Nov 4 2010Dam You Crazy: Goats Climbing Vertical Dam
See this dam? Look closer at the left corner. Recognizable shape? It's a goat. Or, more specifically, an Alpine ibex. And the rest of the shadows are all the same. They're climbing the Cingino Dam in Italy and licking the salt deposits in the rocks because their veggie diets don't provide them with enough sodium. Pfft -- too much salt's bad for you anyways! I don't want salt-diabetes. You guys are cray-cray for climbing that damn dam all the time. If you don't mind I'm just gonna just sit here and watch, maybe nibble one of your turds once you're back on solid ground. What?! Ibex you won't think it's so gross when one of you takes a nose-dive!
Hit the jump for several close-ups and a video of the, uh, you do know salt's cheap as shit at the store, right? Just sayin', I'll go buy you some.
"Mind-Boggling" Pictures: Goats Scale Dam in Italy [nationalgeographic]
and
Buffalo Bill Dam [snopes]
Thanks to Chuck Nunchuck, who claims he can climb perfectly horizontal walls on the underside. Chuck, those are called ceilings.
Reader Comments
1. VIK!!! - November 4, 2010 8:02 PM
BAAAAAAAAAAAAA
2. to - November 4, 2010 8:05 PM
it's fake, goats are extinct.
3. Max "Big Dog" Boivin - November 4, 2010 8:08 PM
Crazy goat! I want one to put on the side of my tower!
4. h2opolopunk - November 4, 2010 8:09 PM
I, for one, welcome our dam-climbing overlords.
5. Xarcert - November 4, 2010 8:11 PM
It's totally photo shopped. you can tell cuz the shadows are all wrong. this is just like the time in that movie Break back mountain when they were looking at the fire and then looked in each others eyes and then one of them farted
6. MP - November 4, 2010 8:15 PM
hmm I wonder if any have fallen down that.
and another idea is going through my head. Can you ride one up that?
7. Dr.GM - November 4, 2010 8:30 PM
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8. rox - November 4, 2010 9:05 PM
oh no. they are not doing that.
9. Hmmmm - November 4, 2010 9:07 PM
@5
Lern2Daisy
10. derp - November 4, 2010 9:11 PM
where we are going we, don't need roads!
11. naas - November 4, 2010 9:28 PM
daaammmmmmmnnnnnn
12. J - November 4, 2010 9:29 PM
This isnt Italy. Its a dam in New Zealand and the goats are 'hiding' on the wall cause they've seen what New Zealanders do to sheep.
13. Megan - November 4, 2010 9:41 PM
Cray-Cray, I love it!
14. someguy - November 4, 2010 9:50 PM
What's really cool is after they get to the top they bungee jump.
15. zeocide - November 4, 2010 10:04 PM
@5
You are such a tool.
16. tony - November 4, 2010 10:27 PM
congratulations! you posted this only weeks after my mom sent me this in a chain email!
17. nathan - November 4, 2010 10:32 PM
what would happen if you made a really loud noise like shoot a gun or something... would they all jump lol
18. Paty - November 4, 2010 10:44 PM
@16 You haven't been visiting geekologie that long. You sir are the tool. I get mad at jokes I don't get too. Internet sarcasm is a bitch.
19. Shopper - November 4, 2010 10:45 PM
This is obviously shopped, you can tell because the shadows are all wrong and I've seen lots of shops in my day to tell you that this is infarct, SHOPPED.
20. Monty - November 4, 2010 10:59 PM
That goat makes it look easy.
21. Idoyorrmom - November 4, 2010 11:18 PM
They are actually really doing that without the help of Photoshop. I've seen them.
Every now and then you fat morons should look what's behind the parking lot of McDonalds and your PC screen for real!
22. galamot - November 4, 2010 11:22 PM
Oh my Goat!!
23. FireFlynexes - November 4, 2010 11:33 PM
Hey Gravity F-U I'm a goat!
24. Syd - November 4, 2010 11:51 PM
That's a WoW exploit....I'm writing a ticket to the GM about them...
25. ciao - November 4, 2010 11:53 PM
Its the great wall of goats.
26. YouPeopleMakeMeSigh - November 5, 2010 12:49 AM
Wow.... I love how people like to immediately dispute the pictures, calling them photoshopped and/or claiming that the dam is not in Italy. Cause, you know, the source is only NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. As if THEY ever tell the truth.
Get a grip people! AT LEAST check the sources.
27. zeocide - November 5, 2010 12:50 AM
@19
Oh yeah because that really is posted EVERYWHERE on the site. I'm on Geekologie every single day. The fact that people use memes that almost always have no way of showing if they are serious or not is fucking retarded. I've seen tons of people who honest to god think all of this shit is faked using computer software so how the hell am I suppose to know?
28. skip - November 5, 2010 12:57 AM
spiderman aint got shit on this
29. sonniea - November 5, 2010 1:08 AM
did you know that one out of every five children attacked by goats will grow up to be a socialpath.
i <3 goats!
30. Tesla - November 5, 2010 1:14 AM
I don't know what's worse. The fucktards saying the same photoshop joke over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over or the super fucktards who take them seriously.
For example @27: I'm rendered speechless by this guys clear knack for comprehension.
LRN2LRNTROLLSFUCKTARDS
31. Mr pistachio - November 5, 2010 1:22 AM
I think that we should just use a sarcmark!
32. hien - November 5, 2010 2:20 AM
@27: lolz hard. Take a cool glass of water gramp!
33. Bugz - November 5, 2010 2:29 AM
@30
you can't have inequalities with imagenary numbers and/or goats
34. Enix - November 5, 2010 3:33 AM
I have to say this:
Spider-goat, spider-goat :)))
35. Rummy - November 5, 2010 3:54 AM
I like Goats.
36. Andrea - November 5, 2010 6:00 AM
NO FAKE. I'm italian i know this dam. :)
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/39881888
37. mrrgl - November 5, 2010 7:05 AM
watever, this shit happens all the time in the ghetto
38. cat - November 5, 2010 7:14 AM
Oh, have you seen my goat?
Seen my goat, seen my goat?
39. Woll - November 5, 2010 7:43 AM
Reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggB33d0BLcY
40. Rzah - November 5, 2010 7:56 AM
It might look cool but it's dangerous, Those old dams just weren't designed for the focussed point loads you get with these modern salt licking goats, an excess of goats could easily cause catastrophic fractures in the superstructure.
41. grfhgfjnfm - November 5, 2010 8:23 AM
where the fuck is my sarcmark?!
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43. Rick - November 5, 2010 9:14 AM
More proof that animals are not amazing... they're stupid. If they were smart like us they'd drive to McDonald's in their SUVs and order a large order of salty fries and a chocolate shake to wash 'em down. Instead they lick walls. You don't see any people up there licking rocks... because humans rule.
44. F Obomma & His Momma - November 5, 2010 9:21 AM
They're forced to do this because Obomma is such a loser.
45. Chuck Nunchuck - November 5, 2010 9:43 AM
This is easy to do.
46. Gargamel - November 5, 2010 9:45 AM
Now...imagine if those goats were of the fainting variety.
47. Mike - November 5, 2010 9:46 AM
Humans can't do this because they only have 2 feet. And no hooves. And brains.
48. naas - November 5, 2010 9:54 AM
@47 true true.....
@48 hA!!
49. kim - November 5, 2010 9:58 AM
AHH!! Don't fall little goats!!!!!!!
50. cyberslacks - November 5, 2010 10:08 AM
I Like Turtles!!!!
51. Ickorus - November 5, 2010 10:13 AM
Spider goat, spider goat, does whatever a spider can...
52. Johnny Lava - November 5, 2010 10:47 AM
...am I the only one who understood 5's sarcasm :D
53. alittlegnat - November 5, 2010 11:25 AM
they are sooo cute !! amazing foot-design ftw
54. Dolobill - November 5, 2010 11:30 AM
@16, 22, 27, 28, 38
Is this your first time using the internet?
55. TwelvePastSunset - November 5, 2010 11:32 AM
totes my goats.
56. Shelbon - November 5, 2010 11:45 AM
@28 you deduce the truth through context clues
57. Fors - November 5, 2010 11:56 AM
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59. Shelbon - November 5, 2010 12:36 PM
These comments really get my goat
60. scatze - November 5, 2010 12:38 PM
Okay guys...How do we get back down?
61. brittiny - November 5, 2010 12:52 PM
I want a goat SOO cute XD
62. Obomma Momma - November 5, 2010 12:54 PM
Obomma is trying to collect tax from the goats because they didn't pay for the salt.
63. JoJo Beans - November 5, 2010 2:25 PM
OLD! Way to be on top of these things. (I always wanted to be the douche that says that. Hahahahah-- oh.)
64. http://www.ConfessionsOfAManwhore.com - November 5, 2010 4:18 PM
lol if a goat fell. ouch
65. DigDug - November 5, 2010 5:10 PM
This is totally fake. You can tell because you can see on the edges they were using a green screen.
66. zeocide - November 5, 2010 5:18 PM
@19
Oh wow yup that joke is so fucking funny I forgot to laugh. I bet you also think me charging my dick laser and firing a double rainbow jizz shot on your mom's face is funny in over 9000 different way to.
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68. hugo - November 6, 2010 4:01 PM
Spider pig.. i mean goat..
69. Mac - November 6, 2010 10:43 PM
@67 ... thats called GRASS, its cool, only if you have been OUTSIDE ... ever heard of it? It's really a neat place, you ought to try it
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71. YoMama - November 8, 2010 10:49 AM
Hope they aren't fainting goats..............
72. Me - November 9, 2010 3:09 PM
These are SO real! I see goats doing this all the time in Mexico....climbing to reach a source of food or even shade.....NOT PHOTOSHOPPED!!!