450 Sheep Jump to Their Deaths in Turkey

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Friday July 8, 2005 2:31 PM

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.''

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 9 July 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)

crazy

― Nevada Lime (nordicskilla), Saturday, 9 July 2005 01:59 (twenty years ago)

well that's reassuring

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Saturday, 9 July 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

Shit $100,000 is a pretty significant amount of money in my neighborhood, too.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 9 July 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

they drank the kool-aid!

― president carter loves repetition (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 9 July 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

baaaaaaaaaaaaaaad news

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 9 July 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

lam(b)e joke.

― Frogm@n Henry, Saturday, 9 July 2005 02:13 (twenty years ago)

I'd join in on the punfest, but I got mutton.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 9 July 2005 02:14 (twenty years ago)

It's, like, the first one made the jump, and the rest of them just followed, like..., like....

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 9 July 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)

...like lemmings!

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 9 July 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)

"Where the hell did the sheep go?!"
"Man, stop bustin' my chops."

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 9 July 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes ewe just gotta ram it home.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 9 July 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if their last words were "Goodbye Wool!"

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 9 July 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

What's the difference between Mick Jagger and a Scotsman?

Mick sez, "Hey you, get off of my cloud!"
the scotsman sez, "Hey McCloud, get off of my ewe!"

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Saturday, 9 July 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

It's a cote world we live in.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 9 July 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

Shear madness.

― Masked Gazza, Saturday, 9 July 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)

Why did everyone think Ronnie Biggs was Scottish?
Because he was on the lamb for so long.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 9 July 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

I built 14 miles of wall in this county, with nought but stones and these two hands! Do they call my Macdougal the waller? They do not.

For thirty years I fished these seas and brought back enough to feed my family and others besides! Do they call my Macdougal the fisherman? No.

As a boy I was the best athelete in my grade, able to outrun, outbox, and outwrestle young men much older and bigger than I! Do they call me Macdougal the strong? Not once.

But should a man fuck just one sheep...

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 9 July 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

"World's oldest sheep dies at 25 after falling from 150 foot cliff in Western Isles"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2107938/Worlds-oldest-sheep-dies-25-falling-150-foot-cliff-Western-Isles.html

― lex pretend, Friday, 2 March 2012 17:51 (thirteen years ago)

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/02/28/article-2107938-07AED8B3000005DC-739_468x365.jpg

rip bb

― lex pretend, Friday, 2 March 2012 17:52 (thirteen years ago)

megalol at people still not understanding the definition of the word "screensaver"

― Joan Cusack clumsily running into a water fountain (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 2 March 2012 18:35 (thirteen years ago)

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