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Watch: Amazing Rescue Video Of Goat Hanging From Power Cables By Its Horns
Yahoo News ^ | 3/30/16

Posted on 03/31/2016 7:29:40 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

This goat got into trouble after kidding around on some power lines.

The animal somehow managed to trap itself by its horns on overhead cables, leaving it dangling from a hillside above a 20-ft drop to a road.

As this amazing footage shows, the goat was caught in the lines and couldn’t get down.

It had to be removed by a team of men, who used a ladder to tie a rope around the animal’s leg, before one of them pulled the goat back to the hill and set it free.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: animalrescue; goat; greek; hanging; horns
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To: Elsie

PING


21 posted on 03/31/2016 8:51:31 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Fai Mao

There have been occurrences where horned/antlered animals were standing near lines when the linemen were installing them.

As the lines got ‘reeled in’, the animals were entangled and caught.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/poormoose.asp

*Really* bad luck moose.


22 posted on 03/31/2016 8:54:40 PM PDT by Salamander (I Ride By Night..And I Travel In Fear, That In This Darkness, I Will Disappear....)
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To: Tennessee Nana

I see what you did there.


23 posted on 03/31/2016 8:58:47 PM PDT by Salamander (I Ride By Night..And I Travel In Fear, That In This Darkness, I Will Disappear....)
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To: NormsRevenge
This was up next on the same site.

Mexican youths scale US border

Freakin monkeys much?

24 posted on 03/31/2016 9:01:48 PM PDT by Stentor
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To: Salamander

oh I was just kiddin around..

:)


25 posted on 03/31/2016 9:08:28 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: NormsRevenge

bump for later


26 posted on 03/31/2016 9:13:24 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Oh, ewe!

;D


27 posted on 04/01/2016 12:57:10 AM PDT by Salamander (I Ride By Night..And I Travel In Fear, That In This Darkness, I Will Disappear....)
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To: Salamander

Well at least ewe didn’t say Oh Nanny !!!


28 posted on 04/01/2016 5:43:38 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana; goat granny

Mine won’t ever have THIS problem!


29 posted on 04/01/2016 7:05:15 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
never trust a Greek, looks like someone put it up there. Too high up to jump..Hope your babies are doing fine...GG
30 posted on 04/01/2016 4:22:06 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: goat granny

Starting to shed their winter coat.


31 posted on 04/01/2016 5:44:12 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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