F*cking goats

[trof]

(OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla.) February 12 -- It's January, 2007. A female goat is found dead. It was sexually assaulted by a man. Authorities arrest a suspect and then release him after DNA found on the animal is impossible to match.

Sick and incomprehensible, but it doesn't end there. In an unrelated incident, investigators are now facing what appears to be ritualistic decapitation of goats. NBC15 News takes a closer look at the goat killings and the mystery behind them. (A warning to some of our viewers, you may find the images in the video attached to this report to be upsetting due to their graphic nature.)

Graphic? Yes! Disturbing? Yes! Who did this? Investigators are baffled.

Dee Porrier with the Panhandle Animal Welfare Society says: "Where these bodies are being placed is nowhere near where the actual decapitation is happening, so that's why we've really jumped out there and gone to the far links of the public to see if anyone is even missing the goats."

Four gruesome discoveries in less than 6 months, all in Okaloosa County. Porrier says: "These animals are not bloody at all theres no blood remnants on the head or the body at all to indicate that it was messy."

The goats are decapitated, their blood is drained from the goat's body and the animals are then placed in strategic areas, one near a church, and another outside a cemetery, all within a 5 mile radius.
http://www.nbc15online.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=F5B29ECD-07ED-474C-BF67-D6C7C7A7D159&gsa=true
:evilgrin:

Question: How do they know it was sexually assaulted by a MAN?
Just asking.

[trof]

1. OK, you can move this to the Lounge. My bad.

Mea culpa.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

2. Do you really need it explained to you? nt

[trof]

3. Aw heck. Sure. Go ahead. 'Splain me.

;-)

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. The semen they tested turned out to be from a man.

The crack Florida CSI team was up burning the midnight oil.

[Contrary1]

10. "crack" CSI Team?

:rofl:

[littlebit]

5. I'm a little slow

so I would like it explained to me also.

[babylonsister]

4. Santeria was the first thing that comes to mind, though

I know nothing about man-on-goat. :shrug:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santer%C3%ADa

Controversies and criticisms

* Some animal rights activists take issue with the Yoruba practice of animal sacrifice, claiming that it is cruel. In 1993, this issue was taken to the United States Supreme Court in the case of Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah. The Supreme Court ruled that animal cruelty laws targeted specifically at Yoruba were unconstitutional;<2> the Yoruba practice of animal sacrifice has seen no significant legal challenges since then.

Also here:

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/6738/goat-sacrifice-takes-neighbors-by-surprise
Goat sacrifice takes neighbors by surprise

[DesertFlower]

7. you beat me too it.

santeria. :hi:

[trof]

11. You have to love a name like Lukumi Babalu Aye.

Especially when it appears on a supreme court docket.

"What's this guy's name?"
"Lukumi Babalu Aye"
"Get out! Really?"
"That's the guy's name, Lukumi Babalu Aye."
"Babalu? Like Desi's theme song? Babalu? Come on."
"No, I'm serious. That's what he says his name is."
"And this is a case we're hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court?"
"Right."
"OK, whatever."

[DesertFlower]

16. Babalu is one of the gods. nt

[mucifer]

6. I thought this thread was about the Chicago Cubs.

We cub fans have some negative feelings about goats.

:rofl:

[uppityperson]

8. maybe they found some human semen?

[trof]

12. Or possibly heman sumen?

No...wait...that sounds like sushi.
yuck
:-(

[Blue Diadem]

13. I'm assuming there was evidence left

and that's how they determined it was a male.

On the topic of sacrifice, about 15 yrs ago, I called the police on what I suspected was a sacrifice of a goat. I was driving to work which took me by a migrant camp at a farm. There was a goat struggling and thrashing around, hanging upside down from a tree in the front yard. There were several men around it but I couldn't see what they were doing.

Cop called me back later and told me it was ritualistic and there wasn't anything they could do.

[Warpy]

14. It just had to be Florida, didn't it?

It'll probably be traced to some wannabe Santeros, spotty suburban kids who think going through some of the motions will make them all manly and powerful and stuff.

I like goats, they're amiable critters. I hope they died easily and the pimply teenagers are getting sick as hell on the blood.

[trof]

15. At least Alabama dodged this one.

We only do stuff with poisonous snakes.

[DesertFlower]

17. good point.

i like goats too.

[knitter4democracy]

18. Poor goats.

:(