# Are is such a thing as stereotypes because...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-is-such-a-thing-as-stereotypes-because/194362
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 11, 2003, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-is-such-a-thing-as-stereotypes-because/194362 "2003-08-11T12:52:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Chicago\_Faucet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicago_Faucet)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2003, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-is-such-a-thing-as-stereotypes-because/194362/1 "2003-08-11T12:52:50Z")
From Chuck Shepard’s News Of The Weird:
A 30-year-old man was sentenced to probation for entering a funeral home’s living nativity scene last Christmas and having sex with one of the sheep (Charleston, W.Va.). [Charleston Daily Mail, 7-22-03]
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### Author:  [@pencilpusher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pencilpusher)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2003, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-is-such-a-thing-as-stereotypes-because/194362/2 "2003-08-11T12:56:01Z")
WTH is up with the title? Is that supposed to actually MEAN something?
LOVE the OP… got a cite? 😉
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### Author:  [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2003, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-is-such-a-thing-as-stereotypes-because/194362/3 "2003-08-11T13:05:48Z")
I checked the [Charleston Daily Mail](http://www.dailymail.com/) website, and there is an article about this. Unfortunately, it in the archives, which is a pay-per-article area. Here’s all you can see for free:
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> A man accused of having sex with a sheep used in a Charleston nativity scene has struck a deal with Kanawha County prosecutors that allowed him to stay out of jail. Joey…
In regard to the title, I think the OP is suggesting that sometimes stereotypes turn out to be true – in this case that the man is from West Virginia and therefore a hill-billy/redneck and therefore the type that would have sex with a sheep.
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### Author:  [@Chicago\_Faucet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicago_Faucet)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-is-such-a-thing-as-stereotypes-because/194362/4 "2003-08-11T13:15:31Z")
There was no malicious harm meant by my OP (although apathetic harm might have been subliminally intended). I laughed out loud and wanted to share the article. It seemed like a stereotype coming to life.
Count to think of it, no matter what group, association, or walk of life you come from, everyone subscribes to some sort of stereotype.
Maybe I was hoping that others would post other real life examples of stereotypes coming true, like a blonde staring at a carton of orange juice because it says “concentrate”.
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### Author:  [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-is-such-a-thing-as-stereotypes-because/194362/5 "2003-08-11T14:15:00Z")
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> \*Originally posted by JeffB \*
> I checked the [Charleston Daily Mail](http://www.dailymail.com/) website, and there is an article about this. Unfortunately, it in the archives, which is a pay-per-article area.
For some reason, I can get the article at this [link.](http://www.dailymail.com/news/News/2003072211/)
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### Author:  [@SkyBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkyBum)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-is-such-a-thing-as-stereotypes-because/194362/6 "2003-08-11T18:51:20Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Chicago Faucet \*
> \*\*From Chuck Shepard’s News Of The Weird:…
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> …(Charleston, W.Va.). [Charleston Daily Mail, 7-22-03] \*\*
**pencilpusher**. Are is this not qualify as a cite? 😕
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### Author:  [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2003, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-is-such-a-thing-as-stereotypes-because/194362/7 "2003-08-11T19:07:10Z")
What’s up with the random, inappropriate use of the word “Are”? Based on the rest of the syntax, it doesn’t seem to be an ESL sort of thing, so what’s the deal?
As for stereotypes come true, there’s a stereotype that people from the Northeast are rude folks who talk badly and think we’re all a bunch of ignorant sheepfuckers. See OP for followup.
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### Author:  [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-is-such-a-thing-as-stereotypes-because/194362/8 "2003-08-12T01:12:16Z")
Thanks for the link, **Kal**. From the article:
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> Joey Armstrong, 30, will serve two years of probation and be required to get some mental health care for breaking into a funeral home’s manger scene and **molesting an animal** , according to court documents and his lawyer, public defender Stephen Kenney.
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> He said his client was shaken up after his December 2002 arrest on charges of **cruelty to animals** , trespassing and destruction of property.
Must have been doing something wrong.
[sub]Straight to Hell, I know[/sub]
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### Author:  [@survivorology.com](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/survivorology.com)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-is-such-a-thing-as-stereotypes-because/194362/9 "2003-08-12T03:05:32Z")
I am curious about the handle “Chicago Faucet”. I guess I have a weird stereotype in mind. Crouching down, and jeans getting very low. And eating some Polish Saahsich.
But seriously, I used to work at a company called “Chicago Faucet” in Des Plaines IL. Do you have any connection to that company?