There used to be a leper colony and research hospital in Carville LA. The town had some connection to Clinton’s guy, James Carville.
The research facility was offering $40 each for live armadillos. My friend Bubba and his brother decided they’d drive over to Texas and trap a truckload of ‘dillos and get rich. So they filled a U-haul with traps, drove over and set them in E Texas. After about a week they’d only bagged about 30 but they were bored and headed back with their catch, figuring they’d made $1200, good money for a week’s camp out. On the way back, they stopped and partied at a few bars. It was a really hot summer, they needed a cold brew. Got a little drunk, had to sleep it off. Finally they returned to Carville, threw open the trailer doors to the most goshawful stench of dead armadillos you can imagine.
That would make a great movie.............................
I chased an armadillo when I was was a kid. I caught it by its tail just as it ran into its hole. I hung on and eventually got him out of his hole. I looked at him a few minutes before I let him go.
That was before I knew they carried leprosy, I would never touch one now.