January 11, 2007: Ewes die of asphyxiation, fright
 

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An unhappy animal shot today. 24 horas en fotos at 20minutos.es has this dreadful one, translated by Bablefish:

Too bad that didn't happen near a country road in Tennessee.

The vultures scared them to death, and then didn't eat them?

They aren't smelly and rotten enough yet.

i don't believe it. sheepshit, i say.

how does an animal asphyxiate under an open sky? much less a hundred or so. you might as well say that they were smote by an angry god.

An angry god whose smiting arm was sheathed in tens of vultures! And you, a poet no less!

People get crushed to death in a crowd. Sheep are (arguably) stupider than people. :right:

They climbed up on top of each other, possibly several layers deep. The ones at the bottom couldn't breathe because of the weight of the others on top crushing down on them.

96 people died the same way at the Hillsborough football disaster in 1989 at Sheffield, England.

Maybe they had their fill...I see some bloody torn flesh on some of them.

I find it odd that they died in a nice, flat, layer...

I'd say either trampled, and the live animals moved away for the photo...or a low lying gas crept into the solid walled pen and asphyxiated them. I just can't get my mind around trampled. I'd expect them to be 'piled' more and not in a single layer.
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yeah, but a relatively small segment of the huge mass of people was crushed by the press. they didnt ALL die. somethings up here. who farted might be onto it. maybe the vultures could smell the gas, and knew they'd be dead soon, and that's why they arrived in the first place?

Looking at the "ring around the corral" (bad pun) I note the grime, which leads me to wondering if they all made it a habit to congregate and poop in the area. Thermal inversion, methane, and that's HH's creeping gas theory. And methane displacing O2 is asphyxiation if I'm not mistaken.

Plus the mighty arm of the lord smiting with the power of tens of vultures.

However you slice it, ewe wouldn't want to be there.

maybe they got a particulary gassey batch of sheepchow [up]tm[/up] and the resultant flatulence was their undoing?

how the fuck do you make that little TM ?!

bwuahahaha who farted?

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