Buffalo Invade Denver!
And turncoats among the human race are the ones enabling it! Yes, the Animal Uprising™ has sent a platoon of bison right to Denver's doorstep.
COMMERCE CITY, Colo. - After an absence of more than a century, wild bison were returned to Colorado's Front Range on Saturday in full view of Denver's skyline.
Sixteen buffalo from the National Bison Range in northwestern Montana were released in an enclosed 1,400-acre section of a wildlife refuge that formerly was the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, where nerve gas and other chemical weapons were manufactured.
"The release went very smoothly. We would say this was a tremendous success," said Matt Kales, spokesman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He said the animals were released in an area that had never been used for the manufacture of weapons…..
….."We are not only giving the bison a chance, but giving the people of Denver a chance to connect with them," Kales said.
Let's hope the humans in Denver are ready for this. Just wait until a Honda connects with a full grown buffalo. That will not be pretty. Oh, sure the people doing this say they have the bison under lock and key and are ready for a jailbreak:
Kales said Fish and Wildlife officials don't believe the bison will try to get out of their enclosure, but employees will have tranquilizer guns and escape plans ready as a precaution.
Longtime readers know that bison who want to leave simply do so. And, as that last link points out, shooting them with tranquilizers only makes them angry. Much like Mongo in Blazing Saddles.
By Chris, Saturday, 17 March , 2007 @ 9:24 pm
I guess they’ll just have to use candygrams.