# " Speeding driver blames lack of goats" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 7, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speeding-driver-blames-lack-of-goats/371734 "2006-09-07T01:37:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speeding-driver-blames-lack-of-goats/371734/1 "2006-09-07T01:37:51Z")
[Story](http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060906/od_nm/goats_dc_2) (which, almost necessarily, doesn’t live up to the Doperificness of the headline). > [@Link](#): > > “I’ve never been to Switzerland but obviously they must have a problem with that there,” said police spokesman Joel Doiron, adding that in his 20 years of service he had never found a goat on the highways of eastern Ontario. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speeding-driver-blames-lack-of-goats/371734/2 "2006-09-07T02:02:20Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] [Story](http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060906/od_nm/goats_dc_2) (which, almost necessarily, doesn’t live up to the Doperificness of the headline). [/QUOTE] Well, of _course_ there are no goats on the highways of eastern Ontario. We captured them all for use in the initiation compl… er, nevermind, I’ll tell you later. Eastern Ontario. “We may live in trailers but by God we have DSL!” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speeding-driver-blames-lack-of-goats/371734/3 "2006-09-07T02:11:35Z")
For $360 he could have bought his own goats. What a waste. Jim ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speeding-driver-blames-lack-of-goats/371734/4 "2006-09-07T21:46:03Z")
My coworkers are going to get a huge kick out of this, based on a long-running in-joke here. We write software for embedded systems, and every once in a while, we get ahold of a board that defies all attempts to tame it. Sometimes it’ll work, sometimes it won’t, and all the crazy bit-wiggling you can try doesn’t seem to persuade it into any sort of predictability. It has come to be a joke that the only way our customers (who are actually developing on these boards) could possibly get them to perform reliably is by including a supply of miniature sacrificial goats on each board. Of course, eventually the reserves will be exhausted, and you’ll get to see the problem reassert itself, along with “ERROR: No more goats.” The fact that some of our customers are in the automotive industry makes the headline that much better. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speeding-driver-blames-lack-of-goats/371734/5 "2006-09-07T22:31:51Z")
Apparently, we are to infer from the article that passengers in Switzerland are in the habit of yelling a precautionary _ **GOAT!!** _ every so often. Now I want to visit Switzerland. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speeding-driver-blames-lack-of-goats/371734/6 "2006-09-07T22:33:42Z")
What he really needs to watch out for is the calamari. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speeding-driver-blames-lack-of-goats/371734/7 "2006-09-07T23:51:18Z")
Of course, he didn’t find any goats. The mooses (meese ?) ate them all. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speeding-driver-blames-lack-of-goats/371734/8 "2006-09-08T00:10:33Z")
I hate those meeses to pieces! ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speeding-driver-blames-lack-of-goats/371734/9 "2006-09-08T00:52:36Z")
A moose once bit my sister… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speeding-driver-blames-lack-of-goats/371734/10 "2006-09-08T02:22:33Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] Well, of _course_ there are no goats on the highways of eastern Ontario. We captured them all for use in the initiation compl… er, nevermind, I’ll tell you later. [/QUOTE] So how come there’s never a shortage of straws? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speeding-driver-blames-lack-of-goats/371734/11 "2006-09-08T11:06:22Z")
You’d think he’d be used to a lack of goats up there in the mountains. One of my favourite skiing spots in the Alps, not far from the Swiss border, is called the “Pas de Chèvre”, which as any fule kno means “No Goats” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![butler1850](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@butler1850](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butler1850)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speeding-driver-blames-lack-of-goats/371734/12 "2006-09-08T20:29:22Z")
Tell him to stay away from [Chattanooga!](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060908/ap_on_fe_st/kudzu_eating_goats;_ylt=AnoJZjAb2Q70eeF0IoaND1ftiBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA0cDJlYmhvBHNlYwM-)