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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    11 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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    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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    “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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    11 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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      There are zero (0) Texas fans bothering to locate a frat house in Stillwater, OK and transport a longhorn there, much less even go to Stillwater

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      I highly doubt it was someone from Texas. I will be trying to keep an eye on this though. I’m already angry that someone did this, I’m going to be livid if it was someone from Texas. The longhorn is one of Texas’ state animals; and even though it’s apparently not illegal to butcher one in Texas, if someone from Texas killed a longhorn like this I’m pretty sure they’d have a target on their back for the rest of their life.

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        I haven’t seen anyone mention it in this thread, but speculation is this is a feud between two Oklahoma State fraternities. They have been placing dead animals on each other’s property for months and this has nothing to do with the championship game. The longhorn apparently died on one of the students farms and they relocated it.

        I can’t confirm any of this, just what I read elsewhere.

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        Ah yes…Texas, where they care more about the rights of cattle than the rights of human women.

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          Bruh, A) Texans love longhorns. Again, it’s literally one of the state animals. B) you really think someone from UT is going to drive from Austin all the way up to OSU with a longhorn and kill it on the campus? That’s slightly over 1,000 miles (or +1700km). C) you can butcher a longhorn and eat it, but last I checked you can’t do that with women (and hopefully you never will).

          I get it, “lol let’s make fun of the Texans for having a backwards government lololol”. I hate it too. Fuck though man, our major cities are blue and very much care about stuff like abortion and lgbt rights, but our state is ridiculously gerrymandered. It’s gonna be a while before we really have a chance to actually fix anything.

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

    Pun not intended.

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    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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      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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        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.