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OK, I’m getting scared now — not of animal rights activists, but of activist animals. Just a few days after reports surface of terrorist monkeys in India, we learn from the Guardian that there have been repeated breakouts of sheep from a field in Marsden, a town in the Pennines. According to a vigilant local councillor, the sheep have become expert at crossing the cattle grids that are meant to contain them:

I’ve seen them doing it and they’re clever. They lie down on their side, or sometimes their back, and roll over the metal grids until they are clear.

It is thought that the sheep have set up training camps to teach the commando roll tactic. The councillor, a Ms Dorothy Lindly, claims that it’s a “serious problem”. “What are they doing once they escape?”, I hear you ask. Attacking old ladies? Stealing our jobs? Planning suicide attacks?“They make a mess of people’s gardens.”
Shocker.

This is becoming a worrying trend: there are growing concerns of similar threats from cows with guns (flash video)

He mooed we must fight, escape or we’ll die
Cows gathered around, cause the steaks were so high.

and sinister ducks (mp3 by Alan Moore, hosted legally by Neil Gaiman).

Look closer and you may recoil in surprise
at web-footed fascists with mad little eyes!

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