Judge Sentences 81-Year-Old Montana Man to Six Months for Cloning Giant Sheep

Bro, sheep cloning is illegal in Montana.

What the hell were you thinking?

The Guardian:

An 81-year-old Montana man was sentenced on Monday to six months in federal prison for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in central Asia and the US to create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting in Texas and Minnesota.

The US district court judge Brian Morris said he struggled to come up with a sentence for Arthur “Jack” Schubarth of Vaughn, Montana. He said he weighed Schubarth’s age and lack of a criminal record with a sentence that would deter anyone else from trying to “change the genetic makeup of the creatures” on the Earth.

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Schubarth’s attorney, Jason Holden, said cloning the giant Marco Polo sheep hunted in Kyrgyzstan in 2013 has ruined his client’s “life, reputation and family”.

“I think this has broken him,” Holden said.

rofl.

Sad.

Holden, in seeking a probationary sentence, argued that Schubarth was a hard-working man who has always cared for animals and did something that no one else could have done in cloning the giant sheep, which he named Montana Mountain King – or MMK.

The animal has been confiscated by US Fish and Wildlife Services and is being held in an accredited facility until it can be transferred to a zoo, said Richard Bare, a special agent with the wildlife service.

I don’t know, man.

What am I supposed to say about this?

Is sheep cloning good or bad? What is the take?

Undated photo of Montana Mountain King.