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A Giant Sheep Statue With Glowing Green Eyes Is Frightening All The Locals

November 9, 2015

The Big Merino is a 50 foot tall concrete merino ram, located in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia.

Nicknamed "Rambo" by locals, the Big Merino contains a gift shop on the ground floor and a wool display on the second floor.

Visitors can even climb to the top and look out through the Merino's eyes.

To encourage people to switch to green energy, they thought they'd use the giant sheep the town is famous for.

I'm not sure it's having the intended effect...

Photo: Brittany Murphy

Local residents - and Australia at large - are having a ball with it on Twitter...

i have always thought that the Big Merino could be improved by imbuing it with terrible and ancient magic pic.twitter.com/Iu1LqLpj25

— j.r. hennessy (@jrhennessy) November 9, 2015

The Big Merino currently looks like the evil dog from Ghostbusters. pic.twitter.com/vHS0sprco1

— BuzzFeed Australia (@BuzzFeedOz) November 9, 2015

"remember who you are Simba" #bigmerino pic.twitter.com/QDnq5fdeNy

— Andrew Brown (@AndrewBrownFCN) November 9, 2015

What's happening with the big merino? pic.twitter.com/aJ2hUADYx9

— Reid Parker (@ReidParker_) November 9, 2015

"The sheep's eyes haven't been up for long but we've already had a few people tell us it looks freaky," Debbie Hunt, Vice-President of The Goulburn Group, told Mashable. "I suppose it does, but if it gets their attention then I guess that's a good thing."

The sheep's eyes will light up every night until Nov. 16, coinciding with the annual Goulburn Connects Sustainability Festival on Nov. 15.