Unruly student co-op ordered to pay neighbors

A rowdy Cal student co-op known as Le Chateau must pay more than $63,000 to neighbors who complained about behavior such as flinging chunks of a cooked pig at passing cars and beheading a chicken with garden shears, a small claims court ordered in a ruling released Tuesday.
In stern language, Alameda County Small Claims Court Commissioner Jon Rantzman wrote that from 2001 to 2004 the University Students Cooperative Association "permitted the growth of a rogue mentality'' and allowed "the inmates to run the asylum'' at Le Chateau, which then housed 82 people in three separate buildings south of the UC Berkeley campus. [thanks to Michael K]