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Get your claws off our food! Terrifying moment cannibalistic robber crabs invade family camping trip on remote Australian island
UK Daily Mail ^ | September 24, 2020 | Claudia Poposki

Posted on 09/24/2020 1:28:49 PM PDT by C19fan

A family trying to enjoy a spring camping barbecue on an idyllic Australian island got more than they bargained for when quickly surrounded by dozens of giant robber crabs.

The ferocious looking crustaceans, also known as coconut crabs, measure up to a metre in length and have a strong sense of smell.

As the unwitting family enjoyed an al fresco barbecue while camping on isolated Christmas Island, off Western Australia's far north-west, the crabs swarmed around them looking for food.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: australia; crabs
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To: Phillyred

Great, they can drag chairs and other heavy objects away.

Well, the world’s ending anyways, might as well get killed by crabs.


41 posted on 09/24/2020 2:34:15 PM PDT by Fury (.)
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To: precisionshootist
Scary!


42 posted on 09/24/2020 2:36:48 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Orange Man GOOD!)
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To: All

Wait a minute!

Those crabs are fake, stuffed crabs! With a few robot crabs to move around!

It’s ALL A SCAM!

FAKE CRABS!


43 posted on 09/24/2020 2:38:20 PM PDT by Fury (.)
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To: Seruzawa

I Say We Take Off And Nuke The Entire Site From Orbit.

It’s The Only Way To Be Sure.


44 posted on 09/24/2020 2:42:06 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Seruzawa

Lol!


45 posted on 09/24/2020 2:43:51 PM PDT by silverleaf (A live Biden speech is like a solar eclipse: rare, and leaves everyone in the dark)
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To: C19fan

Nuclear Test Site crabs.

46 posted on 09/24/2020 2:52:33 PM PDT by McGruff (Polls are for dancing)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Oh I am reminded of an old Men’s Adventure Magazine in which crabs are attacking a guy and his hot half naked girl!

Ah those old Men’s magazines.....Always promised more than they delivered.

Moldy Oldy

ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RA12RHnYIA&t=2931s


47 posted on 09/24/2020 2:59:39 PM PDT by njslim
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To: C19fan

Those crabs live on Guam.

A big one is worth about $75.00


48 posted on 09/24/2020 3:00:15 PM PDT by Fai Mao (There is no justice until The PIAPS is legally executed)
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To: C19fan
Tourists are warned that robber crabs are 'protected and respected' on the island.

Once the word gets out that tourists are catching and boiling them crabs, they won't be so inclined to keep invading campsites......

49 posted on 09/24/2020 3:05:39 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Osage Orange
Antifa/BLM are better at terror..than coconut crabs.
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Unfortunately, they're inedible, unless fed to feral hogs. The crabs, OTOH, are very good eating, making them far more useful.

50 posted on 09/24/2020 3:06:20 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: C19fan

The situation calls for a hot bowl of melted butter and a can of garlic salt.


51 posted on 09/24/2020 3:19:59 PM PDT by lurk
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To: C19fan

Terrifying?

Hardly.

The media sucks.


52 posted on 09/24/2020 3:24:25 PM PDT by karnage
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To: libstripper

Lions, tigers and bears prolly eat them.


53 posted on 09/24/2020 3:38:03 PM PDT by Osage Orange (TRUMP!!!)
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To: Pollard

I read they have to keep the rear part of their shell wet. It has something to do with how they breathe. Really.


54 posted on 09/24/2020 3:43:42 PM PDT by freebird5850 (The only way I can treat this fever....More cowbell!)
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To: Phillyred

Wha ta DISGUSTING looking place!


55 posted on 09/24/2020 3:51:30 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: C19fan

When I was a kid and the coconut crabs were migrating the locals would put a 55 gallon barrel in a fire pit half full of water and send us kids out to gather crabs.

They can snap a broomstick in their claws, but BOY are they yummy!


56 posted on 09/24/2020 3:59:20 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
“Oh I am reminded of an old Men’s Adventure Magazine in which crabs are attacking a guy and his hot half naked girl!"

Luckily there's a special ointment for that...
57 posted on 09/24/2020 4:48:29 PM PDT by RedMonqey
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To: KarlInOhio

Don’t post it all over social media and no one will be the wiser.


58 posted on 09/24/2020 4:53:04 PM PDT by bgill
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To: RedMonqey

A working companion found it was easier to catch crabs and clap from visiting a skank at a bar in the edge of Oklahoma.


59 posted on 09/24/2020 6:18:56 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: C19fan

That would freak me the hell out.

Protected species. Now I know why there are so many and they are so bold. Start boiling a few thousand on the barbie and they wouldn’t be either many or bold.


60 posted on 09/25/2020 1:07:50 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Love your enemies. Turn the other cheek.)
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