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I don’t know what is weirder about this story — that it is a common Oregon State prank to steal sheep, or that Oregon State is actively studying homosexuality in sheep populations.

Beavers player Ben Michael Siegert was apparently caught driving the getaway vehicle that whisked a ram away from the university’s Sheep Center, according to police.

…The ram lives at the research facility on 35th Street near Campus Way and is part of a study on homosexuality in sheep, said Sheep Center manager Tom Nichols.

…”We have at least one prank a year where we have to go to a dormitory or a sorority house and pick up a ram or a lamb or a ewe,” Nichols said. “It’s one of those springtime pranks.”