A man has been left confused and feeling somewhat sore after a large goat broke into his house and attacked him while he was still in his pyjamas.
Martin Arbuckle from Cullybackey, Northern Ireland, was in bed when he heard his partner, Lauren Coleman, shouting that an intruder was in their house.
Lauren had woken up a bit earlier to do some cleaning, leaving the front door open while mopping so that their dog could come and go.
Bizarrely, a huge goat then managed to get inside the home.
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The incident took place around 8.30am on 22 January and has since gone viral on TikTok with over 644,000 views and 39,200 likes.
“I was doing housework and had my front door open [and] was mopping the sitting room floor when I looked up [and] the goat was there, Lauren told What’sTheJam.com.
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“I was scared and woke Martin out of bed to come get it out.”
At first, Martin wasn’t too sure what was going but soon realised that this wasn’t a wind-up.
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Lauren said: “[At first] he thought I was joking, but when he came downstairs, he couldn’t believe it.
“Nothing like this has ever happened before.”
In the video, Martin can be seen wearing his Grinch pyjamas and physically tussling with the goat.
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The animal seems angry and at one stage lashes out at him.
“It’s going to bite me!” he says.
Initially, the goat appears to have control of the situation, forcing him to climb up the stairs.
“It’s going to end up humping you,” Lauren says.
After a short struggle, Martin manages to grab the animal by the horns and forcibly chucks it out of the door.
The couple believe the goat wandered in from nearby farmland.
Lauren said: “The goat came in from one of the fields near to our house, a local farmer came and got it afterwards.
“It wasn’t his, he just helped us to get it out of the estate.”
“I think Martin dealt with it pretty well – he was in shock afterwards though.
“The goat did hurt his back but he wasn’t angry afterwards, just tired!
“I’m forever grateful to him for getting it out – there was no way I was going near it, it smelled so bad.
“We’ve never heard of anything like this happening before.”
TikTok users have been left in stitches by the incident, with comments flooding in.
One person said: “The pyjamas makes this 1000 times funnier.”
Someone else added: “I have been screaming with laughter with this.”
“I think Martin taught he was dreaming by the look on his face,” said another person.
Someone else added: “This is one of them stories, if you didn’t film it, NOBODY would believe it hahahaha.”
“Hahahaha this has made my night. Just casually fighting a goat on the stair,” said another viewer.
The couple have been left “shocked” at the reaction that the video has received in such a short space of time.
And Martin is “fine” with the fact that a lot of comments focus on his Grinch pyjamas.
Lauren added: “We’ve been shocked at the reaction to the video, we never expected it to go viral.”
“He’s fine with it [the pyjama comments].
“Overall, we are just glad to have the story.
“It’s a wee memory that we will always remember and laugh about.”
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