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Rats blamed for mysterious cattle mutilations
South Florida Sun Sentinel ^
| Posted July 1 2002, 5:04 PM EDT
| Reuters
Posted on 07/01/2002 7:10:07 PM PDT by vannrox
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:44 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Recent mutilations of cattle and horses in the Argentine countryside were the work of rodents, scientists said on Monday, not ritualistic slayings by extraterrestrials or vampires as some farmers feared.
Argentina's national food and animal health inspection service Senasa sent its own ``X-Files'' scientists to the remote plains to look into the deaths of farm animals found mutilated and drained of blood.
Frightened farmers claimed to have seen bright lights and UFOs in the area where the deaths occurred.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cattle; farmer; food; hunger; mutilation; mysterious; rats; science; strange; unusual
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Hum.
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posted on
07/01/2002 7:10:08 PM PDT
by
vannrox
To: vannrox
I opened this wondering what the DemonRats were up to this time.
To: vannrox
Rodents. Right. Yes. Move along now. Nothing to see here.
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posted on
07/01/2002 7:11:59 PM PDT
by
Siobhan
To: vannrox
"What about the Rodents of Unusual Size?"
"ROUS's? I don't think that they exist..."
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posted on
07/01/2002 7:13:07 PM PDT
by
patton
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To: vannrox
These stories are really weird. And they're not new. I think the aliens, if they do exist, appear around times of high international tension for some reason. 1989 was another peak time.
To: vannrox
To: vannrox
All this stuff usually happens in just a few hours.
Dang, those must be some fast rats.
To: vannrox
Rats blamed for mysterious cattle mutilationsYeah,HUGE UGLY ALIEN RATS,from the rodentsia galaxy.
I gotta get ahold of Art Bell,I'll be back;)
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posted on
07/01/2002 7:18:30 PM PDT
by
mdittmar
To: vannrox
...deaths of farm animals found mutilated and drained of blood. Right: Rats drained the blood of cows and horses.
Must have been a really big rat.
They might have as well said giant leeches.
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posted on
07/01/2002 7:18:52 PM PDT
by
JZoback
To: hole_n_one
I'd almost forgotten about that. That was hilarious at the time. :^)
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posted on
07/01/2002 7:20:30 PM PDT
by
#3Fan
To: patton
"ROUS's? I don't think that they exist..." What about...
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posted on
07/01/2002 7:26:12 PM PDT
by
TC Rider
To: vannrox
I have a problem with this phrase:
"removed with surgical precision were victims of rodents, foxes or other animals."
So we really don't know what specific animal did this, or how they did it, but we'll make a WAG at it...
To: TC Rider
These guys found out about the ROUS back in the sixties.
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posted on
07/01/2002 7:30:18 PM PDT
by
LibKill
To: JZoback
Giant leeches
Could be the work of the chicken-beak lamprey, normally found only in the deepest [undiscovered] trench of the Pacific, but transported inland by a freak storm. Rain of fish from the sky!
To: hole_n_one; JZoback; #3Fan; mdittmar
These stories of Cattle mutilations have been around for a long time, and they are very mysterious. Rodents don't just gang-up and surgically remove certain organs. It's just very weird.
To: vannrox
Argentina is loaded with people involved in the occult. Animals and their body parts are greatly valued in casting spells, curses and used in ceremonies. Rats my a**!!
To: vannrox
Those must be some big rats!
To: vannrox
Art Bell, call your office.
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posted on
07/01/2002 7:35:30 PM PDT
by
aculeus
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