Silence Of The Lambs
Posted by Matthew on Friday July 8, 2005 @09:58PM
from the sad-but-true dept.
Mearzuh writes: We have some sad news to report to you today, coming from the great country of Turkey. It looks like there has been over 450 sheep that have lost their lives today in what seems to have been a mass-suicide pact amongst the animals. It was just one, at the beginning, that jumped off the cliff. Soon, 449 followed blindly. It is now believed that they could not handle a life of daily grazing and “maaah”’s.
Eye-witnesses describe the scene as a very fluffy pile of pillowy white at the bottom of the cliff. One eye-witness recalls, “There were 1500 sheep total. After the 450 jumped off and died, the rest of them followed, but bounced off the dead ones and so stayed alive. ‘Twas an amusing sight actually, bouncin’ sheep. Hehehe. But I didn’t see all of them bounce. I dozed off after counting 100 sheep.” There were an estimated $ 100,000 worth of damages made during this act.
Subject:This one's real
My God. I thought you were joking. Where do you find weird stuff like this? I can't believe the Washington Post (AP) actually printed this!
Comment by Laura Moncur — July 9, 2005 @ 6:45 am
Subject:Re: This one's real
Um, in the Washington Post?
Comment by Matthew — July 10, 2005 @ 11:24 pm
Subject:Sheep..le
This is a great story, I personally would have parodied the story with a play on all the Sheeple in the world! I work with some people like the 2+ sheep, blindly following whoever is in front.
Thanks for catching this story.
Comment by Mitch — July 12, 2005 @ 12:49 pm
Subject:Almost accurate
Actually, many many more than 450 jumped, but the rest failed in their attempted suicides by landing on the fluffy corpses of their more successful peers.
Comment by Andrew — July 13, 2005 @ 8:14 pm
Subject:Re: Almost accurate
Now we know why sheep are fluffy! Over thousands of years of evolution, self-sacrificing fluffy sheep survive better over equally stupid angry bony sheep.
Comment by Tyson — July 21, 2005 @ 10:05 am