Ohio, the heart of it all

[Syt]

[LaCroix]

does this explain ed's anger?

[Syt]

Would explain his weapons fetish, at least.

[Sophie Scholl]

I will be making my way to Cleveland, Ohio later this month.  Catching a Tribe game against the Twins, then the Browns - Dolphins game the next day.  Going to make a try for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as well.

Indians won, Browns won, I had a blast and survived Ohio.  Even made the trip to Youngstown to visit my buddy's family.

[Ed Anger]

Animal uprising being put down:

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/deputies-hunt-big-game-on-the-loose-in-ohio/

[jimmy olsen]

Pretty crazy

Video
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/44956890#44956890

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/10/lions-tigers-bears-on-the-loose-in-ohio/

Lions, Tigers, Bears on the Loose in Ohio
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As many as 48 wild animals, including cheetahs, grizzly bears, black bears, wolves, tigers and lions are on the loose in the area of Zanesville, Ohio, after they escaped from a private wildlife preserve, police said tonight.

Officers believe they have shot as many as 25 of the animals so far, but it is not clear exactly how many escaped, according to the Muskingum County Sheriff's Department.

Muskingum County Sheriff Matt Lutz said that until the animals are rounded up, people should stay inside.

"These are wild animals, wild animals that you would see on TV in Africa," Mutz said at a news conference this evening.

Terry Thompson, the owner of the preserve was found dead, but it's not clear yet how he died, the sheriff said.

"This is a bad situation," Mutz said. "It's been a bad situation for a long time and the last thing we want to do is have any of our public hurt."

The animals' pens were found open, and deputies are working with the animals' caregiver, who says the animals were fed Monday.

They're putting food in the animals' pens in the hopes they might return the pens where they can then secure the animals.

Police describe the animals as "mature, very big and aggressive."

The Ohio State Highway Patrol has cordoned off seven square miles near Interstate 70 and officers are using infrared to find the animals.

[viper37]

http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/national/Ohio_Exotic_Animals_Escape_Zoo_Owner_Found_Dead_101911

Killing animals like that.. damn.  That's sad.

[Razgovory]

Not much you can do.  I saw in the CNN comments section people complaining "why don't use tranquilizer darts?", and other various bitching.  I doubt they have a veterinary anesthesiologist on hand with experience on doping big animals, let alone the training and facilities to retrain such an animal if they did knock it out.  It's not like you put a bear in the back of a squad car.  If they sit around waiting for experts and experience to arrive one of those animals could eat a kid.  They have no choice but to kill many of them.  I also read that the guy who owned the place plead to animal cruelty a few years back, so the animals may be bad shape and have to be put down anyway.

[The Brain]

What if we escape from Languish?

[Razgovory]

What if we escape from Languish?

Tanks.

[Ed Anger]

Herpes Monkey:

http://twitter.com/#!/HerpesMonkey

[derspiess]

Got some interesting phone calls from friends/family of my Argentine in-laws, who are in visiting.  Everyone had heard about wild animals on the loose in Ohio and they were checking to make sure everyone was okay

[MadBurgerMaker]

Not much you can do.  I saw in the CNN comments section people complaining "why don't use tranquilizer darts?", and other various bitching.  I doubt they have a veterinary anesthesiologist on hand with experience on doping big animals, let alone the training and facilities to retrain such an animal if they did knock it out.  It's not like you put a bear in the back of a squad car.  If they sit around waiting for experts and experience to arrive one of those animals could eat a kid.  They have no choice but to kill many of them.  I also read that the guy who owned the place plead to animal cruelty a few years back, so the animals may be bad shape and have to be put down anyway.

Yeah,  I saw somewhere that apparently they would have had to kill a lot of them anyway, experts with tranq guns or not.  It seems that they can sometimes be completely unaffected by the tranquilizers, or if they are, they can become very aggressive after being hit by the dart but before they eventually "pass out."

[Razgovory]

I saw on the news they shot one bear with a tranq dart and all it accomplished was making bear angry.  It then charged some officers who had to gun it down.  Apparently it takes something like five minutes to work, and it's highly dependent where they hit the animal with the dart.  I agree that event was a tragedy, but there was nothing you could do about it.  Fortunately nobody was hurt in the incident.

[Ed Anger]

Got some interesting phone calls from friends/family of my Argentine in-laws, who are in visiting.  Everyone had heard about wild animals on the loose in Ohio and they were checking to make sure everyone was okay

lolz