No Sheep Please, We’re British.
MORE than 1,000 sheep are being kept in British prisons, shock figures have revealed.
In total, there are 4,309 animals and 147 different species within UK prisons – one for every 19 inmates.
Shetland ponies, donkeys, pigmy goats, dogs and cats are also kept by inmates.
Freedom of Information request.
Apparently it helps reduce self-harming amongst frustrated prisoners, a Ministry of Justice spokesman said – with a dead straight face……
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January 10, 2010 at 13:44 -
Shame the FOI request didn’t ask to have it broken down by region…
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January 10, 2010 at 13:44 -
Honing up on their shepherding skills, no doubt! ROFL!
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January 10, 2010 at 13:53 -
Oooer, I hate to think what that must add up to in sheep-dip each year.
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January 10, 2010 at 13:57 -
And has it been definitely ascertained that the donkeys aren’t in fact asses?
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January 10, 2010 at 14:03 -
Self harm? A rather old-fashioned euphemism surely.
Custodial sentences ought to retain a deterrence aspect, so I really hope they don’t have any Thompson’s Gazelles.
Er, oops.
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January 10, 2010 at 14:09 -
Banged up behind Baa’s.
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January 10, 2010 at 14:13 -
there’s 646 pigs in the House of Commons – free to come and go as they please – they’re not generally into self-harming but they do their level best to harm everyone else!!
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January 10, 2010 at 14:31 -
This sort of woolly-thinking gives me the needle, it really does.
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January 10, 2010 at 14:38 -
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January 10, 2010 at 14:39 -
That’s the good thing about FOI, it stops them pulling the wool over your eyes.
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January 10, 2010 at 15:22 -
So as a pensioner taxpayer, I’m paying for criminals to have not just their iPods, Xboxes, Wiis, colour TVs & OU Courses but also their PETS! Yet I find it quite difficult to pay for food, vets etc for my own pets & quite a number of pensioners have to hand their pets over to rescue societies when they become old because they can’t afford to keep them. Meanwhile, CRIMINALS just order up some pets at our expense. Personally, I don’t give a **** if prisoners self-harm – at least it would cure the overcrowding problems. UK=lunati asylum
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January 10, 2010 at 15:45 -
Might as well be well hung for a sheep as a lamb. Does it stop Harriet Harming? If so, I protest.
I always suspected prisoners had access to Dolly birds.
YM x
PS The Min of Ag & Fish have just confirmed that ’sheep’ is code for backbenchers. I don’t think I can make further comment on a family site. -
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January 10, 2010 at 16:12 -
We all know what the sheep are for ,dont we,?
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January 10, 2010 at 16:19 -
Those prisoners must miss them when they go on the lamb.
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January 10, 2010 at 16:19 -
I find it hard to believe this is anything other than a flock ‘n’ bull story. I’ve never herd such shear nonsense. Whatever next? There’s a moose loose aboot the calaboose???
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January 10, 2010 at 16:34 -
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January 10, 2010 at 17:01 -
baa-aa-aad sheep mutton do that
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January 10, 2010 at 17:13 -
And as the IT specialist in Wormwood Scrubs said, ‘I need more RAM’.
Bloody pervert!BTW, did you know that a sheep tied to a lamp post is a Welsh leisure centre?
And before anyone complains, I’ve got Welsh blood in my veins….not a lot but it’s definitely there, look you!
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January 10, 2010 at 17:19 -
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January 10, 2010 at 17:56 -
Could never resist the appealing eyes…can anyone help with my problem?….rotfl
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January 10, 2010 at 18:27 -
yaki baa-aah, Cato!
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January 10, 2010 at 21:34 -
No sheep but a delightful Diana Krall ” Stop this World “- too many pigs in the same trough….enjoy
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January 10, 2010 at 22:41 -
I’m feeling a bit sheepish after reading all these poor puns. Surely it’s better to have a bit of lamb action than rely on the “I’ve dropped the soap” routine?
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January 11, 2010 at 16:52 -
So what? I rely on one of our many local prisons for my supply of mutton, and other excellent meats. The prisoners are doing something useful and I can rely on the quality. At least I am not being poisoned by the stuff in the supermarket.
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