# Police Charge Four With Slaying Goat..... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 3, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-charge-four-with-slaying-goat/292798 "2005-03-03T21:12:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nitroglycerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-charge-four-with-slaying-goat/292798/1 "2005-03-03T21:12:58Z")
So I saw this headline in the Altoona Mirror and thought that it was some sort of teenage “satanic cult” or something, but no it’s much better than that… > [@](#): > > Mount Pleasant-Four men stole, killed and butchered a goat so they could trade its meat for crack cocaine. It’s alleged that they stole the goat, beat its head with a hammer or a pipe and then butchered it. FOR CRACK! Is there a big black market for goat meat? I mean, I think of when I used to smoke pot. If I would have taken a bunch of goat meat to my man for a bag of weed, he would have laughed and laughed. I bet I wouldn’t have gotten any weed though. I feel bad for the goat and all, but this has to be one of the funniest news stories I’ve ever read. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-charge-four-with-slaying-goat/292798/2 "2005-03-03T21:26:45Z")
Sorry for the goat, but glad this didn’t have anything to do with the recent spate of Doper initiations… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![nitroglycerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-charge-four-with-slaying-goat/292798/3 "2005-03-03T21:29:36Z")
[Link](http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/fayette/s_309030.html) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-charge-four-with-slaying-goat/292798/4 "2005-03-03T21:30:17Z")
And people want to know why it is so hard to get good goats these days… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-charge-four-with-slaying-goat/292798/5 "2005-03-03T21:31:41Z")
not only that, but it was a PYGMY goat for effs sake. You could probably get more meat from a baby sparrow than a pygmy goat.