Is a meme that shows a mugshot of a woman accused of herding goats through a Walmart while drinking margaritas from a jug a real news story? No, that's not true: The original meme appears to have originated on a satire account. The mugshots used in various posts are either of real women who were arrested for unrelated charges or AI-generated images.
The claim appeared in an August 17, 2026, post on X account @TheBuckYouWill (archived here). It opened:
🤣🤣🤣WHAT A LEGEND!!🤣🤣🤣
This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @TheBuckYouWill on X.)
The post appears shows a screenshot of a news story, which is attributed WXYZ-TV 7 in Detroit (archived here). This is a real news channel. However, Lead Stories searched Google (archived here) and Yahoo News (archived here) and did not find any matching reports of a woman accused of herding goats in Walmart while drinking margaritas from a jug published by WXYZ-TV.
The mugshot used in the post on X account @TheBuckYouWill claiming it is a Kansas woman is the real mugshot of Lily Stewart, a University of Georgia student who was arrested in Athens, Georgia, in 2025. Her glamorous look went viral and news outlets published her mugshot at the time. WSB-TV Atlanta published a story with her mugshot on March 24, 2025 (archived here). This is what the article with the mugshot looked like on WSBTV.com at the time of writing:
(Image source: WSB-TV.com)
There are other versions of the meme that accuse women across various states, like Kansas or Texas, of the "crime." They also use different mugshots, none of which match a woman being arrested or accused of herding goats in a Walmart while drinking margaritas from a jug.
Another version of the meme posted on August 12, 2026, on Facebook account @BridgetKlineTaber (archived here) makes the same claim about a woman accused of herding goats through a Walmart while drinking margaritas from a jug, but with a different mugshot. Here is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @BridgetKlineTaber on Facebook.)
Lead Stories ran the mugshot image through the Hive Moderation AI-Generated Content Detection tool, which returned an aggregated score of 99%, indicating that it is likely to be AI-generated:
(Image source: Hive Moderation.)
The meme appears to have originated in June 2026 from satire Instagram account @TheDudeHumorReport (archived here). The post used images of a blonde woman that included overlayed text that read, "Orlando FL PD." The post's caption told the tale of a Texas woman accused of herding goats in a Walmart while drinking margaritas from a jug. The caption included the hashtags "#satire #funny #comedy #fblifestyle #FORENTERTAINMENTONLY." This is what the post looked like on Instagram at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @TheDudeHumorReport on Instagram.)
That version of the meme was posted on Facebook account @RichO'Toole (archived here). Here is what that post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @RichO'Toole on Facebook.)
