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Sea snail egg falls into boy's cut knee during beach vacation and HATCHES three weeks later
The Daily Mail ^
| August 15, 2013
| Jennifer Smith
Posted on 08/15/2013 3:40:02 PM PDT by EveningStar
When most of us go to the beach, the best souvenir we can hope for is sand in our shoes and maybe a shell or two.
But for one little boy it was a little more exciting when a snail emerged from his knee following a trip to the beach.
Four year-old Paul Franklin from Aliso Viejo in Orange County, was left baffled when the small creature appeared after his mother Rachael decided to squeeze his wounded knee which he had grazed after falling on rocks during a family camping holiday.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Local News; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: alisoviejo; california; orangecounty; seasnail; snail; spoonerscove
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Yes, there is a picture, but some of you may find it a bit gross. :-D
To: Slings and Arrows; martin_fierro
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posted on
08/15/2013 3:40:39 PM PDT
by
EveningStar
("What color is the sky in your world?" -- Frasier Crane)
To: abigail2; AgThorn; al baby; BAW; bboop; BenLurkin; Bob J; Bon of Babble; Brad's Gramma; ...
SoCal Ping!
Attention Southern Californians
Please ping me with any Southern California related articles. Thank you!
If you want on or off this ping list, please FReepmail me.
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posted on
08/15/2013 3:42:51 PM PDT
by
EveningStar
("What color is the sky in your world?" -- Frasier Crane)
To: EveningStar
He must be the coolest kid on the block.
To: EveningStar
a snail emerged from his knee 
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posted on
08/15/2013 3:46:14 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: EveningStar
It’s nice to see that everyone is OK because I laughed my butt off at the headline.
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posted on
08/15/2013 3:46:18 PM PDT
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: EveningStar
Another Weiner emerges...
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posted on
08/15/2013 3:46:38 PM PDT
by
moovova
To: EveningStar
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posted on
08/15/2013 3:46:47 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
("I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white." T. Sowell)
To: EveningStar
Knew there’d be a Turbo reference in there somewhere... QUICK: Studio execs, kick out some merchandise for the kid.
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posted on
08/15/2013 3:48:25 PM PDT
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: EveningStar
What do snails eat? Or this ‘marine’ snail? Other jarheads?
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posted on
08/15/2013 3:50:58 PM PDT
by
Utilizer
(Ba-con Ah'hkkba'aar! <- In muzlim world are only fast goats & slow boys. Slow goats all dead. ->)
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To: SgtBob
Bug Juice.I have heard that term in 40 years(CG boot camp)
To: nickcarraway
They look like the family that never eats.
They must be following Michelle’s directives.
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posted on
08/15/2013 4:05:37 PM PDT
by
Delta Dawn
(Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
To: t1b8zs
have = haven’t
Also I don’t think the Mod knows what”Cold Cuts” are referred to in the military..To bad as most of us do. Horse C.
To: EveningStar
It now lives in a small fishbowl with the family's other pet, a beta fish called Dory. Betas are fresh water fish. The sea snail is not likely to survive in a fresh water fish tank.
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posted on
08/15/2013 4:11:15 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: t1b8zs
Horsecock, hard-boiled egg and bug juice....mid-rats on every damned ship I had the “privilege” of passage on.
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posted on
08/15/2013 4:12:37 PM PDT
by
SgtBob
(Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
To: EveningStar
It now lives in a small fishbowl with the family's other pet, a beta fish called Dory.
"Crap. I finally get out of that kid's knee, and now I'm stuck in fresh water."
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posted on
08/15/2013 4:13:29 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(People are idiots.)
To: t1b8zs
Sorry, mods...sometimes you could get horsecock and cheese...
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posted on
08/15/2013 4:15:16 PM PDT
by
SgtBob
(Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
To: Jeff Chandler
Whose my daddy?Whose my daddy?Whose my daddy?Whose my daddy?....
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posted on
08/15/2013 4:47:44 PM PDT
by
ConradofMontferrat
( According to mudslimz, my handle is a HATE CRIME. And I HOPE they don't like it.)
To: EveningStar
Hey it could be worse, but I think the Kid may just be cut out for Colonial Marines!
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posted on
08/15/2013 5:19:22 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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