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August 18, 2015
"His efforts, funded by the government"
In his quest for a simpler life, one man has transformed himself into a goat. Thomas Thwaites, a 34-year-old researcher from London, has spent the past year creating prosthetics that allow him to roam around on all fours. He’s studied their behaviour, learned their way of communicating and even attempted to create an artificial goat stomach to allow him to eat grass. His efforts, funded by the government, culminated in a three day trip to the Swiss Alps, where he lived as a goat, roaming the hills with a herd.
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I remember when the US ARMY Cameras Captured Afghans gangbanging a goat. This guy might want to hang a ass tag to protect himself out there in the field. On second thought he deserves it if he is pretending to be a goat
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at August 18, 2015 9:56 AM
Admit it. Before you read the article, you thought he was Japanese.
Posted by: SteveS at August 18, 2015 2:41 PM
I'm here to read the comments!
Posted by: Fausta at August 19, 2015 7:03 AM
Makes me want to re-read Giles Goat Boy
Posted by: DonRodrigo at August 19, 2015 12:09 PM
Every New Year's Eve the folks around where my uncle Letsgo Lotsgo had his award-winning bantam chicken ranch would celebrate the coming in of the New Year.
There was much dancing to the polka band and drinking of slivovitz. Bonfires were tended and one could see couples sneaking away into the night. Well, stumbling would be more like it.
One year one of Letsgo's neighbors who had made a chicken outfit of real chicken feathers put on the costume and started dancing around the fire. Nobody was sure what happened next but poor old Josef fell into the fire. Before they could retrieve him and put out the fire he looked like a chicken phoenix. He never ate another egg as long as he lived.
Posted by: chasmatic at August 19, 2015 1:23 PM