Baaaaaaad Idea

in the early morning on Friday, the 18th of March 2005 by Chad

Possibly Drunk Football Player Caught With Possibly Gay Sheep

CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) An Oregon State (search) football had a stolen sheep in the bed of his pickup when he was pulled over for speeding last week, Benton County authorities said.

Defensive tackle Ben Siegert, 20, was charged with driving under the influence of intoxicants after failing field sobriety tests.

Siegert told the (Corvallis) Gazette-Times that he had nothing to do with the stolen ram.

“I don’t know anything about that,” he said. “I’m from a city. I don’t know anything about sheep.”

Benton County Undersheriff Diana Simpson disagreed, saying Siegert might have been “too intoxicated to remember.”

The 200-pound ram lives at the university’s Sheep Center, and is part of a study on homosexuality in sheep, said Sheep Center manager Tom Nichols.

“We have at least one prank a year where we have to go to a dormitory or a sorority house and pick up a ram or a lamb or a ewe,” Nichols said. “It’s one of those springtime pranks.”

The deputy chose not to arrest anybody for taking the sheep.

All I have to say is: Jason, I knew you were travelling recently, but I thought you went to Florida, not Oregon.