Ok. These two stories happen in the same week? You don’t need to be Columbo to figure out a connection. Reuters says:
Police in Nigeria are holding a goat on suspicion of attempted armed robbery.
Vigilantes took the black and white beast to the police saying it was an armed robber who had used black magic to transform himself into a goat to escape arrest after trying to steal a Mazda 323.
Yeah. Ok. Simple enough but the story doesn’t end there. According to Reuters:
An exotic goat in Canada’s Calgary Zoo accidentally hanged itself after it became entangled in a rope and then fell off a log, CTV television reported on Sunday.
Home video of the accident on Friday showed the Turkmenian markhor hanging lifeless from the rope in its enclosure.
Accidentally, eh? Accident, my hoof! I think he was in on the “Great Goat Mazda Heist” and maybe he knew too much, see.
January 26, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Matt,
It’s those pesky aliens again… first Acorn, then the inauguration and now the great goat heist? Maybe next week they’ll pose as the Cardinals and try to vex those Steelers…
What will they think of next?
Don’t tell me… they’re going to Disney?!?!??!
January 26, 2009 at 7:05 pm
If the key doesn’t fit, they must aquit.
January 26, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Unhip Mom,
Shame on you for wasting your time on such a silly silly post. It’s bad enough I wasted my time writing it and now you’re commenting on it. Shame. Shame. Shame.
Don’t we have better things to do?…I actually don’t but I was hoping you did, anyway.
January 26, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Nzie,
extra shame on you.
January 26, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Well, I could be wasting time dreaming of Chris “Tingle” Matthews, but that would kill my alotted carbon footprint for the day, so, neehhhhh… I’ll just sit here and be amused by the great ghost goat caper… what will they think of next????
Wonder if PBO has a spot for them in his cabinet?
January 26, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Why doesn’t the magic goat transform him into a fly and escape from prison?
January 26, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Do goats have mohair than sheep?
Bahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
— Mack
January 26, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Shame makes me feel sheepish.
January 26, 2009 at 8:35 pm
This just gets my goat…
January 26, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Baaaaaaaaad humor.
January 26, 2009 at 9:10 pm
So the “suicide” in Canada was actually a Judas goat?
January 26, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Apparently the goat couldn’t hoof it, so he needed a getaway car to turn tail.