Store Owner: "Why would someone steal my 14-Foot inflatable sheep"?

[matcom]

:rofl:

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(AP) Rochester, Minn. America's Mattress co-owner Jim Sather is left puzzled after a rustler stole Serta Mattresses' inflatable 14-foot sheep from their store here.

"I can't figure out what someone would do with a 14-foot sheep," Sather said. "It can't go in your basement and if it's in your back yard, your neighbor will notice. If it's target practice, it only lasts once."

All the thief or thieves left was a handwritten note at the scene of the crime that read: "For the sheep, bring peace to the earth."

Sather said their mascot is missed.

"He's the granddaddy of all sheep and there's a whole flock that will miss him," Sather said.

The sheep is labeled with a No. 1 and is worth an estimated $3,500.

Serta produces "plushie" toy sheep replicas and in its commercials, a flock of unemployed white sheep roam neighborhoods seeking a home without a Serta mattress.

According to the commercials, Serta Mattresses are so comfortable that the time-honored tradition of counting sheep to put oneself to sleep isn't needed.

http://wcco.com/watercooler/local_story_198221252.html

[distantearlywarning]

1. Perhaps it will end up here in a few weeks:

http://www.pennsicwar.org/penn35/index.html

[Arger68]

2. Hey, I'm a big guy. I need a big girlfriend!

And Rochester is only an hour away from me!!

[Hugin]

3. Oooh, I finally get the phrase...

"Save your breath you'll need it to blow up your girlfriend."

:thumbsup:

[xmas74]

4. Why wouldn't they steal it?

Think about how much you could sell it for later on.

[Hugin]

5. Maybe they're going to make it into condoms.

Big condoms... Very big condoms... =/

[Gormy Cuss]

6. I believe Handel wrote about this in 'The Messiah'

There's that chorus in Part III:
'All we like sheep'

[jobycom]

7. When no one has said yes past Last Call...

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

8. Um...why not?

I know in HS, my friends and I would have easily devoted weeks into plotting how to probably steal that thing.

[txwhitedove]

9. Hey, gutter-brainiacs, Big Sheep is being held hostage.....

note "...bring peace to the earth." Sounds like a plan to me.
We kidnap all the garden gnomes and flamingos until SOMEBODY
decides to really lead the world out of the current madness.