Goats for Crack?

This story, which I first heard about a few months ago when these mental giants were first arrested, is back in the news. It's still as funny as the day I first read it. The best part? The event in question took place on Christmas Eve. Those heathens!

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4 held in goat-for-coke scheme
      (Yes, that's the actual headline --Ed.)
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Associated Press


Four men were ordered to stand trial in the theft and butchering of a pet pygmy goat, allegedly so its meat could be traded for crack cocaine or money.

James W. Albright, 37, Gilbert W. Fisch, 38, Charles W. Smith Sr., 48, and Charles W. Smith Jr., 20, all of Connellsville, were held on theft, cruelty to animals and related charges yesterday.

Albright allegedly dragged the goat from its pen and tied it to a shrub, where he and Smith Jr. beat it to death on Dec. 24 in Bullskin Township, about 35 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, police said. They then took the goat to Smith's residence, where his father and Fisch skinned it and cut it up, police said.

Police said Albright told them he intended to get money or drugs for the goat, but got neither.