To make a comical point out of a depressing topic: You and I might be so wise as to ignore if, for instance, a goat started telling us it was going to come aft

To make a comical point out of a depressing topic: You and I might be so wise as to ignore if, for instance, a goat started telling us it was going to come after us and steamroll our houses. Put the goat behind the wheel of a tank with a brick on the gas pedal, and I think you may start to see why there's a degree of real fear behind what otherwise would be off-kilter ranting from a surprisingly loquacious ungulate.