Montana man gets 6 months in prison for cloning giant sheep

[BigAl]

Montana man gets 6 months in prison for cloning giant sheep and breeding it. He did so for the purpose of creating a larger sheep for the purpose of hunting.

Montana man gets 6 months in prison for cloning giant sheep and breeding it

An 81-year-old Montana has been sentenced to six months in federal prison and ordered to pay $24,000 in penalties for using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to illegally create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunts in Texas and Minnesota.

apnews.com

 

[Bell3wv]

They taste terrible

 

[DaveTN]

Wow. Other than bringing animals into the country illegally, I would have never thought what he was doing would be illegal. Tough break for the old guy.

 

[quackaholic]

If he can afford to clone, then 24k ain't a steep fine lol.