Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/03/12/montana-man-pleads-guilty-in-plot-to-create-giant-clone-hybrid-sheep-for-captive-hunting.html
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I saw this and thought, “Oh, that’s a silly tag. It’s not like there could be more than one or two ‘Sheep stories’ on BB”. Oh, how wrong I was… 
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This feels like a rejected b-plot from a William Gibson novel… Welcome to our crapsack-cyberpunk present, I guess.
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This… was not on my Bingo card
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“pure genetic male Marco Polo argali”
Am I to interpret that as a male, genetically pure Marco Polo argali; or is the biggest part of this story someone getting YY to not be incompatible with life? Or does the DOJ (understandably) not get to do too many science writing exercises given the nature of their work?
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Filming to start soon on The Sheepacolypse: Woe to Baaabylon.
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Does this guy think he’s John Hammond from Jurassic Park?
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obleeegatory :
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But it’s a clear precursor to a Cordwainer Smith novel.
The planet “Old North Australia”, or simply “Norstrilia”, is the only planet in the Instrumentality of Mankind fictional universe which produces the precious immortality drug “stroon”, which indefinitely delays aging in humans. Stroon (or the “Santaclara drug”) is harvested from the huge diseased sheep the Norstrilians raise, and has resisted all attempts at artificial synthesis.
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“Cops Nab Ewe-genecist.”
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Cheers from Sardinia.
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Nah, it’s the plot to a Jeff Minter twin-stick shooter.
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Wait. People hunt SHEEP?!!
Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha!
And people PAY to hunt CAPTIVE SHEEP!
(Irony)
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When I was a bairn, my Dad and I visited some of his friends in the Shetland Isles (I still remember seeing puffins perched on the back of the ferry in front of us).
While we were there, a farmer was killed by a group of sheep who rammed him continuously against the front of his Land Rover.
Do not fuck with Highland / Shetland sheep.
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This all sounds very ba-a-a-a-a-d
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You’ve clearly never met a Herdwick.
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awwwww… And here I thought it was for hunting OF captives.
Sort of Dr Moreau meets Most Dangerous Game
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