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Bo nose porcupine butt.It’s been a surprisingly rough year for Bo Jackson, and none of us knew. The mythic athlete has been dealing with a legendary case of hiccups, and since July of 2022 he’s been hiccuping non-stop. Talking to a local radio show on Wednesday, Jackson revealed that he’s been doing everything to try and get rid of these hiccups — including getting a live porcupine and getting a big ‘ol whiff of its butt. “I have done everything — scare me, drink water upside down, smell the ass of a porcupine, it doesn’t work.” Bo is now having...

LINDSEY VONN'S two dogs had to be taken to the vets after they chased a PORCUPINE. The Olympian's beloved pooches were left with sharp quills impaled in their faces after the incident. Vonn, 35, regularly shares pictures of her three dogs called Lucy, Leo and Bear. Lucy, who once joined her on the ski slope, managed to keep out of trouble this weekend. But Vonn's other two dogs decided to try their luck against a porcupine - and soon regretted it. The three-time Winter Olympic medallist - who dated Tiger Woods for two years - shared a photograph of the...

He woke in the early morning hours, well before sunrise. What was that noise? It sounded like a mouse, chewing on something. Then he realized the noise was not from inside the house. It was from outside the house. He grabbed a rifle, the ubiquitous Ruger 10-22. Prior experience had shown him a .357 magnum was too much gun. Putting on hearing protection in the middle of the night is inconvenient, not to mention waking the entire family. Fortunately, the family dog was kenneled at night. His doggy talents were unsuited to the task required. The pest was revealed...

KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa, - A safari tour group in South Africa's Kruger National Park captured footage of an unlucky leopard failing to find a meal in its confrontation with a plucky porcupine. The video, shot during a safari tour earlier this month and posted to YouTube by Endless Summer Tours, features footage of a porcupine being chased by a tenacious leopard that repeatedly takes quills to its face and body before giving up its pursuit of the ostensibly tasty prey. "In August 2015 we were on a safari tour in the Kruger National Park from Johannesburg. It was...

Ever wonder what might happen if a python ate a porcupine? Well, wonder no more. One of these giant snakes — which kill prey by suffocating it and then consuming it whole — recently dined on a porcupine and didn't live to brag about it. On June 14, a cyclist riding along one of the mountain bike trails at the Lake Eland Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, spotted a very engorged snake. The cyclist snapped a few photos of the gluttonous python and posted them to social media, where they quickly attracted the attention of locals who wanted to...

Archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have uncovered a 1,400 year-old ceramic oil lamp with the help of an unlikely aide – a porcupine. Last week, during a routine patrol at the Horbat Siv ancient ruins – a Roman-Byzantine site near Emek Hefer in central Israel, anti-antiquities theft inspectors found the oil lamp on top of a pile of dirt that a porcupine had unearthed while digging a burrow. Porcupine’s live in underground burrows that can stretch to as long as 15 meters. Ira Horovitz from the anti-antiquities theft unit of the IAA said that “the porcupine is an...

Late in March, Health Minister Raymonde Goudou Coffie called for her compatriots to stop eating porcupines and agoutis, which look like large river-rats, "until we can be sure there are no risks". Bushmeat is known to be a vector of Ebola, the alarming haemorrhagic fever that has claimed at least 122 lives in Guinea, according to a UN World Health Organisation toll on April 17. Liberia, meanwhile, reports 13 deaths. Hunters and restaurant owners in the central Ivorian town of Bouake are upset that clients have begun to steer clear of the strong taste of the agouti, a beast with...

Man does C-section on dead porcupine, saves baby LISBON, Maine — A Maine man in search of a valuable mineral cut open a dead porcupine on the side of the road and unexpectedly pulled out its baby. Jared Buzzell, of Lisbon, says he was searching for wild mushrooms Thursday when he saw a porcupine get hit by a car in Minot. Buzzell says he'd heard that a valuable mineral deposit used in Chinese medicine formed in the stomachs of porcupines. He then cut open the dead porcupine to search for the mineral and instead found the baby. He tells WMTW-TV...

A woman was left with 272 needles stuck in her scalp after a porcupine fell on her head. Sandra Nabucco, 52, from Gavea, Rio de Janeiro, was walking her dog when the painful accident took place. The housewife walked under a lamp post when the animal dropped from above.

Dogs tend to navigate towards me; I mean they will usually sit by me when I am at someone’s home or barn. It’s nice except when you are working with a difficult horse and need to move fast and there is a dog in the way; otherwise, it is nice to have so many potential friendships in the world. At the home ranch, when I was a boy, it was my responsibility to take care of the dogs and hounds, at least when I was home and not off on an adventure that didn’t require dogs. During my lifetime,...

Somewhere there is a naked Porcupine! This Pit Bull decided he would attack a Porcupine; but being brave, he learned the hard way that you can't always win, no matter how tough you are. The vet sedated the dog and removed 1347 quills...the dog survived and hopefully learned a lesson. 1.Choose your fights wisely. 2.Don't mess with Porcupines! ....

Two Russian tourists paid a very high price for breaking the American law which bans sex with porcupines. Staying in Florida on vacation, two Russians from Saint Petersburg decided to check whether they are able to circumvent such an unusual law or not.

Unbelievable pictures of what happens to a pitbull after tangling with a porcupine!

Zogby Poll: Most Americans Can Name Three Stooges, But Not Three Branches of Gov't Tuesday, August 15, 2006 By Brit Hume A recent poll found that nearly three-quarters of those asked could name each of the Three Stooges — Larry, Curly and Moe — but only 42 percent were able to name the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government. That's according to a new Zogby poll in which 77 percent of Americans could name two of the seven dwarfs, while just 24 percent knew two of the nine Supreme Court justices. And while 57 percent of Americans could name...

She's not the model niece Osama bin Laden's looking for - but she is modelling. This is how Wafah Dufour, the al Qaeda leader's niece, will appear in the January 2006 issue of GQ magazine.

I was just wondering what the name of the highest mountain in New Zealand was, and I looked. In retrospect, I should have been able to guess. I would be unsurprised if Mount Cook is in the background sometime during the "Lord of the Rings" movie trilogy, even though they filmed the snow trek scenes on Ruapehu. And since I discovered through the process another nice outdoor photography site (link in header), below is a picture of a place I saw once, Porcupine Falls in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming (my family was driving to Yellowstone NP).

I enjoy this forum, but lately I've noticed a troubling tendency for posters here to descend into horrible and immature name-calling. Such name-calling, and extremism without reason does nothing but harm our cause. It turns off casual lurkers and readers of this forum. It provides fodder for this forum to be demonized and non-respected elsewhere. Below I provide a few examples. I call on Freepers to stop using such terms voluntarily. If that doesn't work, I call on the moderators to warn, if not censor, posters who use such terms. I realize that Democratic Underground uses even more ridiculous terms...

UPTON — An Upton woman rescued an orphaned baby bear after she saw the cub weak and alone in the western Maine woods following a fierce snowstorm that dumped more than 2 feet of snow on the area. Cyndy Scribner said she spotted the animal Dec. 7 and ended up taking it home three days later after it climbed down from a tree, squealing in pain with porcupine quills stuck in its face and leg. After bringing the bear home, Scribner fed it maple syrup, milk and a bucket of dog food. It spent the night in her pickup truck...

Man goes to prison for post office assault with buckets of feces Wednesday, March 13, 2002 By Barton DeitersThe Grand Rapids Press An unrepentant James Beal will spend 18 months in federal prison for throwing three 5-gallon buckets filled with porcupine feces, worms and parasites at workers in the Empire Post Office. The 62-year-old pleaded guilty in December to three counts of assaulting federal employees for the Oct. 18 incident, which occurred the day after he was fired for unsatisfactory work. U.S. District Judge Gordon Quist heard from victims Tuesday who told of the horror and disgust of being soaked...