Sheriff Mark Lamb

He's watching this herd of zebra.

And he's watching one of the zebra.

And he looks down to make a note.

And when he looks back up, he can't find the zebra he was watching.

It mixed in with all the other zebras.

So he's like, I got this, I got an idea.

I'm gonna take a can of paint, goes out the next day, takes a can of paint in his Jeep.

He's like, I'm gonna paint an X on the butts of a few of the zebras.

That way I can watch them.

So he goes out, takes his Jeep, does it, paints the X on the butts of a few of the zebras.

Comes back and he's like, thinks he's pretty slick.

Gets up the next morning, the predators ate those zebras.

What he realized was that the predators couldn't hunt the herd.

They had to be able to identify one of the zebras to be able to hunt them.

What he also realized is that the zebra stripes were not camouflaged for their surrounding.

It was camouflaged for each other.

The power of the zebra's stripes was we the people, the herd.

As long as they stood together as a herd, then nobody could attack them.

The predators had trouble.

But the second they were able to start petitioning off,