back to article STONER SHEEP get the MUNCHIES after feasting on £4k worth of cannabis plants

A flock of sheep that are about to meet their maker at the abattoir got high on cannabis plants worth £4,000, after the drugs were ditched in a Surrey field. "My sheep weren't quite on their backs with legs in the air but they probably had the munchies," farm shop manager Nellie Budd told local rag the Surrey Mirror. "They …

  1. Barry Rueger

    Woof woof

    One of the common veterinary diagnoses out here on the West Coast of Canada is stoned dogs.

    For some reasons a lot of canines have a fondness for the herb, often finding carefully hidden plantations deep in the forest.

    Or maybe that's just British Columbia dogs...

  2. Steve Davies 3 Silver badge

    Ah!

    Time to bring out the Mony Python sketch about 'Flying Sheep'

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    when my son was in HS, he'd made a batch of brownies, and had the last couple brownies stashed in his room, our dogs found them, and got /so/ stoned it was silly. apparently there wasn't enough chocolate in this brownie pix to actually hurt them, and he'd used a coconut butter base to do the extraction. we had some words after this incident. the dogs were fine the next day (yes, we consulted with the vet etc.)

    anonymous just because.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      block of hash

      Had a puppy who ate a small block of hash. Up until that time he ate _everything_ he could get his mouth on. After spending a day out of it, he was back to his normal bouncy self, except that he only ever things out of his bowl, and viewed everything else with deep suspicion.

  4. Timfy67
    Happy

    <Snigger>

    Fannys Farm Pfft!

  5. dan1980

    Having the munchies as a sheep would be profoundly unsatisfying.

    1. oddie

      having the munchies if you were a sheep must be VERY satisfying..

      I'd imagine it would be similar to; if as a human you were a bit mellowed out, then really wanting a snack, and then realised you were standing in a field of crisps and chocolate bars...

  6. Adam 1

    Where's the green sheep?

  7. hplasm
    Happy

    In other news-

    Sheep eat grass.

  8. Bilious
    Meh

    Fresh hemp is just another plant material

    Most of the tetrahydrocannabinol in fresh cannabis is in the form of a precursor. Heat treatment, whether baking or smoking, is necessary for the release.

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19728318

    1. Slacker@work

      Re: Fresh hemp is just another plant material

      Dude - buzzkill

    2. Ashley Ward

      Re: Fresh hemp is just another plant material

      Does this mean the the sheep will be fine, but whoever cooks up a nice bit of roast lamb will be in for a surprise?

    3. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Fresh hemp is just another plant material

      Yep. Not to mention, only carnivores/omnivores are susceptible to its effects. Herbivores, not so much.

  9. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Meanwhile, at the abattoir

    Stoner bashing time!

  10. Les Matthew
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    cannabis plants

    and Nellie Budd, you just can't make that up.

  11. chivo243 Silver badge

    Cheech and Chong

    Daaaaaave's noooooot heeeeere maaaaaaan, baaaah

  12. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Hmmmm

    the psychoactive part of cannabis - the THC/CBD trichomes - are all concentrated on the flowering tips of the plant. These are what the plant is grown for, the rest is just discarded.

    So I suspect what was dumped was the discarded trim - the stalks and leaves. Which will smell, but not get you high. Not in the slightest.

    It annoys me to hear stories of growers being anti-social and flytipping. There are several ways to responsibly dispose of the waste from growing cannabis - certainly for personal use.

    Apparently.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Hmmmm

      Um, no, marihuana leaves are not at all devoid of THC. Just that it is more concentrated in the buds and they are a lot milder to smoke makes the flowers preferable.

  13. TwistUrCapBack

    Bud shop !!

    "Budd's shop was just 200 yards from where the drugs were fly-tipped, apparently."

    Budd's shop ??

    And he had nothing to do with it , noooo !!

  14. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    A flock of sheep that are about to MEAT* their maker at the abattoir... would have been a more fitting sentence.

  15. po

    Did anybody verify this story? There is a Fanny's Farm in Surrey but I checked the local white pages and there is no entry for the very suspiciously named Nellie Budd. The nearest available Budd would appear to be Ashley, Kate or Margerie, some 4 miles away in Coulsdon. It also seems really unlikely that somebody would leave 2 kg of weed lying around in a ditch or, for that matter, that there would be any evidence of it if sheep had gotten into it. Those furry little buggers are notorious stoners. Nor have the Surrey police, who will post about a missing cat, reported it on their website. It just doesn't ring true... and it wouldn't be the first time that a journalist made up a story.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      @po

      Obviously you have nothing else to worry about. Either that or you've been smoking something a lot stronger than dope.

  16. Real Ale is Best
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    The episode of Shaun the Sheep they never made!

    1. Cardinal

      "Shaun gets shit-faced" ?

  17. Ken 16 Silver badge
    Holmes

    feeling a tad bit paranoid ?

    Since they're beside an abattoir, I think they're entitled.

  18. jake Silver badge

    "after the drugs were ditched"

    Drugs? Plural? Really?

    And here I thought it was just a simple herb hated by .govs world-wide, and much loved by the terminally lazy over roughly the same range.

  19. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Shop

    Yes really http://fannysfarm.com

  20. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    "Look Shaun - I'm a cloud!"

    There's a similar highly suspicious tale told on tours of the Greek island of Kefalonia, about a farmer who applied for permission to fence off the end of a gully to keep his goats off the road, and - so the tale is told - everyone agreed his goats appeared much happier behind the barrier. The reason being, the fence was actually keeping people out of his weed plantation and the goats were enjoying the side-effects.

    Though doubt sets in when one wonders how much weed you'd actually be able to grow with a load of goats around munching everything in sight down to the ground. But it's not in the right spirit to raise such questions...

  21. JaitcH
    Happy

    First Happy Pizza, now Happy Lamb

    Happy Pizza is a speciality pizza readily available on request in Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Kampuchea). Really boosted the industry income.

    So British farmers should be celebrating - added income for the financially stressed farmers!

  22. Domino
    Coat

    Off to the butchers

    For some grass fed lamb.

  23. Anonymous Coward
    Happy

    Could make for some very tender mutton....

    "Our sheep are raised on a special stress-reducing diet, which you can taste in the final product."

    Smiley face icon, because the sheep were no doubt feeling pretty groovy and copacetic afterwards...

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