Correct! Those animals are in their “somewhat” natural environment, save for the road/path thru their “environment” Us humans are guests on this planet, nature belongs here, we don’t, and until humans get a grasp of this, they’ll be deaths because a stupid human wanted to interact with a wild creature. Steve Irwin is a good example, his luck ran out, oh well!
Wow, I can't believe what I just saw. Lunch for the Tiger and one of the dumbest human acts I've ever seen. That is just crazy.
I had forgotten about the child the died at Disney. No, I was thinking of these young adults who think wildlife are these docile creatures they can interact with because the only "contact" they've ever had was courtesy of Disney movies. Not long ago I saw where college students on rural campuses were getting beat up by deer because they were trying to pet them. Apparently students getting injured in various animal encounters they initiated thinking it was like a house pet is not uncommon.
Intelligent humans possessing a reasonable level of cognitive awareness WILL NOT try interacting with any wild animal under any circumstances. That's why I chose to not touch this 2,000 lb beast as it passed within one foot of me sitting in my convertible while in Yellowstone Park several years ago. Could easily have done so, but my brain silently screamed NO!!! Wild bison can hurt you really bad, yet there's always stupid people who insist on approaching them.
To clarify - I "liked" Vets post, but the "Like" referred to VET's comment, not that a Human was lunch for a Tiger.
Hey Tom, You know big rigs - Would it be practical to put a new cab on an otherwise OK late model KW? I saw on the noon news that a driver fell asleep at the wheel and rolled the rig down an embankment and onto it's right side after shearing off a telephone pole. The front bumper will never be pretty again and even the hood and fender assembly looks like it might be repairable, but cab itself is used up. The front wheels were pointing in the right direction, and even the grille looked OK - my guess is that either the bumper or the loaded trailer (it looked like a loaded dump trailer) took out the pole. Part two - back to Lions and Tigers. About a year or so ago a contract-maintenance employee at the Naples Zoo decided that it was a good idea to try to pat an adult Male Tiger. It wasn't. Sadly they had to shoot the Tiger to force him to let go. Since Humans are not endangered and Tigers are, I sometimes think that the police shot the wrong animal.
Interacting with even the smallest wild animals is fraught with danger. Mice, rabbits, squirrels and chipmunks can carry disease and they can bite with enough force to break skin. About any mammal can carry rabies and it is virus that has jumped around the entire mammal branch. While those small animals are unlikely to attack, bigger critters are capable of doing real damage. That buffalo above, it's humped back is all muscle attached to its neck. It can lift the front end of a car off the ground if you cross it. Humans have bigger brains per body size of any animal. It is sad so many don't use them to stay alive longer.
We also have ferral cats, and once in a blue moon coyotes and skunks. I leave all of them alone. In turn, they leave me alone. It works well for us.
John we LOVE the Naples Zoo and I couldn't agree more. Take the Grandkids every year and there is no doubt we have enjoyed the opportunity to respectfully be in the presence of THAT tiger.
I am confused Roy.....Are you talking about the hogs or the girls??? LMAO God Bless Bill https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...ar-transport-hauling-open-or-enclosed.614419/
My knowledge of big rigs is more on the operational side, not the repair one. Couldn't begin to guess about what repairs are possible. The rig would require an experienced truck body tech's inspection. It's likely the frame was twisted during its off road trip. QUOTE="John Codman, post: 3475457, member: 10523"] Part two - back to Lions and Tigers. About a year or so ago a contract-maintenance employee at the Naples Zoo decided that it was a good idea to try to pat an adult Male Tiger. It wasn't. Sadly they had to shoot the Tiger to force him to let go. Since Humans are not endangered and Tigers are, I sometimes think that the police shot the wrong animal.[/QUOTE] The animal loses almost every time. Reminds me of the American hunters near Dryden, Ontario who decided it was a great idea to feed a wild black bear their M & M's. They got some photos of the encounter........then the candy ran out. "Yogi", having skipped all the bear/human language classes, got upset and mauled them causing serious injuries. Local Ministry of Natural Resources folks had to find the bear and euthanize it.
I've seen plenty of glider trucks built at repair shops. A new frame and body come in and the entire drivetrain from a wrecked big rig is swapped in. While labor intensive its probably much cheaper than ordering a new truck and faster...
Our county had a family that got ‘friendly’ with raccoons, feeding them and essentially treating them like pets. One night one let himself in to their house, through the baby’s room, and started snacking on the sleeping child. https://www.rockdalenewtoncitizen.c...cle_0447dc01-baee-5330-b090-e89132844c9d.html Patrick
Talking about bears, many years ago (2006) a baby bear in Nevada in a little red 1964 Buick convertible was in the news: Bear cub + red convertible + pizza = trouble Lured by a pizza in the back seat, a bear cub crawled into a 1964 Buick Skylark near a Kingsbury Grade swimming pool. The bear ate the pizza and left a mess, but no damage. A bear cub sniffed out a barbecued-chicken-and-jalapeño pizza in the back seat of a vintage red Buick convertible at an upper Kingsbury Grade parking lot on Sunday, jolting onlookers and leaving behind a cheesy mess. About 30 people watched the cub lumber around the Tahoe Village parking lot before it homed in on the Buick and pizza. Frightened swimmers stayed inside the nearby pool area as the bear - ignoring the car's horn, which blew nonstop as the cub pressed the seat into the steering wheel - crawled inside to ferret out the pizza, which was on the floor. It also apparently washed it down with a swig of a Jack Daniel's mixer, an Absolut vodka and tonic, and a beer taken from a cooler, the vehicle's owner said. "The bear was loping along in the parking lot and then decides to get inside the car," said resident Jerry Patterson, who took photographs of the bear. "People were screaming at him, the horn was going off, but he was completely unaware. ... He did what he wanted to do, and the people didn't matter." The bear remained in the 1964 Buick Skylark for a good 20 minutes, and at times put his paws on the dash as if he were holding on for a ride, Patterson said. Motorists and onlookers outside the pool area snapped pictures and moved in for a better look. "I knew better than to get too close, and so I kept my distance. I respect the bears as wild animals," he said. The owner of the car, David Ziello of South Lake Tahoe, took the excitement in stride. Once the bear left for a nearby Dumpster, Ziello and his son, David Jr., inspected the car for damage. Fortunately, there wasn't any - sans some cheese and jalapeños on the seats and floor. But the bear wasn't through yet. He returned to the car from the Dumpster and tried to crawl back in as Ziello was inside. "At that point, I was thinking of the $5,000 paint job I had done on it last summer and the new interior I was going to be getting sooner than I thought," he said. "I was like, 'OK. The party's over. Move on.'" The cub stayed in the parking lot for a few more minutes, licked himself, and moved on. Ziello quipped to onlookers how the Fox and Hound - the bar and grill on Kingsbury Grade that made him the large pie - has the best jalapeño pizza in Tahoe. "They make a great pizza. Even the bears love it," he said. Fox and Hound Manager Kevin Brent said he's seen his share of bears, including the one that crawled into the Buick. In fact, the same one is believed to have gotten into a breadbox at the restaurant earlier that day. "I guess the bears find our food pretty tasty and will do anything to get to it," Brent said. "I swear he ran off with the can from the cooler," Ziello said. "The bear's an alcoholic." Between a dozen and two dozen bears live between upper and lower Kingsbury, according to Nevada Division of Wildlife's Carl Lackey, who tracks and relocates bears on the Nevada side of the Tahoe basin. The juvenile bear is one of many whose mothers have dispersed them into the wild this season. While there's not an overall increase in the number of bears in the Kingsbury area, the residential area sees more of them because they've found a primary food source from Dumpsters and people who leave their food and trash in the open. Lackey warned visitors against keeping food inside their cars because bears will find anyway they can to get to it. "When you are in bear habitat, regardless of the time of year, you cannot leave any kind of food out - whether it's food inside the car, trash inside or outside your car or pet food. Bears will find it and, in doing so, it is increasing your chances of serious conflict."
