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[998dave]

The ultimate road hazard, is sheep. A single sheep will run out of the way, but a sheep which sees another sheep nearby will, because of the dominant flocking instinct, run straight towards it, even if this means crossing your path and putting itself in far more danger than was originally the case.

Such behaviour can turn a simple journey into a Goon Show script. Once, when leaving home to return a test car, I came close to a sheep which, in a panic, started running towards two other sheep farther down the road.


They, of course, joined in, as did several others, until eventually I was chasing nine sheep. This went on for a while until one of the sheep ran into a passing place and stopped. Three of the others followed it.

I was now chasing five sheep, but the flocking instinct of the four stationary ones soon took over, and they scampered along trying to join the five ahead. To reach them would mean getting past me, and they did their damndest to do just that.

So I was effectively chasing five animals ahead of me and another four behind me. Or, to put it another way, the four sheep behind were trying to overtake the thing they were running away from.

The whole thing was only resolved when the lead sheep darted into a farm road and the others, naturally, went with it. Before I was out of sight they were chomping away at the grass verge, having clearly forgotten the whole incident.

[CharlieBrown]

Ive just got such great mental picture of humans doing that, now that would be funny.

Oh and thanks for the lesson on sheep behaviour!

[Jammy]

Lmao! Very random, but quite funny! Did this happen recently or did you just decide to post this out of randomness....?

[Purple Tom]

stupidly random! but very funny, its just been circulated around the Giant UK head office! Some wry smiles behind desks.....

I can just imagine sheep doing that too, they're not exactly blessed with intelligence are they, try driving through the grounds of Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, its crazy!!

[998dave]

stupidly random! but very funny, its just been circulated around the Giant UK head office! Some wry smiles behind desks.....

I can just imagine sheep doing that too, they're not exactly blessed with intelligence are they, try driving through the grounds of Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, its crazy!!

I done that on a motorbike! stupid animals!

[mini_sam]

lol round our way it is birds, they just fly right in front of the windscreens, people are always swirving and dodging them! death traps

[Pooky]

Pheasant do similar things!

[Woody]

Round our way it is chavs walk out in front of you ,some sort of dare i think , and if you dare to blow the horn or shout they throw thier empty bottles (or stella cans) at your car , only thing to do is : emergancy stop !, wait paitiently untill they have crossed , drive off without reving your engine (might offend them into throwing botles etc)

[Purple Tom]

(speaking of birds.....not a happy ending to this story)

I was driving home last night, through a little village. A small bird flew out of the hedgeright in front of the Polo, and I caught it a glancing blow with the front bumper. I watched it in the rear view mirror for a second as it tried to get its balance back, it then flew straight into the front of a Range Rover going the other way! Big plume of feathers, bye bye bird......

[mini_sam]

i can tell you about that, my area is being swarmed by chavs, like killer bee's! penketh (where i live) is in the middle of all the rough areas and gangs, so it is a meet up for a fight every friday night. they seem to think the park over my road is a war zone...last wekk, just up the road sum chav slashed a guy in the neck and body, and guess what for...because he did not have a light for his ciggarette!! they are all loosers! he is in intensive care now, and the chav has been done for attempted murder!

[bluebottle]

i was getting a lift with a friend of mine from north to south wales in his battered old datsun cherry, not far from brecon (where the sheep roam free), we came round a bend and twatted a sheep, killing it dead and tastefully re-arranging the front of his car (which improved it considerably!)......whilst surveying the damage, i wandered over and picked up his number plate, and laughed out loud when i saw the first three letters....RAM!

[Dom]

some funny stories there.

[Bat]

:gasp:
Those sheep are dangerous. I used to work repairing company cars. One guy lived in Scotland, he hit a sheep, totaled the front of the car, carried on driving and totaled the engine too! Car was a Citroen Xantia (sorry for swearing) the front ends were built like brick out houses, and this one was inside out, complete with blood and wool!!!!
Cheers,
Gavin. :grin:

[mattvallins]

Was driving back from Minis on the Quay last nite, about dusk, when a woman was walking in the road. She was wearin dark green and brown clothes, under trees so it was almost black! I couldnt see her til the last minute (I was doing 60) and just swerved to miss her. My Dad was following me in his Pug 405 (breakdown car :tongue: ) and he said exactly the same thing when we got home!
She had a close call yesterday!

[centralminiTC]

I started off laughing at the start of this thread...........and then ended up feeling :sick:

So in the end - not sure what to post!!!