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lost-in-nj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 12:58 PM
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Ape sightings in small Florida town
http://www.nbc10.com/news/14585860/detail.html


Some believe the mysterious animal is an orangutan -- one local family had found what looked to be an orange ape up high in a tree.


Can't make this stuff up......


lost
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 01:02 PM
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1. There was a chimp sighting in a small Texas town just recently
somehwere outside of Waco. Crawford, was it? :P
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 01:04 PM
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2. Must be the famed Florida Skunk Ape!
Edited on Thu Nov-15-07 01:05 PM by PeterU
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_ape

"The Skunk Ape is said to be a large hairy, bipedal mammal that calls the Florida Everglades home. They have (allegedly) been spotted as far north as Tallahassee and as far south as Lostman's River. Large adult males are said to weigh in excess of 450 lbs and stand 6 to 7 feet tall with reddish or dark brown hair similar in appearance to an orangutan or gorilla. Some believe that this biped is part of the same species as the famed Big Foot. A handful of sightings have also happened in the Western US, including Simi Valley, CA.

The smell of a Skunk Ape has been reported to be similar to rotten eggs or methane.

They are known to be afraid of human contact."
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 01:16 PM
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6. Didn't Encyclopedia Brown solve that case, like 30 years ago?
Now that's some cutting-edge investigation!
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 01:07 PM
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3. I heard there was a river in Florida...
Where back in the forties or something they were shooting a tarzan film and brought in some kind of monkey, several monkeys escaped, went feral, and now there's a population of feral, inbred, hillbilly monkeys that attack rafter on a particular stretch.
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 01:08 PM
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4. Allegedly there's a pack of monkeys by the Fort Lauderdale airport
Which is only a few miles from my work. One of these days I'm going on my lunch break to check it out.
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 01:17 PM
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7. The green monkeys?
I heard about them too. Vervets or something.
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 03:21 PM
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10. I also heard a rumor that there's a small island off the coast that got infested with Nile monitors
because a pregnant female or breeding pair escaped. And those are lizards you DON'T want to run into in a dark alley. They may not be huge, but let's just say that they learned their manners by watching Nile cocodiles.
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 01:11 PM
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5. JEB .. Cheney
Or Rep John Mica.......
:rofl:


:hi:

found grape ape
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 01:18 PM
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8. so * is in town
to visit brother Jeb....:shrug:
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deucemagnet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 02:15 PM
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9. So the wildlife conservation investigator left a package of jelly doughnuts...
to lure the creature down? Way to go, Marlin fucking Perkins. :rofl: Maybe he thought it was Homer Simpson. It wouldn't be the first time he was mistaken for bigfoot.
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