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Okay _ I know this one of you guys. Assface - is there a Seattle in VT?
I always thought that 3 goats were too many in a house.
Vermont Probes Man With 70 Goats in House 2 hours, 18 minutes ago Add Strange News - AP to My Yahoo!
CORINTH, Vt. - State officials are investigating a man whose goats and his religious convictions against killing them have collided in a possibly inhumane and definitely stinky way.
There were three goats on the farm Chris Weathersbee's mother bought seven years ago. Now there are 300 — including 70 living in his house, much of which is covered with a mix of goat droppings and hay.
Authorities last month raided the farm in Corinth, about 20 miles southeast of Montpelier, and seized 44 deemed unhealthy by a veterinarian. State police and the Central Vermont Humane Society are weighing whether to pursue animal cruelty or neglect charges.
"He has more goats than he can care for," said Sherry LeMay, the humane society's director of operations.
Weathersbee, 63, admits he cannot afford to give the herd sufficient care, but he refuses to get rid of the animals. He said his Buddhist religious views prohibit him from slaughtering any of the goats.
"Getting rid of goats means killing them," he said.
Weathersbee said he brought dozens of invalid goats and nursing mothers with babies inside his home last December because of cold temperatures.
His only income is from monthly disability checks, which, he said, he spends mostly on hay at a cost of $150 a day in the winter. He's in debt $15,000 to his neighbors for hay.
Weathersbee said he wants time to find a group that does not believe in slaughtering animals to take the 30-acre farm and house. In exchange, he wants to remain with the goats, living in the barns and fields.
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So they actually probed the guy with the goats, in the house? I suppose if you were going to probe somebody with a goat that you could theoretically do it anywhere, but I can certainly understand the privacy issue here. What if they have some sort of technique that they didn't want other goat probers to see? For instance, what part of the goat constitutes the actual "business end" of said probe? Could be a trade secret.
Not to mention the fact that they had to use 70 goats... leads me to believe that there's something more to this story than we're being told. Traditionally it only takes 15-20 goats to execute a proper probing.
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So they actually probed the guy with the goats, in the house? I suppose if you were going to probe somebody with a goat that you could theoretically do it anywhere, but I can certainly understand the privacy issue here. What if they have some sort of technique that they didn't want other goat probers to see? For instance, what part of the goat constitutes the actual "business end" of said probe? Could be a trade secret.
Not to mention the fact that they had to use 70 goats... leads me to believe that there's something more to this story than we're being told. Traditionally it only takes 15-20 goats to execute a proper probing.
You are one strange dude. Very strange indeed.
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