Posted on 12/29/2010 11:14:55 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Three men were arrested on suspicion of animal cruelty on Friday after Morgan Hill police discovered a goat hog-tied in the trunk of their car, a police sergeant said.
A patrol officer pulled over the car after the driver cut him off on Monterey Road near San Pedro Avenue, Morgan Hill police Sgt. Jerry Neumayer said.
The driver, 40-year-old Ciro Paredes of Morgan Hill, did not have a driver's license, and the officer smelled alcohol in the vehicle, according to Neumayer.
During a search of the car, the patrol officer found open beer cans and plastic bags filled with what he suspected was crystal methamphetamine, Neumayer said.
The patrol officer reported that he heard what he thought was a crying baby coming from the trunk of the car, according to Neumayer.
The officer looked in the trunk and found a goat that had been hog-tied. The animal was malnourished but alive, Neumayer said.
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The folks complaining about this obviously have no clue how dirty, smelly, and feisty goats are.
An untied goat would quickly break its legs from kicking inside the car.
Goat...the other white meat.
Possibly Santeria.
Well, yes.
It's a goat. It should have been goat-tied. What kind of cruel idiot hog-ties a goat?
Yours is the first sensible post.
Restraining the goat is what they did. We might not like the transport method, but they kept the goat from hurting himself, goats are not going to ride in a car without thrashing around, especially in the trunk.
Malnourished? I doubt it. Goats are thin and bony at their best.
I saw a guy buy several wiener pigs at auction once and put them in his trunk and drove off. I’m sure that was an adventure.
Let’s see, pulled over for cutting off a police car; no license, alcohol, meth, and goat. Probably an illegal alien. Somehow I doubt that the goat was the major issue.
Has Tucker Carlson called for their execution yet?
Cabra/goat is not bad to eat? I’d suspect the simple answer before I went direct to unusual.
I know of goat breeders that sell male kids for meat. That isn’t shocking.
The fact that the goat appeared malnourished was disturbing. The creature one intends to eat isn’t usually starved before slaughter.
I think someone slipped something in Tucker’s eggnog.. or sumthin’.. Is he still on msLSDnbc?
No, but the NFL is calling the Jail to see if they can sign them up.
I’m thinking they are in league with...
ChupaCabra!
Right next to our neighborhood is a section and a half we locals use for elk and deer hunting, about 960 acres of pine, fir, alder, etc., surrounded by farms and fields out along the roads. Some logging activity in recent years has left this area a mix of thick new growth with a lot of stumps, stump holes, and a mess of tangle-foot branches and sticks on the ground.
Just before the start of elk season, my neighbors were scouting out the area, looking for signs of elk activity among the logging trails and ravished timberland, when they came upon a huge stump hole, or some kind of hole. They peered over the edge into the darkness of what was to them the deepest stump hole they had ever seen.
There didn't seem to be a bottom. They tossed a rock into the hole, waiting for a thud to help determine the depth. Nothing. So they started looking around for a bigger rock to toss in.
Beneath one of the remaining huge fir trees, they found an old truck transmission, mostly covered with leaves and debris. Together they heaved and carried the huge block of rusting machinery over to the edge of the hole, swung it to a count of three, and let it go into the abyss.
Leaning over the hole, they listened carefully, waiting for a thud or splash that might reveal the depth of this mysterious hole.
All of a sudden, from the trees behind them, came this horrendous thrashing, snapping, crashing, branches breaking, like a whole herd of elk, or something, was breaking through the brush, and was fixing to trample them into the mud.
They both scrambled to get behind a tree or stump, just as a huge old billy goat burst from the trees into the clearing, raced across the few yards of open area, and jumped head-first into the hole, soon disappearing into the darkness of the abyss.
My baffled neighbors crawled back over to the edge of the hole, first peering downward, then looking agape at each other, wondering what the heck was that all about.
Before they could completely reassemble their wits, here come another rustling among the branches and trees, and they both scrambled back for the cover of their respective stump and tree.
Out from the trees comes this huge old fellow in bib overalls and a John Deere cap, and he says, "Hey, you fellers wouldn't happen to have seen a big old billy goat wandering around here, would you?"
The two neighbors looked at the farmer, then at each other, then back at the farmer, then one of them says, "Well, you ain't gonna believe this, but yes, we did see a big old billy goat; come busting out through the trees, and jumped head-first into this here big old gaping hole. Darnedest thing we've ever seen."
The big old farmer looked mighty puzzled, scratched his head and mumbled, "That's just impossible. I had him chained up tight to an old logging truck transmission."
Ooops! Hate it when that happens...
Goats are always kind of scrawny. One of their problems as a food meat is that they don’t have much fat, so sometimes it’s hard to tell if it’s malnourished or simply normal (for a goat).
Goats are strange animals. I had one once that we were going to breed and keep as a milk goat, but she was a big Alpine goat and was very strong and totally out of control. She could get out of any pen and any restraint (goats’ heads are narrower than their necks) and she was also aggressive.
The tiny goats that the Mexicans and other goat-eating folk have are smaller to begin with and usually are eaten pretty young (before they develop that goaty taste). This was probably not a goat but a kid, which is when their flavor is best and the meat is the most tender.
Read that story 3 times and each time I laughed louder...
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