Hingham Goats on the Lam Captured on Cop Cam

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Hingham Goats on the Lam Captured on Cop Cam.

As all parents know, kids love checking out police cars, fire trucks and other first responder emergency vehicles.

Apparently so too do goats.

A Hingham police officer on patrol happened up a foursome handful of goats on the loose. 

After the officer pulled over, he left the door open on his SUV cruiser and then the goats checked out the inside of his ride.

As it turned out, the goats had taken a hike from their day jobs as groundskeepers of a sort at nearby Black Rock Country Club.

Kids are cute!
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

Fortunately, this story has a safe as well as happy ending.

Shortly after a lost goats bulletin went out, human staff at Black Rock Country Club gathered up the goats and returned them to the country club.

In recent years, goats have become widely used to keep potentially incendiary undergrowth under control as they will eat everything, including poison oak and poison sumac, from ground level to as high as they can reach, and so reducing all manner of variously inflammatory material to bupkis as well as do so at a cost of little more than – well – bupkis.

As such, economic as well as environmentally-friendly goatherds include not only the private Black Rock Country Club, but also the Town of Braintree’s municipal golf course, the City of Boston, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and many others both locally as well as across the country.

At the same time,  as well as in spite of repeated suggestions, the City of Quincy has failed to rely on goats to help keep Quincy both cleaner and eventually greener care of their bupkis.

Suspected reasons why not include that not everyone in the North Quincy High School Class of 1981 who needs a no-heavy-lifting city job has yet to be hired.

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