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Deputies in Maine got an "urgent" call about a screaming woman, and they rushed to the scene

There, they found a goat named Simon who loves to yell

"I don't know how to make a goat be quiet," said Simon's owner, Devon Hawes

A vocal goat alarmed the residents of a small town in Maine when its shrieks sounded like a cry for help.

The Penobscot County Sheriff's Office in Etna, Maine, responded to an "urgent report of a woman screaming" around 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 30, per a statement from the police and local station WABI 5 . After a team "raced" to the scene, officials didn't find a person in distress — but rather a goat, who "seemed to have plenty to express."

Simon, the Hawes' family Nigerian dwarf goat at Oak Shade Farm, had been shouting into the void that a

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