Road Workers Paint Over Dead Badger (with pics)

The Sun (U.K.) ^ | September 10, 2002 | JOHN COLES

[LurkerNoMore!]

We should talk.

[Syncro]

It looks like the badger didn't quite make it across the road...LOL

How did the punkrocker cross the road?

[shaggy eel]

,,, more carefully? Go ahead, this sounds like a promising thread in the making.

[KeyLargo]

Take the test: What do badgers eat?

http://www.whatbadgerseat.com/test.htm

[Syncro]

He stapled himself to the chicken...ok ok I know...a groaner...LOL

[No Truce With Kings]

Q. How many Aggies does it take to eat an armadillo?

A. Two -- one to eat, the other to look out for traffic.

[shaggy eel]

,,, it actually made me smile, even though I'd heard it years and years ago. I should have remembered that. Bravo!

[No Truce With Kings]

Like they say in Texas politics -- the only things you find in the middle of the road are yellow lines and road kill.

[Senator Pardek]

How big does a light bulb need to be to screw in a light bulb?

[July 4th]

Don't ever mess with a Badger even a dead one...

This was a European badger - more docile than its American counterpart, and prone to eating bugs and food it doesn't have to kill itself. It's the ones in the mainland US that you need to worry about, which are much more "anti-social."

This one was probably killed eating roadkill.

[Nick Danger]

 Only God can make a skunk.

[smalltown]

Clearly shows two feet down inside the line.

but...uhhh...is it four feet for four footers?

[Shermy]

Great site. here's an article for you.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020906/ap_on_fe_st/dead_animal_photos_1
Dead Animal Photos Being Sold
Fri Sep 6, 8:06 AM ET

GOBLES, Mich. (AP) - Photographer Townsend Artman finds great beauty in wildlife, and animals are often his subjects.



But unlike most wildlife photographers, the creatures he captures with his camera are usually seen lying dead on the side of a road.

Although he considers himself an artist and not an environmentalist, Artman said he feels for the subjects of his unusual photographs.

"It's a horrible thing to have happen to these animals, caught up in man's highway of death," he said.

Artman conceded that his work is a hard sell — his asking price for each photo is between $5,000 and $10,000 — but he'd like people to view it with an open mind.

"I see irony, humor, gruesomeness, beauty," the Gobles resident said. "It's rich in those areas. It's OK if not everyone gets it. There are a number of artists who were out of the mainstream."

Artman first became inspired to photograph roadkill about a year ago, when he came across a dead skunk in the road as he drove his daughter to a day care center.

[Erasmus]

Badgers? Badgers?

We don't got no badgers!

We don't got to show you no steenkin' badgers!

[shekkian]

"Suppose we build a big wooden badger..."

[NYTexan]

Then you would have a "Wood Badge" (BSA humor/off)

[Vidalia]

Bubba NTWK, that's a good one, let's see how many know which "Palestine" you are referring to.

Possum Pie Uncle Jack from Waco said to say hello...

[pops88]

"It's a horrible thing to have happen to these animals, caught up in man's highway of death,"

This is at least as funny as the pictures, if not funnier. I need a good laugh.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

This thread is not developing as well as it should. Where are the Badger recipes? Where are the pictures of Badgers wearing tutus?

[pops88]

You're right. This is very series.