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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Grumpmeister on July 12, 2007, 02:49:33 PM
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It sounds like Nick has donned his Captain Cataclysm mantle and joined the fight against terror.
British forces have denied rumours that they released a plague of ferocious badgers into the Iraqi city of Basra.
Word spread among the populace that UK troops had introduced strange man-eating, bear-like beasts into the area to sow panic.
But several of the creatures, caught and killed by local farmers, have been identified by experts as honey badgers.
The rumours spread because the animals had appeared near the British base at Basra airport.
UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer said: "We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.
"We have been told these are indigenous nocturnal carnivores that don't attack humans unless cornered."
The director of Basra's veterinary hospital, Mushtaq Abdul-Mahdi, has inspected several of the animals' corpses.
He said: "These appeared before the fall of the regime in 1986. They are known locally as Al-Girta.
"Talk that this animal was brought by the British forces is incorrect and unscientific."
'Ate a cow'
Dr Ghazi Yaqub Azzam, deputy dean of Basra's veterinary college, speculated that the badgers were being driven towards the city because of flooding in marshland north of Basra.
But the assurances did little to convince some members of the public.
One housewife, Suad Hassan, 30, claimed she had been attacked by one of the badgers as she slept.
"My husband hurried to shoot it but it was as swift as a deer," she said. "It is the size of a dog but his head is like a monkey."
Sattar Jabbar, a 50-year-old farmer from Abu Sakhar, north of Basra, claimed he saw one of the badgers eat a cow.
"It tore the cow up piece by piece. I tried to shoot it with my gun but it ran away into the orchards," he said.
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Beat me to it!
It is the size of a dog but his head is like a monkey, said
Housewife Suad Hassan
eeek: eeek:
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I've seen some Man-eating Beavers before...
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lol: lol: lol:
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The description sounds more like a Ruth Badger.
Except the head of a monkey part, more like a head of lettuce.
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scared2: scared2:
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scared2: scared2:
That's never Ruth Badger - is it??? eeek:
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scared2: scared2:
That's never Ruth Badger - is it??? eeek:
I can't say it is; Cos that would be lying drumroll:
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That's never Ruth Badger - is it??? eeek:
Of course not silly.
I could stand looking at that green face for several minutes.
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I can't say it is; Cos that would be lying drumroll:
What a little gem you are. ::)
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What a little gem you are. ::)
redface: I'll try to romaine silent
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What a little gem you are. ::)
redface: I'll try to romaine silent
I should stop there Mr 'Karma=1'.
Remember, the Titanic was sunk by a single iceberg.
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This is just the tip of the iceberg.
33 seconds too late with that one. whistle:
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This is just the tip of the iceberg.
You are excused for slow typing. ;)
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Personally I think you all deserve a Rocket.
See even here in Welsh Wales we know what's what in Islington.