March 16, 2005
WOOLY BULLY:
Sheep rustlers caught (Jennifer Nitson, 3/16/05, Corvallis Gazette-Times)
There's more ba-a-a-d news for Oregon State University's football team.Beavers player Ben Michael Siegert was apparently caught driving the getaway vehicle that whisked a ram away from the university's Sheep Center, according to police.
A Benton County Sheriff's deputy found the animal in the bed of a pickup after pulling Siegert over for speeding on Southwest Whiteside Drive about 1:34 a.m. last Friday morning. [...]
The ram lives at the research facility on 35th Street near Campus Way and is part of a study on homosexuality in sheep, said Sheep Center manager Tom Nichols.
It probably weighs about 200 pounds, he said, and it likely took both men to get the ram into the bed of the pickup.
The deputy's suspicions were raised because it was smoking a cigarette. Posted by Orrin Judd at March 16, 2005 6:46 PM
Where I come from, men are men and livestock are edgy.
Posted by: ghostcat at March 16, 2005 7:03 PMSheep are such wretched creatures. They're one of those critters that, like the panda, would have died off centuries ago if not for the intervention of man.
Pigs are funny. Horses have the benign charm of a dimwitted three year-old. Chickens are dumb but their primitive politcal squabbles are amusing to watch. Cows have a calming influence in a mellow, bovine sort of way. Sheep have almost nothing going for them, except that they're cute when young. But most farm animals are anyway, even turkeys. How someone could look at the dingleberry-choked hinder of a sheep and go, "Mmm, get me some o' that!" is beyond my capacity for rational thought.
Watch out Gov. OJ's gonna start hitting on you.
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at March 16, 2005 9:57 PMgov: you have given this way too much thought :) sheep must have something going for them, given all the attention they have been getting recently.
Posted by: cjm at March 16, 2005 10:14 PMA Benton County Sheriff's deputy found the animal in the bed of a pickup . . .
So that's what they mean by a "Ram Pickup."
Posted by: Mike Morley at March 16, 2005 10:55 PMI believe Bill Clinton found Astroturf in the bed of a Chevy El Camino worked better as a rolling love machine, and the softness of today's turf, with the little ground pieces of rubber between the fibers, would make the experience even more memorable...
Posted by: John at March 16, 2005 11:17 PMCJM: Its OJ who has been paying attention to the sheep. He has given several clues that the Wife is on his case.
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at March 16, 2005 11:20 PMHmm. Beavers player Ben steals a homosexual ram...
Sounds like this nite time heist is all part of that college study.
Posted by: John J. Coupal at March 16, 2005 11:25 PMI once knew a man named Beaver. Harry Beaver. He was an Ob/Gyn. Swear to god.
Posted by: ghostcat at March 17, 2005 1:27 AMIt's true. Dr Beaver retired just a few years ago.
Posted by: George at March 17, 2005 11:37 AMAfter you've already established a Gay Sheep Center, isn't it really a little late to be calling the cops?
Posted by: Noel at March 17, 2005 9:37 PMDo you run a Google search for sheep every day?
Posted by: Robert Duquette at March 18, 2005 3:34 AMi just sit here and the sheep come to me.
Posted by: oj at March 18, 2005 7:47 AMtouche'
Posted by: Robert Duquette at March 18, 2005 10:52 AMOregon State is the Ag School, and some of the students get lonely.
Posted by: bart at March 18, 2005 5:12 PM