Goat smashes glass doors at California strip club

[Nagishkaw 510]

COACHELLA, Calif. — Before it even opened, a local strip club had a horny goat banging down its doors.

A 150-pound goat smashed two large glass doors at Lynx Gentlemen's Club over the weekend, causing about $2,000 in damage, the owner said Monday.

The incident was caught on surveillance tape.

"I would never believe it if I didn't see it myself," said owner Hank Piecura. "It must have been mesmerized by its reflection in the door, so it rammed it."

After staring at its reflection in the doors for hours, Piecura said the goat with horns reared up on its hind legs and smacked the glass. The goat smacked the door repeatedly until he smashed it.

"I'm glad he didn't smash the mirrors in the lobby," Piecura said.

The club hasn't opened for business yet. Piecura said he hopes to open later in the week after he receives his liquor license.

The goat first visited the club early Friday morning and Piecura chased him away. He found blood and the safety glass smashed Saturday.

Authorities initially responded to a vandalism call, but found an animal had smashed the door after reviewing the surveillance footage, said Det. Matt Diaz, a spokesman for the Riverside County Sheriff's Department.

No report was taken.

Rachel Ledoux, owner of goat farm Rancho Buena Vista in Whitewater, said goats have two things on their minds: "Females and eating," she said.

Because goats are not independent, the animal likely wandered off or was abandoned, she said.

Ramming a door also is unusual behavior. "They're the gentlest little creatures," Ledoux said.

Ben Guitron, spokesman for the nearby Indio Police Department, said they've had their share of unusual animal calls, such as when polo horses raced past JFK Memorial Hospital about a year ago.

But they've not had destructive goats, he said, "unless they're eating someone's bills."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2010-...trip-club_N.htm

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

[aidan80 9]

The horny b@stard!

[yogib37 3]

Maybe it was meeting up with Bosco?

[Nagishkaw 510]

0r waiting for Scandal and Spooky to show up.

[spookyturtle 9,465]

0r waiting for Scandal and Spooky to show up.

It wasn't one of my goats.

[Nagishkaw 510]

Scapegoat.

[Niels Bohr 72]

The goat was looking for an herbal aphrodisiac called "horny goat weed."

[trillium13 84]

Gotta kinda feel bad for the thing. Who just lets their goat go?

What am I saying. I live in Texas. People pretty much let everything run wild. We had a neighbor's pig in our yard about a year ago, and his goats too.

[scandal 951]

It wasn't one of my goats.

Wasn't mine either. I had a great alibi too, I was in South America.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Satan?

[sandinista! 1,816]

Gotta kinda feel bad for the thing. Who just lets their goat go?

What am I saying. I live in Texas. People pretty much let everything run wild. We had a neighbor's pig in our yard about a year ago, and his goats too.

it may not be that they just let him go though. goats are notorious for escaping from places you wouldn't think they could escape from. last year in vancouver, two baby goats tried to hop on board a c-tran bus. they had hopped a fence, and followed two women to a bus stop, and when the women boarded the bus, the goats just followed them right on.

http://www.kptv.com/news/21605720/detail.html

[spookyturtle 9,465]

Wasn't mine either. I had a great alibi too, I was in South America.

Sure you were.

[natty bumppo 297]

Wasn't mine either. I had a great alibi too, I was in South America.

the poor goat ... was experiencing loss ... missing you ...

[Darnell 8,478]

i dunno - if male goat - then perhaps thought his image was the other male, and needed to challenge.

Male Goats in rut are crazy, will attack anything to 'get to the female' .