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450 Sheep Jump to Their Deaths in Turkey

First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as nearly 1,500 others followed, each leaping off the same cliff, Turkish media reported.

In the end, 450 dead animals lay on top of one another in a billowy white pile, the Aksam newspaper said. Those who jumped later were saved as the pile got higher and the fall more cushioned, Aksam reported.

"There's nothing we can do. They're all wasted," Nevzat Bayhan, a member of one of 26 families whose sheep were grazing together in the herd, was quoted as saying by Aksam.

The estimated loss to families in the town of Gevas, located in Van province in eastern Turkey, tops $100,000, a significant amount of money in a country where average GDP per head is around $2,700.

"Every family had an average of 20 sheep," Aksam quoted another villager, Abdullah Hazar as saying. "But now only a few families have sheep left. It's going to be hard for us."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/turkey_sheep_su...zIyBHNlYwMxNjk2

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Yeah, I can actually picture a bunch of sad goths parading off a cliff... :fear

Its too bad some stupid ass people don't take after these sheep and do the same

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Maybe the sheep should read the suicide thread lol. Ok that was in bad taste.

450 Sheep Jump to Their Deaths in Turkey

First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as nearly 1,500 others followed, each leaping off the same cliff, Turkish media reported.

In the end, 450 dead animals lay on top of one another in a billowy white pile, the Aksam newspaper said. Those who jumped later were saved as the pile got higher and the fall more cushioned, Aksam reported.

"There's nothing we can do. They're all wasted," Nevzat Bayhan, a member of one of 26 families whose sheep were grazing together in the herd, was quoted as saying by Aksam.

The estimated loss to families in the town of Gevas, located in Van province in eastern Turkey, tops $100,000, a significant amount of money in a country where average GDP per head is around $2,700.

"Every family had an average of 20 sheep," Aksam quoted another villager, Abdullah Hazar as saying. "But now only a few families have sheep left. It's going to be hard for us."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/turkey_sheep_su...zIyBHNlYwMxNjk2

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Its too bad some stupid ass people don't take after these sheep and do the same

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LOL holy shit Jason thats sick but i could'nt help but laugh so hard lol

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I was thinking the same thing, but I didn't want to post it. :laughing

Maybe the sheep should read the suicide thread lol.  Ok that was in bad taste.

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Okay... so I know I'm strange... but I'd think that was a lot funnier if it was a human, whereas I just feel sorry for the sheep.

as for the article... why the hell wasn't there a fence on the damn cliff? Poor stupid shepherds...

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Its too bad some stupid ass people don't take after these sheep and do the same

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It's even sadder than most people equate to sheep. Sheep will actually go after other sheep that stray from the heard, and why they're the symbol for so many religions.

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