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Bizarre Calf Mutilations!

November 28, 2009

– -A creepy string of calf mutilations in southern Colorado has a rancher and sheriff’s officials mystified.  Four calves were found dead in a pasture just north of the New Mexico state line in recent weeks; the dead calves had their skins peeled back and organs cleared from the rib cage.  One even had its tongue removed…

There were no signs of human attackers, such as footprints or ATV tracks.  Additionally, there were no signs of an animal attack by a coyote or mountain lion, which usually leave pools of blood or drag marks from carrying off their prey.

There have been other unexplained calf mutilations in the area, including three last March.  One of the other calves, found dead on a ranch near Trinidad, had its ears removed…

…some,  of course, believe that the mutilations are the work of aliens, and a UFO chaser has been to the Costilla County pasture to investigate.  The truth is out there!

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Hopping Mad!

November 24, 2009

– – Let sleeping kangaroos lie!–Such might be the advice of a 49-year-old Australian walking his dog who startled a sleeping ‘roo Sunday morning in Arthur’s Creek northeast of Melbourne.

The man’s dog chased the ‘roo into a pond, and that’s when clobberin’ time began!  The kangaroo turned at that point and pinned the dog underwater!  When the man tried to pull his pet free, the ‘roo took on all comers, using his powerful hind legs to tear a deep gash into the guy’s abdomen and face.

The guy had to throw an elbow to the five-foot kangaroo’s throat to get him to end the attack.  His dog, Rocky, was “half-drowned.”

–That was one mighty marsupial!

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–Fear the Asian Carp!

November 22, 2009

– – The man is the picture loves fishing…I mean, really loves it!  I will not speculate about what a human-Asian carp hybrid would look like.  I’m afraid enough  of the Asian carp…

These fish can exceed four feet in length, and 100 pounds in weight.  They can eat 40% of their body weight each day. And of course being Asian, they excel at math…

…just kidding about that last attribute, of course!   But these carp are crafty…they may have already penetrated an electronic barrier meant to keep them out of the Great Lakes, a barrier which cost nine million!

“We’re going to keep throwing everything we can at them to keep them out,” said the senior Great Lakes advisor to the EPA.   This reminds me of a Godzilla-vintage Japanese horror movie…

…“We must stop Mega-carp!–We will throw everything that we have at it!” (footage shown of tanks shelling an enormous fish, all to no avail.)  “Quickly!–Deploy the Super-X!”

…’scuse me, I lost my mind for a minute.–Anyhow, Asian carp escaped from southern fish farms into the Mississippi River during 1990’s flooding, and have been migrating northward since.  They decimate species prized by anglers and commercial fishers, and are known to leap from the water at the sound of passing motors and sometimes collide with boaters!   A worst-case scenario envisions them spreading “like a cancer cell.”

I dunno about you, but I’m sleeping with a light on, and an image of Mrs. Paul or maybe the Gordon fish guy in the room to protect me!

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Cow Takes A Dip…

November 19, 2009

– – In Spartanburg, South Carolina a woman was udderly surprised when she found a 650-pound cow in her covered swimming pool.  Once again, there was one incredulous 911 dispatcher.  No one was sure what the cow was doing in the swimming pool, although the dog paddle was mentioned…

It took five men from county rescue and a sling to get the cow out of the swimming pool.  The cow was unharmed (although water isn’t good for leather), and thought to belong to a neighbor.  It was speculated that the cow escaped, thought that the covered pool was solid ground, and just kept walking…


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Wild Turkey Plays Chicken!

November 18, 2009

– – A wild turkey…the bird, not the booze…has been running across the New Jersey Turnpike at Interchange 14B, playing in traffic, pecking at the windows of the administration building, and jumping on parked cars (which it especially seems to enjoy)!  Efforts to capture and remove the elusive bird have been unsuccessful, and so for the present time at least, the turkey has been allowed to run rampant, the proud bird with the golden tail!

–Seems to me that this “bird brain” is giving the bird to the naked apes!

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Chimp Attack Victim Unveils Face…

November 12, 2009

abc_Charla_Nash3_091111_mn– – The images of Charla Nash from Oprah are extremely graphic and very disturbing, so much so that only the before and the veiled after-version are shown here; we do have standards here on Foxsylvania (although Lord knows not many)!   Last February the 56-year-old woman was savagely attacked and ravaged by her friend’s chimpanzee named Travis, a vicious attack which left the Connecticut woman without her eyes, nose, lips, and  hands.

In spite of her devastating injuries, the courageous woman remains remarkably positive and upbeat, is not angry, and seeks to move on with her life rather than dwell on the events of that horrific day.  Hopes are for Charla to get a face transplant and eventually a hand transplant as well. A $50 million lawsuit is in motion against the chimp’s owner for pain and suffering.

Charla Nash herself says that she wants to warn people about potential dangers posed by exotic animals.  “I’d like to put across to people’s minds that these  exotic animals are very dangerous and they shouldn’t be around,” Nash said on Winfrey’s show.  “There’s a place for them that is not in residential areas.”

The evidence could not possibly be any clearer…

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–You Hit a WHAT?!

November 7, 2009

ODD Elephant Sideswiped– – It’s not unusual for deer or cows to cross Oklahoma’s rural highways, but imagine driving home…from church, no less…and hitting an elephant!

I swear that I am not making this up! About 80 miles north of Oklahoma City in Enid, a guy in his late 60’s swerved his SUV at the last second and ended up sideswiping a 29-year-old pachyderm that had escaped from a nearby circus late Wednesday and wandered onto U.S. 81.  “Didn’t have time to hit the brakes.  The elephant blended in with the road,” said the driver.  “At the very last second I said ‘elephant!'” Now that’s something you don’t see every day…or hear said every day!

After sideswiping the elephant, the motorist’s wife flagged some people down and used their cell phone to call police, where the dispatcher didn’t quite believe her.  “You hit a WHAT?,” he said.  One can also imagine the reaction these folks  got upon calling the accident in to their friendly auto insurance adjuster.

“So help me Hanna, had I hit that elephant, not swerved, it would have knocked it off its legs, and it would have landed right on top of us,” summarized the motorist.  “We’d have been history.” Clearly, it would have been a no-win scenario.

Fortunately the couple, who own a wheat farm, weren’t history.  The 8-foot, 4,500-pound elephant suffered a broken tusk and a leg wound, with a local vet saying it appeared to have escaped major injury.

(- -I just love stories with happy endings, don’t you?- -This true story would have made a great episode of Courage, the Cowardly Dog…Eustace and Muriel are riding along in their truck, when Eustace screams, “Elephant!”  Courage also screams, his eyes leaving their sockets…

– -BTW, hear any good elephant jokes lately?)   😉

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Deer Takes The Plunge!

November 3, 2009

Deer-In-Pool01– -Swimming is great exercise, and it was no Halloween prank when a deer in Gastonia, North Carolina got a workout after he jumped from a balcony through a glass roof and into the area surrounding an indoor pool at the Ashley Arms Historic Apartments on October 30th. After pacing the pool’s perimeter a few times, the deer took the plunge and started swimming laps for about 15 minutes, looking for a way out!

Maintenance supervisors were able to use a net to herd the tiring animal to the shallow end of the pool, where he walked up the steps and ran away, successfully avoiding the traffic. – – It was all caught on security camera video!– -And wait until the does catch a look at that buck’s swimmer’s bod!

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Coyotes Kill Woman!

October 30, 2009

coyote— A nineteen year old singer-songwriter from Toronto, Taylor Mitchell,  was attacked and killed by coyotes as she was hiking alone in a park in eastern Canada. Police who were in the area reached the scene quickly and shot one of the animals, apparently wounding it.  The injured coyote and a companion coyote managed to get away, however.

The woman was in critical condition when paramedics arrived with multiple bite wounds over her entire body. Despite being airlifted to a Halifax hospital, she died last Wednesday morning.

Coyote attacks are extremely rare because the animals are usually shy.  A retired biologist with the Nova Scotia department of Natural Resources said that its possible the coyotes thought that the victim was a deer or other prey…

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Blue Whale Washed Ashore

October 23, 2009

beached whale– -You don’t often hear about blue whales washing ashore, but one did on the Northern California coast near Fort Bragg Monday night.

Authorities believe that the blue whale died after it was hit by a ship Monday.  The animal had two gashes on its back, including one that went down to the spinal column.  Last week, another blue whale had washed up on a beach in Monterey County after being hit by a ship.  The last time before that when a blue whale washed onto a California beach was in 2007.

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