Blake Shelton photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Nashville.
Rascal Flatts Photo Courtesy of Lyric Street Records
July 10, 2006--Rascal Flatts’ Gary LeVox tells X Radio that one of his fellow artists, Blake Shelton, wasn’t exactly deserving of the welcome wagon when he had to go meet his new neighbor. Gary explains that Blake had to break the news to the sheriff’s deputy that he just killed one of his goats that had been constantly eating stuff on Blake's property.
"So Blake grabbed a shotgun with like birdshot," says Gary. "[You] shoot ‘em in the rear end and they take off running. He shot one and it dropped, so he thought it was a fainting goat. So he walks up there and he was like, ‘Good Lord, I’ve killed this goat.’ And he knew it was the neighbor’s. So he goes over there and knocks on the door and says, ‘Sir, I want to introduce myself. I’m Blake Shelton, your new neighbor. You don’t happen to have any goats, do you?’ He says, ‘Yeah, I’ve got two of them. They’re my little girls’ pets.’
"Blake says, ‘I don’t know how to tell you this, but I’ve killed one of them goats. It was eatin’ my rugs and everything else. But I was just shootin’ at it just to get him to run back over there.’"
Gary adds that when Blake and his neighbor went back to Blake's house to retrieve the dead goat, the officer’s dog had followed them down there. Apparently the neighbor feared Blake would shoot his dog too and started frantically yelling at him to "get on back to the house!"
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