Posted on 11/29/2023 5:18:51 AM PST by Red Badger
A Crook County, Wyoming, judge has dismissed property destruction charges against a pair of ranchers accused of bleaching penis shapes and other markings on their neighbor’s cows.
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Two Crook County, Wyoming, ranchers who had been accused of bleaching male genitalia and other markings on their neighbor’s cows are no longer facing charges, as the judge didn’t find sufficient evidence to advance the case to the felony-level court.
The property destruction charges against Patrick Sean Carroll, 66, and his son Tucker Kye Carroll, 34, both have been dismissed without prejudice, meaning a prosecutor could bring the charges again if additional evidence compels him.
“After hearing testimony, the Court hereby finds that there is not sufficient probable cause and the matter is hereby dismissed without prejudice,” wrote Sundance Circuit Court Judge Lynda Bush in a court order. Bush’s order came after both Carrolls had a hearing in her court.
Crook County Attorney Joseph Baron, the prosecutor, declined Monday to comment to Cowboy State Daily.
Neither Patrick Sean Carroll nor Tucker Kye Carroll responded immediately Monday morning to Cowboy State Daily voicemails.
The men were originally accused of bleaching penises and other shapes onto the bodies of 189 of their neighbor’s heifers and six of his bulls to get the neighbor’s attention after three years of the cattle crossing onto their land.
The case started June 21 when the cattle’s owner, Philip Habeck, contacted the Crook County Sheriff’s Office to complain about the bleaching, which had allegedly knocked thousands of dollars off the cows’ total value.
An experienced livestock seller estimated each of the bleached animals was worth $500 to $700 less per head. He said after checking with buyers, the cattle that would’ve been worth about $2,600 per head was instead worth about $1,850.
Had the charges not been dropped and the men convicted, they faced up to 10 years in prison and $10,000 in fines for each of two counts of property destruction.
Clair McFarland can be reached at Clair@CowboyStateDaily.com.
Explains a lot of the old range wars.
Hilarious.
Beats ‘cow tipping’...................
Cows don’t have penises. Bulls do. Steers do. Perhaps it’s a bull that identifies as a cow?
Bulls?
Six of the bulls?
What, one held the bull’s horns while the other bleached the picture on the BULL?
I can just picture the judge laughing her ass off!
Did it at night while the bulls were asleep?..................
“property destruction” is a stretch.
Well if the cows weren’t taken care and the owner kept allowing the cows to cross his neighbor’s land then what was the owner of the trespassed land supposed to do...especially if local cops didn’t intervene?
Sure one might have a case the first times it happened but if one continues to allow the trespass then all bets are off! One should keep their cows off another person’s land!
A cow identifying as a bull has a “penix”. /s
It’s udderly amazing that someone would do this.
Cow, in common parlance, a domestic bovine, regardless of sex and age, usually of the species Bos taurus. In precise usage, the name is given to mature females of several large mammals, including cattle (bovines), moose, elephants, sea lions, and whales.(Britannica)
I just moved from Crook County, WY down to Phoenix. I guarantee you that the locals decided that the charges were bullshit and the judge agreed. If the fool rancher let his cattle run on other ranchers’ land he got what he deserved.
Impressive. Still not as ballsy as spray-painting "T-34" on a live polar bear:
pretty sure the point was
they were calling the cattle owner a d*ck
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