They don't call 'em Sheeple for nothin' - 450 Sheep Jump to Their Deaths

[cyberpj]

Any Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fans here?
("So long... so long... so long... thanks for all the fish.")
What do the sheep know that we don't?


450 Sheep Jump to Their Deaths in Turkey

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.

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.''

07/08/05 09:30

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?floc=FF-APO-PLS&idq=/ff/story/0001/20050708/0931030685.htm

[lonestarnot]

1. And that's why they have shepherds and sheep dogs with big teeth!

[Botany]

2. Lesson to shepherds .....

..... do not have the sheep watch Fox news.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

9. can't breathe!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

3. In Thomas Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd, Farmer Gabriel

Oaks has a deranged sheepdog, who one night, herded most of Oaks' sheep off of a cliff.

[Spinzonner]

4. This is what happens when

you interbreed your sheep with Lemmings.

[bigtree]

5. only a few families have sheep left. It's going to be hard

Average GDP per head is around $2,700. It's going to be hard.

[lonestarnot]

6. LOL good one!

[bigtree]

7. *sigh*

[lonestarnot]

10. So what I have a wierd sense of humor... I got the point... sheeple

[cyberpj]

8. I don't think it was meant to be funny. This is how these people make

their living.

[lonestarnot]

11. Well, WTF... sheep over the cliff ... What people? I was making an

analogy of sheep to people repukes.... not making fun of shepherds!