Althouse: "We cannot confirm the story, but the goat is in our custody."

March 31, 2009

"We cannot confirm the story, but the goat is in our custody."

"The group of vigilante men came to report that while they were on patrol they saw some hoodlums attempting to rob a car. They pursued them. However one of them escaped while the other turned into a goat.... We cannot base our information on something mystical. It is something that has to be proved scientifically, that a human being turned into a goat."

21 comments:

American Liberal Elite said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 3/31/09, 8:37 AM
American Liberal Elite said...: The nanny state strikes again; 3/31/09, 8:38 AM
Meade said...: Escape goat?; 3/31/09, 8:39 AM
Hoosier Daddy said...: Try the veal folks, Meade is here all week.; 3/31/09, 8:41 AM
Beta Conservative said...: If a person turns into a goat, and you create a variety of stews, soups, and delicious grilled items with the goat, is that cannablism?

Should cumin be used?

Meade, good one.; 3/31/09, 8:43 AM
Beta Conservative said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 3/31/09, 8:43 AM
knox said...: baaaaaaaaad goat!; 3/31/09, 8:45 AM
knox said...: My apologies for that one.; 3/31/09, 8:45 AM
mrs whatsit said...: It's a new way to buck capture!; 3/31/09, 8:48 AM
KCFleming said...: So that's what happened to the Nigerian guy who e-mailed me and said the sum of US$ 17,350,000.00 was sitting in the Bank because no one ever came forward to claim it, and proosed that I stand in as the next of kin to Mr. Moses Odiaka so that the fruits of this old man's labor will not get into the hands of some corrupt government officials, but instead transferred into my account for us to share in the ratio of 60% for me and 35% for him and 5% for Expenses Incurred in the course of the transaction.

I have already sent him $3289 for the Expenses, but still no word after a year. And all this time he was now a goat, and could not respond.

That explains everything.; 3/31/09, 8:51 AM
Curtiss said...: When my wife was a teen-ager she had a pet goat. Really.

I wonder who he was.; 3/31/09, 8:53 AM
Wince said...: Trying to get away as a goat?

You'd think he would've stolen a Pontiac GTO, not a Mazda 323!

Sounds like the Khat is playing the symbols.; 3/31/09, 9:01 AM
AllenS said...: I believe the story is true, that a man could change into a goat. I also believe that Maxine is a cow.; 3/31/09, 9:30 AM
Duncan said...: That's one way to solve the dilemma of capital punishment - and reduce prison food costs as well.; 3/31/09, 9:36 AM
Chip Ahoy said...: Escape goat. Ha ha ha ha ha. Meade stop it, you're killing me.

Criminal vanishes, goat appears. There you have it. Only one plausible possibility.; 3/31/09, 9:36 AM
Peter V. Bella said...: Well, that's one way to get their goat.; 3/31/09, 9:48 AM
Trooper York said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 3/31/09, 11:09 AM
Trooper York said...: Try the veal folks, Meade is here all week."

Jeeez be nice. I think he will last more than a week. Who are you Andrew Sullivan?; 3/31/09, 11:10 AM
Peter V. Bella said...: House's lover in custody.

Ya betcha!; 3/31/09, 1:17 PM
traditionalguy said...: The police are doing their job well. The minute he changes back into the human form, they will have him jailed again. no two bit magic tricks can get by the Law in nigeria.Just be patient .; 3/31/09, 1:54 PM
Cedarford said...: Had the story been from the UK or Taiwan or 80 other countries, everyone would have been amazed at the level of idiotry.

But this was from Nigeria, so it only warrants a shrug. Had it been reported to have happened in Haiti or Pakistan or Ghana - same "shrug".

The soft bigotry of low expectations.; 3/31/09, 3:22 PM