Shrek the Sheep

[aunt_zelda]

 Well, this is just a plain awesome story. Except for the fact that the sheep is now dead. How did I not know about this fluffy renegade outlaw sheep before today?! The whole process is just made of awesomesauce! 

I wish things like this happened in America. You know what I talked about today with my friends? The Drug Cartels. In New Zealand, they're thinking of making a bronze statue of a gigantic fluffy sheep. Life is so not fair.

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[freya-sacksen.livejournal.com]

I'm still in shock that the BBC bothered reporting it.

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

It's the best story I've read in a good long time.

(This is making me think of that bit in The Truth where they're talking about "human interest stories" which ironically "always involve animals." Or maybe they talked about that in later books. Still, makes me think of a line from Terry Pratchett.)

[freya-sacksen.livejournal.com]

The reaction was pretty epic when Shrek was first found, mostly because people were going "So *that's* what a sheep left alone too long looks like!" or, alternatively, "It survived winter? That's fucking badass!"

When he was first found he ended up on national news for about a week or two nonstop, and still made regular appearances.

(My mother's theory on why it showed up in the BBC is because they were so miserable about all the other horrible news, they needed *something* comparatively light hearted.)

[etoiledunord.livejournal.com]

I misread that at first and thought the New Zealand drug cartel was going to make a sheep statue. o.O

There's something similar around here. In Red Deer, Alberta, the city I'm currently in for work, there was a pig who escaped from the Olymel factory and lived in the wilderness on his own for months before being caught. He then got to live out the rest of his natural life on a nice farm, and there's a statue of him in the city. I drove past it last time I was here. It was amusing. =)