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Rounding up roadkill for shuttle safety - Kennedy Space Center
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| 4/27/06
| Irene Klotz
Posted on 04/27/2006 2:00:59 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
Betcha that left a mark....on the vulture.....
To: NormsRevenge
Its roads are dotted with the bodies of possums, raccoons, feral pigs, squirrels, birds and other animals ..
Wild pigs?
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posted on
04/27/2006 2:02:59 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi)
To: NormsRevenge
If you've never bee to Cape Canaveral, it's a little hard to picture, but the space complex is quite literally in the middle of a wildlife preserve. So yes, feral pigs would be a problem.
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posted on
04/27/2006 2:05:42 PM PDT
by
blau993
(a/k/a IPW 993)
To: NormsRevenge
Florida has some of the biggest and meanest wild pigs you ever saw. And good eating too..... You try living in a swamp with millions of mosquitoes cottonmouth moccasins and alligators and you'll be pretty mean I'll bet.
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posted on
04/27/2006 2:06:53 PM PDT
by
Ben Mugged
(If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.)
To: blau993
Been near there, I know it's a pretty good sized area,, Thanks!.
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posted on
04/27/2006 2:07:57 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi)
To: Ben Mugged
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posted on
04/27/2006 2:08:33 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi)
To: NormsRevenge
"Food! Glorious Food!"
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posted on
04/27/2006 2:11:38 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: NormsRevenge
How soon with the environmentalists sue NASA to require them to leave the roadkill where it is?
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posted on
04/27/2006 2:12:42 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Congress, since you only understand Spanish here is my proposal: ¡Amnistía, no! ¡Deportación, sí!)
To: blau993
We had a racoon problem at SAEF-II. In fact it got so bad, we literally had to run to our cars in the evening (1am) to avoid being swarmed by em. Some fool was feeding em!
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posted on
04/27/2006 2:13:17 PM PDT
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
To: NormsRevenge
That sounds like one of the more unappealing summer jobs I've ever heard of.
To: NormsRevenge
...Wild pigs?...Yes and big too.
I worked out at KSC for 12 years and saw some big mommas.
I hit a big pig one morning and it lifted the car up as it rolled under the chassis.
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posted on
04/27/2006 2:15:54 PM PDT
by
FReepaholic
(I was FReepin' when FReepin' wasn't cool.)
To: MplsSteve
Road Kill Posse. Sounds like a band to me.
To: FReepaholic
I was there in 88-89. Wonder if we were there at the same time.
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posted on
04/27/2006 2:20:53 PM PDT
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
To: NormsRevenge
Peta alert! PETA alert! PETA ALERT!
Somebody please call PETA!
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posted on
04/27/2006 2:41:00 PM PDT
by
pankot
To: NormsRevenge
Yes, wild pigs. An aunt in Florida saw some immigrant hunters butcher one when the land next to her house was undeveloped.
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posted on
04/27/2006 2:46:33 PM PDT
by
Fudd
To: BenLurkin; All
All FReepers are welcome to the WV Road Kill Cookoff in Marlinton, Pocahontas Co, WV on Sept. 30, 2006.
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posted on
04/27/2006 2:56:48 PM PDT
by
Roccus
To: NormsRevenge
Yes they are all over the country...mostly feral pigs...you know domestic stock gone wild. there are no true pigs in America. The closest is the Javelina (or Collard Peccary) which are close to the pig family, but no cigar.
True wild boar is represented by Russian Boar which has also been released for sport hunting in parts of the country. These have gotten free and have matted with the feral pigs....
after many generations in the wild the feral Boar will start to share some of the traits of true wild Russian Boar and will have a ridge of sharp bristly hairs on their back.
These are famous in song and story (and if the truth be known as sports team mascots), as RAZORBACKS.
The male pig or Boar has what is called a gristle plate that protects its back and shoulder and rib cage. Hunters with not so high power rifles and archers have had their shots deflected by this gristle and then have been charged by these ferocious animals whose tusks can inflict serious injury to man and beast.
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posted on
04/27/2006 3:09:44 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: NormsRevenge
Did they ever hear of controlling the speed on the roadway?
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posted on
04/27/2006 3:31:56 PM PDT
by
Sarajevo
To: NormsRevenge
Wild pigs?In addition to the small stuff, there are lots of deer, feral hogs, alligators and even bear to contend with on the space center roads.
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posted on
04/27/2006 4:20:10 PM PDT
by
fso301
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