Can I tell you how jealous I am of the arbitrator that will get to resolve this? He or she will be able to tell this story for the rest of his or her life. "Oh yeah, you think that workplace harassment case is impressive? I handled a goat grievance once."

(Full disclosure: I once owned a goat I named "Bob". I named him that so he could say his own name. Cleared about 10 acres of hillside in about 2 weeks, all by himself. Dude was a machine.)

Odd that the grievance isn't THAT the school did this, but that they DIDN'T TELL the union in advance.

Real horns of a dilemma for the arbitrator.

The simple solution is to unionize the goats, but they would have to vote and too many would just say "Nnneh."

Someone clearly has never been to Lucasville Trade Days.

Am I the only one who wanted to listen to those old Adam Sandler goat skits after reading this?

So you're claiming the goats are legal? Let me guess...they ate each other's green cards?
I'm sick and tired of these goats coming in and taking American jobs! Where is the outrage? My anger has nothing to do with the 3 days of community service spent in the zoo's petting cage when I was 14. Nothing.

Oh my. This is awesome. We need this thread to be as long as the thread about driverless cars/trucks and safety and job losses....

That reminds me of a story from 1974, in Chicago. One day a kangaroo was sighted, and no one had a clue where it came from. Since Kangaroos can travel 50-100 miles a day, the next day he would be sighted far, far from the prior location. There was rampant speculation that people were just imagining that they had seen a kangaroo, or that it was really just a deer, until one day a couple policemen cornered it in an alley - one ended up in the hospital as it reared back on its tail and kicked the heck out of the policeman's shins. After that no one questioned the fact that there really was a kangaroo on the loose in Chicago.

It took a couple weeks, but eventually they figured out that it had escaped from the Davenport zoo, a couple hundred miles away. It made for a lively news story every night. No doubt there were some false reports of sightings mixed in with the genuine ones.

There is a mention of the story in wikipedia, but it implies there was no kangaroo, and there is no mention of the policeman's injuries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_kangaroo
This article gives more details, and does mention the injuries:
http://www.dark-stories.com/eng/kangaroos_in_the_united_s...
And here's another article on "phantom kangaroos":
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/does-america-have-a-...
None of the articles mentions that the Chicago kangaroo was from Davenport.

As for military goats, I remember watching the changing of the guard in Quebec, Canada, at the old fort, and the ceremony somehow involved a goat, which gold horns, as I recall. I don't recall anyone complaining at the time that the ceremony should involve one less goat and one more person, though.

I'm also a Cub fan, so my feeling about goats is mixed! ;-)