Nothing could have prepared farmer Huw Leyshon, having just pulled a drunken 20-year-old from the wheel of his Volvo, for what was sitting on the car's back seat.
The boy's accomplice was a large white goat.
"I thought it was me who was drunk," he said, "I thought I was seeing things. We've got a little goat ourselves, but this was a big white thing on the end of a long rope."
Carl Myles had stolen Snowy the goat on his way home from a party, in Skewen, near Swansea.
Myles, who had drunk 12 pints of cider and claims to have forgotten the whole incident, then bundled his unfortunate passenger into the car and drove off.
Fortunately, My Leyshon heard his Volvo starting up and was able to head off Myles in his tractor.
In court, Myles pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicle taking. He was ordered to carry out 120 hours of community service and pay £1,400 in compensation to My Leyshon.
Myles was also banned from driving and holding young driver car insurance for the next two years.
District Judge Richard Williams told him: "It seems to me you did this purely out of immense stupidity."
Sadly, bans on motor insurance and work in the community can't bring back Snowy, who died just two days after her kidnapping.
She belonged to Terry Batt, superintendent at nearby Skewen Park, and was doted on by his seven-year-old granddaughter.