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#1 | Texas man shoots armadillo, gets hit in face by bullet ricochet datum

Sat Aug 01, 2015 8:39 am

The Person (make that Critter) of Interest:

Texas man shoots armadillo, gets hit in face by bullet ricochet
ReutersBy By Lisa Maria Garza | Reuters � 14 hours ago
By Lisa Maria Garza

DALLAS (Reuters) - An East Texas man was wounded after he fired a gun at an armadillo in his yard and the bullet ricocheted back to hit him in his face, the county sheriff said on Friday.

Cass County Sheriff Larry Rowe said the man, who was not identified, went outside his home in Marietta, southwest of Texarkana, at around 3 a.m. on Thursday morning. He spotted the armadillo on his property and opened fire.

"His wife was in the house. He went outside and took his .38 revolver and shot three times at the armadillo," Rowe said.

The animal's hard shell deflected at least one of three bullets, which then struck the man's jaw, he said.

The man was airlifted to a nearby hospital, where his jaw was wired shut, according to Rowe.

The status of the animal is unknown.

"We didn't find the armadillo," the sheriff said.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/texas-man-shoo...-214656503.html

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#2 | RE: Texas man shoots armadillo, gets hit in face by bullet ricochet datum

Sat Aug 01, 2015 9:05 am

Why would he shoot an armadillo? That's just stupid.

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#3 | RE: Texas man shoots armadillo, gets hit in face by bullet ricochet datum

Sat Aug 01, 2015 10:46 am

and wouldn't you know that TM would get exclusive footage of the incident!!!

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#4 | RE: Texas man shoots armadillo, gets hit in face by bullet ricochet datum

Sat Aug 01, 2015 11:13 am

Of course you did!

Pretty amazing.

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#5 | RE: Texas man shoots armadillo, gets hit in face by bullet ricochet datum

Sat Aug 01, 2015 3:35 pm

"Why would he shoot an armadillo? That's just stupid."

Ain't that the truth? Armadilloes are the quietest, gentlest, most inoffensive creatures around. When threatened they roll up into a ball and rely on the armor to protect them.

OTOH, it isn't wise to get too affectionate with them.

"(CNN)�There are an unusually high number of leprosy cases cropping up in Florida.

Experts said they believe the spike is because of people coming into contact with armadillos.

Florida typically sees two to 12 cases of leprosy a year, but so far there have been nine cases in 2015, according to the Florida Department of Health.

The latest case was diagnosed in Flagler County three weeks ago.

Some armadillos, placental mammals with leathery armor, are naturally infected with leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Armadillos are one of the only known animals to carry leprosy, an age-old disease that causes skin and nerve damage."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/21/health/flo...rmadillos-irpt/

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#6 | RE: Texas man shoots armadillo, gets hit in face by bullet ricochet datum

Sun Aug 02, 2015 12:37 pm (Last edited: Sun Aug 02, 2015 12:42 pm)

And, they eat bugs!

And, just for the record I don't understand why somebody would shoot a creature that they're not going to use somehow like the lion in Zimbabwe.

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#7 | RE: Texas man shoots armadillo, gets hit in face by bullet ricochet datum

Sun Aug 02, 2015 4:54 pm (Last edited: Sun Aug 02, 2015 5:04 pm)

Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #6
And, they eat bugs!

And, just for the record I don't understand why somebody would shoot a creature that they're not going to use somehow like the lion in Zimbabwe.

Yeah, that Cecil story is a real tragedy in its own right. The dentist made a very stupid mistake. That seems obvious.

Look how it's turned out

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#8 | RE: Texas man shoots armadillo, gets hit in face by bullet ricochet datum

Sun Aug 02, 2015 5:46 pm

Wow, Cecil was 13?

I suspect that's pretty old for a lion in the wild.

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#9 | RE: Texas man shoots armadillo, gets hit in face by bullet ricochet datum

Sun Aug 02, 2015 10:39 pm

Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #8
Wow, Cecil was 13?

I suspect that's pretty old for a lion in the wild.

Sanguine, you are onto something!

From Wiki:
"In the wild, males seldom live longer than 10 to 14 years [citation needed], as injuries sustained from continual fighting with rival males greatly reduce their longevity. In captivity they can live more than 20 years."

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#10 | RE: Texas man shoots armadillo, gets hit in face by bullet ricochet datum

Mon Aug 03, 2015 10:15 am

Quote: ThirstyMan wrote in post #7
Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #6
And, they eat bugs!

And, just for the record I don't understand why somebody would shoot a creature that they're not going to use somehow like the lion in Zimbabwe.

Yeah, that Cecil story is a real tragedy in its own right. The dentist made a very stupid mistake. That seems obvious.

Look how it's turned out

If the reporting is accurate Cecil was killed in an illegal and unsportsmanlike manner:

"The Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, a nongovernmental organization, alleged that the hunters purposefully lured Cecil out of the park.

"They went hunting at night with a spotlight and they spotted Cecil," the group said in a statement. "They tied a dead animal to their vehicle to lure Cecil out of the park and they scented an area about half a kilometre from the park. Mr Palmer shot Cecil with a bow and arrow but this shot didn't kill him.

"They tracked him down and found him 40 hours later when they shot him with a gun. They found that he was fitted with a GPS collar because he was being studied by the Hwange Lion Research, funded by Oxford University so they tried to destroy the collar but failed because it was found.

"http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speak...hunt-was-legal/ "

ZIMBABWE PROFESSIONAL HUNTERS AND GUIDES ASSOCIATION
http://www.zphga.com/

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#11 | RE: Texas man shoots armadillo, gets hit in face by bullet ricochet datum

Mon Aug 03, 2015 10:50 am

Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #8
Wow, Cecil was 13?

I suspect that's pretty old for a lion in the wild.

He looked to be in pretty good shape for an old man lion.

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#12 | RE: Texas man shoots armadillo, gets hit in face by bullet ricochet datum

Tue Aug 04, 2015 8:30 am

Quote: algernonpj wrote in post #11
Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #8
Wow, Cecil was 13?

I suspect that's pretty old for a lion in the wild.

He looked to be in pretty good shape for an old man lion.

I can relate to that!

but do we really know Cecil's DOB? I think that image was made by someone who didn't know, just a guess.

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#13 | RE: Texas man shoots armadillo, gets hit in face by bullet ricochet datum

Tue Aug 04, 2015 12:39 pm

Quote: ThirstyMan wrote in post #12
Quote: algernonpj wrote in post #11
Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #8
Wow, Cecil was 13?

I suspect that's pretty old for a lion in the wild.

He looked to be in pretty good shape for an old man lion.

I can relate to that!

but do we really know Cecil's DOB? I think that image was made by someone who didn't know, just a guess.

Cecil was collared. While not tame, he was habituated to humans. Cecil became the dominant male lion in the Hwange National Park in 2009. It seems that was when he was named Cecil.

In theory this is a picture of Cecil done by a photographer who followed him for 9 years.

The last known photograph of Cecil (lying down), with Jericho. The image was taken a month before Cecil was killed Photo: Brent Stapelkam

"Brent Stapelkamp has been a researcher with Oxford University's lion project in the Hwange National Park for nine years
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"You could get to two or three photographs of him, without him moving, and he was used to safari vehicles. He was a total lion experience." "
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...photograph.html

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