead255 since Sep 2008 | Jan 4, 09
    They banned them because they were thought to be carriers of 'foot-and-mouth' disease. Which is a threat to Cattle, which are a big industry in Kansas. Especially in the plains and around here.
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    hollowedsol since Feb 2008 | Jan 4, 09
    Dedicated, that's what that kid is.
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    THM since Jan 2008 | Jan 4, 09
    To be honest, when I was kid, I preferred Mario than Sonic games which are not that much my type.
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    Xoatl since Sep 2006 | Jan 5, 09
    That's hedgehog is hot.
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    Noraf45 since Sep 2008 | Jan 5, 09
    In that case, THM, you should work to lift the ban on Mushrooms in your area.

    This kid is a little obsessed with Sonic, but he's got some good determination to see that thing through. If he just wants a couple pet hedgehogs to name Sonic and Amy, then fine. As long as he doesn't later atttempt to lift the ban on having a relationship with a hedgehog
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    ShadowJ since Jan 2003 | Jan 5, 09
    Am I the only one to be wondering what kind of pictures the kid has to have over 5000?
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    Noraf45 since Sep 2008 | Jan 5, 09
    I'm sure they're not all furry porn, maybe only about 4672 images are.
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    Jarhead255 since Sep 2008 | Jan 5, 09
    HAHAHAHA! Furries. Man..I was wondering about that.
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    kspiess since Jun 2007 | Jan 5, 09
    Hedgehogs are just rats with spikes that don't even live in hedges and aren't even hogs.

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    L0GIN SLAY3R since Oct 2008 | Jan 5, 09
    And they really don't speak in annoying voices, and they don't have crappy next gen games...

    God of all things why Sonic
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    Avalith since Jul 2003 | Jan 6, 09
    quote kspiess
    Hedgehogs are just rats with spikes that don't even live in hedges and aren't even hogs.
    Yeah, but what sounds better? Hedgehog or spiked rat? We can just be glad they didn't decide to call the species chautemoc.
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