3 Bizarre Events Involving Animals You Won't Believe

The Sheep That Wanted To Be An Electrician

This is easily one of the most bizarre events involving an animal that's ever occurred, so thank goodness someone was there with a camera. Basically, what's happening in the picture above, is that a sheep has—one way or another—managed to get his horn caught on an electricity wire. Nobody knows for sure how this happened, but it's likely that the sheep was grazing at a higher elevation where the wire is closer to the ground, got his horn snagged on it, and, as sheep will do, struggled against it.

Eventually, he writhed and wiggled his way so far that gravity took its course and he zipped down the wire, leaving himself suspended over a small Norwegian town. Believe it or not, the sheep wasn't electrocuted (apparently sheep horns aren't very good conductors, good to know). Ultimately, the sheep was rescued, not by whatever the Norwegian equivalent of Animal Services is, but by a group of German tourists. They used just rope and a ladder to do it, and apparently none of them were electrocuted either.

The Skunk That Liked Peanut Butter A Little Too Much

Would you be brave enough to help him?

The Bird That Was An Arsonist

How would a bird possibly start a fire? We're talking about creatures who, despite having been graced with the miraculous ability to fly, still haven't figured out that it's in poor form to shit on your windshield. So here's how this story goes: a guy who owned a shop in Lincolnshire, in England, gets to his place of business, only to discover that it's in the process of burning to a crisp.

Investigators later found out that the fire was started on the roof, where some 30-odd cigarette butts were left—the idea being that a bird would deposit its findings on the roof of the shop, most likely a sparrow, the filthy scavengers that they are. So, all it took was one cigarette butt that was still lit, and poof, there goes a man's livelihood. Damn you, birds!