Dear Editor,

So, Im taking a walk tonight with my friend. We were walking through the Admiral District of West seattle. This is right at the tip of the peninsula, where there are really expensive houses.

We came across this house under construction. It was surrounded by a construction fence. Behind this fence were 50 goats.

They were there to eat the blackberry bushes growing behind the house. All of a sudden, they find a place where the fence isn't held together correctly. One got loose, and half of them poured out the hole. I got in front of the hole, but the rest went in the back yard, and somehow got out somewhere else.

My friend called the police. They took about 10 minutes to get there. In the meantime, the goats are eating all the beautiful shrubry of the houses in the neighborhood.

Neighbors are coming out to see what was happening. Im tring to keep them from walking down the stairs to busy california ave. So, one of the cops grabs one of them by the horns. and puts it in the yard, where I held it by its horns.

The idea was to have the herd follow in. Half did. It took about a half hour for us to get them all back in the yard. We also had to fix the holes in the front and back yard. By the time we left, the Channel 7 helicopter was in the air, and we saw the Channel 13 news truck coming down the street.

Bill Gehring
West Seattle