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		Flock of 700 sheep being herded through town mistake bright white pedestrian crossing for cattle grid. Hilarity ensues (with pic) (news.com.au)		49
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udo		2003-10-08 08:28:31 PM

Next time try saying "BAA RAM EWE" first.

/obligatory

PeterLemonjello		2003-10-08 08:50:25 PM

Really not all that amusing.

7 car pileup on top of the sheep = amusing.

Anne.Uumellmahaye		2003-10-08 08:50:27 PM

I don't get it, udo.

Captain_Morgan		2003-10-08 08:52:22 PM

Is it me or is hilarity ensueing more frequently as of late.

Remember kids, daylight savings time is October 26 and yes,
hilarity is expected to ensue...

Big Orange Cat		2003-10-08 08:52:53 PM

Three drovers and two working dogs had walked the merino wethers 20km from Leyton to Clifton, between Toowoomba and Warwick...

I'm sorry, what language is this?

Unfreakable		2003-10-08 08:53:23 PM

Local butcher Barry Fiechtner was quick to see a bright side and chalked a blackboard sign that read: "Today's special: Whole sheep, catch your own".

Nice.

Diabolik		2003-10-08 08:55:02 PM

2003-10-08 08:50:27 PM Anne.Uumellmahaye

I don't get it, udo.

It's from Babe.

talldarknstinky		2003-10-08 08:56:00 PM

I bet the submitter has a sheepish grin on right about now.

csah		2003-10-08 08:57:51 PM

cattle grid?

feffer		2003-10-08 08:58:10 PM

That'll do, udo. That'll do.

Soundfields		2003-10-08 09:00:30 PM

"Remember kids, daylight savings time is October 26 and yes,
hilarity is expected to ensue..."
/Lousy Farmers.

The English Major		2003-10-08 09:01:05 PM

I wonder if the butcher could legally have sold the sheep. Seems to me he might've been fleecing the customers.

Another_Angry_Goth		2003-10-08 09:01:26 PM

udo, "four legs good, two legs bad"?

feffer		2003-10-08 09:01:30 PM

Here's a cattle grid, csah:

clicky

Livestock are afraid to cross it, because they can see down it. Plus they can break their legs. Grids eliminate the need for a gate.

doccm9		2003-10-08 09:02:43 PM

The sheep were spooked by a freshly painted pedestrian crosswalk (cattle grid) and ran all over the place.

leitmotive		2003-10-08 09:10:10 PM

What about the other three?

InternetSecurityGuard		2003-10-08 09:15:50 PM

...from Leyton to Clifton, between Toowoomba and Warwick...

/Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin

rrtt22		2003-10-08 09:18:51 PM

now this is a nice story to read! Comedy local people adapting to a situation. not like that stupid inhaler story that still has me pissed.

therealscrodd		2003-10-08 09:22:07 PM

and suddenly the town was a haven for single, desperate kiwi men. welshies too.

bored-parts-guy		2003-10-08 09:26:51 PM

GOTH
animal farm ? it's been a long time since 7th grade.

Sidi		2003-10-08 09:30:04 PM

This was actually something I was thinking about the other day, and it's really bugging me. I can't seem to dig up the info on the web.

They've been replacing cattle guards with painted lines in many places, because they work equally well. But are the cows born with the fear of the cattle guard, or is it necessary that they've seen one before (and looked down it) to be fooled by the painted lines? If it's in the latter case, do older members of the herd passing on the information to calves allow the fake guards to continue to work?

I've been trained to question the world. Not always a good thing when you have free time.

ChipmunkVigilante		2003-10-08 09:45:43 PM

csah: Cattle grids are things you see in roads sometimes -- they're basically just a hole with bars across it so that cars can drive over it, but they're far enough apart so that hooved animals can't cross 'em. Helps keep the animals from roaming, but still lets traffic through.

gorillagorillagorilla		2003-10-08 09:46:27 PM

"What do we do now, Bruce?"
"Let's get the flock outta here, Bruce."

BobbyQ		2003-10-08 09:57:44 PM

Oh. I thought they were talking about George Walker Bush followers.

nytmare		2003-10-08 10:02:11 PM

These guys try to force them across. Good plan, teaching your sheep to cross cattle guards.

doccm9		2003-10-08 10:06:08 PM

Sidi, the first few probably had to be trained, but the rest probably learned by example.

PeterGruntmuscle		2003-10-08 10:10:31 PM

YOU CAN MAKE THOSE GYRO THINGS OUT OF SHEEPS. YOU CAN ALSO USE GOATS AND RAMS AND LAMBS!!!

ChipmunkVigilante		2003-10-08 10:13:13 PM

Sidi: I think evidence suggests that a lot of these herd animals are born with the fear of some of these things.

When they first built the Trans-Canada Railroad some n years back (n is pretty big), they had a problem where huge herds of buffalo would be, well, herdin' around, but when they got to the railroad tracks, they'd just stop. Destroyed their migration patterns.

Maybe their eyes aren't the best, and if their uncertain about their foot (hooved animals), they err on the side of safety.

Anne.Uumellmahaye		2003-10-08 10:21:44 PM

leitmotive, Wagner much?

TheLoneIguana		2003-10-08 10:27:05 PM

Boy, they're in deep sheep now.

/nothin'

RayD8		2003-10-08 10:43:52 PM

Aussie sheeps are the smartest in the world. They took one look and said to each other "This is a zebra crossing, we're not going anywhere"

leitmotive		2003-10-08 10:55:35 PM

Anne: A bit. The name's a bit of a coincidence, though.

ZzeusS		2003-10-08 10:57:04 PM

2003-10-08 08:52:53 PM Big Orange Cat

Three drovers and two working dogs had walked the merino wethers 20km from Leyton to Clifton, between Toowoomba and Warwick...

I'm sorry, what language is this?

Queensland Australia, much like New South Wales, and, well, the rest of the entire island. You know, aboriginies, the whole 'not being the USA' kind of thing. Get out your mom's basement once and a while.

Funker Pete		2003-10-08 11:02:35 PM

Cattle Grids:

My family up here in Canadia calls 'em Texas Gates. No idea why.

SimuLord		2003-10-08 11:07:03 PM

Looks like the Serta mattress people have sponsored a Rugby World Cup side.

/got nothin'

angusmcb		2003-10-08 11:21:14 PM

"Auuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuustralia, where the sheep come sweepin' down the plain . . ."

Delay		2003-10-08 11:34:09 PM

BobbyQ

Ooh. Ooh. Can anyone play? They were California Democrats.

Stripe		2003-10-08 11:48:11 PM

Good one Angusmcb! LOL!

ToStupidTooCare		2003-10-09 12:08:00 AM

Soundfields

"Remember kids, daylight savings time is October 26 and yes,
hilarity is expected to ensue..."
/Lousy Farmers.

farmers? daylight savings time was instituted during WWI to conserve fuel. it has nothing to do with farmers.

swampgas		2003-10-09 12:15:43 AM

"drovers rounded them up and once again tried to get the sheep moving towards the main street by cracking their whips"

Aren't whips for sheep overkill?

charmed1782		2003-10-09 12:18:16 AM

huge herds of buffalo would be, well, herdin' around
Boss choice of words, ChipmunkVigilante LOL

SpinStopper		2003-10-09 01:02:07 AM

In Montana in the 1970's, the Department of Transportation (or some equaly wise government body) discovered that painting lines on the on and off ramps of interstate freeways in the pattern of a "cattle guard" had the same effect as a real hole in the ground with steel rails over it and would therefore prevent cattle from entering the freeway. Unfortunately, the paint would eventually wear off and cattle would wander onto the freeways. With unfortunate results.

In other news, I'm learning how to "play" the didgediroo (I'm not kidding. I've got it right here next to me - and if you don't know what a didgediroo is, it's an aboriginal Australian instrument. Look it up). Anybody with really good advice on how to play the darned thing can let me know. I've already spent a lot of time at http://aboriginalart.com.au/didgeridoo/dig_background.html. Help would be appreciated by my neighbors.

/sorry about wandering off topic. Again.

Lyfemist		2003-10-09 01:23:56 AM

Was it strange that the herdsmen asked school children going home to help wrangle the sheep. Is that the best idea? Fourth graders getting trappled by sheep not nearly common enough. I hope that sheep can read "Slow Children At Play" signs as well as crosswalks.

sithon		2003-10-09 02:24:33 AM

so what was this bright white pedestrian doing crossing the street and why were the sheep following him.

garthm		2003-10-09 06:28:57 AM

Its cattle gaurd, not GRID, and this is nothing new. It has been known for some time that just painting lines in the fashion of a cattle gaurd will work just as well as a cattle gaurd

GayLiberalAssclown		2003-10-09 08:13:43 AM

WRONG!

This picture was actually taken in California. It's a photo of the Berkeley students on their way to the polls to vote for Davis in the recall election.

bcduval		2003-10-09 08:38:39 AM

Could this bright white pedestrian be, you know, HIM?

Sounds like a job for photoshop.

QUAID		2003-10-09 10:31:39 AM

Never heard of them called grids. That's a cattle guard.

sjmoll		2003-10-09 12:23:11 PM

They're called both apparently, and here's an article from 1988 about using a fake grid of painted lines:

http://www.sheldrake.org/papers/Morphic/cattlegrids.html

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