Quite a lede: LAMOINE - A local girl has become the first person to ever apply for a permit to keep a unicorn in the town of Lamoine.
Five-year-old Brielle Hamor wrote a letter to the town on Jan. 9, formally inquiring as to whether she was allowed to keep a unicorn at her home.
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In her letter she requested permission from town officials and asked them to include an application in their response if one was necessary for her request.
“I am writing to ask permission to have a unicorn in my backyard, if I can find one,” Hamor wrote..
“Please respond and include an application.”
Hamor soon had her request for an application fulfilled when she received a letter from Stu Marckoon, administrative assistant to the Lamoine Select Board…
Enclosed in Marckoon’s reply was an application for a pet unicorn, with a series of questions about the animal and a checklist of requirements that must be met…