Turns Out Grandpa Loves the Museum a Little Too Much

Some people like going to the Eatonville Pioneer Farm Museum to see the genuine 1880s cabin. For others, it's the chance to participate in the craft instructions or walk the nature trail.

Arthur Lawton, however, goes to fuck the goats. Allegedly.

According to court papers, says the Times, witnesses saw 63-year-old Lawton "having sex with a goat in a barn" at the museum.

He was booked into Pierce County jail last night, charged with animal cruelty in the first degree, a felony. There was a warrant out for Lawton's arrest after he missed a court date last Friday.

In case you're wondering exactly where the line is drawn between, say, petting an animal and having sex with it, the Legislature provides a definition:

"Sexual contact" means any contact, however slight, between the mouth, sex organ, or anus of a person and the sex organ or anus of an animal, or any intrusion, however slight, of any part of the body of the person into the sex organ or anus of an animal, or any intrusion of the sex organ or anus of the person into the mouth of the animal, for the purpose of sexual gratification or arousal of the person.

Note the last clause there--sexual contact with an animal is only a crime if the purpose to arouse the person. So if you're just giving an animal pity sex, you're in the clear. We'll assume this will be Lawton's defense.