Musk ox invasion keeps Nome wildlife managers busy

Anchorage Daily News ^ | comJuly 2, 2014 | SEAN DOOGAN

[skeptoid]

Nome is used to rowdy residents, but some relatively new transplants are making a real nuisance of themselves -- although unlike the colorful characters of the early 20th century gold rush days, these visitors have four legs, not two.

Musk oxen are wandering into the city on the Seward Peninsula, and despite loud noises, water hoses and even a blow-up bear coated in ursine urine, they don't want to leave.

[Monkey Face]

... you should live your life as if you will live forever, but celebrate each day of it as if it will be your last.

Amen to that!

[GeronL]

Knuckles wants something

[GeronL]

Cheeto is bored.

[Darksheare]

Given the chance, a cow will nibble the green jacket right off a leprechaun!

[Monkey Face]

I would love to visit Knuckles and give him what he wants, whatever it is! LOL! I LOVE pitties!

Cheeto is the right color, at least! (We redheads need to stick together!)

[GeronL]

lol.

[Monkey Face]

Or anything presented to them that resembles something edible. Have you ever seen the items found in cow’s stomachs? Kinda like a land shark...

Yah...like that.

[NicknamedBob]

"No way, no how should the human race as it is now be able to live forever. Not nearly ready for something like that."

So what you're saying is that people will need more maturity before they should be allowed to live longer.

Got it.

"Instead find some like-minded people, freepers and such, and allow them to live multiple lives so they can amass a fortune and set the path toward taking over the country. Yep a secret society bent on taking over from the commies."

Robert Heinlein wrote of people like that. He called them the "Howard Families".

But they didn't want to take over, just live longer. And eventually they found it expedient to simply leave, and go to other worlds.

It's a cautionary tale that Mary Shelley never got around to telling us; in the Kingdom of Mortals, the Immortal will be hounded, persecuted, and destroyed.

[Darksheare]

Hairweaves, wire bits, keys, pocket change, miscellaneous debris ...

[Monkey Face]

If pitties weren’t outlawed where I live, I would have one in a heartbeat. They are so loveable and affectionate. The local shelter has so many of them, and I want one...*sigh* They have such a bad reputation, but a dog does what it has been taught, no matter what the breed.

[NicknamedBob]

It’s the farmers’ fault. They’re the ones who put the magnets in the cows’ stomachs.

[Darksheare]

” It’s a cautionary tale that Mary Shelley never got around to telling us; in the Kingdom of Mortals, the Immortal will be hounded, persecuted, and destroyed.”

Unless you destroy your persecutors first at the initial conflict.
And leave no trace of the aggressors, they simply vanish.

Soames gets to experience some persecution, but he has the ability to hide for awhile within society before being forced to flee.

[GeronL]

we didn’t teach him anything, and he is a big baby... a really big baby

[Monkey Face]

Barbed wire, nuts and bolts (not necessarily together) caps from gas tanks on tractors, watches...the list is endless...

[GeronL]

It could work as a story or the basis of several stories I think.

[Monkey Face]

You didn’t teach him to be aggressive so he is true to the pit bull nature, and I admire you for that! YAY, Knuckles!

[Darksheare]

Magnets, next we will have cybernetic cows.
And then what, cows that can outrun cars while trying to eat various things, getting magnetically stuck to vehicles, causing mass panic.
Terrible!

[GeronL]

Most nights he sleeps next to me, and farts a lot

[Darksheare]

Bits of fenceposts, some bits of electric fencing.

[Monkey Face]

Change his diet. It’s too rich for his system. He shouldn’t be passing gas like that...

(Sorry...vet tech school often comes into play, here...)