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Crocodiles With Frickin' Magnets Attached to Their Heads
Brickwall writes "Florida, faced with a problem of crocodiles returning to residential neighborhoods after being relocated elsewhere, is trying to solve it by affixing magnets to the crocs' heads. The theory is the crocodiles use the Earth's magnetic field for navigation, and the magnets may interfere with that. What I'd like to know is, whose job is it to put the magnets on?" So far the magnet program appears to be working, unfortunately the crocs have started to collect huge amounts of take-out menus and child artwork.
Not trying to troll here, but why not just shoot them? Some crocs appear to love to be around humans, some not. Kill the ones who do, and let the ones who prefer to stay away from people have the chance to breed. In a few decades, we'll have a race of human-adverse crocs.
Please read and understand the summary before asking stupid questions.
Why not just shoot them?
Because the objective is to relocate them, not to kill them.
Also, fuck you.
I can't imagine the croc being very happy about being dizzy all the time.
They use the magnetic field for navigation, not balance. Crocodiles don't even have a sense of balance as we know it, what with having no internal ears and all.
More over how does this stop them from wondering in to town?
If they can't find the town, they can't exactly wander through it, now can they?
It seems that it was only used while transporting the crocs to disorient them so that they cannot find their way back.
There are no Crocodiles in Florida, except in zoo's or animal parks. There are plenty of Alligators however.
Slackware - because apt is for the lazy.
"Why not just shoot them?"
Here in Australia the authorities also try to avoid shooting problem crocs, instead they send them to a croc farm for handbag breeding.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
> the lamest thing you could possibly put on a crocs head
Yeah, if you're affixing something to their heads, why not *airquotes* Lasers *airquotes* ?
There are no Crocodiles in Florida, except in zoo's or animal parks. There are plenty of Alligators however.
These are American crocodiles.
And yes, there are plenty of alligators in Florida—which is why they aren't endangered.
The American crocodile is endangered, however, which is pointed out in article that you didn't read.
Now they all walk north. Alaskans will have more than polar bears to worry about now.
Table-ized A.I.
"Dad, something is stuck to our bumper! I heard a clang."
Table-ized A.I.
I could baste my old magnetic HDs in chicken broth and feed them to these "magnetically enhanced crocodiles" as a way to destroy my precious personal data?
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I am not the AC you're replying to, but:
What makes you think for a second that I was advocating they be shot?
Maybe because you said "Why not just shoot them?"
Wonder around enough and you'll wonder into a town.
Yeah, but we're not talking about wandering into town, we're talking about them going back to the same place they've been removed from.
Honestly - if you'd read the article, you'd have had no reason to ask the questions you did.
My pics.
Why not shoot the people of Florida? I can't imagine people being happy about living in crowded, polluted cities all the time. The population is way too big and alligators, unlike humans, doesn't destroy the environment or to drive other species to extinction. Not to mention that they were there first.
Heh, for once, an AC that I can agree with!
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
Um, alright, ah, ok I got one, they'll shoot back and bullets aren't free. Now why not go to bed?
I was asking why not to shoot them, not saying that they should be shot.
Frankly, you're an idiot and someone should shoot YOU. And, it's "wander", not "wonder", you brainless twit. :-)
Also, fuck you.
That there is nothing you cannot solve with some judicious use of duct tape.
Why not just shoot them? I can't imagine the croc being very happy about being dizzy all the time.
To be honest I think they'd like being shot even less.
"Three eyes are better than one" -- Lieutenant Columbo
I don't use harddrives. I just use crocodiles with magnets stuck to their heads.
(I'll get my coat.)
"Three eyes are better than one" -- Lieutenant Columbo
I assume you believe, though you say someone should shoot him, that he should not be shot. That's the trend here right?
This is not the funny you're looking for.
maybe you received a backlash because that kind of arrogant attitude towards other living creatures is just sickening and systemic of an unenlightened mind when it comes to the enviroment around you.
remember that as a species you are the new kid on the block.
have some fucking respect.
nite nite...
as for you mods...get bent.
"You can kill the revolutionary, but you can't kill the revolution."-- Fred Hampton
This, friends, is all a cover-up. Plausible deniability and all. "Disorienting crocs". Sure.
If it looks like a croc and walks like a croc, it is abundantly clear that it is just another tool of the concspiracy!
Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
than alligators with gun turrets.
That's what the cyborg raptors are for!
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Here are the catchy one-liners from this thread alone:
Someone should keep a list of memorable quotes in Slashdot. :-)
Actually you can't shoot them because they're protected. There are only about 2000 of them in south Florida.
Oh Crap, I'm an optimist.....
All hail our anonymous logical overlord
Laughter is the best medicine, except if you have a broken rib.
Can we adopt the:
4) Also, fuck you
as our new group meme?
"Alligators in Florida! Crocodiles in Africa, Asia, Australia."
And er... the Americas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Crocodile
"unfortunately the crocs have started to collect huge amounts of take-out menus and child artwork" Faulty premise. Fridge magnets work because they stick to the fridge door. Crocodiles are not made of ferrous metal so the magnets wouldn't stick to the crocs themselves, and the menus and artwork could not be held between croc and magnet in the way envisaged by the joke.
So does a magnetic field deter them, so you can set up a magnetic perimeter around your garden opond and they will not want to come out?
The people responsible for shooting the people responsible for shooting the troll, have been shot.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Why not just shoot them? I can't imagine the croc being very happy about being dizzy all the time. More over how does this stop them from wondering in to town?
I don't see the need to mod this -1. I'm from Florida, and "Why not just shoot them?" was the first thing that popped into my head too until I realized that they were really talking about crocs and not alligators - which unfortunately most people don't realize are very different. There alligator population in Florida is in the millions, but there are only a few thousand crocs. Anyway, I thought it was a valid question that deserved a proper answer, not a "fuck you".
As a long time Florida resident with a heavy involvement in water sports I would just love to congratulate the state for bringing crocs back into my immediate environment. The joy of confronting a ten foot crocodile weighing about 500 lbs. on a popular beach is hard to describe. I did discover that unlike Jesus I can not walk on water.
Great, now not only can crocodiles kill YOU, now they can kill your hard drive too!
Well as an Australian, I often ask the "Why not just shoot them?".
We end up with a bloody Koala problem, where they are overpopulated, and are going to die of starvation. The greenies persuade everyone that the population needs to be reduced. So a cull right?
Hell no. We go in there and neuter them. At several hundred dollars per animal. We knock them out, and cut their nuts off, and stick them back up a tree. All this because they are cute and fluffy.
Of course when it comes to kangaroos, we just shoot them. Guess they didn't evolve to be fluffy and loved by hippies.
These are the same hippies that block the creation of firebreaks... because it destroys the native vegetation. Hows the native vegetation doing now?
FFS. This is why democracy fails - you get raving loonies like this (and our religious net censorship advocate) holding the balance of power.
3laws: No freebies, no backsies, GTFO.
As a native Floridian I'd rather have them on your beach than in my pool.
Technically it was the crocodile's beach first. Perhaps we should consider strapping magnets to the heads of surfers and relocating them to your pool instead.
and tonto called, he has tipi in hand and wants you to get your house off his land.
Nowadays, being "first" doesn't make it yours. Having it, and being able to keep it for a sufficient period of time makes it yours.
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
I'll bear that in mind when I steal your laptop. How long do I need to keep it before it's mine?
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
You know, water sports are technically illegal in florida under anti-sodomy laws.
The native vegetation is probably doing just fine, thank you. Wildfires are part of a natural cycle. Furthermore, even if fire were not beneficial to the ecosystem, humans trying to prevent fires usually just leads to one big fire instead of smaller ones spread over time. This is probably NOT good for the vegetation.
So, while I don't really think we should not create firebreaks to save people's lives and property, I do not think it is correct to argue that they benefit the natural vegetation.
Long enough to get the police to call off the search... If they even try.
Shouldn't that be alligators? I thought crocs were in South America, and alligators were in Florida?
As a LIFE LONG Florida resident who's tired of being disturbed by all the noise pollution generated by your jet skis and ski boats I'm cheering for the crocs.
Also, your immediate environment? Your environment is land sonny boy; you don't have gills, you don't have fins, no tail, can't hold your breath more than a few minutes. This is why we had to invent snorkels, SCUBA and why you have to wear a life vest on your water craft. See, the water is the crocs environment and trespassers may be eaten.
I don't know koalas. I do know that neutering and releasing is an effective means of population reduction in some species. The neutered animals compete successfully for mating opportunities and the population's birth rate drops. This can be a more effective and lower cost mode of control than other interventions in some situations. Like if the State has determined that allowing a bunch of hard partying, beer drinking, 4WD driving asshole hunters to screw up the forests is the more costly alternative.
Also, from what I've heard koala meat tastes like cough drops and is inedible. Also, fuck you.
There. I said it.
> We end up with a bloody Koala problem
It's the cutest infestation ever.
It's not a lie. It's the truth with lossy compression.
Yeah, but that's one tough son of a bitch to do watersports with a crocodile. Makes that whole trapeze, midget and running start thing seem pretty mainstream if you ask me.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Okay, here we go:
1) Attach magnets to alligators
2) ???
3) Profit!!!
4) Also, fuck you
yup, every step off of dry land is a step off of the top of the food chain!
We have both. We have alligators in most of the state and some crocodiles in the southern part of the state.
The alligators are pretty benign. I encounter them all the time when I'm kayaking and they leave you alone. They're pretty scared of people and about the only time they'd attack is if they mistook you for food or if you got between a mama and her babies.
Crocodiles are supposedly territorial though and much more aggressive.
In Florida, five years, after which it is probably useless anyway.
As territorial and aggressive as humans?
"The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
I think its fair trade people are allowed to hunt 5000 odd crocs a year the crocks hunt a few beach bums both populations are maintained in a natural balance.
not sure if having sex with a handbag is a persuasive enough argument to keep those crocs out of trouble.
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Nile Crocs aren't the same as American Crocs. They are two completely different species. And in Florida we have Alligators and American Crocodiles. You can see both in some areas of South Florida around the nuke plants.
Get a web developer
Stereotype much, do we?
It goes with my hunting experience. Mostly blacktail deer, occasionally elk, in SW Oregon. I use a .30-06 slide action, left-hand safety, with handloads of fire-formed brass, 165 grain Spitzer tip boat-tails in front of 59 grain Dupont IMR. There is more muzzle flash than I'd like toward sun down, but the combination lets me shoot 3 inch groups at 100 yards and I've been using it for more than 20 years now.
I can do without the beer buddy hunters who come in from the cities and suburbs in their 4WD rigs with their .300 Magnums and other foolishness. They don't pack out what they bring in, and they tear up the landscape because they don't know how to drive their rigs or know where they shouldn't drive them. Their fun costs everyone else a lot of money in damaged roads, increased erosion, and the problems that garbage in the wild causes. Too many of them also mix beer and bullets and shoot when they don't have a clear target.
I'm pretty sure that Australia has the same breed of "hunter" as that. They seem to be all over.
Interesting* fact.
If you can run 100 MPH, you can move across water.
*For different values of interesting.
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Your environment is land sonny boy; you don't have gills, you don't have fins, no tail, can't hold your breath more than a few minutes.
Whales, seals, and otters don't have gills either.
Unlike other apes our hair is aligned with the flow of water over our bodies - when swimming, not just when being rained on. And we have much better developed anti-drowning reflexes - both in the breathing system and the circulatory system.
Drop a chimp in a lake and he drowns. Pull him out before he dies and he'll likely get pneumonia anyhow. Drop a baby in water and he swims.
We've been in water enough for surviving and prospering there to have been very evolutionarily important.
So just because we're REALLY good at loping across the plains and running down antelope doesn't mean hanging out in water isn't part of our niche.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
That's nothing! Now, when crocodiles swim in circles, it'll generate an electric current. Shocking, I tell you!
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Drop a chimp in a lake and he drowns. Pull him out before he dies and he'll likely get pneumonia anyhow.
Will he get pneumonia before or after he rips your face off?