Goat suicideI come from the Far North of Scotland, where the RAF like to do a lot of their low flying exercises. A teacher at school was apparently involved in a campaign against these exercises, but I only found out recently what he had against them.
Turns out he lived in a house whose back garden ended at a cliff. Instead of getting a lawn mower, he had a few goats to take care of the grass*. And to stop the goats from wandering off, he had them tethered to a post.
One afternoon, he came back from school, the story goes, to find the goats had run off the edge of this cliff and hung themselves. Presumably they'd been frightened by a low-flying jet, panicked and... well, there ya go.
He should have started a campaign against ropes that are too long.
*Any rumours that the goats took care of any other needs are entirely untrue. But funny
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Thu 16 Oct 2003, 9:54,
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Turns out he lived in a house whose back garden ended at a cliff. Instead of getting a lawn mower, he had a few goats to take care of the grass*. And to stop the goats from wandering off, he had them tethered to a post.
One afternoon, he came back from school, the story goes, to find the goats had run off the edge of this cliff and hung themselves. Presumably they'd been frightened by a low-flying jet, panicked and... well, there ya go.
He should have started a campaign against ropes that are too long.
*Any rumours that the goats took care of any other needs are entirely untrue. But funny
The poor dog!!Having been invited to sunday lunch with the new girlfriends parents one summers day, I was, naturally on my best behaviour. Having been told not to feed the dog anything, as it had colitis (bowel desease) I naturally did my best to conform to this. After lunch, i was sitting in the garden with my ice cream when, must to my disappointment, the top half of the "chocolate feast" fell to the floor, only to be gobbled up by the dog. I kept quiet and we left shortly after. Later, the dog began to vomit, and, unbeknown to me, was taken on the Monday to the vets. The vet deciding that the poor beast had taken a turn for the worst, was put down. Ouch!!
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Thu 16 Oct 2003, 10:13,
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The vet was put down?:/
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Thu 16 Oct 2003, 12:49,
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