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Rio's Olympic Golf Course Overrun with Capybaras and Crocodiles Days Ahead of Summer Games
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| August 4, 2016
| Tiare Dunlap
Posted on 08/06/2016 3:22:56 PM PDT by C19fan
With many of the world's top golfers having already bowed out of this year's Olympic Games, those intrepid athletes brave enough to make the trip to Rio may be counting on an easier path to victory.
While it's true that the likes of Jason Day, Jordan Speith and Dustin Johnson won't be a threat to the attending golfers' Olympic hopes this year, capybaras, mini crocodiles, monkeys, boa constrictors and other native wildlife will.
The course that will host Olympic golf next Thursday is located in western Rio's Barra da Tijuca, an upscale neighborhood situated between two large lakes and on the edge of the Marapendi nature reserve.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: 2016olympics; capybara; crocodiles; golf; monkey; olympics; snakes; wildlife
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To: BigEdLB
"Capybara? Oversized South American rat..." It's more like a kind of giant guinea pig.
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posted on
08/06/2016 5:06:46 PM PDT
by
StormEye
To: sockmonkey
"By the pic, that is obviously a male capybara." He's got more of pair than most GOPe Republicans!
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posted on
08/06/2016 5:08:41 PM PDT
by
StormEye
To: C19fan
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posted on
08/06/2016 5:08:51 PM PDT
by
RetSignman
(Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
To: sockmonkey
He also hasn’t had a run in with Hillary Clintoon yet either.
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posted on
08/06/2016 5:15:29 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Let's Make Our Government and Founding Documents Great Again!)
To: proxy_user
“Leave them on the greens, but don’t feed them for a couple of days. That could make golf finally worth watching.”
The nymphomaniacs or the capybara?
red
To: C19fan
As long as they keep it to capybaras and aligators, I think we will be OK.
BUT when the chubacabra shows up, its time to take a break.
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posted on
08/06/2016 5:34:11 PM PDT
by
super7man
(Madam Defarge, knitting , knitting, always knitting)
To: C19fan
Carl Spackler would know what to do with capybaras. They are just rodents like ground hogs
...
I can’t kill all the golfers. They would lock me up and throw away the key.
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posted on
08/06/2016 5:41:50 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Make America Great Again!)
To: C19fan
...wait - GOLF is an Olympic Sport??
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posted on
08/06/2016 6:07:45 PM PDT
by
pigsmith
To: RetSignman
That photo isn't too far from the truth....as Brazil lectures the world on Global Warming, Poverty etc... but......you can't drink their water.
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posted on
08/06/2016 6:15:34 PM PDT
by
caww
To: pigsmith
...wait - GOLF is an Olympic Sport??It is when you have to dodge crocs and boas on the greens!
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posted on
08/06/2016 6:16:19 PM PDT
by
kevao
(Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
To: BigEdLB; C19fan
Capybaras are just large guinea pigs. No real tail.
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posted on
08/06/2016 7:24:07 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: Robert DeLong
Reminds me of Nutria rats, without tails. Well, if your Nutria weigh 150 pounds...Although if the ones in Louisiana were that big, there wouldn't be any levees left.
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posted on
08/06/2016 7:28:23 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: gunsequalfreedom
Turn Jase Robertson lose on these things. He’d kill all these rodents.
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posted on
08/06/2016 8:06:42 PM PDT
by
NCC-1701
(You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.)
To: PAR35
No they aren’t 150 pounds but they look similar. But the wild boars do.
To: C19fan
Sounds like the Miniature Golf Course in Portland, CT Prehistoric Golf...
At least those are statues, not alive like that golf course...
What is the penalty for a crocodile eating your golf ball? What's the penalty for a crocodile eating you? I never saw it in the golf book...
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posted on
08/07/2016 7:11:32 AM PDT
by
ConservaTeen
(Asking me who's the best President in my lifetime is like asking what's the best poison...)
To: C19fan
Don't worry, Happy Gilmore will be just fine.
Better watch out, Chubs.
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