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Man Kills 83,000 Rats, Wins a TV
MyFoxTwinCities.com ^
| 9/30/09
| JULHAS ALAM, Associated Press Writer
Posted on 09/30/2009 8:25:39 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Bangladesh on Wednesday awarded a farmer who killed more than 83,000 rats and launched a monthlong campaign nationwide to kill millions more, to protect crops and reduce the need for food imports.
Mokhairul Islam, 40, won a first prize of a color television for killing some 83,450 rats in the past nine months in Gazipur district near the South Asian country's capital, Dhaka. He collected their tails for proof.
"I am so happy to get this honor," Islam told The Associated Press after receiving a 14-inch television and a certificate amid cheers at an official ceremony packed with 500 farmers and officials. "I had no idea that the government gives prizes for this."
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TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: rats; tv
I'll be back in a couple of minutes...after I stop laughing/crying and cleaning the keyboard....
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Next year he wins electricity.
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posted on
09/30/2009 8:27:14 PM PDT
by
IrishCatholic
(No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
That be one rat-killin’ mofo!
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posted on
09/30/2009 8:27:20 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
That’s over 300 rats per day.
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
A TV? Killing the rats should be reward in itself, not to mention he got to keep all the tails (and whatever happened to the rest of the rats, my guess- stew).
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posted on
09/30/2009 8:27:29 PM PDT
by
mnehring
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
He was named an honorary cat.
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posted on
09/30/2009 8:27:48 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
"I am so happy to get this honor," Islam told The Associated Press after receiving a 14-inch television and a certificate That's gotta be one hell of a certificate.
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
I can say anything...will refrain....must try....
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posted on
09/30/2009 8:28:44 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
"I am so happy to get this honor," Islam told The Associated Press after receiving a 14-inch television and a certificate amid cheers at an official ceremony packed with 500 farmers and officials. "I had no idea that the government gives prizes for this." It's good to have a hobby.
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posted on
09/30/2009 8:29:23 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
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posted on
09/30/2009 8:30:00 PM PDT
by
mnehring
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
I didn’t know they still made 14 inch TVs.
To: poindexter
That’s a lot of poison.....
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
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posted on
09/30/2009 8:31:43 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
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posted on
09/30/2009 8:32:43 PM PDT
by
ari-freedom
(Fiscal conservatism without social conservatism is dead.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
So did he mail all of the rat corpses to PETA?
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posted on
09/30/2009 8:33:14 PM PDT
by
Brett66
(Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: Brett66
Well, thank goodness that hard working farmers in Bangledesh have never heard of PETA....
To: Last Dakotan
I didn’t know they still made 14 inch TVs. You just know that the first thing he watches on it will be the movie "Willard".
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posted on
09/30/2009 8:37:08 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
All we need are more TVs.
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posted on
09/30/2009 8:40:24 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: SIDENET
Followed by “Ratatouille".
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posted on
09/30/2009 8:41:32 PM PDT
by
johnthebaptistmoore
(Conservatives obey the rules. Leftists cheat. Who probably has the political advantage?)
To: SunkenCiv
They just need to put a bounty on them....they’d get even more.
To: mnehring
Yikes.
He killed that one mid-poop.
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posted on
09/30/2009 8:51:08 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
And the cats were playing.
To: IrishCatholic
Next year he wins electricity.And the year after that, an antenna.
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posted on
09/30/2009 8:59:15 PM PDT
by
exit82
(Sarah Palin is President No. 45. Get behind her, GOP, or get out of the way.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Wow at this rate the Republicans just might take back congress in 2010.
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posted on
09/30/2009 9:01:08 PM PDT
by
bleach
(Wake me in 2012)
To: bleach
Finally.......
Why I posted this one......
;-)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
The first thought to cross my mind.
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posted on
09/30/2009 9:09:02 PM PDT
by
bleach
(Wake me in 2012)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
They could have at least given him a screen that measured longer than a rat.
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posted on
09/30/2009 9:09:17 PM PDT
by
Rickcbw
To: IrishCatholic
I seem to recall stories of a type of bamboo forest in India and Bangladesh that goes to seed every 50 years or so resulting in plague of rats. Once the rats eat all the bamboo seeds they start on the crops and cause a famine. The story seems funny to us, but it isn’t to the farmers who are literally eaten out of house and home.
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posted on
09/30/2009 9:14:38 PM PDT
by
Sparticus
(Libs, they're so open minded that their brains leaked out.)
To: bleach
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Did he also get a $40 coupon for a digital converter box?
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posted on
09/30/2009 9:37:14 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(This is the time of year when ACORNS fall.)
To: Rebelbase
Well, of course not.
Being a government program, and all.....
To: SIDENET
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