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[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 76 points 1 week ago (5 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

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"best goat"

Goat Of All Time

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Rip in peace poisoned goat of all time goat.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Gork@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Hubi@feddit.org 33 points 1 week 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.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago
[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 week ago

How do you even cheat with a goat?

Poisoning the opposition goats, I think

[–] TotalFat@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week 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)

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 14 points 1 week ago

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

[–] peto@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Steve@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago

Tell me you never attended a rural high school

[–] protist@mander.xyz 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 week ago

just as absurd as all the other bullshit animal contests that judge "contestants" based on completely arbitrary physical characteristics which lead to severely inbred, sick, miserable animals

people are so fucking stupid

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[–] FarFarAway@startrek.website 61 points 1 week 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@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] FarFarAway@startrek.website 23 points 1 week 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@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week 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.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 1 week 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.

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Damn Americans and their rolls dice corrupt show animal handling

[–] pugsnroses77@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 32 points 1 week 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.

[–] pugsnroses77@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week 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

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

glances at the politicians the people of NYC keep voting for

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago

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

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Aurolei@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week 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@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

“poisoning pets, what you should know”,

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

[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 9 points 1 week 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_@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (3 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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[–] lath@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

New Game of Goats season is out, huh?

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Hubi@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

A planned murder by a rival at a goat competition is not offbeat enough?

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

A future Texas senator in the making

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