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VIDEO: "Robo Croc" Gets Metal Makeover
nationalgeographic ^
| March 20, 2009
Posted on 03/20/2009 4:04:43 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Veterinarians in Miami have successfully fitted a badly injured crocodile with metal plates and 41 Frankensteinian screws on its skull. The croc had been hit by a car in the Florida Keys.
TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: crocodile
To: JoeProBono
Did they put a frickin laser beam on his head?
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posted on
03/20/2009 4:10:12 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: JoeProBono
But ROBOT CHICKEN was first!
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posted on
03/20/2009 4:12:13 PM PDT
by
George Smiley
(They're not drinking the Kool-Aid any more. They're eating it straight out of the packet.)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
03/20/2009 4:12:43 PM PDT
by
George Smiley
(They're not drinking the Kool-Aid any more. They're eating it straight out of the packet.)
To: JoeProBono
Some people have a lot of time on their hands.
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posted on
03/20/2009 4:12:51 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: JoeProBono
WOW, now I can get alligator skin boots with lugs!
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posted on
03/20/2009 4:15:31 PM PDT
by
Eye of Unk
("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
To: JoeProBono
This is one of them stories that make you say “OOOOOOKay den.....”
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posted on
03/20/2009 4:17:10 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(This country isn't going to hell in a handbasket, it's riding shotgun on an Indy car....)
To: cripplecreek
Now that is a waste of a perfectly good hand bag.
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posted on
03/20/2009 5:07:43 PM PDT
by
fini
To: mylife
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posted on
03/20/2009 5:13:35 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
So now we’re upgrading an animal with very few if any natural predators. WTF!?
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posted on
03/20/2009 5:19:52 PM PDT
by
NV Lawdog
(I'd rather be judged by twelve, than carried by six.)
To: JoeProBono
I don’t think they have crocodiles in N. America. However, maybe the alligator has Obama’s new healthcare.
To: antidemoncrat
Florida wildlife managers have launched an experiment to see if they can keep crocodiles from returning to residential neighborhoods by temporarily taping magnets to their heads to disrupt their “homing” ability.
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posted on
03/20/2009 5:40:58 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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