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[–] [email protected] 74 points 6 days ago (7 children)

imagine going to jail because you just couldn't stand the thought of not having the "best goat," whatever the fuck that means. and no, if you know what that means, don't tell me--i refuse to have that information wasting space in my brain

[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 days ago (2 children)

"best goat"

Goat Of All Time

[–] Frozengyro 13 points 6 days ago

Rip in peace poisoned goat of all time goat.

[–] brygphilomena 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

The best part is that it's recursive, like GNU.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Vanlandingham confessed to police that she deliberately poisoned the goat because she believed the animal’s owner was “a cheater”

How do you even cheat with a goat? The whole thing is ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

being in america, it's apparent that there are a large number of people (especially in red states) for whom part of the strategy is to accuse everyone else of cheating, all the time, no matter what.

[–] Zachariah 17 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago

How do you even cheat with a goat?

Poisoning the opposition goats, I think

[–] TotalFat 16 points 6 days ago

I'm not saying they're all the same, but 100% of the Vanlandingham's I have met in Texas have been rotten to the core. Real sociopaths. Smiling and friendly all while planting a knife in your back. And yes there's more than one example in my weird little anecdote. They eat their own children! (figuratively)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

Steroids, perhaps? Do they judge how hard a goat can headbutt things? I don’t friggin’ know. Never mind.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

I severely hope the best goat is the one that commits the most crimes at the fair.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Tell me you never attended a rural high school

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 6 days ago (1 children)

One time, we all got hauled out to someone's farm, for ag class, to watch pigs get castrated. A student was handling all the procedures until they got to the the likely prize show pig another student owned. The teachers husband took over and preformed the procedure. That likely prize pig, and only that pig, died that day. Rumor had it, that he purposefully botched the procedure so his own kid could win.

Im just sitting here wondering why this is making the rounds, except for this girl got caught. This is the par for the course and happens more often than one would think.

[–] Nuke_the_whales 35 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Fucked up hillbillies poisoning each other's animals is normal? Damn it america

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The show world can get super competitive. If you end up with a prize animal, you can bring home a good amount of money from auction.

Not to mention, for some, its very personal due to the time invested. These kids can put sometimes up to a year, if not more, into raising an animal for a show. They feed them special and care for them in very serious ways, to make them look perfect for a show. It's like beauty pagent moms, but with kid brains.

[–] coriza 7 points 6 days ago

I feel like there is a line somewhere between sabotaging your competition to get ahead on this year competition and doing something to end the competition career of your adversaries.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

The number one reported crime shown on the public police blotter site in the small town I used to live in was motherfuckers shooting their dogs.

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[–] Aurolei 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Investigators who searched her phone history found that she had searched “how much bleach can kill an animal” and “poisoning pets, what you should know”, People reported. She also allegedly searched “how to clear search history”.

Clearly wasn't very successful xD

[–] Dasus 7 points 5 days ago

“poisoning pets, what you should know”,

It feels like she was looking for a book called "poisoning pets for dummies"

[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

killed a 15 yo's sweet lil animal friend over some stupid competition. i hope she gets at least the full two years. sick and twisted. makes me wonder what her parents are like.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago (1 children)

To hazard a guess: simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

farmers deserve better in this country. corporate takeovers, shitty media, and stripped education is making rural areas worse and worse each year

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Hypothetically I agree, but it's also hard to feel a lot of sympathy knowing that farmers tend to enthusiastically vote for the politicians who then undermine farmers.

Roughly 1/3 of Farmers are also subsidized by the US government, but -to your point- they're also pretty easily swayed by dangling some social issue that gets them to vote against or for whatever- mostly as a result of being unable to divest themselves from the social and cognitive conditioning that comes from organized religion, which is still dense as bricks, in farm country.

[–] Duamerthrax 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

glances at the politicians the people of NYC keep voting for

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

She's a psychopath. Sadly, I don't believe she'll change.

[–] shalafi 4 points 6 days ago

She'll never be able to get a job with this permanently on the internet. Who would ever trust her to do anything?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

A future Texas senator in the making

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (4 children)

the average american has essentially zero regard for the well-being of non-human animals, this is not surprising in the least.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

They aren’t so good about the well-being of their fellow humans, either. Think of all the things other civilized countries have that we don’t because people don’t want to pay for anything that doesn’t benefit themselves and only themselves.

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[–] LovableSidekick 4 points 5 days ago

4H Club - Head, Heart, Hands, Hemlock.

[–] lath 6 points 6 days ago

New Game of Goats season is out, huh?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

As you do...

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