Breaking news here, folks! Around $32,000 in goats have been stolen from two Wisconsin counties, and the police are stumped. $32,000 equates to about 120 goats, or 40,000 gyros. The animals just up and disappeared over the past month of so. Obviously, this ring of high-class goat thieves know what they’re doing. In one of the cases, goats were stolen while the guy watching them was taking a nap. Yeah – creepy.

You’d think something as ridiculous as mass goat-stealing would be hilarious, but it’s actually left some Wisconsin farmers in a really tough situation – those goats represented a large portion of their annual income. From NBC15.com out of Madison …

• Sheriff Todd Nehls and the Dodge County Sheriff's Department are handling the investigation. He says he's heard of maybe a single goat being stolen.
• "Some time we'd relate that to someone stealing a goat for a type of religious ritual, " says Sheriff Nehls. But nothing like this. "Something of this magnitude is very new to us."

The cops are taking it seriously, saying it’s like stealing a tractor or a car, or the burglary of somebody's house. They’re keeping an eye on local markets, hoping to notice anything suspicious … like a giant friggin’ influx of goat meat. Man, times are tough if Wisconsin’s criminals are resorting to goat thievery.