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A sheep was shot by armed police on Saturday after wandering on to busy roads from a roundabout in Swindon.

 

A Wiltshire police spokeswoman said the sheep was a danger to the public.

"It was standing on the roundabout and at times wandering into the carriageway," she said.

"A decision was made to deploy armed police officers to destroy the animal as an absolute last resort."

 

i wonder if they tried a carrot on a stick first?

 

i don't know why but when i read this story i thought of that scene in Me, Myself and Irene with the cow.

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Seems a touch odd to shoot the sheep at all. Surely it would be easier to get two or three traffic policemen to stop the traffic while whisking el-sheepo away, than it was to send an armed response unit... Most odd.

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I wonder how quick they killed it? I can't believe marksmen in this country could get it with one shot. they should have just shut up the road, with a well trained sheepdog it could be in the back of a trailer in a few min.

 

the offices involved probably just wanted some free roast lamb.

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Hey, that is where I live!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

(ps, don't tell anyone... its where the jobs are... not the best town to live in though. )

 

Swindon is famous for one thing only, roundabouts... they have qiate a few, including one designed specifically to scare the hell out of american tourists (who can't even cope with little normal roundabouts:

 

lifemagi1.jpg

 

http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm

 

I guess they aren't willing to reisk any harm coming to their precious roundabouts....

 

PS/ Abortion has been legal in the uk for decades, what are you on about? There isn't even a debate about whether it should be allowed anymore.. it is just accepted as a fact, leike evolution or gravity...

 

anyway, back to laughing at silly (native) swindonians... :D

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Originally posted by InsaneSith

surely they could have just unleashed a welshman on it, right?

 

I thought jokes like that were frowned opon here...

 

That is one helleva roundabout though, the double mini roundabout in Exeter is bad enough for me. that looks like some sort of landing pad for UFO's

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Originally posted by ET Warrior

If I were driving and came up on that I'd flip a quick U and try to find another way to my destination. That's the worst thing I've ever seen.

 

and just remember...they're driving on the left side of the road too. so that should make it EVER MORE CONFUSING!

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Originally posted by --ZeeMan--

and just remember...they're driving on the left side of the road too. so that should make it EVER MORE CONFUSING!

 

just coz you all drive on the wrong side of the road...

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Originally posted by ET Warrior

Point is, that roundabout sucks.

 

You just don't know how to use them, there are however some stupid roundabouts, like marshmills roundabout in Plymouth, or that double mini one in Exeter.

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Originally posted by toms

Hey, that is where I live!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

(ps, don't tell anyone... its where the jobs are... not the best town to live in though. )

 

Swindon is famous for one thing only, roundabouts... they have qiate a few, including one designed specifically to scare the hell out of american tourists (who can't even cope with little normal roundabouts:

 

lifemagi1.jpg

 

http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm

 

 

 

Ugh... I live in a place where a roundabout is what they call a little green hill with a circle of road and one or two little one way exits... there are only like 2 in the whole place and both are in parking lots!!:D

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That is one MONSTER of a roundabout.

 

I'd probably break into tears trying to figure out how to get around it.

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Originally posted by InsaneSith

that'd be an odd lawsuit. "officer, why were you firing into the street?"

"Well,...er... I, uh, was trying to shoot the innocent little sheep that had no clue why it was in the middle of the road....Yeah, that's the one...yep the one that just got creamed by a mini." :D Hee hee hee.

 

That is one confusing roundabout. I thought that Malfunction Junction was bad...

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