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Policy

Brickbat: That Takes Balls

Charles Oliver | 12.18.2013 6:00 AM

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New Zealand officials have destroyed two kilograms of rooster testicles  seized from a man at Auckland International Airport. The man planned to eat them, but officials said they could spread disease.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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  1. Plopper   12 years ago

    Nooo! Those delicious rooster balls!

  2. Generic Stranger   12 years ago

    You gotta keep your eyes on the balls. Eyes. Balls. Eyeballs. I almost had a gag, son. Joke that is.

    1. Plopper   12 years ago

      I could hear his voice in my head as I read your comment.

      1. Swiss Servator, Alps avast!   12 years ago

        Me too. And I rather liked that.

    2. wareagle   12 years ago

      balls, I say balls.

  3. Zombie Jimbo   12 years ago

    I saay. That man was about a sharp as a sack of oatmeal.

  4. SugarFree   12 years ago

    "This is delicious! What's in it?"

    "I'll tell you in a minute. Have some more."

    1. Terr   12 years ago

      I'd call them yard oysters.

      1. SugarFree   12 years ago

        Some asshole will just say that they taste like chicken.

  5. Count Negroni   12 years ago

    Back the truck up, there's a sale on Bitcoins.

    Down 62% from all-time-high. April crash ended up down 82% from then all-time-high.

    1. db   12 years ago

      Note to bitcoin millionaires: don't buy that Ferrari until the check from Mt Gox clears into your gold ETF account.

  6. New Cassandra   12 years ago

    Mt Gox are theiving assholes. I withdrew $1,000 from my account 6 weeks ago and have still not got the funds in my bank. "Support" emails are just ignored.

  7. H. ReardEn   12 years ago

    Get you disease spreading testicles from a menagerie of animals here. Yak testicles! Yum!

  8. Bee Tagger   12 years ago

    If a court rules that they have to give the cock's balls back to him, I hope he serves it to them at dawn so they can eat crow.

  9. pan fried wylie   12 years ago

    Cock Blocked!

    officials said they could spread disease

    Is Chicken AIDS destroyed by cooking?

  10. Rich   12 years ago

    two kilograms of rooster testicles

    Nice band name.

  11. Rich   12 years ago

    "connoisseurs like them barely cooked so there's still some liquid inside so that you feel the liquid squirt into your mouth when you bite down on it"

    The more you know ....

  12. angus   12 years ago

    Protectionism at its worse, why are we denied succulent Vietnamese chicken nuts? Local suppliers provide only dessicated dry balls, what do they expect?

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