Something is wrong, my dog wont bark or eat dog food!!

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Japanese-fooled-in-poodle-scam/2007/04/26/1177459875122.html

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Japanese fooled in poodle scam

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.
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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I have heard lots lately, but this is absolutely the best one ever!! xD

 

Oh Dear...

:noooo:

 

I think this is one of the best stories I've ever read. I mean does a Sheep even remotely look like a dog? Come to think of it, I can't remember the last time I saw a real pineapple in a Japanese supermarket.

 

No, and it has nothing to do w/ growing up in an urban area. My wife hates animals, and has conciously avoided them her whole life, but I would bet my house she could tell the difference between a sheep and just about anything.

That's not to say most people in the world aren't totally stupid, but that's another thread.

Anyways, searches on Google-J, YJ news and Asahi news turn up nothing. I'm calling "big pile of bullshit".

 

If this story is true then all I can say is a big thumbs up to the company that ripped them off. how f*ing dumb must a person be to not know the difference between a sheep anda dog. Even as babies they look nothing like each other. Living in the city is a poor reason to boot. These people must have seen pictures in their lives. Then again my wife thought a bird had 3 legs !! I sure know I don't know everything but I'm always surprised by what simple stuff Japanese don't seem to know yet the amount of useless bull shit they do know.

Yakumo

 

what the hell are they feeding their sheep? beef-stakes?

 

a sheerly unbelievable story. but not that surprised at all. japanese usually have good knowledges about specific things in which they interested or from their work. but when it comes up to general knowledge, you will be quite surprised how stupid sometimes they could be.

 

The obligatory question: Was she playing dumb to get you in the sack, or was this after being married? I must follow that w/ a question though: What animal has only 3 legs? (although I've been said to have 3 legs from time to time).

 

hahaha, that was after I was married. I was sort of taking the piss out of her with simple general knowledge questions. It really is amazing though. I mean they look at you with a face that says "Didn't you ever go to school?" when you can't answer a question on the population of a place that you couldn't care less about yet they can't even answer something simple based on general knowledge. I have a few Japanese male friends yet not one has a clue about changing the oil in their car or something as simple as painting a fence. No wonder there are 100's of places that charge you a shit load of cash to do a 5 minute job. I remember when the missus said that she's have to take he car to the Mitsubishi center to get the window cleaner water jets fixed (5000 yen job) when any soft sod with a pin could clean them out (which I did).

Yakumo

 

Dammit, I was about to say that.

Anyway, I can sort of understand not knowing what a sheep looks like, but how could you fail to realize that it's not a dog? If nothing else, the behavior ought to give you some sort of clue. For example, a dog will think that you want to play if you start moving around really fast and making weird noises, and he'll start running around and wagging his tail. A sheep, on the other hand, probably wouldn't give a shit. Certainly dogs aren't THAT rare in Japan.

 

:thumbsup: SPOT ON ! I work in an office where I'm the only English speaker. Everyone apart from the woman across from me (aged 25) can't do anything without some sort of guide. You want to hear just how pathetic some of the point that come up in morning meetings. In the last year I've stood up twice just to blurt out "It's simple. all you have to do is......." Only to get a look of blank faces who then go back to trying to figure out a way to do something even though I just told them. 20 minutes later they go with my idea. People say it must be great living in Japan but I tell you that the Japanese can be so annoying after a few years simply because they can't think outside of the box. Well, 80% of them anyway.

Yakumo

 

I think the thing that confuses me about japanese is that their code is usualy always mess, shit, badly writen yet some how their games look and run better then most western developers.

 

I don't know how well you can relate to this living in Jersey, nor Yakumo growing up in the UK. But, I have two words to counter that: "Red States". I assume each country has their own populace of idiots, but those in the South and depopulated areas of the US far out-depress their few Japanese counterparts. As someone who has spent time in the sticks of both places, the Japanese are far more boring and non-newsworthy as a whole, to say the least.

I used to think the Japanese were special in their "need a guide" lifestyles, and realized they are just a larger population of the same thing which is common in the west. The problem in the west? People pretend they know what the fuck they're talking about and give you the wrong information. Maybe I just had shitty luck. Maybe it was just that I was on the laziest place on the planet for 2 years, but for the love of God, it was impossible to get anything done. Try dealing w/ Immigration in the states for your wife's visa. No shit, immigration officer on the phone asked me how to spell my street name "Curtis" and how to spell "Honolulu". O_O

Now, the whole "no used stuff" comment cannot be argued with. Used furniture, cars, anything in japan is almost worthless. Product of bubble culture.

You get to see their code? I would imagine it spotless, yet convoluted.

 

japaneze coders can work on really tight systems. a great number of them is fluent in low language and that's where they pull alot of their strength, they don't always have coherent algorithms, at least to the western eye.

 

I've seen the code of a few japanese games and it's god awful and messy. No wonder half the games ported to pc by a western dev end up shit because nobody can make sense of it.

European's write the cleanest code but tend to make things too complicated by writing too many abstract layers insted of writing custom versions that are faster.

Barc0de is probably more wright. Japanese code tends to be better optimised on the low level side (if you can make heads or tales of it). Yet european code tens to force it all into an unneeded class.

 

That's bebause we think forward
No but seriously.. I agree that 'japanese code' can be messy after seeing lots of sample/demo code. ^_^

 

the stupid sheep story has been printed in two Danish news papers, and one of my friends showed me the story. I called it, and told him it wasn´t a true story even though it was written. Since I still don´t know if the story is true or not.