Gary the Goat walks free after police caught him eating flowers outside Sydney museum

When a magistrate realised who the next defendant was on the court list she must have thought the police were kidding, so to speak. For the miscreant was Gary – Gary the goat that is. And while it was Gary’s owner who had been booked, it was the goat who was the real culprit, Magistrate Carolyn Barkell was told in Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court today. Owner James Dezarnaulds, a comedian who is also known as Jimbo Bazoobi, had been issued with a £292 fine last August after police caught Gary chomping away on flowers outside Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, which is located beside the city harbour. Mr Bazoobi decided the fine was unjust and elected to take the case to court. He took Gary along with him, too, but the goat, wearing a rainbow hat, was asked to remain outside while the case proceeded. Miss Barkell noted that ‘he did eat garden plants.’ But she said there was no evidence Mr Bazoobi had brought Gary to the area with the intention of vandalising vegetation. more