Mountain lion eats goat at kids camp Posted: 2 years ago by Hoosker
"It entered a camp and took a goat among 200 sleeping kids"
This happened up in the mountains where I live... thought I would share.
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Robotic Goat Eats Losing Tickets Posted: 2 years ago by mitzuzake
An animatronic Rocky Mountain goat installed at a Japanese boat-racing enterprise eats 500 losing tickets a day on average, preventing customers from throwing tickets on the floor and creating less of a mess to clean up.
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Cubs Fan Hang Dead Goat To Ward Away Curse Posted: 8 months ago by suebe
In a repeat of a similar incident two years ago, a dead goat was found at Wrigley field. Presumably the goat was a reference to the Billy Goat curse, put on the Cubs in 1945 by Billy Goat tavern owner William Sianis after the team refused to allow his pet goat, Murphy, inside Wrigley Field for Game 4 of the World Series. The Cubs haven't won a World Series since 1908.
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Time Team help unearth world's first prisoner of war camp - in Britain Posted: 4 months ago by AutumnLotus
British archaeologists have unearthed the secrets of what is thought to be the world’s first prisoner of war camp.
Experts, working with Channel 4’s Time Team programme, say the camp near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, housed 7,000 captured French soldiers during the Napoleonic Wars.
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How I Learned to Love Goat Meat Posted: 8 months ago by kakana
Mine is the tale of the recent convert. Admittedly, I’m late to the party: goat is the most widely consumed meat in the world, a staple of, among others, Mexican, Indian, Greek and southern Italian cuisines. Moreover, it’s been edging its way into yuppier climes for a year or so now, click-clacking its cloven hooves up and down the coasts and to places like Houston and Des Moines.
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Men Ticketed For Pot After Picking Up Injured Mountain Lion Posted: 10 months ago by Jetka
Three men who thought they rescued an injured bobcat or lynx in the middle of the highway were shocked to learn it was a 65-pound mountain lion.
They were even more shocked when two of them were ticketed for drug possession.
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Camp Okutta Posted: 2 years ago by beckinacea
Twinky-looking camp counselors give classes in grenade throwing, automatic weapon handling and land mine dodging.
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Goat Meets Electric Fence Posted: 2 years ago by Bornbad
A stupid goat continues to lick an electric fence.
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Excuse Me, But I Have A Goat In My Trunk Posted: 3 months ago by suebe
A woman really got the goat of auto repairman James Prusci. She went to Tires Plus, wanting a belt replaced on her Chevy Malibu. While he was doing paperwork, she said she had a goat in her trunk. "A what?" he asked. She told him she planned to butcher it.
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Goat takes ride on TriMet bus Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A goat somehow hitched a ride on a Portland bus Monday night, surprising TriMet officials and her owner, who was baffled about how she got there. Video
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Obama's great-uncle recalls liberating Nazi camp Posted: 1 year ago by 2manyusernames
Charles T. Payne was 20 years old when he helped liberate Ohrdruf, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. He is the "Uncle Charlie" that Obama told a group of veterans about. The ones he mistakenly said Auschwitz. Here he talks about that moment in his life.
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Atheist summer camp Posted: 5 months ago by bingo
Richard Dawkins is helping to launch Britain’s first summer retreat for non-believers, where children will have lessons in evolution and sing along to John Lennon’s Imagine.
The five-day camp in Somerset (motto: “It’s beyond belief”) is for children aged eight to 17 and will rival traditional faith-based breaks run by the Scouts and church groups.
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Totem pole falls, killing boy at Boy Scout camp Posted: 2 years ago by bevissimo
A 13-foot totem pole fell over and struck a boy on the first day of Boy Scout camp, killing the 9-year-old, state police said Monday.
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Forced drinking of urine at Boy Scout camp blamed on racial slur Posted: 6 months ago by kakana
One adult and three teenagers at a Boy Scout camp are accused of forcing a boy to drink human urine because they were "teaching him a lesson".
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Goat keeps sneaking onto school bus Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
The school administration has taken this whole situation in stride, even joking they wanted to make the goat an official student through open enrollment.
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Accused says he was just milking goat Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A man accused of having sex with a goat is scheduled to be arraigned on Friday on a animal cruelty charge. Charging papers say a witness saw 63-year-old Arthur Lawton having sex with a goat May 8th in a barn at Eatonville's Pioneer Farm Museum where he worked.
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Dog Sex with a Goat? Posted: 3 years ago by BrownTrout
Strange looking goat born with a bulldog's face (or maybe it's just a really ugly goat).
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Swedish straw goat burnt in violent Christmas tradition ...again! Posted: 11 months ago by Bornbad
Each year the people of Gavle build a 43-foot-tall straw goat, a traditional Scandinavian symbol of Christmas. But since the yuletide tradition began in the central Swedish city of Gavle in 1966, it has also drawn vandals, who have torched the animal 23 times since it was first set up to mark the holiday season.
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Mad about mountain goats memory match game Posted: 3 years ago by baaaaaa
How many tries will it take you to match the many faces of mountain goats? Baaaaaaaaa baaaa.
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Goat 'condoms' save Kenyan herds Posted: 1 year ago by Bornbad
Maasai herdsmen in Kenya have turned to an age-old contraceptive device, the "olor", to protect their precious goat herds from an ongoing drought.
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Long-Time Preacher Killed By Goat Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
A Clarksville preacher was killed by a goat Tuesday that he was attempting to return to a fenced-in area.
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