Dead goat, with threatening note, dumped at assemblyman's home

recordonline.com ^ | 3/6/09 | Alexa James

[jdfromny]

State police are investigating a threat, in the form of a dead goat with a note, aimed at State Assemblyman Gregory Ball (R-Patterson). The black and white goat with horns was found Thursday night on the street outside Ball’s home with an abusive message tied around its neck.

In broken Spanish, scrawled on a scrap of cardboard, the note called Ball an “(expletive) American” and was signed MS-13, the name of a notorious Central American gang.

While the two-term assemblyman has supported legislation aimed at deporting violent illegal immigrants, he said he thinks the gang threat is phony because some of the note’s Spanish was misspelled.

Ball suspects the message could signal retaliation from some disenfranchised constituents. When he won his seat, in 2006, he knocked out a family line that had been in power in Putnam County for more than 70 years. Ball also said he took on organized crime in Danbury. Perhaps the culprits knew the assemblyman was a long-time 4-H member who used to raise goats like the one dumped by his house.

[jdfromny]

Republican NY State Assemblyman threatened by gang of illegal immigrants. His campaign motto was: "Illegal immigration is illegal".

Question: are these guys working for the DNC?

[classified]

You betcha!

[The Sons of Liberty]

Dead goat, with threatening note, dumped at assemblyman's home

"Dead goat" - that sounds like a Kenyan tribal ritual.

Now who do we know is a Kenyan?

[icwhatudo]

Hmmm, does Pellicano speak spanish?

[Tijeras_Slim]

he thinks the gang threat is phony because some of the note’s Spanish was misspelled.

"Mexican Americans love education so they go to night school and they take spanish and get a B." ~Cheech & Chong

[SwankyC]

he said he thinks the gang threat is phony because some of the note’s Spanish was misspelled.

Or it's misspelled because it was done by a bung of illiterate gang thugs. Either way, he'd have to be a complete democrat to ignore the threat.

[shadeaud]

Call PETA, they will do more than the N.Y.assembly will dare to do.

[COBOL2Java]

Question: are these guys working for the DNC?

Sure! Sounds like something the Ballerina could have come up with...

[PGR88]

“Dead goat, with threatening note, dumped at assemblyman’s home...”

Did the note include cooking instructions?

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

he thinks the gang threat is phony because some of the note’s Spanish was misspelled

Of course the real deal Hispanic is a champion at spelling...only you imperialist anglos make spelling errors, right?

[Daffynition]

Something's strange about this incident....M-13 in the Hudson Valley? Sounds like an cheap attempt to silence him.

[raptor29]

I wonder how quickly this country would turn around if 2nd Amendment America simply decided to turn things around?

[JimRed]

...he said he thinks the gang threat is phony because some of the note’s Spanish was misspelled.

And, of course, illegal gangbangers are so much more proficient spellers in their native language than our own homegrown thugs are in American English...RIIIGHT!

[MARTIAL MONK]

Don’t we have a Dead Goat ping list?

[AuntB]

Any dead goats contributed to your campaign yet?

[freedomlover]

Goats are used to make Mexican statements. However anyone could know this.

[Bobalu]

[spetznaz]

So, it may not be MS-13 because the spelling is wrong? Goodness, I hope that guy's security detail is smarter than he is (and that he by now has a security detail), because if his litmus test for 'authentic' gangsters is proper spelling then he will be getting a very rude and brutal surprise soon. I doubt gangsters are exactly profecient at diction in the first place. Also, born and bred Americans and Britons have some of the worst spelling when it comes to proper American and Queen's English respectively. At times third grade level.

This guy is already dead. He just doesn't know it yet. (That is, if he continues basing his analysis of the actual threat level on proper spelling, then he is taking too big a risk. He should err on the side of caution. If it is MS-13, and they get a hold of him, he'll be like that goat. Starting with the scrotum)

[Rebelbase]

Amateurs!

[MARTIAL MONK]

Now I just know that we have to have a Goat Scrotum ping list.