Friends,
I found the shooting rampage in Tucson, Arizona last weekend and the ensuing crap storm in the media about which political ideology to blame to be too much and turned off the news for a while. You know, until the rhetoric cools down a bit. What I did not anticipate was that the mood would cool down this much…
Highway Patrol officers appear to have foiled a suspected goatnapping east of Hemet.
That’s right, people. We’ve got goatnappers in Valle Vista
Officers pulled over a suspected drunken driver late Tuesday night near East Mayberry Avenue and Girard Street south of Florida Avenue in Valle Vista, said John Welsh, spokesman for Riverside County Animal Services in an e-mail. A passenger in the truck tried to flee on foot “but fell flat on his face,” Welsh said.
Wild night out? I wonder if he might have some regrets in the morning.
CHP officers then discovered the driver’s second passenger, a goat sitting in the front seat.
Please say it’s not a female goat. Please say it’s not a female goat. Please say it’s not a female goat…
“Neither man seemed to claim the female goat as their own, so we suspect the goat might have been stolen,” Welsh said.
“Hey! How’d that get in there?” he said scratching the officer’s head, being too drunk to find his own. Please Mr. Welsh, let there be a happy ending…
He did not know if the driver and his passenger were arrested, but the goat was taken to the Riverside County-City Animal Shelter in Pedley.
Thank goodness! Pedley, as you know, is a sanctuary city for goats.
Or am I thinking of Menifee?
– bob
IMPORTANT UPDATE: It turns out that everyone is doing it…
