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'BROKEBACK ABUSED SHEEP'
NY Post ^
| March 2, 2006
| CYNTHIA R. FAGEN
Posted on 03/02/2006 5:01:13 AM PST by Pharmboy
March 2, 2006 -- The makers of the gay cowboy flick "Brokeback Mountain" were too rough on sheep, an animal-rights group charged yesterday. In a letter to director Ang Lee, The Humane Society also complained about the way the horses and elk were treated.
"The excessively rough handling of the sheep and horses leaves viewers questioning whether anyone was looking out for the safety of those animals," the letter said.
"And many also wonder how the filmmakers got the elk to lose its footing and crumple to the ground 'on cue' after being shot."
A spokesman for the producer of the Best Picture-nominated movie, Focus Features, had no immediate comment.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brokeback; getsomewool; humane; pudding; sheep
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To: derllak
hmm me too.. I just get the willies even thinking about this movie, so I avoid discussion on it as much as possible :P
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posted on
03/02/2006 11:07:55 AM PST
by
Leatherneck_MT
(An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.)
To: Pharmboy
I'm about as NE as one can get. Sun's been out most of the day here. (Kind of convenient that NE also can stand for New England, eh?
";^)
82
posted on
03/02/2006 11:42:08 AM PST
by
Past Your Eyes
(You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
To: Pharmboy
Bah! Sheep like it rough.
...or so I've been told...
To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick; najida; PaulaB; EX52D; teenyelliott; peacebaby; Millee; ...
I am slipping - should have pinged this earlier ping.....
84
posted on
03/02/2006 1:02:09 PM PST
by
day10
(Whenever you come near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.)
To: day10
And Ang Lee had the sheep brought to his trailer at night.
85
posted on
03/02/2006 1:03:18 PM PST
by
pissant
To: day10
ah geez. I needed this bit of information.
86
posted on
03/02/2006 1:04:19 PM PST
by
peacebaby
(The wicked games people play.)
To: headsonpikes
They may have been tough on the sheep, but at least no beavers were injured in the making of the film. We have a winner for line of the day!!!
87
posted on
03/02/2006 1:05:18 PM PST
by
acad1228
To: day10
No "virgin wool" possible from those sheep now.
88
posted on
03/02/2006 1:05:46 PM PST
by
Millee
(Don't make me get out my voodoo doll out!)
To: Millee; day10
There is a contradictory purpose here: The people who are active in PETA are also the folks most tolerant of gays and lesbians.
89
posted on
03/02/2006 1:09:50 PM PST
by
peacebaby
(The wicked games people play.)
To: caver
>>>
This begs a good joke or two or a hundred.<<< Roger Hedgecock had great comment on Rush's show this morning.
"The Peta people think that the movie was too abusive of the sheep....what about the actors; they got a lot more abuse than the sheep - the sheep got off easy"!
Roger is good!
To: peacebaby; Millee
Given the subject of the article that is the funniest opening line of an article I think I have ever seen.
91
posted on
03/02/2006 1:13:42 PM PST
by
day10
(Whenever you come near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.)
To: Pharmboy
Sudan man forced to 'marry' goat
A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal.
The goat's owner, Mr Alifi, said he surprised the man with his goat and took him to a council of elders.
They ordered the man, Mr Tombe, to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($50) to Mr Alifi.
"We have given him the goat, and as far as we know they are still together," Mr Alifi said.
Mr Alifi, Hai Malakal in Upper Nile State, told the Juba Post newspaper that he heard a loud noise around midnight on 13 February and immediately rushed outside to find Mr Tombe with his goat.
"When I asked him: 'What are you doing there?', he fell off the back of the goat, so I captured and tied him up".
Mr Alifi then called elders to decide how to deal with the case.
"They said I should not take him to the police, but rather let him pay a dowry for my goat because he used it as his wife," Mr Alifi told the newspaper.
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posted on
03/02/2006 1:22:19 PM PST
by
OESY
To: steve-b
We are expecting six inches. So were the sheep.
LMAO!
93
posted on
03/02/2006 3:22:46 PM PST
by
MoochPooch
(I'm a compassionate cynic.)
To: ErnBatavia; Pharmboy
,,, of all the recent movies shot in New Zealand, you kept the making of this one at home. I'll say nothing more :)
To: shaggy eel
Once there was an aussie and a kiwi riding their horses down the road when they rode up on a sheep with his head stuck in a fence.
The kiwi sensing an opportunity stopped his horse, and went and did his business with the sheep.
When he went to get back on the horse the aussie completely dumbfounded said, "wait one minute mate..."
The kiwi then said,"oh pardon me. Want a go do ya?"
The Aussie replied, "well, yeah, but do I have to stick my head in the fence?"
To: maui_hawaii
To: K4Harty
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posted on
03/09/2006 1:16:28 PM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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