Sheep sells at auction for world record £367,500 fee

Double Diamond, a Texel, smashed the world record for an auctioned sheep when he sold for 350,000 guineas (£367,500) in Lanark, near Glasgow. Texels are a highly sought after rare breed that originated on the small island of Texel, off the coast of the Netherlands. Until the sale, the previous record for a sheep sold at auction stood at just over £230,000, set in 2009.

The Guardian YouTube network:

[petebateman]

The human race is, quite frankly, insane.

[jasonbarlian]

Sheep gets sold to a bidder for £360, 000.

Worker: *Let me hit it with a stick for absolutely no reason at all.*

[michael-m]

That was one of the strangest things I've seen in a while.

[maramilitia]

Thats nothing! Imagine how much it would have sold for in Wales.

[JP-smcs]

Sheep farmers: We treat our livestock like we would our children!

Also Sheep farmers:

[nuhachoudhury]

when a sheep sells for more money than you could ever be sold for

[highking]

Only a Welshman would pay that much for his future bride...

[lorrebreaker]

Rip off price, he's been fleeced

[lopici]

OK can you stop shoving and smacking the poor animal. That's seemed totally unnecessary.

[davevv]

£367, 500 and in the last second man hits the poor sheep with his stick :-/

[pulphope]

He's screaming like a man secretly trapped inside a sheep costume

[davidbarlow]

First sheep i've seen in ages without a mask.

[TheJouvea]

I don't know why but watching this gave me uncomfortable thoughts about slavery

[shaolin]

I can't even save 40k to qualify for a mortgage

[halcyonneumann]

wish they would stop bullying this poor expensive sheep

[DJCrisisUK]

The stupidity of humans has reached record levels.

[Dachaser]

Future people will look at videos like this and wonder how we could have rationalised such strange behaviour.

[TheSilentStar]

I wonder if I’m the only one who feels uncomfortable watching the sheep trying to leave and being made to stay by someone holding a cane to it’s throat and that woman grabbing its tail, maybe it’s just because I’m a parent and they have the mental age of a 4 year old... The sheep not the unpleasant humans.

[jsiszero]

Disgusting... this is pure evil. Greed is destroying humanity.

[lakelanddream]

Not sure why he had to hit it across its back with a stick as it walked out