Mark L. Thompson, 19, of Alum Creek, was arrested at his home Monday and has since been charged with cruelty to animals.
Police said witnesses had reported Mr Thompson standing near a neighbour's pygmy goat in a bedroom. He was wearing a bra and female underwear and the goat had at least one stab wound.
Officers said Mr Thompson claimed he had been high and wasn't in his right mind.
The 19-year-old's neighbour Lisa Powers said she bought the goat last week as a gift for her four-year-old grandson.
Ms Powers told the Charleston Gazette she had been told on Monday morning that her goat had been spotted inside Mr Thompsons house.
'They told him that my goat was wandering around in Mark's house and he'd better come and get it,' she said. 'They called my nephew because he'd been there before.'
However, after entering Mr Thompsons house and making their way into his bedroom, Ms Powers said the group found him 'standing there with his pants down. He had on women's clothing and the goat was dead and there was blood everywhere. It was just a scene.
The 19-year-old is reported to have rushed out of the property and was later found by officers searching nearby woodland.
Talk about going out in a shower of bullets. Best hail of gunfire since Dutch Schultz. I especially like the extra two shots at the end. Like an extra touch of pepper to a spicy soup.
The Monroe County District Attorney has determined four Tomah Wisconsin
police officers acted appropriately last month when they killed a man who shot at them during a traffic stop. District Attorney Dan Cary said Tuesday the officers acted with "tremendous courage in the face of life-threatening gunfire" April 22 when they fatally shot 28-year-old Seth M. McCloskey of Ohio.
McCloskey was a suspect in an earlier drive-by shooting in Tomah in which no one was hurt. Police have said he may be linked to as many as 10 other seemingly random drive-by shootings across Wisconsin and Illinois.
Authorities held a press conference Tuesday where they released squad car video footage of the Tomah shooting that shows McCloskey calmly exit his truck, point a handgun directly at police and open fire moments after being pulled over on Saratoga Street. BANG! BANG! BANG! BANGETY-BANG-BANG! BANGBANGBANG!
The video then shows McCloskey trying to climb back into his truck, which was rolling because he had not put it in park, as police shoot back. The slow-moving pickup strikes a nearby utility pole, and McCloskey's hat flies into the air in a hail of gunfire. His head falls limp, and the truck's accelerator echoes through the neighborhood.
Tomah Police Chief Wes Revels said McCloskey's autopsy shows he died from police gunfire. "He's dead, Jim. Hey, look what Sam just handed me, they're hiring in Bangladesh! I've always wanted to get away..."
"Seth McCloskey intended to take the lives of police officers," Revels said. "I believe that because of the officers' actions at the location of the traffic stop, they saved the life of a police officer somewhere at sometime." "But...he was fleeing! Police Pigs shot him in the back!" Seriously, liberals will think this.
But Tuesday in Tomah one thing was clear, Sperry said. "This person was set on doing this. He was an evil person. ... The officers were heroes here."
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"I believe that this was equivalent to shooting a wild bull rampaging through a crowd of innocent people because of the officers' actions at the location of the traffic stop, they saved the life of a police officer somewhere at sometime."
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Has a "drifter" ever done anything good? Ya never hear "Drifter saves puppies". It's always "Drifter in shootout with cops", "Drifter suspected in serial killings".
The "drifter community" should really work on their image...
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As far as I'm concerned, anyone who points a weapon at or threatens a cop (no knock raids to wrong addresses are exempt from this statement) deserve what they get.
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Absinthe was banned in France on the day when the church bells rang to announce the start of World War I.
Ironically, because of the fascination with absinthe, US amateur experts have carefully analyzed surviving samples, and have produced superior varieties, both in the traditional European style, and in the American style, which uses less anise in the recipe.
One of the best US brands is Absinthe Nouvelle-Orléans, by Jade Liqueurs. About $100 a bottle. They make a whole range of absinthe, at all kinds of prices.
There is also a faux-Absinthe liqueur called "Absente", which is made with Artemisia abrotanum instead of Artemisia absinthium (wormwood). However, technically speaking, since 1958, the FDA has outlawed all varieties of absinthium, technically even the kitchen spice tarragon, which is widely available.
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Most of what you taste is the anise and fennel, so think "licorice-shy". The wormwood adds bitter, which is why sugar is added to the drink itself. And it's cut 2 or 3 to one with ice water.
[Bangla Daily Star] Hundreds of villagers kept five coppers confined at Kaharol upazila in Dinajpur yesterday, alleging that they were involved in an earlier robbery.
Bangladesh is a very strange country.
The confinement led to a daylong brawl that ended through the suspension of seven coppers.
The locals also confined nine other cops, who went to rescue their captive colleagues, and assaulted Dinajpur Deputy Commissioner and Kaharol Upazila Nirbahi Officer.
At least 35 people were maimed when police fired rubber bullets and lobbed teargas canister to disperse the angry locals who besieged Birganj and Kaharol cop shoppes in protest of "police involvement" with a robbery in Ghasia village of the upazila early yesterday.
After the 14 coppers, including the five caught after the robbery, were released around 3:15pm, Mostafizur Rahman, Dinajpur superintendent of police (acting), told The Daily Star that all those rescued were members of police.
Lutfar Rahman Khan, additional deputy inspector general (Rangpur region), rushed to Birganj around 12:30pm and announced suspension of seven coppers and closing of ASP (Birganj Circle) Khairul Alam and 18 constables of Birganj upazila for their failure in maintaining law and order.
The suspended are: Kaharol OC Shahidullah, who was among the captives, Birganj OC Aktaruzzaman Prodhan, sub-inspectors Md Shajahan, Md Monsur Ahmed and Fazlul Haque, ASIs Sukumar Roy and Jabed Islam of Birganj Police Station.
According to the villagers, some eight people broke in the tin-roofed house of Rajendranath Devnath, a paramedic, in Ghasiara village around 1:30am yesterday.
"Hearing the sound of breaking the front door, I rushed out of my room to see what was happening. Without saying anything, the intruders hit me with sharp weapons," Rajendranath, about 55, said while undergoing treatment at Dinajpur Medical College Hospital.
Apart from hitting him in his right hand and head, the robbers also hit a relative of him in his the face.
The gang, who went there in a white microbus, looted Tk 3 lakh, gold ornaments weighing eight to 10 tolas and six cell phones, said Kishore Devnath, a nephew of Rajendra.
Half an hour later, the robbers blasted cocktails to make their way as locals came to catch them, the villagers said.
To stop them, locals blocked the highway at Boleya Bazaar in the upazila.
Introducing themselves as coppers of Birganj Police Station, "the robbers" asked the locals to let them go. As the latter did not comply, the gang fired three gunshots, locals said.
Later, the villagers caught five of them while the rest managed to flee. The five were confined to a room in Rajendra's house. The angry locals set fire to the microbus later.
When ASP (Birganj Circle) Khairul Islam went to visit the spot early morning, angry locals also confined him.
At around 8:30am, Kaharol OC Shahidullah went there with eight coppers. A furious argument broke out between the two sides and at one stage the villagers overturned the pickup truck that had carried the OC and his team.
As the law enforcers fired rubber bullets at the crowd, villagers caught the cops and also confined them to the same room and torched the vehicle.
Getting the news, people from other villages of Birganj and Kaharol took out processions and gathered in front of the house.
Two other groups laid siege to Birganj and Kaharol cop shoppes. They set fire to different rooms of Birganj Police Station and burnt three cycle of violences.
Birganj police said they had fired at least 100 rubber bullets and lobbed 60 teargas canisters during their clash with villagers. And five of their colleagues were maimed.
While running for cover, a man was run over by a microbus and was struck down in his prime.
Dinajpur Deputy Commissioner Jamal Uddin Ahmed and Kaharol UNO Azim Uddin went to Ghasiara to calm the angry mob. However, The didactic However... the locals did not listen to them and threw stones at the DC.
Following a home ministry order, BGB men from Thakurgaon and Dinajpur sectors rushed there to control the situation.
Around 3:30pm, the captives left the place heavily guarded by Rab and BGB members.
OC (investigation) Anisur Rahman of Dinajpur Police station has been appointed the acting OC of Birganj Police Station.
A four-member team, headed by Additional District Magistrate Azizul Islam, has been formed to investigate yesterday's incidents, the DC said. The committee has been asked to submit its report in 10 days.
He, however, denied any role of police in the robbery but said, "People suspect that some coppers were involved."
He claimed to have rescued only eight coppers and the microbus driver, Shahidul Islam, although 15 persons were freed before the eyes of hundreds of locals and journalists.
On March 8, villagers attacked a robber while he was leaving after robbery in Doptoir village of Biral upazila. The robber was later found to be a policeman of the upazila.
The next day, SP Shiddiqui Tanjilur Rahman and ASP (Dinajpur sadar circle) Mokbul Hossain with two platoon riot police baton-charged the villagers for attacking the policeman.
Rajshahi DIG Shiddiqur Rahman visited spot later and begged apology to the villagers for the atrocities.
The SP, ASP, two OCs were closed in this connection.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The prime accused in a case filed for killing three cops last year was rubbed out in Bera upazila of Pabna yesterday.
The dear departed, Rafique alias Chalak Rafique, 32, was a regional leader of the 'Sarbahara' faction of outlawed Pubro Banglar Communist Party, said Mohammad Zahir, Sub-inspector (SI) of Bera Police Station.
On information, police recovered the bullet-hit body of Rafique from Shyampur char in the upazila around 11:00am and sent to Pabna General Hospital morgue for an appointment with Dr. Quincy.
"He's dead, Jim."
The SI suspected that Rafique, hailed from Hasanpur village in Sujanagar upazila of the district, might have been killed by rivals in internal party conflict.
As opposed to local cops who hadn't forgiven our corpse for killing their brothers in arms.
Police recovered two red flags from near the spot.
Not a hit, merely a full-contact game of Capture the Flag. The blue team won.
Three cops -- SI Md Kafil Uddin, Nayek Abdul Wahed and constable Shafique of Dhalarchar police camp -- were bumped off by myrmidons at Daspara in Bera upazila on July 20 last year.
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Well, this is a new wrinkle on an old theme! RAB doing some outsourcing?
[Emirates 24/7] Canada's Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff announced on Tuesday that he was stepping down after he lost his seat and his once-mighty party suffered a humiliating election defeat.
The 63-year-old former Harvard academic and human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... champion earns the dubious distinction of becoming only the second leader of the Liberal Party not to go on to become prime minister.
His party, which government for most of the past century, saw its share of seats in the House of Commons drastically reduced from 77 to just 34 as Prime Minister Stephen Harper was re-elected with his first majority government.
The Liberal decline was in large part due to the rise of the left-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP), which tripled its representation in the Canadian parliament to become the official opposition.
For the first time in almost 150 years of being, the Liberals have now been relegated to Canada's third party.
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Michael Ignatieff spent the majority of his productive life living outside of Canada and referring to himself as "British" or "American" to suit his narrative at the time. At a time of post-election weakness of the Liberal Party of Canada he suddenly appeared back in Canada and had himself appointed, not elected, Leader of the Liberal Party.
His next big step was to force an election that his Party couldn't possibly win, followed by losing said election in the most spectacular "FAIL" in half a century of Canadian politics.
Post election defeat speech stated that he would remain on as leader of the Liberal Party until such time as the Party asked him to leave . . . . which must have been immediately following that speech because first thing next morning he was busy announcing his resignation.
Good riddance. He'll be back teaching at Harvard before the ink has dried on the U-Haul trailer contract
Too much inbreeding. They confused the process that once made the name with the name itself, allowing the process to rot from lack of new genetic material.
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"The Liberal decline was in large part due to the rise of the left-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP), which tripled its representation in the Canadian parliament to become the official opposition. fact that Canada still has clean, honest elections in which voters need to show positive ID before they cast their ballots, not to mention that George Soros hasn't gotten interested in purchasing Canada's government yet."
There. Fixed it for ya.
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The 63-year-old former Harvard academic and human rights
At this juncture, we'd be better off banning top 10 schools from most gov't depts - outside of janitor, etc., & lobbyists.
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Is it me or does that appear to be an awfully big drone? See the third photo. Looks more like a regular aircraft. but then I am no expert - not even close.
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CrazyFool it REALLY is that big. UAVs like the Global Hawk and Predator series are as big as some fighter jets, the Phantom Ray is about the size of an F-16 (bigger in wingspan though). Smaller drones like the Shadow and Hunter are used more for tactical reconnaissance than strike roles/strategic recon roles (although I suppose you could fit a Hunter out with some manner of weapons just not very many).
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It's an autonomous stealthy recon/bomber. There is no ground controller required to fly it like the Predators. The mission is uploaded to the onboard computer and it flies itself.
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phil_b you're probably thinking of the Heron which is basically a Predator with a longer wingspan (the Eitan version has a 26 meter wingspan for instance).
Nonetheless both versions serve in the recon role (with payloads in the 550lb range), you can as the Predator has shown be able to fit weapons on them, just not very many. In comparison a UCAV like the Phantom Ray can carry two 2,000lb JDAMs (or 8 SDBs for instance) internally, making this a strike platform first.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
whos idea was this on the front? 
