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

[BikeWriter]

1. That's why they call them sheep.

[ixion]

2. society imitates sheep, I guess

:-(

[Phentex]

3. That's why they call them sheep.

:)

[dhinojosa]

4. Maybe one sheep said "Support the troops" and jumped

and others followed in the abyss feeling guilty that they weren't supporting freedom. Of course, wtf am I talking about, this was in Turkey.

Yowsa!

:sarcasm:

[Mikimouse]

5. Well, I guess that's the end of FR...musta been their entire membership

:nopity:

[Bzzzz]

6. Let's try that...

with the republicans! All of 'em...}(

[Historic NY]

7. Thats what they get for watching Faux News..............n/t

[Mutley]

8. Am I the only one who thinks this is really sad?

:cry:

Why did they do that? I mean, I know they're sheep, but they're not lemmings for goodness sake!

[biscodawg]

10. sucks for the families too

that lost their sheep and potential revenue :(

[Mutley]

13. You're right.

As a super animal lover I tend to think of the animals before people, but this is very sad for the families as well. What will they do now?

[cyberpj]

15. My first question exactly. Why? I didn't see a single reason suggested.

It's just weird.

[Sannum]

9. Oh how Baaaaaaaaaaaaad.

:evilgrin:

did they happen to be republicans?

[supernova]

11. That's bizarre

I've never heard of sheep doing that before.

Maybe one was ill and others followed. :shrug:

Ill. Hmmmm. Don't sheep get a form of mad cow disease?

[Deja Q]

12. Maybe God was suffering from insomnia and neded some help...

And when you're God, you don't need to spend $8 on Nytol...

[Flammable Materials]

14. I didn't know there was a Freeper convention in Turkey this weekend. n/t