Sheepdogs???

This gives a whole new meaning to the term...

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=263297

Japanese fooled in poodle scam
Thursday Apr 26 20:55 AEST

Thousands of Japanese have been swindled in a scam in which they were
sold Australian and British sheep and told they were poodles.

Flocks of sheep were imported to Japan and then sold by a company called
Poodles as Pets, marketed as fashionable accessories, available at
$1,600 each.

That is a snip compared to a real poodle which retails for twice that
much in Japan.

The scam was uncovered when Japanese moviestar Maiko Kawamaki went on a
talk-show and wondered why her new pet would not bark or eat dog food.

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She was crestfallen when told it was a sheep.

Then hundreds of other women got in touch with police to say they feared
their new "poodle" was also a sheep.

One couple said they became suspicious when they took their "dog" to
have its claws trimmed and were told it had hooves.

Japanese police believe there could be 2,000 people affected by the
scam, which operated in Sapporo and capitalised on the fact that sheep
are rare in Japan, so many do not know what they look like.

"We launched an investigation after we were made aware that a company
were selling sheep as poodles," Japanese police said, the The Sun
reported.

"Sadly we think there is more than one company operating in this way.

"The sheep are believed to have been imported from overseas - Britain,
Australia."

Many of the sheep have now been donated to zoos and farms.
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On Apr 26, 1:27 pm, Omelet <omp_ome...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This gives a whole new meaning to the term...
>
> http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=263297
>
> Japanese fooled in poodle scam
> Thursday Apr 26 20:55 AEST
>
> Thousands of Japanese have been swindled in a scam in which they were
> sold Australian and British sheep and told they were poodles.
>
> Flocks of sheep were imported to Japan and then sold by a company called
> Poodles as Pets, marketed as fashionable accessories, available at
> $1,600 each.<snip>

Hilarious.

Still, I'm keeping my eye on www.snopes.com/.

--
Curt

"Curt" <curtjames@gmail.com> wrote
> Omelet <omp_ome...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This gives a whole new meaning to the term...
>>
>> http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=263297
>>
>> Japanese fooled in poodle scam
>> Thursday Apr 26 20:55 AEST
>>
>> Thousands of Japanese have been swindled in a scam in which they were
>> sold Australian and British sheep and told they were poodles.
>>
>> Flocks of sheep were imported to Japan and then sold by a company called
>> Poodles as Pets, marketed as fashionable accessories, available at
>> $1,600 each.<snip>
>
> Hilarious.

No, it's not.

It's BAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!

David

That is too fucking funny. :-)

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intimidates the neighbour is henceforth called evil; and
the fair, modest, submissive and conforming mentality,
the mediocrity of desires attains moral designations and honors"
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"Omelet" <omp_omelet@gmail.com> wrote in message
newsmp_omelet-47C85D.12274326042007@news.giganews.com...
> This gives a whole new meaning to the term...
>
> http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=263297
>
> Japanese fooled in poodle scam
> Thursday Apr 26 20:55 AEST
>
> Thousands of Japanese have been swindled in a scam in which they were
> sold Australian and British sheep and told they were poodles.
>
> Flocks of sheep were imported to Japan and then sold by a company called
> Poodles as Pets, marketed as fashionable accessories, available at
> $1,600 each.
>
> That is a snip compared to a real poodle which retails for twice that
> much in Japan.
>
> The scam was uncovered when Japanese moviestar Maiko Kawamaki went on a
> talk-show and wondered why her new pet would not bark or eat dog food.
>
> advertisement
> Click here
> She was crestfallen when told it was a sheep.
>
> Then hundreds of other women got in touch with police to say they feared
> their new "poodle" was also a sheep.
>
> One couple said they became suspicious when they took their "dog" to
> have its claws trimmed and were told it had hooves.
>
> Japanese police believe there could be 2,000 people affected by the
> scam, which operated in Sapporo and capitalised on the fact that sheep
> are rare in Japan, so many do not know what they look like.
>
> "We launched an investigation after we were made aware that a company
> were selling sheep as poodles," Japanese police said, the The Sun
> reported.
>
> "Sadly we think there is more than one company operating in this way.
>
> "The sheep are believed to have been imported from overseas - Britain,
> Australia."
>
> Many of the sheep have now been donated to zoos and farms.
> --
> Peace, Om
>
> Remove _ to validate e-mails.
>
> "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch" -- Jack
> Nicholson

Cohen wrote:
I scribbled re http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=263297

[...]

> >> Thousands of Japanese have
> >> been swindled in a scam in which
> >> they were sold Australian and British
> >> sheep and told they were poodles.
[...]

> > Hilarious.
>
> No, it's not.
>
> It's BAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!

Ewe think ewe're soooo funny, don't ewe?

--
Curt

In article <9gaYh.1161$296.505@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.n et>,
"David Cohen" <sammiesdad@earthlink.net> wrote:

> "Curt" <curtjames@gmail.com> wrote
> > Omelet <omp_ome...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> This gives a whole new meaning to the term...
> >>
> >> http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=263297
> >>
> >> Japanese fooled in poodle scam
> >> Thursday Apr 26 20:55 AEST
> >>
> >> Thousands of Japanese have been swindled in a scam in which they were
> >> sold Australian and British sheep and told they were poodles.
> >>
> >> Flocks of sheep were imported to Japan and then sold by a company called
> >> Poodles as Pets, marketed as fashionable accessories, available at
> >> $1,600 each.<snip>
> >
> > Hilarious.
>
> No, it's not.
>
> It's BAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!
>
> David

;-)
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Om wrote re sheep as poodles (at $1,600 each)
I scribbled:
Cohen quipped:

> > > Hilarious.
>
> > No, it's not.
>
> > It's BAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!
>
> > David
>
> ;-)

Om thinks ewe're sooooooooo funny (too).

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Curt

On Fri, 26 Apr 2007, Curt wrote:

> Cohen wrote:
> I scribbled re http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=263297
>
>>>> Thousands of Japanese have been swindled in a scam in which they were
>>>> sold Australian and British sheep and told they were poodles.
>>>
>>> Hilarious.
>>
>> No, it's not.
>>
>> It's BAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!
>
> Ewe think ewe're soooo funny, don't ewe?

Mostly, i think it's funny that the Japanese chaps had the wool pulled
over their eyes.

tom

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In article <Pine.LNX.4.62.0704270932010.1977@urchin.earth.li> ,
Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Apr 2007, Curt wrote:
>
> > Cohen wrote:
> > I scribbled re http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=263297
> >
> >>>> Thousands of Japanese have been swindled in a scam in which they were
> >>>> sold Australian and British sheep and told they were poodles.
> >>>
> >>> Hilarious.
> >>
> >> No, it's not.
> >>
> >> It's BAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!
> >
> > Ewe think ewe're soooo funny, don't ewe?
>
> Mostly, i think it's funny that the Japanese chaps had the wool pulled
> over their eyes.
>
> tom

And it'll be rammed home to them that they lost face...
It's a bit of a wooly affair, no?

It be-hooves us tho' to hear their side of the story!
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Peace, Om

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"Omelet" <omp_omelet@gmail.com> wrote
>
> Thousands of Japanese have been swindled in a scam in which they were
> sold Australian and British sheep and told they were poodles.
>

This is unreal. It could only happen in Japan.

I have two thoughts on this surreal story.

1) It just goes to show that all those math and science classes did not give
these folks the ability to tell a dog from a sheep.

2) This must be a wake up call to scam and con artists everywhere. These
folks were scammed out of over $3,000,000!

Soooo........., we can be sure that a flood of new scams will be forthcoming
on a people who have trouble with simple animal identification.

Lee Michaels wrote:
[...]

re the lie (or joke dependent on one's pov) "thousands of Japanese
swindled in a sheep versus poodle scam"

> Soooo........., we can be sure that a flood of
> new scams will be forthcoming on a people
> who have trouble with simple animal identification.

How about the possible scams on people who have trouble with simple
false claims? ;o)

http://www.snopes.com/critters/lurkers/poodlesheep.asp

--
Curt