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Goats! LbNA #56660 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Dec 2, 2010
Location:
City:WORCESTER
County:Worcester
State:Massachusetts
Boxes:1
Planted by:lookin4moose
Found by: Crazy Treehuggers
Last found:May 24, 2011
Status:FFFFFFaaaa
Last edited:Nov 12, 2015
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This box planted by
by Syrupiat and lookin4moose

Green Hill Park

My mom believes I'm afraid of goats. She has good reason to believe that. When I was a kid, living in Maryland, my family went on a vacation and stopped at Kings Dominion, an amusement park in Old Virginia. Among all the rides and midway games, there was a small petting zoo, just right for a lad of 5. There was a horse, a cow and some chickens. And goats! Conniving, smelly, nasty goats! They seemed very cute and lovable, at first glance, but when I turned to chase a chicken that had gotten too close to me, I learned that goats CANNOT be trusted. Before I knew what was happening, I was thrown across the barnyard by the impact of goat horns on my small childish behind. Two years later, my father was asked to help his farmer brother move some livestock in his pickup truck. I thought that sounded like fun, so I asked to go along. Was I ever surprised to learn that 'livestock' really meant GOATS. I sat in the back of the truck as the three terrors were loaded on. Unfortunately, since my father and my uncle were riding in the front of the truck, I had to ride alone with my old nemesis’s, the GOATS, during that twenty minunte trip. No nightmare could have been as worse as that trip, a trip seared into my memory FOREVER! Fear of goats is a common occurrence. If you have that fear, check out The Childhood Goat Trauma Society at website: http://www.goat-trauma.org/ If you don't, you can visit the descendants of my childhood launching at the petting zoo at Green Hill Park.
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Park at the lot next to the petting zoo. Walk across the street to the field. Walk up to the stone culvert. Head towards the pond looking left for the tree with a blank sign. Just right of the tree is a semi-buried flat rock. From this rock, walk 10 paces right and head behind the bush. Look for a short stump next to a bent Birch. My worst nightmare is hiding under some bark.