Not your normal standoff: Smithfield paperboy chased up tree by feisty goat

Published: Wednesday, Nov. 14 2012 4:23 p.m. MST

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A 14-year-old Utah paperboy says a goat knocked him to the ground and chased him up a tree during his morning route.

SMITHFIELD, Cache County — A 14-year-old Utah paperboy says a goat knocked him to the ground and chased him up a tree during his morning route.

Smithfield resident Jaxon Gessel says he was delivering papers Tuesday morning when a goat approached him from the side and head-butted him off his bike.

Gessel tells the Herald Journal of Logan the goat kept nipping at him and forced him up a tree.

The teen says the hour-long standoff ended when the goat started chasing girls passing by. Gessel says he jumped from the tree and grabbed the goat's collar to help them.

Smithfield police say they got a call from Gessel's parents reporting he was overdue, and from residents reporting a boy struggling with a goat.

The goat was impounded by Smithfield animal control officers.

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barbL

Berwick, PA

I was just wondering if anyone realizes that the male goat is probably in rut, just like a deer their hormones make them seek out a mating. Around this time of year it's common. We own 6 goats and our buck (male goat) is in rut now. He acts just More..

3:31 p.m. Nov. 19, 2012
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