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Deer Trail, Colorado residents shot down their infamous drone hunting ordinance on Tuesday, showing that at least 73% of the small town's residents have common sense. The matter fell to the voters after the town's board came to a 3-3 draw on enacting the legislation, which had strong support from the mayor.

Well, ex-mayor. Not too surprisingly, he didn't make it past Tuesday, either.

It had been a good run for the ordinance's author Phil Steele, who had been preemptively selling the licenses since the fall, with up to 900 of the now-decorative paper permits being issued, though, Steele admitted to the LA Times, only three of them went to residents.

The Internet seized upon Steele's courting of the lunatic fringe, focusing endless ridicule upon the 600-person Colorado hamlet. The drone hunting jokes provided an easily mockable portrait of the polarity in a state that has made headlines for contentions over gun laws, the attempted secession of five counties to form a new arch-conservative 51st state, and its legalization of marijuana.

Steele, for his part, has decided to enact "payback" against the town by filing a citizen's initiative to transform Deer Trail into a marijuana distribution center, and vows to bring his drone hunting hubris to another, more "enlightened," community.

No word on whether or not he planned to refund any of the $25 fees he collected for what now amounts to a bizarre piece of scrap paper.

Originally posted at esquire.com.

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