He Really Gets People's Goat

You know what always amazes me about kids? It’s their ability to deal with trauma.

And if any kid knows about trauma it’s this West Virginia lad who had to see his crazy, drugged out neighbor (left) standing over the murdered carcass of his pet goat in women’s underwear.

From the AP:

A West Virginia man found wearing women's underwear and standing over a goat's carcass told police he was high on bath salts.

Sheriff's Deputy J.S. Shackelford says witnesses reported Mark L. Thompson standing near a neighbor's pygmy goat in a bedroom. He was wearing a bra and female underwear. The goat, a male named Bailey, had at least one stab wound.

Cpl. Sean Snuffer said Thompson indicated he had been high and "wasn't in his right mind."

Neighbor Lisa Powers said she bought the goat on Friday as a gift for her 4-year-old grandson, The Charleston Gazette reported.

"The baby just loved him," she told The Gazette.

Powers' nephew got a call from a neighbor early Monday morning saying the goat was in Thompson's house, Powers told the paper.

"They told him that my goat was wandering around in Mark's house and he'd better come and get it," she said.

The nephew and two women went into Thompson's according to the criminal complaint, The Gazette reported.

From inside Thompson's closed bedroom, "he told them, 'Don't come in, I'm naked,'" Powers told The Gazette. "But they opened the door and he was standing there with his pants down. He had on women's clothing and the goat was dead and there was blood everywhere. It was just a scene."

Thompson ran out the front door when the nephew asked him about the dead goat, according to the complaint. Police found him several hours later after searching the woods, The Gazette reported.

The police reported that Thompson said he had been on bath salts for about three days.

Wow! After watching the Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia I didn’t think anything to come out of the Mountaineer state could shock me again. But when a teenage kid in a bra and panties stabs a goat kid, in the process robbing a real kid of his pet I’ve got to be taken aback.

And bath salts? I didn’t even know you could get high on bath salts. How hard up for drugs do you have to be before you turn to bath salts? Seriously, the Powers family may want to consider moving.