When you allow someone to kill a sheep - in any way you can imagine, from shooting, stabbing, dropping off a tall building, electrocuting, or running it down with a vehicle - then it gets handed off to a buddy and it’s ok?
Maybe I’ve just been around more idiot young guys than most, but if you combine a heavy farm bumper, with the relatively small sheep, and in a few seconds of poor judgement it might have seemed like an easy way to get a big ram.
The teenage boy excuse of, “You didn’t see me do it, so you can’t accuse me of doing anything wrong,” works in some families, but not ours. If you don’t want to be called a duck, don’t walk like a duck, or talk like a duck.