Police say a dead longhorn cow was found on the lawn of an Oklahoma State University fraternity on Friday, the day before the school’s football team plays the University of Texas Longhorns in the Big 12 championship game.

Police were notified just after 6:30 a.m. of the dead animal on the lawn of FarmHouse fraternity, according to Stillwater police Officer TJ Low.

The carcass had an expletive carved into its side and the stomach was cut open, according to the campus newspaper, The O’Colly.

“It’s a very cruel crime to be committed, especially right before the Big 12 Championship,” Low told The Oklahoman. “Nothing is worth doing that kind of crap.”

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    10 months ago

    Imagine killing an animal because of a college sports rivalry, and not thinking there was anything wrong with that.

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    10 months ago

    I don’t get this AT ALL.

    The Oklahoma State mascot is “Pistol Pete”:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistol_Pete_(Oklahoma_State_University)

    The Longhorn is the mascot for University of Texas at Austin:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Longhorns_football

    So why would longhorns fans kill and dump a longhorn at the Oklahoma State campus?

    I could see it if the Oklahoma State folks dumped a dead longhorn on the Texas campus, that would make sense from a “imma threaten you” point of view.

    I could see the Texas folks taking a bunch of LIVE longhorns and letting them trample and crap all over the Oklahoma State campus, that would send a message.

    It sounds like somebody has some bad fans who are just horribly, horribly confused.

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      10 months ago

      This sounds more like an Oklahoma State frat sacrificed a longhorn than all those other ideas you said

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      10 months ago

      Maybe they are like Philly fans who riot if they win and riot if they lose?

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        10 months ago

        Fuck me. Last year I was at OSU, we partied in the streets whether the Cowboys won or lost. That year we were singing, “Oh Ten and One! (to the tune of Oh Tenenbaum)” in the Eskimo Joes kitchen.

        (The Cowboys were 0-10-1, if that wasn’t clear.)

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      10 months ago

      I agree, they should have shot some guy named Pete with a pistol and dumped his body there instead of a longhorn.

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    10 months ago

    “It’s a very cruel crime to be committed, especially right before the Big 12 Championship,” Low told The Oklahoman.

    So it would have been less cruel if it had been a month earlier?

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    Sounds to me like it had nothing to do with Texas or the upcoming game and everyone is jumping to conclusions. It sounds more likely to have been done by another frat at the same university. It was dumped on the lawn of a frat called FarmHouse. I went to a high school that all the other schools referred to as “hick high” because we had an agriculture program (attended by maybe 20 people in a school of 3000). It’s something people like to pick on for some reason.

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    10 months ago

    FarmHouse fraternity

    I guess that part is appropriate.

    Weird that Texas apparently sacrificed one of their own for this.

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    10 months ago

    Looks like the work of a bunch of cowards to me.

    Pun not intended.

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    10 months ago

    It’s funny that people think this is cruelty to animals, but they don’t think killing tens of millions of cattle a year for food is cruelty to animals.

    Then there is the hundred of millions of pigs killed a year for food.

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      10 months ago

      Huge difference between killing for food and killing to show off your failed ethical values.
      The cougar is not cruel to the rabbit. It was just hungry.
      P.S. you and I are just mammals. so we do it like they used to on the discovery channel.

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        10 months ago

        Not as huge as it seems when we know we don’t have to kill for food.

        Also, the west eats a good deal more meat than needed for living.