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Baboons Declare War On Humans in Saudi Arabia
The American Interest ^
| February 3, 2013
| Walter Russell Mead's Blog
Posted on 02/05/2013 12:19:43 PM PST by Bratch
Its a story Alfred Hitchcock would love. Baboons, extraordinarily social animals whose collective noun is appropriately troop are harassing a Saudi village, targeting houses in coordinated assaults while cleverly avoiding poison bananas the villagers have left behind. Arab News brings us the bizarre story:
A minor war has broken out south of Qunfudah in the village of Kiad where large groups of hungry baboons from nearby valleys are attacking residences in search of food and drink. Residents have employed a variety of methods to combat the primates but it is still a daily battle from sunrise to sunset.
Hussein Al-Barakati, a resident of Kiad, said that he feared for his mothers safety as she lives alone near the valley. Baboons raid her home from time to time in search of water. Weather conditions have left the valley parched and prompted the baboons to forage among the humans.
Its not just in Saudi Arabia that baboons see human beings as a prey animal. At the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, there is a parking lot for tourists coming to see the beautiful wild landscape where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet. Baboons lurk on the edge of the parking lot, watching tourists come and go. They look for car doors that arent locked, windows that are left opened, absent-minded tourists carrying food. If they see an opportunity they move in swiftly and relentlessly, stripping pedestrians of their bags, ripping up car seats in their quest for food, and generally acting like the lords of the earth.
Ive seen animals at sea with no fear of man; the eagle rays, barracudas and reef sharks of the Caribbean for example arent exactly worried about the occasional scuba diver or snorkeler who splashes awkwardly through their domain. But the baboons in that parking lot were land animals like we are, and they clearly felt only contempt for their squishy, soft, clawless and short toothed cousins. You could see it in their hard and glittering eyes.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Science; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: baboons; maul; napl; saudiarabia; wildlife
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To: a fool in paradise
How can you tell the difference????
To: Bratch
. . . State Department hard at work trying to find an anti-baboon video to cite as the cause . . .
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posted on
02/05/2013 12:46:14 PM PST
by
Chad N. Freud
(FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
To: Bratch
Israeli agents, no doubt.
To: Bratch
Sounds like what is taking place in many of our larger gun free zones here in America.
I wonder if these baboons have obamaphones to announce their flash mobs?
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posted on
02/05/2013 12:47:03 PM PST
by
History Repeats
(sic transit gloria mundi)
To: bicyclerepair
“How does one distinguish between a mozlum and a baboon though?”
The baboons don’t smell as bad.
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posted on
02/05/2013 12:50:04 PM PST
by
History Repeats
(sic transit gloria mundi)
To: Bratch
Whoa! There’s humans in Saudi Arabia? Who knew?
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posted on
02/05/2013 12:50:12 PM PST
by
TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
To: Bratch
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posted on
02/05/2013 12:53:17 PM PST
by
Sirius Lee
(All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
To: Bratch
IIRC, a group of baboons can also be described as a “congress.”
See? It’s not just Americans anymore being frustrated by congress!
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posted on
02/05/2013 12:53:30 PM PST
by
ZirconEncrustedTweezers
("I'm not anti-anything, I just wanna be free." - Mike Muir)
Comment #29 Removed by Moderator
To: Bratch
IEDs will change them from baboons to ba-booms.
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posted on
02/05/2013 12:57:42 PM PST
by
Chad N. Freud
(FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
To: faithhopecharity
“those apes are so intelligent because they are (per the koran) Christians or Jews....?”
Evil decendents of apes and pigs. The baboons are just pissed off at Morsi. /s
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posted on
02/05/2013 12:59:22 PM PST
by
Owl558
("Those who remember George Satayana are doomed to repeat him")
To: Bratch
I remembered watching the movie Sands of the Kalahari
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posted on
02/05/2013 1:01:40 PM PST
by
showme_the_Glory
(ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
To: Bratch
May the superior species win...
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posted on
02/05/2013 1:03:52 PM PST
by
null and void
(Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable tyranny.)
To: bicyclerepair
It’s not easy, but after careful observation most everyone will recognise the superior IQ of the baboon.
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posted on
02/05/2013 1:04:52 PM PST
by
Venturer
To: Bratch
But the baboons in that parking lot were land animals like we are, and they clearly felt only contempt for their squishy, soft, clawless and short toothed cousins. You could see it in their hard and glittering eyes. Well, that's what we are. Without weapons, we are particularly helpless prey animals -- unable to fight, and unable to run.
The big predators, and pack predators, only started to fear people when people started being able to kill them on sight, and from a distance. When this stopped, we reverted to being prey.
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posted on
02/05/2013 1:10:19 PM PST
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: Chad N. Freud
Love your screen name, welcome to FR!
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posted on
02/05/2013 1:12:49 PM PST
by
null and void
(Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable tyranny.)
To: Bratch
To: Bratch
Baboons Declare War On Humans in Saudi ArabiaI thought every cleric in the country had issued fatwas on humans long ago? Is this another round?
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posted on
02/05/2013 1:24:31 PM PST
by
fso301
To: Bratch
Baboons Declare War On Humans in Saudi ArabiaLet's see, who to root for?
This is one of those conundrums , I think.
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posted on
02/05/2013 1:30:39 PM PST
by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
To: Bratch
“They look for car doors that arent locked, windows that are left opened, absent-minded tourists carrying food. If they see an opportunity they move in swiftly and relentlessly, stripping pedestrians of their bags, ripping up car seats in their quest for food, and generally acting like the lords of the earth.”
Sounds like downtown Peoria after dark.
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posted on
02/05/2013 1:31:34 PM PST
by
LadyBuck
(Yo, Bartender, Jobu needs a refill!)
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