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Politics

Klingons No Longer Represented on Indian Trails, North Carolina City Council

Nick Gillespie | 1.3.2014 2:24 PM

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So a councilman in Indian Trail, North Carolina decided to resign in protest to what he viewed as "runaway development."

Oh, yeah, he tendered his resignation in Klingon:

Waddell says he wrote the note in Klingon as "an inside joke," but, reports the Charlotte Observer, Mayor Michael Alvarez

called the letter childish and unprofessional. "It's an embarrassment for Indian Trail, and it's an embarrassment for North Carolina," he said.

Which is like a totally Vulcan thing to say, isn't it?

Full, sad story here.

Hat tip: Mike Hewlett's Twitter feed.

Seems like a good cue for this, the worst fight scene ever (Kirk and Gorn vs. the Audience):

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