The horror, eh Lambchop? Or, did you have a hand in instigating all of this?
Posted on 07/08/2005 10:02:19 AM PDT by Sax
Fri Jul 8, 9:30 AM ET
ISTANBUL, Turkey - First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as nearly 1,500 others followed, each leaping off the same cliff, Turkish media reported.
In the end, 450 dead animals lay on top of one another in a billowy white pile, the Aksam newspaper said. Those who jumped later were saved as the pile got higher and the fall more cushioned, Aksam reported.
"There's nothing we can do. They're all wasted," Nevzat Bayhan, a member of one of 26 families whose sheep were grazing together in the herd, was quoted as saying by Aksam.
The estimated loss to families in the town of Gevas, located in Van province in eastern Turkey, tops $100,000, a significant amount of money in a country where average GDP per head is around $2,700.
"Every family had an average of 20 sheep," Aksam quoted another villager, Abdullah Hazar as saying. "But now only a few families have sheep left. It's going to be hard for us."
The horror, eh Lambchop? Or, did you have a hand in instigating all of this?
Yowzah! That's gonna be one BIG mutton barbecue!
LOL!!!!
Emmett pressed on. With gentle pressure on his inner thighs, he could feel Evelyn's warmth. Ah, that reassuring warmth and the unspoken promise of the embrace waiting for him at the end of this long, dusty trail.
ISTANBUL, Turkey - First one liberal jumped to its death. Then stunned Turks, who had left the libs to graze while they had breakfast, watched as nearly 1,500 others followed, each leaping off the same cliff, Turkish media reported.
In the end, 450 dead liberals lay on top of one another in a billowy white pile, the Aksam newspaper said. Those who jumped later were saved as the pile got higher and the fall more cushioned, Aksam reported.
"There's nothing we can do. They're all wasted," Nevzat Bayhan, a member of one of 26 families whose liberals were grazing together in the herd, was quoted as saying by Aksam.
The estimated loss to families in the town of Gevas, located in Van province in eastern Turkey, tops $100,000, a significant amount of money in a country where average GDP per head is around $2,700.
"Every family had an average of 20 liberals," Aksam quoted another villager, Abdullah Hazar as saying. "But now only a few families have any left. It's going to be hard for us."
I'd bet money that those sheep were listening to Air America.
Reinforces my perception of sheep as pasture maggots. Animals just waiting to die and not smart enough to come in out of the rain.
LOL!!!!
The only thing missing is a reference to SCAMBY Andy Stephenson and donating money to help other liberals from jumping to their deaths.
On a more serious note (stop laughing - stop laughing)...
We had a gaggle of sheep jump to their deaths in Sonoma County about two years ago. I tried to find a link - but couldn't.
Sheep are ... well, sheep.
I see you finally found the "replace" feature in MS Word...
Maybe they were possessed!
But I actually did that manually. Took some work ya know.....
LOL!
No good can from sheep that are out drinking.
LOL! I guess it will have to be a stewed mutton.
I learned about this phenomenon from my Grandfather (cowboy, homesteader, indian agent) through a joke he told me that I didn't get at the time (I was about 6 and lived outside NYC).
If you have 10 sheep in a pen and one jumps out, how many are left?
the correct answer is none.
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