Discussion for article #238967
Watch out, Texas is breeding bullet-proof armadillos. They were intended to patrol the border under the Trump wall, but they are notoriously independent-minded and now wander as far north as Wisconsin.
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Evolution in action. Perhaps they’ll end up with Kevlar “shells.”
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When Trump is president all of America’s great beasts will have bulletproof skills.
#MakeAmericaGreatAgain
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Yaaa-hoooo gon’ shoot me up an OW
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Armadillos are cool.
They always bear four young which are always two sets of twins, and either all male or female.
If you ever try to catch one NEVER try to pin it down with your hand because they’ll jump 3 or 4 feet straight up and it fucking hurts. Don’t ask how I know this…
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Why shoot the armadillo in the first place? Are they good to eat?
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If I’m going to be diverted from the important news of the day, i’d rather read about armadillos then CEO babies.
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Ornery and trigger happy, I’d wager.
Note this happened at 3 AM
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Around 10% of them carry leprosy, so if a bagger asks tell them they taste like chicken.
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¨(T)he armadillo did not survive¨.
There is no justice.
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Are we sure this was a ricochet and that Obama isn’t secretly arming armadillos with confiscated guns? Is shooting at a target on a freeway acceptable practice in Texas ? Did the armadillo have a jade helm ?
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Hahahahahahaaaaaaa(cough)
The only way it woulda been more appropriate would be if the bullet lodged in his ass and had to be extracted w/o anesthesia. But the head is a good second choice. I hope the armadillo is OK.
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And it’s clear armadillos have evolved much further than Texans.
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That is the 7 banded variety…the North American creature, pictured here, is the 9 banded animal and does not pose any real threat of leprosy.
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Best news I’ve heard yet today. All Creatures Great and Small 1 - Darwin Award Candidate 0.
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“This was the second armadillo-shooting-followed-by-ricochet of the year. The first, in Georgia in April, injured the shooter’s mother-in-law.”
Of course, in Georgia, it’s usually the armadillos that are injured by bullets ricocheting off mother-in-laws.
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That is also why they have a tendency to be such common roadkill. They will hunch down to let a car pass over them, but then they jump straight up into the bottom of the car as it is passing over them.
Also, they can carry leprosy, so you shouldn’t handle wild armadillos. Just sayin’…
Edit: should have read your later post first.
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This is one of the New World’s coolest creatures. No, you can’t eat them anymore than you can a Black Maned Lion so the Jeffry Dahmer ( I eat what I kill ) excuse ain’t going to cut it. They are harmless…no one lets leprosy from them although a few gardener’s I know would like to see them all shot. They are just fucking cool and I am saddened every time I see one dead on the road. No one that shoots one is cool though.
For folks that like critters the pic is of a nine banded 'dillo. There is a seven banded one and a very cool Giant one:
That I see on rare occasion when in Tambopata.
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By far the best armadillo is sadly extinct though: the Glyptodon.
An armadillo the size and shape of a VW Bug. The thing was a living tank.
With you on armadillos being one of the coolest new world animals though I am particularly fond of poison dart frogs as well.
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