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I guess that part is appropriate.
Weird ~~that Texas apparently sacrificed one of their own for this.~~
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
Ok, I’ll give them enough credit for this.
I interpreted it more as Okie State fans showing what's going to happen to Texas.
I’m with jordanlund who posted confusion over why put it where it was.
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.
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.
This explanation makes more sense... got a more up-to-date source?
Still fucked up, even more if there's a history of dead animals.
Here's similar statement from an article I found.
Kennedy Thomason, a reporter for The O'Colly, told _WFAA that she speculates this to be a prank from a rival fraternity. She was first on the scene, and her pictures of the steer before it was hauled off have been widely shared.
"I can't confirm that, but from my own opinion, yeah, that's what I would say."_
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/national/oklahoma-state-university-dead-longhorn-frat/287-ca3af896-9f69-4509-b837-7c4bc3ce9022
The original statement I made originated from a local OSU podcast. I'm not sure where that was from and can't source it. __
Edit: For what it's worth "The O'Colly" looks like Oklahoma State's student newspaper?
https://www.ocolly.com/news/dead-longhorn-found-outside-farmhouse-fraternity-house/article_c27ef918-9063-11ee-989e-6f2f0cdec32e.html
The pictures make it so much worse. I pictured a dead cow on some luscious green field in front of a nice old college building.
No, just a dead cow on the sidewalk in the mud, surrounded by muddy tire tracks from whatever absolute loser's pickup truck they used to dump off the dead animal, and it's in the middle of some neighborhood that doesn't have any grass, just mud.
Yea, it doesn't really matter if this was done because of a rivalry between schools or between fraternities. It's pretty fucked up regardless. Hopefully, they find the responsible parties and hold them accountable
You’re right, that wasn’t actually said anywhere.
Ah yes....Texas, where they care more about the rights of cattle than the rights of human women.
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.
I'm not making fun of anything. I thought it was ironic that you were so incensed about a cow when there seems to be bigger problems to tackle in the lone star state. Since this seems to be an issue of great emotional bearing to you, then so be it. Who am I to judge 🤷♂️
It's possible to be angry about more than one thing at a time, you know? There are a lot of Texans who are angry or depressed because of our legislature. This is just another thing to throw on the pile.
Fair enough, that's a valid critique and I know there are plenty of people in Texas who do not support the status quo. I also know the gerrymandering there is just insane as you said.