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Stranded pelican stuck until after government shutdown
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Posted on 01/12/2019 9:44:28 AM PST by TigerClaws

Edited on 01/12/2019 11:03:11 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

NARRAGANSETT, R.I. (AP)

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To: TigerClaws

Twenty five minutes per pound dressed at 350*. Tastes a lot like Blue Heron.


21 posted on 01/12/2019 10:02:30 AM PST by VietVet876
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To: TigerClaws

Where’s PETA??? Isn’t this the kind of thing they love to do???


22 posted on 01/12/2019 10:08:28 AM PST by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: Mercat

I saw some pelicans at Antero reservoir in Colorado last summer.


23 posted on 01/12/2019 10:09:06 AM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: TigerClaws

“....they can’t get the needed federal permits to move him across state lines to a more southern location.”

This tells you all you need to know about the furloughed Federal workers. A Federal Permit is needed move a damned bird?


24 posted on 01/12/2019 10:09:17 AM PST by vette6387
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To: TigerClaws
Is The Associalist Press kidding me?
We have Amrmerican policeman being murdered by illegal aliens and they are worried about some pelican? Pathetic.
25 posted on 01/12/2019 10:09:36 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: TigerClaws

Is sanity now so out of fashion that you don’t dare just doing the right thing and to heck with all those who are bureaucrats and seek to enslave you to a system that fails all of us, including wildlife.

I hear pelican tastes just like chicken, btw. ;-) Problem solved.

Seriesly, an all controlling master is no master at all.


26 posted on 01/12/2019 10:10:55 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: TigerClaws

Reminds me of the Feed the Children commercials. You’d think one of the camera crew would share his lunch with the starving kids, but no — send them money or the kids die!


27 posted on 01/12/2019 10:11:30 AM PST by wizwor
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To: Drew68

Replace furloughed government workers with illegals - show the dingbats in DC what it feels like...


28 posted on 01/12/2019 10:12:01 AM PST by GOPJ (Replace furloughed government workers with illegals for ten bucks an hour. Show dems how it feels.)
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To: TigerClaws

Sounds like a pelican’t to me.


29 posted on 01/12/2019 10:12:29 AM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: TigerClaws
aid they can’t get the needed federal permits to move him across state lines to a more southern location.

Throw the damn thing in the back seat of a car and start driving till you hit warm weather then throw it into the ocean......

30 posted on 01/12/2019 10:18:50 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: TigerClaws
There is a small village in SE Alaska called Pelican, about 100 miles west of Juneau. We used to fish out of there during the summer (early 80's) trolling for salmon - they sold bait, ice, groceries, and bought our catch. The cold storage closed in 2008 and the town is struggling, trying to get in on the tourist business. A Pelican got lost and landed there years ago, thus the name. Access is by float plane or boat only. Incredible scenery plus Rosie's Bar.
https://www.pelican.net/
31 posted on 01/12/2019 10:19:30 AM PST by dainbramaged (If you want a friend, rescue a pit bull.)
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To: TigerClaws

Pelicans vs. People. Who wins? Depends on who is ask. My answer is people. What is your answer?


32 posted on 01/12/2019 10:26:28 AM PST by mulligan (EeThe)
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To: TigerClaws
A young dotcom billionaire was very status conscience, driving a Bugatti, jetting about in his Gulf Stream and living in the toniest Silicon Valley estate he could find. He had a friendly rivalry with competitor, and one night he stopped by the competitor's mansion where his rival showed him his latest installation of a two floor salt water aquarium populated with octopi, squids and all manner of exotic salt-water fishes. Not to be outdone, the young billionaire set out to find the most exotic pet he could find. He put out the call to zoos, international wildlife agencies, universities to no avail. He simply could not find anything that would totally outdo his rival. Despondent, one evening he took a call from an unknown number on his personal cell phone. A voice on the other line said, "I heard you're looking for an exotic pet." The voice gave him an address to an old abandoned warehouse along a Frisco dock. The voice told him to meet him there at 2:00 a.m. and he would show him an absolutely unique animal.

The billionaire's curiosity was piqued, and he sped off the the address in his Maybach, arriving just in time. He was met by the man he had spoken to earlier, who took him inside. There was a large pool, and inside, there was a pair of porpoises casually lazing about. The billionaire asked, "Those look like regular porpoises. Neat, but not all that exotic." The man replied, "Ah...but these porpoises are over a thousand years old! These porpoises will live forever!" The man showed him old black and white photos from the prior owner taken in the 1920's or 30's, showing what certainly appeared to be the same porpoises. The billionaire, dubious though intrigued, figured he had nothing to lose and made arrangements to have a super-aquarium installed at his mansion and purchased the porpoises. On closing the deal, the strange seller told him, These porpoises will live forever as promised, but while they do eat fish and normal porpoise fare, they will only be happy on a steady diet of Mynah birds.

After the aquarium was installed, and the porpoise delivered, the billionaire took to showing off his porpoise to all his friends and relations, and could not have been prouder of his purchase. In a week's time; however, the porpoises became despondent and lethargic. The billionaire made arrangements for some mynah birds to be delivered and sure enough, the porpoises chowed down and returned to their previously happy state. This pattern repeated itself over the coming months and years until the billionaire had exhausted his sources for mynah birds. As the porpoises went into a deep depression the billionaire became obsessed about finding mynah birds and increasingly agitated with each dead end he ran into.

Then one day, while out for a drive, he saw a billboard, "Zippy's Circus Coming to Town. Largest Mynah Bird Display On Earth." The billionaire got on his cell and started making calls until he was connected to Zippy, owner and operator of the circus. He asked how many mynah's Zippy had in his show. "Not sure exactly how many," Zippy said, "I stopped counting at 2,000." The billionaire offered him whatever he wanted for his mynah birds, but Zippy was adamant: No Sale.

The billionaire decided he had no choice, but would need to steal the mynahs. He went to the circus during the day and scoped the layout of the exhibits, carefully noting where the mynah exhibit was located. That night he crept back into the tent only to realize that Zippy put the mynah bird cage inside the lion cage at night. Luckily, the lions appeared to be fast asleep so the billionaire carefully broke into the cage, tip-toed past the sleeping lions to the mynah cage. He picked the lock on the mynah cage, and stuffed 30 of the birds into a sack assuming Zippy would not notice the disappearance of so few. He re-locked the mynah cages, and very gingerly made his way back across the lions.

Upon exiting the tent, however, he was greeted by the lights of a police car and ordered to set the sack on the ground and place his hands in the air. The billionaire was searched, cuffed and placed in the cruiser. He was transported back to the police station where he was officially charged with transporting mynahs across sedated lions for immortal porpoises.

33 posted on 01/12/2019 10:29:30 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: TigerClaws

But as temperatures dropped, the bird was taken from the area by the Department of Environmental Management to a wildlife sanctuary.

Now Bert may be stuck.

Yes. The bird is “stuck” in a wildlife sanctuary where he’ll be housed and fed. Basically a bird resort.


34 posted on 01/12/2019 10:31:09 AM PST by Flick Lives
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To: TigerClaws

Oh wow, thanks for that. The comments are gold!


35 posted on 01/12/2019 10:32:39 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: VietVet876

Fish eating fowl is pretty gamey

And pelicans eat all animals they can including other birds


36 posted on 01/12/2019 10:32:53 AM PST by wardaddy (I don’t care that you’re not a racist......when the shooting starts it won’t matter what yo)
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To: TigerClaws

Inspiration for a book where a penguin comes to rescue him using an iceberg, but global warming kills them both.


37 posted on 01/12/2019 10:39:13 AM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: dowcaet
We have regulations about transporting Pelicans

While millions of illegals roam

Attention President Trump:

Issue an EO designating illegal alien border crossers as Pelicans.

38 posted on 01/12/2019 10:48:30 AM PST by spokeshave2 (https://www.gofundme.com/TheTrumpWall.... $20,248,521 of $1.0B goal by 338,785 people in 26 days)
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To: TigerClaws

Brown pelican lives matter!!!


39 posted on 01/12/2019 11:05:58 AM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: TigerClaws

What I would like to know did the Pelican have Federal “papers” authorizing him to land in Rhode Island in the first place?


40 posted on 01/12/2019 11:06:45 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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