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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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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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.

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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

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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.

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