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You Can't Make This Stuff Up Dept.: "Army sent after minks on the run" (squeek, squeek)
Reuters ^
| 10/29/07
| staff writer
Posted on 11/05/2007 5:00:12 PM PST by yankeedame
Edited on 11/05/2007 5:33:44 PM PST by Admin Moderator.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Twenty German soldiers were deployed on Friday to help recapture around 17,000 minks on the run.
The animals had been let out from a mink farm into the eastern German countryside by unknown perpetrators, according to police in Stendal, 55 miles west of Berlin.
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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: minks
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To: yankeedame
Egad - that’s 850 mink apiece. Good luck, fellers...
To: yankeedame
That’s a lot of roamin rodents.
Bush’s fault!!
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posted on
11/05/2007 5:05:34 PM PST
by
PROCON
To: yankeedame
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posted on
11/05/2007 5:07:05 PM PST
by
wastedyears
(One Marine vs. 550 consultants. Sounds like good odds to me.)
To: yankeedame
What effect can 20 soldiers have against 17,000 mink on the lam?
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posted on
11/05/2007 5:07:07 PM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: yankeedame
Schuuuuultz!!!
To: PROCON
That’s a lot of roamin rodents.Minks are members of the weasel family of carnivores.
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posted on
11/05/2007 5:09:59 PM PST
by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
(Ron Paul Criminality: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/10/paul_bot)
To: Red_Devil 232
What effect can 20 soldiers have against 17,000 mink on the lam? That depends on what weapons they utilize. :=)
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posted on
11/05/2007 5:10:08 PM PST
by
Bob
To: yankeedame
Ve have vays uf dealing vif rudents like u!!!!!
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posted on
11/05/2007 5:12:37 PM PST
by
alarm rider
(Why should I not vote my conscience?)
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Fine,fine, but weasel doesn’t rhyme with roamin/s
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posted on
11/05/2007 5:14:38 PM PST
by
PROCON
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Fine,fine, but weasel doesn’t rhyme with roamin/s
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posted on
11/05/2007 5:14:40 PM PST
by
PROCON
To: Bob
The damned things will bite you. Some relatives used to raise these things. You couldn’t find a lousier place to live than a mink ranch in the summer.
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Minks are members of the weasel family of carnivores.And they *BITE! Did anyone warn them about that?
* I can prove it.
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posted on
11/05/2007 5:19:03 PM PST
by
capt. norm
(Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.)
To: yankeedame
Ich bin ein mink catcher. Jaaa.
They should get a special ribbon for that.
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posted on
11/05/2007 5:19:18 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
To: All
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posted on
11/05/2007 5:23:26 PM PST
by
Cindy
To: Eric in the Ozarks
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posted on
11/05/2007 5:24:09 PM PST
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Cindy
To: Cindy
And they like to kill seemingly for the fun of it. One mink in a chickenhouse will kill a dozen birds and eat only part of one.
To: SandRat; river rat; Atlantic Bridge
Aren’t there more constructive duties soldiers could perform?
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posted on
11/05/2007 5:28:07 PM PST
by
Clintonfatigued
(You can't be serious about national security unless you're serious about border security)
To: Clintonfatigued
Yep but that’s what anti-military LIBs think is the best that soldiers are good for.
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posted on
11/05/2007 5:31:15 PM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Yep.
One summer my husband and I drove a farm worker (from a mink operation next door) to the hospital.
He had been attacked and it was awful.
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posted on
11/05/2007 5:32:41 PM PST
by
Cindy
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