Sheep for sale

A brief blurb by the Associated Press announced today that there is an excess municipal sheep population in the Village of Parks in St. Martin Parish.

No, it's not out of control wildlife on the loose. The sheep are actually employed by the community to "keep the grass trimmed under the Parks water tower and around the wastewater treatment pond." Seriously. For twenty years, the sheep population belonged to the village's late public works superintendent Bobby Champagne, whose widow sold them to the village following his death two years ago.

I'm not sure what length of time constitutes a generation in sheep years, but there have obviously been quite a few since the herd is now so overgrown that the village is attempting to auction off fifteen of the sheep. Bids are being accepted through Friday. I might be interested, but, um... uh... are bids being accepted with no questions asked, or, um... uh... you know, will we be expected to explain just exactly what, uh... huh-huh... you know, what we want with the sheep?

As amusing as all that is, the best part has gotta be the final line of the blurb: "As of Wednesday, there had been no bids." Quite a shocker, I know! Maybe if the village throws in a free block of cornbread or a wedge of potato with every winning bid, they might get a few bites!