Comments | adnanymous: 450 sheep commit mass suicide!

adnanymous

450 sheep commit mass suicide!

Jul 08, 2005 20:38

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - 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 ( Read more... )

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sweetnsoursuzy July 9 2005, 07:34:38 UTC

How SAD!!!

And how the heck can they be worth that much?

adnanymous July 9 2005, 22:11:28 UTC

You know what I think happened? A sheep must have gotten really close to the edge, slipped and fell off. Naturally, being a bunch of, well, sheep, they followed! They must have thought "Flock to the edge of the cliff, let us be with our fearless leader!" And they all perished . . .

adnanymous July 9 2005, 22:13:00 UTC

And I don't know, livestock must be expensive, I guess . . .

amzimme July 10 2005, 07:37:55 UTC

sheep are worth that much b/c of all they yield in a lifetime--their coat alone, followed i guess inevitable by their meat in the end... depending of course on whether you make fabric from their fleece yourself or sell it as a raw material...

but that isn't funny adnan, it's terrible.

lemmings do that, you know... when there are too many of them and the entire ... errr... pack, i guess, starts feeling the consequences of overpopulation, they just stampede, and if you're not in the very back and you trip, you get crushed by the rest, and they just keep going until they reach a) an ocean and the front half drown themselves or b) a cliff and the front half fall to their deaths... usually there are only about ten to fifteen survivors... very few...

i doubt that's what these were doing, though. sheep aren't known for that. SOMETHING must have compelled them... watch Turkey for a huge earthquake or something in the near future...

adnanymous July 10 2005, 18:32:26 UTC

^ Making people feel awful, one day at a time . . . just kidding! ;) It is a bad thing to have happened, both for the sheep and the shepherds. I don't know if this is an indicator of some cataclysmic event, though. But, I don't know, you could be right.

amzimme July 11 2005, 05:09:12 UTC

i have great faith in animals. more than in humans, actually. they're so much more evolved... physically, emotionally,...

spiritually, accumenically... grammatically... i just want you to know, i was rooting for you--know that...

sorry, couldn't resist a little POTC there... it fit so well!!! but yeah, sheep don't just leap off cliffs to their death, and entire herds do not follow one random sheep. something was goin' on there. the devil at work...

say, adnan, where were YOU on the day in question?