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sl8

(16,245 posts)
Fri Mar 10, 2023, 05:11 AM Mar 2023

Goats run loose in San Francisco and no one knows where they came from

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/goats-running-around-san-francisco-17829954.php
(video at link)

Goats run loose in San Francisco and no one knows where they came from

Sam Mauhay-Moore
Updated: March 9, 2023 1:09 p.m.

Several goats were seen running loose in San Francisco on Wednesday, and no one seems to know where they came from.

A video posted to Reddit on Wednesday afternoon shows at least four goats running through the South Beach neighborhood near Rincon Hill Dog Park as several onlookers try, unsuccessfully, to corral them. At the end of the video, the goats run off into the distance.

A spokesperson for San Francisco's Animal Care & Control told SFGATE that a call was received at 3:49 p.m. Wednesday about a gray goat running in traffic. The caller reported that they didn't know where the goat went after civilians chased it away.


"It's a really weird one," said Genevieve Church, executive director of City Grazing, a nonprofit that rents out a herd of goats to graze on properties throughout the Bay Area.

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Goats run loose in San Francisco and no one knows where they came from (Original Post) sl8 Mar 2023 OP
Rent-a-goats, hired out to eat the poison ivy or other invasive vegetation. mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 #1
Antifa strikes again! Kaleva Mar 2023 #2
Chasing goats requires dedication EYESORE 9001 Mar 2023 #3
video: BlueWaveNeverEnd Mar 2023 #4
Thanks. nt sl8 Mar 2023 #5

mahatmakanejeeves

(60,739 posts)
1. Rent-a-goats, hired out to eat the poison ivy or other invasive vegetation.
Fri Mar 10, 2023, 05:55 AM
Mar 2023

Either that or omens of a visit from Satan. Hard to say.

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