A Horse is a Horse...

The Seattle Times:

King County sheriff's detectives are investigating the owners of an Enumclaw-area farm after a Seattle man died from injuries sustained while having sex with a horse boarded on the property. ... Deputies don't believe a crime occurred because bestiality is not illegal in Washington state and the horse was uninjured, said Urquhart. But because investigators found chickens, goats and sheep on the property, they are looking into whether animal cruelty — which is a crime — was committed by having sex with these smaller, weaker animals, he said. The farm was talked about in Internet chat rooms as a destination for people looking to have sex with livestock, he said. 'A significant number of people, we believe, have likely visited this farm,' said Urquhart.

Here in Washington State, it is not uncommon for us to make jokes about Montana and Sheep-lovin. It looks like we can't make those jokes anymore, as to the best of my knowledge Montana has never had a sheep brothel, at it appears that Washington has one, an much more than sheep are offered. I also had no idea that such behavior is legal here. I don't know whether bestiality should be legal or not. I find such behavior disgusting, but it is hard to come up with a moral principle that makes it ok to kill and eat an animal but not ok to copulate with one. It is still gross though. (via Environmental Republican)