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Escaped petting zoo camel attacks and kills 2 men in Tennessee

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TheoryNumber3 8 Apr 6
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There's a small farm that I pass on the way to town that has two camels, 3 zebras, some llamas and goats. I heard he's looking for a giraffe. The fence is just a plain old barbed wire fence. It's not advertised as a petting zoo and they seem to be well fed so perhaps we are safe.

But they don't have any hockey-backed camels or a chimpanzee? How about some cats and rats and elephants?

I hope they're well taken care of. So many of those roadside zoos don't take care of the animals properly.

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One small victory for animal kind.
I'd love if it had been by a Jack-ass because they like to bite the annoying creatures head, like the whole thing in it's mouth then it picks it up and whips it around like a rag doll, I've seen videos of wolves being killed by Jack-asses but it would be lovely if it happened to some people. Not that it has to kill the person to be cool, I don't wish death on anyone, but I do read a great many obituaries with a great deal of satisfaction.

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Too sad for the camel who never asked to be in Tennessee, for the entertainment of selfish people.

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Camels can be dangerous, especially during mating season. They even have k9s.

Tejas Level 8 Apr 6, 2022
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So they abused and neglected the animals, which resulted in the poor animal rebelling to attack. The people who own this place should be imprisoned. With just a small, muddy trickle of water to drink.

I completely agree. The poor thing didn't even have any water available. Camels, especially, require huge amounts of water in order to survive.

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This happened end of February I think. Camels are huge animals, twice the size of a Clydesdale. They could easily kill a grown man. They're usually not vicious but Bulls can kill people, horses trample people to death. Tragic and frightening. For some reason @rainmanjr thinks this is funny. I don't.

It’s funny because the Tennessee legislature is trying to placate the wrong god. The right god, the jealous one, is pissed.

@yvilletom That would be ironic. It is not a funny story.

@barjoe I once saw humor defined as requiring a story to have a surprise ending. I right away knew I could use that definition to write something humorous. I wrote that definition into the Wikipedia article on humor.

In a few days someone had replaced my brief description with something a philosophy professor might write. It did nothing to help me write humor.

I agree with you that the deaths of two men are not “funny.” Had you named an emotion, perhaps sadness, or an unhappy consequence of their deaths, I would not have seen your remark as an attack on @rainmanjr. Did you intend an attack?

@yvilletom An attack? No. I pretty much like the guy. I noticed he reacted with a laugh emoticon. That's a shit thing to do imo,. My thinking that is hardly an attack. Nothing about the story is funny. Those animals were deprived of water and went into delirium. The owners of that zoo are responsible for those deaths. The only thing he might've thought was funny is that it's at all old story, those two guys have been buried for a month already. Still not funny.

@barjoe Got it, thanx. With fingertips too large to play a guitar, I sometimes tap the wrong emoticon and have to delete it, maybe to type a different one. Does @rainmanjr know how to delete one.

@yvilletom Maybe. What's your point? He can defend himself. Do you want me to delete my comment?

@barjoe I adore it when the animals get to kill humans for a change. The fact that they were humans in Tennessee makes it even better. God's Will, I say. I would have thought it funny before coming to the conclusion that we're only electrons having an illusion, so there is no such thing as death, but now it's even funnier to me. Maybe I'm sick, @barjoe, but I think humanity is better off when Southern people (and I use the word loosely) are taught a lesson by Zen.

@rainmanjr SMGDMFH

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