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Giant Flesh-Eating Mice Discovered
2007-04-20
Posted by:phil_b

#13  Think of the barf bags!
Posted by: Zenster   2007-04-20 23:33  

#12  lets chain Rosie and Michael Moore to Big Mouse Island.

think of the Pay Per View windfall!
Posted by: RD   2007-04-20 23:28  

#11  Lest we fergit, DAWN.JPL.NASA > Asteroid 2004XP14, of UNCONFIRMED ESTIMATED SIZE 1/3 - 2/3rd of a mile, may hit Earth come Year 2012, espec iff caught in local gravity forces. Idd does hit, ALL HUMAN CIVILIZATION WILL GO BACK TO THE "STONE AGE". IOW, we don't need OWG -SWO/CWO to have a WORLD OF DARKNESS ala MIDDLE AGES OR WORSE [Lucianne/BBC [2005?]> A WORLD OF DARKNESS. The present = future world iff America nor AMER POWER is NOT AROUND.

D *** ng it, as a Madonna Fan these sound like dreams/visions of mine but where? I just know I've seen AEROSMITH and a Texas-sized asteroid somewhere before in my childhood. BACK TO THE FUTURE of the 1980's of the 21st ecntury of the 1960's.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-04-20 22:27  

#10  Dire rat? What about the Giant Rat of Sumatra?
Posted by: Zenster   2007-04-20 14:29  

#9  Obviously, they're a serious threat to local fauna. Relocate them in Gitmo, by Gum, where they can be both useful and happy!
Posted by: anonymous5089   2007-04-20 14:29  

#8  Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket
Posted by: Anonymoose   2007-04-20 14:15  

#7  So... are they bigger or smaller than a dire rat and what is their AC?
Posted by: DarthVader   2007-04-20 11:38  

#6  can we release some in Alec Baldwin's pants? Cuz he REALLY deserves em

That's extreme cruelty to animals which I can't condone. OK well maybe just this once.
Posted by: Sonar   2007-04-20 09:19  

#5  Don't let them read the Koran.
Posted by: Jackal   2007-04-20 08:48  

#4  INFRA-red footage showing a "superbreed" of giant flesh-eating house mice chewing into an albatross chick has been used as a stark warning of what awaits pest-infested Macquarie Island.

“The evidence that normal house mice on Gough Island have evolved to become predators gives us very serious concern the same thing is happening on Macquarie Island,” he said. More than 100,000 grazing rabbits and plagues of rats and mice are threatening endangered species on World Heritage-listed Macquarie Island, 1500km southeast of Tasmania.

Rabbits are devastating the island's indigenous fauna, causing landslips to crash into penguin rookeries and destroy albatross breeding sites. Exploding rat and mice numbers are also causing huge concern.


Nice. What's the condo market like there?
Posted by: tu3031   2007-04-20 08:37  

#3  "Willard! There are rats in the basement!"
Posted by: Mike   2007-04-20 07:57  

#2  can we release some in Alec Baldwin's pants? Cuz he REALLY deserves em
Posted by: Frank G   2007-04-20 07:04  

#1  Uh, is this really a surprise? I always figured rodents were opportunistic scavengers. Ever had a hamster that ate its young?
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2007-04-20 06:57  

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