Chicken Ranch

(07-26) 15:57 PDT Painesville, Ohio (AP) --

A judge known for giving unusual sentences has ordered
three men who pleaded guilty to soliciting sex to take turns dressing
in a bright yellow chicken costume.

Painesville Municipal Judge Michael Cicconetti agreed to
suspend a 30-day jail sentence if they wear the costume between 4 and 7
p.m. Friday outside the court while carrying a sign that reads "No
Chicken Ranch in Painesville."

The sign and costume refer to the "World Famous Chicken Ranch," a prostitution house in Nevada where sex-for-money is legal.

Daniel Chapdelaine, 40, of Perry Township; Martin Soto, 44,
of Ashtabula; and Fabian Rodriguez-Ramirez, 29, of Painesville,
solicited sex from an undercover Painesville police officer earlier
this summer.

Cicconetti has used barnyard animals to dispense justice in the past.

He ordered a man who called a policeman a pig to stand next
to a live pig in a pen and hold a sign that read "This Is Not a Police
Officer." A couple who stole a baby Jesus statue from a manger were
sentenced to dress as Mary and Joseph and walk with a donkey.

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