School Bus Gets Vermont Farmer's Goat

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CORINTH, Vt. (AP) - A goat farmer who converted his house into a barn to keep his animals warm during the winter has had another run-in with the law.

Vermont State Police are investigating an incident on Tuesday in which Chris Weathersbee struck a school bus that had stopped in front of his house with an aluminum tube.

Weathersbee told the Valley News that he hit the bus with the tube, which he was using to herd about 60 goats that were returning to their pen.

He also said he had yelled at the bus to hurry up because he feared a "major goat escape disaster." Weathersbee said the bus scared the goats, and some ran off. When the bus did not move, he said, he "slapped the bus with his bare hand and whacked at it" with the tube.

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