Carrot-toting tourists making Arizona burros obese

ap ^ | 8-31-09 | FELICIA FONSECA

[WOBBLY BOB]

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – There is an epidemic in an old gold mining town in western Arizona: The wild burros that roam the town's single street are overweight, with rolls of fat on their necks and big, full bellies. But don't blame them. They'll eat anything.

It's the half million tourists who visit tiny Oatman each year. They're the ones who have been feeding these critters carrots, hay or anything else, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management says.

[WOBBLY BOB]

In D.C., our jackasses get fat all on their own.

[LadyPilgrim]

If I had of had my mouth full of coffee...you would have been in trouble with that remark!! LOLOLOLOLOL!!!

[domenad]

...overweight, with rolls of fat on their necks and big, full bellies...

And the donkeys are getting fat too.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Let them eat argula!

[NRA2BFree]

Not to worry. The ass in the White House will put the ass in the fields on a forced diet.

[a fool in paradise]

Are they going to implement a carrot-grabbing counter-tourista effort?

[Carley]

Maybe Omarosa is eating too many carrots.

[Hacklehead]

Speaking of fat jackasses...

[a fool in paradise]

Save the whales.

[Andonius_99]

so...the asses have big asses?

[Rational Thought]

Absolute nonsense. The burros of Oatman are more like pets that the town residents take care of. They've even named them.

After a recent visit, I can tell you the Burros seem healthy and happy. Not to mention that if the BLM is successful in driving the burros away from Oatman, the town would more then likely die.

[ninergold3]

See - I told my doctor that it was the carrots making me fat and not the chocolate cake. . .

[WOBBLY BOB]

Undoubtably, this will require billions in stimulus money
to remedy.