Fleece so valuable it's locked in bank vault

[DarkPhenyx]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/03/04/australia.wool.reut/index.html

SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) -- Two Australian sheep farmers have produced the world's finest wool, a mere 11.9 microns thick or about one-fifth the diameter of human hair, with a bale of the super fine wool now under armed guard inside a bank vault.

The bale of wool is valued at more than $752,000 and when sold in coming weeks is probably destined for a fashion house in Paris, Milan, New York or Tokyo.

[RobertSeattle]

1. Whole new meaning to someone's getting fleeced...

:evilgrin:

I still with my Polartec thank you get much...

[DarkPhenyx]

2. OK, you really need to apologise for that comment.

That was pretty bad even by DU standards. *c*

[VelmaD]

3. This is just silly

Is there some particular reason the world needed wool one-fifth the diameter of human hair?

[DarkPhenyx]

4. Softer wool.

Something you can wear against your skin w/o it chaffing.

That and some fool is dumb enough to pay that much for wool 1/5th the diamater of a human hair.