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An 81-year-old Montana man was sentenced on Monday to six months in federal prison for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in central Asia and the US to create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting in Texas and Minnesota.

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 60 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Why the fuck is this about boring legal stuff and not the titanic frankestein sheep menacing the nation?! I want to know about the sheep! What is it's name? What are it's dreams? What is the death toll of it's latest rampage?

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago

the titanic frankestein sheep menacing the nation

Isn't that a Spinal Tap lyric?

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

titanic frankestein sheep menacing the nation

Sounds like it would make a good movie.

[–] Naal@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

its name is Montana Mountain King

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

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[–] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Reminds me of how the Nazis bread super cows so they could fight them.

[–] frauddogg@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Say 'psyche' right now; that's too cartoonish

[–] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Heck Cattle

Okay so apparently the whole "bread to fight" thing was a bit of an exaggeration, they were bread to resemble a now extinct breed of wild bull that showed up a lot in Greek mythology but most zoologist today agree they weren't even close to right.

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Heck Cattle

Comrades, there can be only one solution to this threat. We must create the Heck Bear.

[–] Thassodar@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

To combat the Heck Bear we'll have to create the Heck Badger.

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Aurochs are pretty insane in how long they managed to stick around. But for sure they're basically just aggressive cows.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

what the heck

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did they really breed them to fight? I thought it was part of the Nazis "Aryan" heritage bullshit.

[–] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think Goring did have some put on a private game reserve to be hunted yes

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

This is also why Germany now has a wild raccoon population that is taking over Berlin, nazis just don't get that raccoons will always outsmart them.

[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 30 points 2 months ago

Typical Bejiing Biden crushing innovation with communist regulations. Why can't the free market determine what horrors are beyond comprehension?

[–] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago

Six months in federal prison? Cowards. He should be sentenced to a "The hunter has become the hunted" type of situation and it should be televised. Unleash his sheep on him, I want to see if he made them giant and ferocious enough or if he stopped just short of greatness.

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah yeah, but if he did it to livestock it would be fine

[–] edge@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Nobody likes a pedant

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Aw sweet, manmade horrors beyond my comprehension peter-running

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Retvrn to silly shenanigans.

Shame about invasive species joker-shopping

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah further fucking up the ecosystem by letting loose some cruel creation is not funny or cool.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

OTOH, the potential is there to stabilize the ecosystem by letting loose some well-thought out and helpful creations, which is pretty exciting

Obviously not this guy

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I think the rule of thumb in ecology is not to create or release any chimera into an ecosystem, because biological systems being extremely complex and wide we can't really know the impact of an introduction fully.

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

but what if we chimeratize every species in an ecosystem and release that into the wild so that no matter how much it spreads there's always the right balance

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

I generally agree with that rule but increasingly worry that we may be reaching a point of desperate measures

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

US man, 81, sentenced to six months for creating giant hybrid sheep for hunting humans

[–] crispy_lol@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Average self-described “animal-lover”

[–] Omegamint@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

Like oryx and crake but way stupider.

Ok no actually this feels about in line with oryx and crake, ngl.

[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

81 year old US man fucking around with sheep genetics... Go on Chapo?!