Helen, are you missing any sheep?

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Sacrificial Sheep Shoves Man to His Death

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Reuters) - An Egyptian sheep destined for sacrificial slaughter forestalled its owner's plans by pushing him to his death from a three-story building, police said Tuesday.

They said Waheeb Hamoudah, 56, who worked in the police tax evasion department, had been feeding the sheep he had tethered on the rooftop when it butted him.

Neighbors found Hamoudah lying bleeding and concussed on the ground below, with several broken bones, Monday. He died soon after reaching hospital.

Hamoudah had been fattening the sheep for the past six weeks and planned to kill it for Eid al-Adha, the Muslim feast of sacrifice, in early March.

Many Egyptian city-dwellers keep livestock on rooftops, balconies or in basements, especially in the run-up to Eid al-Adha.

-- Revolution (Animals@fight.back), January 02, 2001

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Ha! An obvious troll from the Squirrel King. He has formed an alliance with some of the various ruminants and hoped for a surprise revolution. But the stupid sheep acted too soon, and his vile plan will fail.

He is doomed to failure. Even now the Indian power companies are restoring their grid after the suicide attacks by his hairy-tailed rodents. Let them vainly throw themselves upon the power lines. They will never succeed as long has doomers have generators and like to eat squirrels.

-- gene (ekbaker@essex1.com), January 02, 2001.


You got that right, Gene! :-D

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), January 02, 2001.

Ha! Do you really think I would risk my life with SHEEP?? Mike Mule is sulking again. That makes me nervous.

-- helen (b@r.n), January 03, 2001.

The article leaves me with burning questions:

How big was the sheep?

How big was the man?

I'm clueless about Egyptian sheep.

-- (kb8um8@yahoo.com), January 03, 2001.


Burning sheep questions?

Now, I bet that's an interesting smell. Hard to get out of the carpet, though.

My momma, (#31698, up to the Calcassieu Women's Detention Unit) always tole me, "Don't never bend over in front of a man who's on Death Row". I guess some concepts are universal.

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-- Lon Frankenstien (evil@twins.Rus), January 03, 2001.



lolololololol..... Thanks Lon!

-- Tricia the Cancuk (jayles@telusplanet.net), January 04, 2001.

Killer Shrimp Stalks the Waterways of Aquarium Exhibit By Ron Harris Associated Press Writer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The SplashZone, a normally tranquil children's section at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, has become the scene of underwater carnage at the claws of a killer shrimp.

Prized sea snails, barnacles and hermit crabs have been reduced to piles of broken shells by the lightning-quick claws of a single mantis shrimp - a voracious, salt-water scourge that for months has eluded captors and reduced a coral reef exhibit to a killing field.

Two of the nonnative shrimp invaded the 1,300-gallon tank in April, probably after burrowing into a shipment of display rocks shipped from Florida.

A nimble worker snared one shrimp in November with a pair of long tongs. His 4-inch-long accomplice is still on the loose.

"When you're working near the exhibit you can hear the pop when he's going after the barnacles," said senior aquarist David Cripe.

The shrimp - commonly called "thumb-splitters" for the ability to do just that - is too small to kill fish. But the critter is taking out small bottom-dwellers by the dozen in the tank.

Catching the loose shrimp has proven difficult.

Fish that eat the shrimp could be introduced to the display to reduce the tiny terror to a food-chain casualty. But the natural foes would also eat the hermit crabs and snails that are part of the exhibit.

"The solutions become problems," Cripe said.

So far the aquarium has shied away from using box traps, specially designed to capture mantis shrimp.

"They're worried about them - that they'll kill their fish," says Marc Desatnik, owner of North Coast Marines in Solon, Ohio.

For now however, woe to any SplashZone crustacean smaller than the mantis shrimp. Some have specialized smashing claws to bludgeon small crabs and whack barnacles on the back until they loosen their grip on a rock.

"They're real smart," said Aquarium Concepts store manager Marcos Figueroa, who is careful not to try to grab the shrimp by hand. "And they'll leave a mark."

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), January 05, 2001.


Oh! I can see it now: the next made-for-cable thriller: Attack of the Killer Shrimp.

Mugwamp P. Winston, a mad, yuppie scientist stumbles onto the growth genes of shrimp while studying gene profiles at the local StarBuck's. He splices the genes, but his jealous sister, a bored accountant/marine biologist at Walrus World, steals his research and breeds some killer shrimp in an attempt to cut food costs at the aquarium, thinking this will net her enough of a bonus to take a vacation.

When her killer shimp get out of control and start picking off the college interns, she realizes that she has "hit shrimp for hire." She immediately contacts several shadowy NWO operatives, who order a dozen of the beasties and then set them loose in various swimming pools around the world. Their plan is foiled when they introduce the shrimp to freshwater pools.

In the meantime, our hero, a plunky female Forrest Gump type, saves the day by accidently hacking into the account's computer while trying to make a bank transfer, and accidently wiping out all of the data. Mugwamp is accidently killed by a wayward steer he is fattening on his apartment roof, and the remaining shimp are hunted and consumed on a bonfire on Survivor III.

What do you think? Should I quit my day job, yet?

-- (kb8um8@yahoo.com), January 05, 2001.


Before I get into the bathtub...is this fresh-water shrimp or salt-water shrimp?

-- helen (b@r.my), January 05, 2001.

You have nothing to fear, Helen, unless you're going to take a bath in seawater. Better check your facial machine if you've been using salt crystals in it, though.

-- (kb8um8@yahoo.com), January 05, 2001.


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