Friday, February 15, 2008

Slow news day?? "He's got a big net but its still empty"

2nd installment of Buckwheat the Missing Goat!!

Goat eludes authorities
By BEN FINLEY
Bucks County Courier Times

Here's what we know:
The goat has six-inch, ivory-colored horns that curve straight back.
He likes to ram front doors.
The goat has been around since Sunday.
He knows how to hide.
And Lower Southampton police were trying to catch him Monday night.
There have been numerous sightings, the last along heavily populated Hickory Avenue in Feasterville.
When Mary Noe of Hickory Avenue called 911, police said, "We've heard about this goat."
Noe's neighbor knew about it, too. But the neighbor didn't say anything until she saw the patrol cars.
Noe said her neighbor came over and said: "I didn't want to say anything, but he was camping out all day on my door step. I didn't know what to make of him."
Noe said the cops tried to lure the goat into a patrol car.
Then they thought better of it.
"He could butt his way out of anything," Noe surmised. "He's bigger than what you want to put in the back of a patrol car."
The police brought in Warminster's animal control officer.
He's got a big net. But it's still empty.
This isn't some barnyard reject, one police officer said.
"He has a long flowing fleece like in "Jason and the Argonauts,' " the officer said.
"His coat is immaculate," Noe said. "His legs were very well defined. He's very clean, very well-groomed. I would say he's only been missing a few days. He's not injured in any way. He looked like a large, lost dog if you didn't know he was a goat."
On the police radio, the cops called the goat "Gilbert."
They believe he might be the resident of some tucked-away farm along Old Street Road.
"If we don't put this in the paper," Noe said, "how will the owner know my goat is in Feasterville?"

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