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Kids These Days: Unruly Goats Graze Hell Across Suburban Boise

More than 100 professional ungulates overran an Idaho neighborhood Friday, briefly tasting freedom — and a whole lot of manicured lawns while they were at it.
Disclaimer: These are not the goats that went on the lam in Boise. But they sure look just as sassy.

As the sun rose over Idaho on Friday, residents of suburban West Boise awoke to find some noisy new neighbors horning in on their yards: goats. A teeming host of hungry, grunting goats.

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