Billy goat gets Tasered 3 times by deputy .... :(

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Gruff billy goat gets Tasered 3 times by deputy


BY ANDY PARAS

The Post and Courier   ---   ROUNDO SC.
 
 

Dodge the goat learned that you don't bring horns to a Taser fight.

A Colleton County sheriff's deputy zapped the goat Wednesday after it knocked Poling Lane resident Dawn Pinette to the ground and then charged the deputy as he tried to rescue her.

"It fell like a stiff, stuffed animal," Chief Deputy Ted Stanfield said.

Pinette was freed from the horns of a dilemma and authorities safely got their goat - but only after they stunned it twice more and then wrestled it into the back of a truck.

Pinette, 38, was still feeling bruised Thursday but in good humor as she told the story of how the old - but normally pleasant - billy goat snapped a leash and charged her.

"He broke loose and he was going after my butt," she said. "All I could do was grab his horns and scream bloody murder."

Her daughter Brittany called police. Deputy Jeff Scott arrived and tried to help Pinette up, but the goat bullied his way in. The deputy fired the Taser, striking the goat in the horn and side with the prongs. At first, Pinette thought it was dead.

"Within a few seconds he was back up and going after him again," Pinette said.

Stanfield said using the less-than-lethal weapon was a darned good idea.

Steve Tuttle, a spokesman for Taser International, said it was the first time he personally has heard of a goat being Tasered but he's heard stranger animal stories, including using one on two moose in the Yukon and a bear.

"An ostrich would be the oddest one," Tuttle said.

Ricky Valentine, director of animal control, said the goat's owner plans to relinquish the creature so authorities can find it a proper home.

Pinette said she hopes that happens.

"He's too old for goat burgers," she said. "I hope somebody with a farm where he can run loose takes him."

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Why isn't this on google video yet??