Students on campus are still talking about what everyone is calling the "sheep incident." This afternoon, that incident has Fresno State police involved, and a computer engineering student is now facing serious charges.
Fresno State Ag students say shock, doesn't even begin to describe what happened on campus. It was late at night, a student heard noises, and found a 23-year-old inside the sheep barn having sex with one of the ewes.
Student Marisa Burkdoll said, "It's just kind of disgusting and revolting and personally makes me angry, I mean why would you do that?"
Burkdoll works with the horses on campus, and oversees every aspect of their care and survival. She heard about the sheep incident through social media.
"There was a post that said something about the sheep unit at Fresno State and some guy was trying to have sex with the lambs," said Burkdoll.
In fact, there's even a Twitter handle dedicated to the sheep, which caretakers say is being treated by a veterinarian, and is one of the many animals used for breeding.
Students at the sheep barn say they weren't allowed to talk, but were repulsed by the act.
Burkdoll explained, "It's just kind of sick it's unnatural and the animals they can't really, I mean they can't defend themselves, they can to an extent but they're innocent you know what I mean?"
Fresno State student Marisa Burkdoll believes the suspect should go to prison.
The student told police he drank an unknown amount of alcohol and was stressed about the midterm. He was charged with sexual assault of an animal. He's since been released from jail.
Reader Comments
@Eduardo:
When I was at college, in the mid-1970's, I saw many sheep and goats. They could talk. They had notebooks and pencils and were assigned, in pairs and threes, to ordered and numbered living quarters. Though they could speak, they had little, if any, actual knowledge.
That is why I left.
As fast as I could.
ned
Does anyone here know, how able, highly charged and accomplished 'technicians' perform artificial insemination on cows, pigs, horses, sheep and the like?
Luckily (and if you don't know), it is all kept WITHIN professional and monetary guidelines.
If it were not, there would be a problem, and a concern, as there clearly is here with this drunken person who has no intelligence or knowledge of what true professionalism is all about. Perhaps, with a lengthy prison sentence and time, he will learn.
signed,
the artificially intelligent, we always wear sanitary gloves and they are lubricated and then disposed of
(sarcasm)
Where the men are men, and the sheep know it!
(Actually, that's a decades-old Montana joke.)
On campus streets, it's against the law to make a ewe turn.
I recall a late 60s cartoon in Playboy. A shepherd, sitting on the ground, leaning up against a tree, was playing his flute. The sheep closest to him was winking at him.
Now that I've had my fun...
One doesn't have sex with an animal. Rather, he is just using a hole for self-gratification. In other words, it's rape.
@NugaBurd:
It is true.
Man should not have sex with 'the beast'.
Not to be confused with 'the best'.
Hard to tell.
Easy to fool.
ned