After Australia happily accepted ‘Chris’ – the rogue woolly sheep who hadn’t been shorn in five whole years – as a cultural icon and Aussie hero, New Zealand have decided to try to cut us down.
Omahau Station‘s Mike Lindsay, who holds the current sheep-shearing Guinness World Record, told stuff.co.nz he believed that Aussies were trying to falsely take the honourable award that’s rightfully theirs. He even joked that the estimated 40kg of wool shorn from Chris could be ‘a repeat’ of the 1981 Australia v New Zealand ‘underarm bowling incident’. (We were under the impression that we had all agreed to never speak of that again, but okay whatever that’s fine.)
The station’s number three shepherd, Bridget Newlands, also said “An estimate isn’t as good as a world record.”
Oof… the sass. Chris’ shearer, Ian Elkins, isn’t phased though, saying,
“The record should hold. The fleece isn’t going anywhere, we’ve got before and after shots and video. It’s indisputable.”
YOU DON’T OWN SHEEP SHEARING, NEW ZEALAND.
K BYE 
via Canberra Times
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