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This is a f**king parable, if ever I read one.
From The Times, July 09, 2005
Easily led sheep turn into jumpers?
First one sheep jumped to its death. Then Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had their breakfast, watched in astonishment as hundreds of others followed, leaping off the same cliff.
In the end 450 dead sheep lay on top of one another in a billowy white pile, Aksam, a Turkish daily newspaper reported. Those that jumped later were saved as the pile got higher, cushioning their fall, the paper said.
“There’s nothing we can do. They’re all wasted,” said Nevzat Bayhan, a member of one of the 26 families whose sheep were grazing together in the flock.
The estimated financial loss to families in the town of Gevas, in the Van province of eastern Turkey, is more than £58,000, which is a very large amount of money in a country where the average annual per capita income is about £1,555.
“Every family had an average of 20 sheep,” Aksam quoted Abdullah Hazar, another villager, as saying.
“But now only a few families have sheep left. It’s going to be hard for us.” (AP)
I've cut that out and stuck it on my wall next to an old newsaper illustation of two sheep in gents clothing sitting in archairs, having tea on the edge of crumbling cliff.
So Barbelith, come on, give us some more examples of such meaningful "true stories", where "fact is stranger than fiction...." |
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