Panda-monium
We here at Blue Crab Boulevard have tried to warn people about the Animal Uprising™, but all we get for our troubles is one restraining order after another. Some people are just such ingrates. But if people would actually pay attention to us, they could avert disaster. Take for example our dire wanting about the true nature of pandas. We warned people that when they volunteered to feed the pandas, they were actually volunteering to be on the menu. If this woman had just listened, she would not have needed to be rescued.
One moment a Chinese tourist was posing happily with a bunch of giant panda cubs, the next she was discovering what it's like to become an endangered species.
The young woman had paid £80 to be photographed with some of the younger residents at the Wolong Panda Reserve in Sichuan Province.
She made the mistake of stroking them on the head a little too enthusiastically - and found herself suddenly knocked to the ground.
The woman had to be dragged from the pen while a panda gripped her around the waist, and was eventually lifted out of danger by her boyfriend.
They have pictures of the woman's near-buffet experience. They try to say that the pandas are vegetarians. We of course know better. They have a taste for human flesh which the Chinese authorities are exploiting to keep the food bills down at the panda preserves.
By Quilly Mammoth, Monday, 18 December , 2006 @ 4:47 pm
The animal uprising continues:
CINCINNATI - A 13-foot boa constrictor wrapped itself around its owner’s neck and killed the man in his home, authorities said.
An acquaintance found Ted Dres, 48, inside the snake’s cage Saturday and called police, the Hamilton County Sheriff’s office said.
The snake was still strangling Dres when deputies arrived, and the officers had to work with members of an animal protection group to remove the reptile, the sheriff’s office said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16255785/
By Gaius, Monday, 18 December , 2006 @ 5:07 pm
Wow. That’s eerie. I just posted a warning about that from an expert in Florida….