450 Sheep Jump to Their Deaths in Turkey

[underpants]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/turkey_sheep_suicide

ISTANBUL, Turkey - 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.

[Pawel K]

1. Reminds me of South Park

the aliens are comming!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

2. Reminds me of the Republicans following bush*

[tk2kewl]

4. too bad they aren't willing to jump off his metaphoric cliff

:grr:

[tk2kewl]

3. I guess it's time for a BBQ

Lamb chops for everyone!

[northzax]

5. guess it's true what they say about shepherds...

I mean can you blame the sheep?

[XNASA]

6. "With god as my witness......

....I thought that the sheep in Turkey could fly!"

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. ROTFL!!!!!! Wish I had thought of that...

damn...that was good!

[JimmyJazz]

8. ROTFLMAOKHDIOYOIHIFHD**ERHHVC!

:rofl:

[kick-ass-bob]

9. ROFLMFAOUIPAPATST!!

:rofl:

:spray:

[underpants]

10. X

Post of the year so far.

Very funny. It was sitting right THERE like a bag of wet cement.

[XNASA]

11. I'm was almost too ashamed to post it at the time.

But, yeah, it was just sitting there like a hanging curve ball... and I had a bat in my hands.

[Sannum]

12. That's too Baaaaaaaaaaaad.