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Seal Relocated After Terrorizing Australian Town
UPI ^
| Dec. 26, 2016
| Stephen Feller
Posted on 12/26/2016 9:50:19 PM PST by nickcarraway
An Australian couple woke up Christmas morning to find a fur seal doing its best impression of a hood ornament on their car, but residents of the town say this is not the first time a seal has tried to move in to the neighborhood.
Animal control officers in Newstead, a suburb of Tasmania, subdued the seal as it ran from driveway to driveway and car to car through the neighborhood, apparently unsure how to get back to the nearby waterway it came from.
"We got up and there was this great big seal on the roof of the car, which is definitely not what you'd expect on Boxing Day," said William Gregory, a man staying at the house in Newstead where the seal was first spotted. "You kind of wake up and you wonder, is this really happening, am I really seeing this or am I still dreaming?"
The seal, an adult male weighing around 440 pounds, was spotted just before 6:00 a.m. scrambling onto, off of and between cars, leaving dents and a broken windshield in his wake. Officials said the seal stopped several times, taking naps and soaking up sun, but for the most part scampered away from people frightened.
Once Parks and Wildlife officials showed up, they blocked off the area, subdued the seal using several tranquilizer darts and then put him in the back of a truck.
"After a medical check-up, he will be released," said Tasmania Police, who have dubbed "Mr. Lou-Seal" a "sealebrity" on their Facebook page.
TOPICS: Local News; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: australia; seal
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To: nickcarraway
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posted on
12/26/2016 9:53:02 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
To: Vendome
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posted on
12/26/2016 10:02:20 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
To: nickcarraway
Lou-Seal"Paging B.B. King.
To: nickcarraway
Seal?
Heck that’s a frickin’ walrus!
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posted on
12/26/2016 10:10:38 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
If they’d turned into a fur coat the problem would have been solved
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posted on
12/26/2016 10:13:16 PM PST
by
Fai Mao
(PIAPS for Prison 2016)
To: nickcarraway
Hell, we could have helped them out no problem. We got people that live up in Alaska that would have been happy to take care of that. And all the while they would have been licking their chops.
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posted on
12/26/2016 10:21:02 PM PST
by
crz
To: nickcarraway
Looks like a Freedom Fighter to me.
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posted on
12/26/2016 10:26:08 PM PST
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: nickcarraway
That's so sad. I loved his work on Kiss From A Rose
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posted on
12/26/2016 10:26:23 PM PST
by
LittleBillyInfidel
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To: nickcarraway
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posted on
12/26/2016 10:29:08 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: nickcarraway
But not all seals are terrorists.
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posted on
12/26/2016 10:50:52 PM PST
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: Vendome
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posted on
12/26/2016 11:10:14 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
To: crz
Can I cook and smoke them like Brisket? Not making a joke.
Lunch tomorrow is deer. It is absolutely good eating.
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posted on
12/26/2016 11:24:36 PM PST
by
cpdiii
(Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR.)
To: nickcarraway
He was in Australia?
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posted on
12/27/2016 12:34:18 AM PST
by
An.American.Expatriate
(Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
To: nickcarraway
The solution is “Land Shark”.
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posted on
12/27/2016 12:51:39 AM PST
by
lefty-lie-spy
(Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
To: Jeff Chandler
Funny.
I was going to post the one that says “Wanna go clubbing?”
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posted on
12/27/2016 1:11:03 AM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
To: nickcarraway
"Terrorizes?"Tasmania hasn't SEEN Terrorism. May be a good location for US "snowflakes".
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posted on
12/27/2016 1:16:22 AM PST
by
Does so
("The Business of America is Business"--President Calvin Coolidge...)
To: nickcarraway
Lou Seal-ebrity seems to have taken a wrong turn in San Francisco Bay. And cars? Harrumph! Lou Seal's rides have been far better than cars for years.
To: lefty-lie-spy
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posted on
12/27/2016 4:28:55 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
("No general but Ludd means the poor any good.")
To: cpdiii
“Can I cook and smoke them like Brisket? Not making a joke.”
I’ll bet it’s fishy as hell.
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posted on
12/27/2016 5:42:41 AM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(Fidel and Che are together again, and it ain't on a t-shirt.)
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