I'm sorry -- this is just too surreal not to share :-)

mhardy6647
mhardy6647 Posts: 33,996
edited December 2013 in The Clubhouse
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/operation--mouse-drop-163310851.html

Operation Dead Mouse Drop.

Dead mice (acetaminophen OD) with cardboard and tissue paper parachutes. ... and some folks say American ingenuity is dead! ;-)
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,337
    edited December 2013
    So what will be next when they are over ridden with bird $hat
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,996
    edited December 2013
    ... are you suggesting that natural selection is better left to Nature?

    ;-)
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,337
    edited December 2013
    .....No good deed goes unpunished

    ;-)
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,014
    edited December 2013
    LOL....only government can take a 2 buck mouse and turn it into a 4,000 dollar one.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,996
    edited December 2013
    let's keep this nonpolitical; bizarre transcends politics ;-)
    (but, yeah, the cost aspect is kind of salient, isn't it?)

    Maybe we should be dropping these from Cessnas instead of C-131s?
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited December 2013
    How about a game of Extinctathon played Global Corps that have displaced Nation States in a Dystopic future?

    Oryx and Crake? Anyone?

    Surreal is watching what most people believe these days, or rather are "willing" to believe. There is MORE material for late night comics than EVER BEFORE. Because we are so well "read" and "educated"! lol

    I thought Samuel L. Jackson was on that plane screaming, Get these MF mice off this MF plane!

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,996
    edited December 2013
    cnh wrote: »
    H
    ...I thought Samuel L. Jackson was on that plane screaming, "Get these MF dead mice off this MF plane! Where's them MFing little parachutes?"

    cnh

    There, fixed that for you. ;-)
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  • mrbiron
    mrbiron Posts: 5,711
    edited December 2013
    Because there are only brown snakes that eat dead mice?? What about the rest of the wildlife?

    What about the one mouse that slowly parachutes past the island and lands in a whales blowhole? There are holes in the plan....HOLES!!!
    Where’s the KABOOM?!?! There’s supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM!!!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,996
    edited December 2013
    ...ask the Australians about bunny rabbits sometime ;-)
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  • mrbiron
    mrbiron Posts: 5,711
    edited December 2013
    I'm really not too chummy chummy with any Aussies but the first one I meet, you bet your ****$ I'm going to ask him about his bunnies!!
    You can be sure of that!

    :-)
    Where’s the KABOOM?!?! There’s supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM!!!
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  • Tornado Red
    Tornado Red Posts: 939
    edited December 2013
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    ...ask the Australians about bunny rabbits sometime ;-)



    We received a crate at our door one time, addressed from Australia. When I opened it, a giant mouse jumped out and tried to go 10 rounds with our cat, Jose Cuervo...although as I now recall, that may have been back in my drinking days.
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  • 4xoddic
    4xoddic Posts: 372
    edited December 2013
    THANX mrh!

    I will share this with my wife (US&FWS wildlife biologist).

    The Kaibab Plateau is used as an example of the "carrying capacity" of an ecosystem in Wildlife Conservation 101. During the Dust Bowl here in KS, bunny drives were a popular pastime.

    http://www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/kaibab.html#.Up95ryiUzZY
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,996
    edited December 2013
    Our species' ability to alter the environment and ultimately the ecosystem is pretty remarkable.
    The issue of deer is an amusing one - the proliferation of 'boundary' habitat as the suburbs pushed ever outward into the boondocks has caused the whitetail deer population to just skyrocket in the Northeast. I am not a hunter, but there's no doubt that responsible hunting is better than overpopulation with its attendant starvation, disease, and death. Talkin' about deer, not H. sapiens! :-)

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    deer1231116 by mhardy6647, on Flickr

    ... and all those deer brought with them deer ticks and they in turn brought Lyme disease - a case of which I had in the summer of 2012 :-) I'll spare you a look at my 'bull's-eye'...

    ... and then there's the rather stunning comeback of the wild turkey :-)
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    Turkeys 072113 by mhardy6647, on Flickr
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    DSCN7706 by mhardy6647, on Flickr
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  • mrbiron
    mrbiron Posts: 5,711
    edited December 2013
    Your like a regular Jack Hanna but probably much better looking... :-)
    Where’s the KABOOM?!?! There’s supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM!!!
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited December 2013
    Sorry to hear that, Mark! Lyme disease can get VERY NASTY for some. I know a couple of people whose life is hell because of it. Hope yours was a "mild" case that allowed a full recovery!

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,996
    edited December 2013
    Mine was very mild - HUGE bullseye but otherwise really no symptoms; the worst problem was the sun sensitivity I had while on the antibiotics. It was freaking summertime... I'd go out for a walk and wonder why, 20 minutes into it, my skin was itchin' all over.... oh, yeah... no sunlight for you! :-)
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  • Polkersince85
    Polkersince85 Posts: 2,883
    edited December 2013
    This is a program that my step-brother was in on during initial research in Guam. He is a PhD in Austrailia and worked on this about 15 years back. They tried all types of methods but settled on the Tylenol because it destroys the kidneys of the snakes. Pretty neat idea. When he first graduated from college, he studied sea turtles and spent six months a year on an island in the Caribbean. Tough life.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,014
    edited December 2013
    We have some wild turkeys by me too, but coyotes have been keeping their numbers way down. No coyotes up there ? That's a good meal for one......for me too. lol
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,996
    edited December 2013
    Yeah, we've got coyotes, too - I just don't have a good photo of one :-)

    EDIT: Tylenol (i.e., it's "API" - active pharmaceutical ingredient - which is acetaminophen) is frighteningly toxic... that's why I stick to good ol' aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) and/or Advil (ibuprofen) - I am a little biased towards the latter because I used to work for the folks who make it...
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