What Were Five Baby Goats Doing Wandering the Rough & Gritty Streets of Paterson NJ?
- Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:27pm by
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PATERSON, N.J. (AP/THE BLAZE) — Police have captured five goats that were wandering the streets of a gritty northern New Jersey city.
Chief Animal Control Officer John DeCando tells The Record newspaper that a woman called Paterson police after nearly hitting the herd with her car at 2:30 a.m. Thursday.
“She might have even saved these baby goats from being hit by a car,” DeCando told The Record, a New Jersey newspaper. “She was more or less like a God send.”
Police took the goats to the animal shelter. They’ll stay there until they are sent to a farm to live out their days.
DeCando says he believes someone was keeping them for an Easter meal or a sacrifice.
It’s illegal to keep farm animals in Paterson. “These goats have no business being in the city of Paterson at all,” DeCando says. If the person responsible for these goats comes to claim them, DeCando explains, they will be slapped with a $5000 fine and possible jail time.
“They’re adorable, aren’t they?” someone says in the background of this clip. Yes. Yes, they are.
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Comments (101)
PurrrpleMtnMajesty
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:43pmSo cute… Just loved the police officer’s attitude about them as well.
Report Post »Protecting the truly “innocent” among us -the highest honor.
Mom4Freedom
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:40pmThese babies need a good farm. If owners come to claim, then they should be given some pigs :
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:15pmWow, THAT is SUCH A HOOT! If I was raising goats for sacrifice AND one day the goats had turned into pigs, I’d think twice about what I had done to piss off THE BIG GUY!
Report Post »Robotics_Geek
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:35pmI LOVE Goat! There is a simple recipe I got from a Saudi Chief MSgt I was in the NCO academy with…Rub the goat meat with szechuan dry seasoning and salt. fill the bottom of a pot with cut up onions, peppers and other veggies then cover the veggies with rice and the appropriate amount of water. Now here is the tricky part. In Saudi Arabia they have terracotta pots buried in the ground the families use to cook in much like we have BBQs. For ours we used a steel garbage can :) We placed mesquite firewood in the bottom and when the wood turned to coals about fist size we placed a wire grill over the coals put the pot of rice in the can and the meat around it. In Saudi they use the skin of the butchered goat to close the opening of the pot and cover with dirt. We used a wet cotton towel and banged the lid on and then buried it. 2.5 hours later we opened it up and the meat was falling from the bone and the rice was amazing. We fed the entire lodging complex of 50 to 60 people and had leftovers. Serve with pita bread and tzatziki sauce. Funniest part of the story was we had to cook it OFF BASE because of fire rules and imagine two guys ONE ARAB driving up to a Air Force base with a SMOKING TRASH CAN in the back of my PICKUP!!! Glad the guards had a sense of humor! Great memories and it let the Chief from Saudi know we are just like him and his family and yes he was Muslim BUT he said us Christians weren’t the devil hypocrites he was taught. I could tell it gave him something to think about…
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:12pmSpoken like a GREAT DISCIPLE! Every one of us, when ‘overseas’ is an ambassador! And, you got to enjoy and come to a better understanding of THEIR culture!!! Way to go! And, THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH for your service to OUR country!
Report Post »JROCCOD
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:21pmI would rather see goats wandering the streets of Paterson than some of the citizens I encountered there. But, I love Paterson, Lou Costello was born there.
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:26pmYou from Paterson?
I grew up on Rossiter Ave. Went to PS27 and JFK
Report Post »chips1
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 7:20pmAre you sure it was Lou Costello? I thought it was Sean Hannity. I get the two mixed up. Twins?
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:19pmMy home town, where I grew up!
Paterson is so full of Islamists it’s almost Mecca.
Now—where did I leave my tacnuke…
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:15pmThe more these animals, mammals and critters around the world act up, the more it reminds me of the movie 12 Monkeys. Also won’t forget the accident with the trainer at Sea World with the whale happened just before a major natural catastrophe. Three days later, the 8.8 quake in Chile which created a tsunami going towards Hawaii, 2010.
Report Post »koibaby
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:08pmGreat pets. I bet a kid set them free.
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:23pmOr, accidentally let the Fall Sacrifice out of the backyard, not closing the gate behind his bike! Worthy of a good ass-whipping, don’t you think?
Report Post »Kathleen3
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:01pmReports of Latinos sponsoring **** fights in Philadelphia; Muslim honor killings in states throughout the U.S.; L.A. reports Mexicans allow chickens and goats to roam neighborhoods; and, now we have Muslim goat sacrifices escaping in NJ. Do we still swallow the mandate that we accept and celebrate diversity? Not me!
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:17pmI once took a flight from Nantucket to Fall River, AND it had more dogs on board than people! The pilot was a bit pissed, but asked if we minded! We didn’t! And, the dogs, which fly all the time, were well behaved! (Sure beats a LONG ferry ride!)
Report Post »DMSNC
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:01pmIts yet another ‘sacrifice’ in Islam – Eid al-Adha is about now 70 days after Ramadan – bet they are really upset they won’t get to kill the poor things and the goats will get to live on; I’m pretty sure if you ligit reasons, someone would be looking for them. Some muslim probably beating his wife and daughter forgot and left the back gate open.
Report Post »texasfarmer
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:59pmGet ready for camel license plates.
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:00pmI was driving down a dirt road in Virginia, minding my own business, doing a delivery, a few years ago (in a BIG truck)! Something caught my eye and I turned to look out the side window. Following me, looking IN my window at eye level, was a GIRAFFE! I thought it BEST not to mention this to anyone!
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:52pmThey were just kidding around.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:12pmOuch…lol…..
Report Post »Nocoincidence
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:45pmPerhaps Capital One could use a chorus??
Report Post »rlo
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:44pmwow goats in Paterson NJ??? lol I’m from the area
Report Post »and to the republic
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:05pmhow does it feel to have the area where you live described as “rough and gritty”
Report Post »rlo
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 7:59pmlol it’s the truth. I‘m not proud of it but Paterson has it’s share of gangs, poverty and more then 50% of the families are on some form of government assistance. What more can you expect from a liberal ran city??? Luckily my parents taught me that rewards come from hard work. That‘s why I’m not in a gang, or in poverty and not on government assistance.
Also Paterson has a big “middle eastern/ Muslim” population… but not in the area the goats were found.
Report Post »swampbuck
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:44pmActually that is a herd of Goats not pack..lmao
Report Post »swampbuck
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:43pmThought about getting a pack of goats to put on my property in TN… Milk and meat what more could you want..
Report Post »and to the republic
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:00pma side of taters, maybe some pie, and how bout a girlfriend that looks like Daisy Dukes?
Report Post »Stegall TX
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:05pmDon’t forget they also keep your grass cropped and the weeds down pretty short as well. I’ve seen a few folks around keep a goat or a sheep around for weed control. Then, at the end of the growing season, you eat the lawn mower.
Report Post »bkeely
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:40pmAs my momma use to say…”don’t let them get your goat”
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neiman1
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:36pmHaving goats is worthy of arrest and a $5000 dollar fine? People in the city know food comes from a grocery store. How dare someone raise their own.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:56pmI knew people who had them for the milk, it makes great cheese
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:10pmAlert the FDA, EPA, DNC, Unions, and PETA!
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 7:51pmAnd a GREAT ROAST!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:35pmDid I put “tt” in Paterson? Sorry.
Report Post »and to the republic
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:37pmyep, and you dint capatalize the J in Jersey. Geez, what the hec is this site coming to.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:40pm@ Showtime–Careful where you put your“ tt”s.LOL?
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:43pm@And to the Republic ~
Report Post »Well, strap my legs!
I’ll run ten miles to make up for it.
Showtime
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:46pm@And to the Republic ~
Report Post »“yep, and you dint capatalize the J in Jersey. Geez, what the hec is this site coming to.”
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I “dint?”
(I needed that laugh. Thanks.)
Showtime
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:15pm@bikerr
Report Post »Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:40pm
@ Showtime–Careful where you put your“ tt”s.LOL?
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You have to be a guy! (Yeah, I laughed, too.)
Salamander
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:20pmSHOWTIME & BIKER — I drive by a local dairy farm, with a sign “The Udder Place”, near Amelia, VA! Clearly a guy farm!
Report Post »APatriotFirst
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:34pmWonder if area was checked for a wrecked car/truck or anything. And goats got lose.
Report Post »felina g
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:10pmNeed some of that “Progressive Insurance.”
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:10pmProbably more like an unlocked basement door! Or, an open backyard fence!
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:33pmPaterson NJ..thats the islamic part of the state , right ?
Report Post »So how come these goats are alive ? They should have been slaughtered in a mosk by now ..
Lucy Larue
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:04pmYes Cheezewhiz, It is the muslim part of N. J.. Believe me, they were not for an EASTER meal. Just asl Congressman Pascrelle(UGH). He was against the King Hearings. That’s his district.
Report Post »and to the republic
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:32pmbaaaaaad goat, baaaaaaaad goat…..
Report Post »Conservative New Yorker
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:45pmYou are funny! Cute, little sweeties though- the goats, I mean.. ;-)
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:32pmOf all places for baby goats — Patterson, New jersey!
Am glad they have been rescued.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:52pmThey are cute…….
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:03pmGood thing they did get rescued, that was too close by far.
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:09pmCalves are cute, too–and I love beef! Little chicks are cute, too–and I love chicken! When they get a little bigger and make their way to market, it’s not so cute, which is why we bless our food! P.S. We have a blue heron in the neighborhood (city) that has cleaned out EVERY Coy Pond in the area! He must figure it is like shooting fish in a barrel! He is SO OUT OF PLACE, perched on the roof of a house next door!
Report Post »CanteenBoy
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:46pmOn the farm where I’m a flyfishing guide, pesky herons get lead poisoning.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:32pmChief Animal Control Officer John DeCando tells The Record newspaper that a woman called Paterson police after nearly hitting the herd with her car at 2:30 a.m. Thursday. Sorry but, A group of goats is called a tribe.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:08pmFunny, so are groups of muslims.
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:03pmIf all the tribes of goats got together with BIG BILLY, would it be a Caliphate?
Report Post »gramma b
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:30pmOh, gad. Just like the Third World. Goats running loose in city streets.
Report Post »avenger
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:30pmlook for the nearest muslim family…
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:35pmWait for the CAIR to get involved and call the Animal Control Officers to be
Report Post »“bigoats”….
then we’ll know :D
Psychosis
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:46pmDINNER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:56pmWhat Were Five Baby Goats Doing Wandering the Rough & Gritty Streets of Paterson NJ?
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They escaped the local imam ‘s boudoir
yippyio
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:05pmThere is an big Arabic section in Paterson.
Report Post »midnight1111
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:16pmPaterson, NJ is populated with muslims. I remember on 9/11 they were film dancing in the streets over the attack on the World Trade tower……the place is filled of scum
Report Post »El Paco
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:21pmActually, Patterson does have a large hindu population. I lived there for 6 months with a Super intentenant that had chickens in his basement. Also heard of a wild turkey running the streets. This doesn’t surprise me in the least!
Report Post »pappy
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:31pm@ CHEEZWHIZ…. If you’re not a stand up comedian, you’ve missed your calling. I really need to remember to not drink coffee while reading your posted messages….
Report Post »Creestof
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:36pm@Avenger
Report Post »Yep, some “religion of peace” dudes harem.
Salamander
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 7:51pmYeah, It’s where young muslim boys gets to experience their first beheading–a right of passage (I believe it’s during a Fall festival)! I’m a Christian–we don’t tack people on a cross for Easter–although we do put babies in a manger for Christmas! Let’s not even go to the early English practice of “To be hanged, drawn and quartered was from 1351 a penalty in England for men convicted of high treason, … ‘ from Wiki! Gosh, I don‘t mind following Beck’s suggestion that we look back to the beginnings of our country, The Declaration and The Constitution, but I‘m glad he doesn’t try and take us back to our earlier English (and other) ancestry! Ain’t it GREAT living in the nuclear age?
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 7:57pmTo get to the other side?
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 12:18amLucky little lambs. Like to think that one of the runaways is called Sue.
Report Post »litrex
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:32pmyes, right, and they will be celebrating an EASTER meal? hmmmmmm
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