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January 11, 2012

AP: Kentucky Amish men face jail time for refusing to use orange triangles on horse-drawn buggies

by Dylan Lovan
The Associated Press

MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) - On Jacob Gingerich's farm in western Kentucky, there is no phone or electricity for his family of 12 children. He even sees putting an orange safety triangle on their black horse-drawn buggy as a violation of the simple and pious life his Amish faith requires.

He and other Amish men in rural Graves County have become scofflaws for not using the reflective signs, ignoring state law, disobeying orders from a judge and even going to jail for not paying fines.

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