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[plonq]

Something finally pushed Katrina off the headline news on the radio this morning...

Somebody filched 1200 head of sheep from a local farm the other night.

They don't know who did it, nor how he did it undetected.

Police also refuse to confirm or deny if fetlock is a suspect.

[Edit: (groan) I just noticed the headline on this story reads, "Sheep still on the lam."]

Comments

[tzisorey.livejournal.com]

Yup, Sheriff - we gots ourselves a rustler!

[anthony-lion.livejournal.com]

B-but...

1200?

How the h*ck is the thieves going to dispose of so many sheep?

Not only do you need a veritable convoy of trucks to transport them, but you need a big slaughterhouse(With freezers and trained butchers) to process them.
Selling them as livestock is out of the question as any farmer with ANY brains at all will demand papers from a veterinarian.

And if they can't get them processed immediately, they'll need a LOT of feed, too....

The whole heist is either an insurance scam or there are som very, very baaaaa criminals out there...

[fetlock.livejournal.com]

Well being a former Sheep farmer I would belive thy took them to add to there own breeding stock. The lambs well there young to take the ear tage off and replace it with there own to show the vet that they were born there. The eus well replace there tags ad keep feedingand breeding.

This is the most Ideal reason I can think of for them to get away with this Crime.

PS. No Plonq I did not do it . LOL

[plonq.livejournal.com]

It sounds suspicious to me as well - though the price of sheep has really climbed lately, so it's an odd time to be pulling an insurance scam.

In any event, a sheep farm without sheep is pretty ewes-less.

[fetlock.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's for Insurance scam , Just some ASS wanting to Capitalize on another farmers hard work. Take it from me Lambing season is really hard to get sleep in since its over and this guy took all the sheep and lambs, makes him that much richer for breeding stock and sales.

[fetlock.livejournal.com]

I have no comment on this. But I am smileing alot latly. LOL

[plonq.livejournal.com]

But I am smileing alot latly

I thought it looked more like a sheepish grin.

[gedrean.livejournal.com]

rofl. 1200 head. That's wrong.