| January 2, 2007 | -
Scientists were performing experiments to turn gay
sheep straight.
| Source:
Daily Telegraph
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| November 17, 2006 | - Forty firefighters in the United Kingdom carried out a two-hour rescue operation to bring a sheep down from a ledge.
| Source:
Sky News
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| March 7, 2006 | - In Arizona a 52-year-old Deputy Fire Chief named Leroy Johnson was seen dragging a lamb into a neighbor's barn. The lamb’s owner, Alan Goats, entered the barn to confront Johnson. "You caught me, Alan," said Johnson, zipping up his wet pants. "I tried to fuck your sheep." Police described the victim as small, gray, three feet tall, and four feet long.
| Source:
The Smoking Gun
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| March 7, 2006 | - Two British preschools were criticized for having children sing "Baa baa rainbow sheep." "There are much better ways," said a representative of another preschool, "of addressing these issues."
| Source:
BBC News
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| July 8, 2005 | - Four hundred sheep killed themselves in Turkey.
| Source:
IOL.co.za
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| June 12, 2005 | -
Australia won an international sheep-shearing contest. The contest was judged on speed and lack of nicks.
| Source:
AFP
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| April 29, 2005 | - A flock of fifty sheep with partially human organs was grazing outside of Las Vegas.
| Source:
AP
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| May 24, 2004 | - Scientists discovered prions in the muscle of a sheep infected with scrapie; experts were very quick to say that this does not necessarily pose any danger to humans who eat lamb, even though scrapie prions are believed to have caused mad cow disease. A prion expert at the National Institutes of Health predicted that "within the next year, somebody will make a big splash by finding it in the muscles of cattle and the beef industry will go crazy."
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 8, 2004 | -
British researchers discovered a previously unknown prion disease among sheep.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| November 21, 2003 | - An animal-rights group fed ham to 70,000 sheep that were destined to be eaten in the Middle East.
| Source:
Agence France-Presse
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| June 14, 2003 | - An Iraqi shepherd filed a $200 million lawsuit against Donald Rumsfeld for the deaths of 17 family members and 200 sheep.
| Source:
Agence France-Presse
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| September 24, 2002 | -
Researchers at Duke University discovered a gene that gives sheep large beautiful bottoms.
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| September 17, 2002 | -
British scientists determined that sheep have a remarkable memory for faces.
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| July 30, 2002 | -
More than 400 sheep leapt to their deaths in a ravine in southern France.
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| June 4, 2002 | -
Australian scientists were trying to figure out why kangaroos are less flatulent than sheep.
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| March 19, 2002 | -
A report revealed that in the past several months, the United States secretly extradited dozens of terrorism suspects to other countries, such as Egypt and Jordan, where they can be subjected to torture, threats to their families, and other interrogation tactics that are illegal in the U.S. The Pentagon revised the bounty for Osama bin Laden after determining that the average Afghan could not comprehend the magnitude of the previous reward, $25 million, rendering the incentive meaningless. The new prize is “anything the Americans think the Afghans would like to have,” including cash, a flock of sheep, or help in drilling a well.
President Bush reflected, “[Bin Laden] is . . . you know, as I mention in my speeches, I do mention the fact that this is a fellow who's willing to commit youngsters to their death, and he himself tries to hide, if, in fact, he's hiding at all.”
France went on full hijack alert because an air-traffic controller misunderstood a warning message in English, believing the pilot was reporting “five men on board” instead of “fire on board.”
The Immigration and Naturalization Service issued student visas for Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi six months after they crashed planes into the World Trade Center; President Bush reported that the imbroglio left him feeling “plenty hot.”
People were complaining about “The Fighting Whities,” a basketball team at the University of Northern Colorado whose white jerseys sport an image of a white man in a suit above the slogan “Every thang's gonna be all white!”
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| November 27, 2001 | -
Scientists at Oxford University said up to 1,500 British
sheep could have been infected with the disease.
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| September 25, 2001 | - A man from the country who recently moved to Buenos Aires tied himself to his sheep to protest his rejection by 20 landlords: “I don't really see why I shouldn't be allowed to live with my sheep, as I did for all of my life,” he said.
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| June 12, 2001 | -
Australia was vaccinating
sheep and cattle to prevent farting, which emits methane, a potent gas that contributes to global warming.
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| May 8, 2001 | - Maggie, Matthew, Melissa, Emily, and Eva, five sheep in Scotland whose owner had barricaded them in her home to protect them from the foot-and-mouth cull, were killed by lethal injection after authorities managed to get inside the house.
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| April 3, 2001 | -
Britain was burying hundreds of thousands of sheep and cattle that have been killed in an attempt to control the spread of foot-and-mouth disease; scientists were trying to figure out whether the disease can be transmitted via the smoke of burning animals.
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| March 27, 2001 | - After months of dithering, United States
agriculture agents seized a flock of sheep from Skunk Hollow Farm in Vermont that are suspected of having a form of mad-cow disease. Twenty-one cattle in Texas will be destroyed because of similar concerns.
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| March 13, 2001 | - An Egyptian shepherd was shot and killed by one of his sheep.
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| March 6, 2001 | -
British and French governments were slaughtering tens of thousands of sheep and cattle in an increasingly futile attempt to control the spread of foot-and-mouth disease, a virus that is about as severe as the common cold.
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| January 16, 2001 | -
United States
agriculture officials continued to insist that Americans were at little risk from mad cow disease, despite the fact that testing has not been widespread. Loopholes still exist in regulations concerning feeding ground-up farm animals to other farm animals; deer in several western states are infected with another form of spongiform encephalopathy; an unknown number of sheep have scrapie, a form of spongiform encephalopathy; captive mink in eleven midwestern states developed spongiform encephalopathy after being fed untested “downer cows”; and beef byproducts such as milk, blood, fat, and semen are still imported from the U.K. and Europe. The prions that cause mad cow disease survive freezing, cooking, and incineration, which complicates disposal.
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| November 21, 2000 | -
Italian
sheepfarmers in the village of Abruzzo started an adoption program whereby people become parents of a sheep, which entitles one to a year's supply of merino wool and fresh cheese, and a photograph of the beast.
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| August 1, 2000 | - A family of Vermont
sheep
farmers vowed to prevent the government from slaughtering their flock of Belgian dairy sheep; four sheep descended from the flock tested positive for an ovine form of mad cow disease; “this is just like trying to take Elian Gonzalez all over again,” one neighbor said.
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