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Work in a tire shop and you’ll see your share of lug nuts. But the guys at Tires Plus in Winona, Minn., will never forget their encounter last Friday.

It started with a broken serpentine belt and a driver stopping in for a repair.

The woman was told the fix would take an hour and that she should stop back then. But before she left she had a little something to share.

“By the way,” service writer James Prusi recalls the woman saying, “There’s a goat in my trunk.”

Prusi wasn’t sure he heard correctly, so he asked the woman to repeat herself.

“She said she was going to butcher the goat.”

Now the guys at Tires Plus aren’t ones to meddle in their customer’s business, but then the goat started crying.

“It sounded like a child almost in the trunk,” said Prusi.

He and the other workers decided they just had to open that trunk.

That’s when the story got even weirder.

Under the lid they found the goat’s feet tied together. He was painted purple and gold. On each of the goat’s sides was a shaved Brett Favre number four.

Some might find the very notion amusing.

But not service technician Jeff Bronk.

“It’s not funny. If it was a customer and they got tied up they wouldn’t think it was funny.”

The workers called Winona animal control, which arrived along with three police squad cars.

Officers removed the goat from the trunk and questioned the woman.

In statement police said the goat had been in the trunk about an hour.

The woman said she was driving to Minneapolis. There was no mention of taking the goat to Friday night’s pre-season Minnesota Vikings game, to be played later that evening.

Workers at the tire shop say the woman was traveling with a man and a child. She gave her address as St. Paul at the tire shop, though an animal control officer said the woman was from Onalaska, Wis.

Her case will be turned over to the Winona city attorney for possible animal cruelty charges.

Police say the one-year-old goat was scared and lethargic when it was removed from the trunk.

There is however a happy ending.

As of Monday evening, the newly named Brett the goat was making his home in Packers country, namely the Eleva, Wis. farm of Duane and Carlene Schultz.

“He will have a good life here,” said Carlene who agreed to take in the goat at the request of Winona police.

They know a little something about Bretts at the Schultz farm.

Last summer their ill-timed Brett Favre corn maze made international news.

“We think it’s a happy ending for this Brett,” laughs Carlene. “I don’t know how the ending will be for the other Brett.”

That ol’ grey mare, she ain’t what she used to be

What would we do without the Associated Press?

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina man was charged with having sex with a horse after the animal’s owner caught the act on videotape, then staked out the stable and caught him at shotgun point, authorities said Wednesday.

But this wasn’t the first time Rodell Vereen has been charged. He pleaded guilty last year to having sex with the same horse after owner Barbara Kenley found him in the same stable. Then he was sentenced to probation and placed on the state’s sex offender list.

Kenley said she noticed several weeks ago that her 21-year-old horse Sugar was acting strange and getting infections. She noticed things in the barn had been moved around — dirt piled up and bales of hay stacked near the horse’s stall at her Lazy B Stables in Longs, about 20 miles northeast of Myrtle Beach.

“Police kept telling me it couldn’t be the same guy,” Kenley said Wednesday. “I couldn’t believe that there were two guys going around doing this to the same horse.”

She spent several nights at the stables, which are about 4 miles from her home, but didn’t find anything. So she installed surveillance cameras, and when she reviewed the footage from July 19, she couldn’t believe she was seeing the same man doing the same thing to her horse.

Kenley didn’t call police because she was certain the man would come back to the stable, and she wanted to make sure he was arrested. So she staked out the barn and caught Vereen inside Monday night, chasing him to his truck and holding him with her shotgun until police came.

“He said he wasn’t there to do anything, and I said, ‘I know you were. I have you on tape.’ And then he said he was sorry if he hurt me,” Kenley said.

Vereen, 50, was first charged with trespassing, but police added a buggery charge after watching the surveillance tape.

He faces up to five years if convicted. Vereen was already on probation after pleading guilty to buggery last year and was sentenced to three years of probation, ordered to stay away from the Lazy B Stables and declared a sex offender.

He remains in jail, awaiting a hearing Monday to determine if he violated his probation.

Vereen has had mental problems for several years, but seemed to get better after getting court-ordered treatment last year, said his brother, the Rev. James Vereen, who lives just down the street from his brother and the stables.

“He’s done all right when he was on the medicine. I don’t know if he is still taking it,” said James Vereen, who added his brother has kept to himself a lot in the last few months.

Kenley pointed out that she caught Vereen in 2007, too. him then too. She stopped by her stable on Thanksgiving Day and found a man asleep in the hay by her horse, who had been locked in her stall, a mound of dirt and a stool behind her.

She said she thought about shooting Vereen both times, but didn’t want to go to prison.

“Everyone around here has horses,” Kenley said. “And they all said the same thing. You should have shot him.”