September 21, 2018 • 37 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's Clay Travis. I want to thank you for
the millions about Kick the Coverage podcast download. So here's
a little extra gift for you. We've compiled the very
best Animal thunderdomes from the past few months and put
them together for a Greatest Bites edition. Thanks for always
tweeting in good stories you see for us to use
during Animal Thunderdome. Keep them coming as humans try and
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keep the animals in check. Here comes the Greatest Bites.
Do you the music, boys, ladies and gentlemen. I'm just
glad I was scaring boys and I thought he thought
I was like this enormous piece of chicken dime times
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here my space. This is Animal Thunderdog. I feel like
the hippo is underrated on this segment because hippos kill
five hundred people a year they say in Africa right now,
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and this was a tough break. A tourist from Taiwan
was taking pictures at a lake in Kenya on Sunday
and he was attacked and killed by a hippo. Just
hours before, a local fisherman was also mauled to death
in the same area by another hippo. The uprising is real,
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Chang Ming Chwang and his friend Woo Peng Tee were
at the edge of Lake Nevasia in Kenya's Rift Valley
when a witness said they got too close to a
hippo and were attacked. Uh. Chang was pronounced dead. I
don't know how this happens. His friend was treated for
minor bruising. I'm just gonna toss this out there. If
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your buddy is dead and you got minor bruising, you
didn't do much to try to save your buddy. Uh.
They are not sure what led to the attack. But
then later, just a little bit further down the same lake,
a hippo another different hippo also killed someone. Don't mess
with the hippo's people. They are deadly. What you got
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for me, Danny G agree with me. You find bruising,
your buddy dies. You probably didn't do very much to
save his life. Yeah, you weren't a good wingman when
he was alive, probably either. Yeah, that's horrible. Closer to
home Boulder, Colorado, a mountain lion became trapped inside a
Colorado home killed the family's house cat before police and
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wildlife officers were able to chase it out of the home.
Boulder Police say that the homeowner came back to the
house last Thursday night they found the mountain lion inside.
It appears that the mountain lion pushed through a screen
and he couldn't get back out of the home once
he was in the big cat roam throughout two levels
of this house for more than an hour before officers
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used non lethal rounds to scare it out the front
door and away from the neighborhood, which is just southwest
of downtown Boulder. The Boulder Police Department tweeted a photo
of the mountain lion inside next to the couch, along
with a remindered residents to keep ground level doors and
windows closed and locked. So imagine your cat, Fiefie Clay,
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and you come home and your cat shredded to a
hundred pieces by a mountain lion. Well, the cats rough.
You know. The other thing that would happen there is
like somebody would have like a little poodle, and the
poodle would think, oh, this is my house to protect, thinking, oh,
the mountain lion is not gonna go mountain lion on me,
because you know, they don't know probably what one of
those things is. But yeah, that's probably tough to explain
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to the kids that the kid cat got killed by
the much bigger kitty cat. And imagine the last few
seconds of that poor cat's life on the run from
a mountain lion. That can you imagine that would be
a tough It's a tough break for a house cat
to go that way. The housecat probably thinks, I'm set here,
I'm gonna have a twenty year life, nothing really that dangerous,
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gonna kill some mice hang out. Next thing you know,
house cat comes face to face with the mountain lion
and that expectation goes out the window in a hurry.
I just I can't get over my guy, Wayne two
or whatever his name was. We want. I gotta I
think I might have just deleted that, but I gotta
be honest with you if you're it said, like, if
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your buddy gets killed by a hippo and you just
have some bruising, what does that mean You're not even
remotely there nearby while the hippo just goes to town
and kills your buddy. This is like we had that
issue where the guy got killed by the mountain lion, right,
and then the guy left him behind to me if
you're on a dangerous safari like this. First of all,
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do you think they were taking selfies? Because the number
of people getting killed taking selfies these days is out
of control. I bet they were trying to get the
hippo in the background of their selfie, and the hippo
is just like I don't want to take a picture
of day and I'm gonna kill you. And uh, this
is just a lesson. Animals are wild. That's why wild
animals where the adjective isn't out of the animal, don't
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try to get too close to him. I'm gonna be
honest with you. I'm terrified to go on these safaris
because everybody ends up dying. Clay, what would you do
if you had your family out on a boat in
the lake and a poisonous timber rattlesnake came slithering up
onto the boat. This happened to a Knoxville, Tennessee family
as they were vacationing in western North Carolina on Fontana Lake.
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Their fourteen year old daughter, of course, had her phone
going as this timber rattlesnake made its way onto their boat.
Check out this audio. Oh my god, by the way,
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that is this is amazing audio. Also, what it sounded
like when I was trying to ask girls to go
to problem with me? Just just f y, I is
exactly what it's sounded like when I tried to walk
up to girls in high school and ask him to
go to prom. They have been on Fontana Lake. Oh yeah,
it's a great lake in western North Carolina. Um, I
have not seen a rattlesnake there. I would lose my
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mind if a rattlesnake was charging my boat. Yeah. You
could also see the video so Google that the dad
was quoted as saying I was going to whack him.
You can see him too in the video getting ready
to hit the snake. But the snake was smart enough
to know, yeah, I probably shouldn't be here. All this
screaming scared it away, so it made a U turn
and went back into the water, so they avoided having
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to uh try to hit the snake in the head.
I love also that even in moments of extreme peril,
people keep their phones running. Now, yes, it's like we
have to share. I mean, how many times do you think?
And this happens all the time now where where people
are trying to take selfies and they die, you know,
Like I, I can honestly say this, I don't believe
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I've ever taken a selfie in my life, Like I
I just I mean, I don't know why somebody. And
I've been in pictures obviously, but taking a picture of myself.
I mean, I'll take pictures of things, but I don't
feel the need to put myself in it. But people
are getting killed by animals. They're falling off cliffs to
take selfies. I wonder how often people die and like
they are recording their death right. I mean, it's unbelievable
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to me that as an as a rattlesnake is approaching you,
you'd be like, oh, I've got to make sure I've
got this. And you have to ask yourself, is that
somebody you want on your squad that they're more interested
in filming it than having your back? I don't know.
I would definitely want somebody to have my back there
on the Great Rattlesnake Pursuit? What else we got? All right?
Tell this woman in uh Pitts Grove, New Jersey. Her
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name Tammy Dubash. She's fifty two. She uh had an
encounter with a rabid fox it was biting her leg.
She reached down with one hand to hold shut its mouth,
and with the other hand she strangled it. She She's
quoted as saying, I don't like to kill anything, but
I couldn't do anything to get it away from me.
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The attack occurred July. She heard rustling in some bushes
in her backyard garden. She says. The fox ran out
bitter leg multiple times, puncturing her skin, and that's when
she reached down and smothered it. She cleaned and bandaged
herself her leg, and then called her husband, who took
her to the e er, where she began a two
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week series of rabies treatment. So she choked out the
She choked it out. Animal control officers retrieved the dead
fox and sent it to the state for tests, confirming
last Monday that it indeed had rabies. Dubois the only
human attack by rabbit animals so far this year in
Salem County. Officials say so share her name is what
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Tracy du Bois. Let's see, Tammy du bois the most
famous du Boa? Does anybody know the most famous Dubois?
No bland stu Boi. I believe I'm correct about that.
From a street car. No, no, no, no, a street
car named Desire. I think why somebody look up and
see if Blanche du bois if I'm correct, in that
street Tennessee Williams play a street car named Desire. That
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woman had a little bit of brass e spunk tour.
This woman just choked out, choked out the fox. This
is like the grandma we had in Georgia who choked
out the mountain lion or something. Right, remember that story? That?
Uh that that's incredible. By the way, I love the
number of people that are gonna be late going into
work because they're like sitting in their car right now.
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They were like supposed to be Animal Thunderdome last segment,
I set through all the commercial breaks to make sure
I didn't miss it. I think you're gonna enjoy it.
Where should we go to first, NYG Let's go ahead
and go with the audio first. Uh, this comes from Tennessee.
This poor woman was faced with trauma recently when she
discovered a snake in her backyard. Now, yesterday on Animal Thunderdome,
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if you were listening or go to the podcast, you
should hear it. We had controversy over a seven foot
lizard that was tormenting a family in South Florida in
their backyard. Clay in this lady's backyard in Tennessee, your
home town, your home state. There rather, she's dealing with
a snake in her backyard and her dogs decided to
protect her. And there is audio as her husband took
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out his phone and filmed this. No, no, no, no no.
I don't know what to do. I don't want it
to get in the house. George ain't gonna do it,
because I'm telling you he's gonna go in the house.
You've got to get a stick. I don't know what
they're gonna He's gone, George, No, no, I know what
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it's gonna do. It's gonna go out. So George the dog,
the dog grabs the snake and throws it on her. Yeah,
he tosses his head and you just see him coming
towards her and her freaking out. So that's actually people
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are gonna make fun of that, lady. That's the exact
same way I sound when I see a snake. I
saw a snake. We were down at the beach and
this past this past weekend, we were walking headed to
the beach. Tiny little snake lost my mind. My wife
told me we've got a couple of snakes in the yard.
I'm like, we may have to move. I don't know.
I don't know about this thing. I am so anti snakes.
I am a snake is That's exactly what I would do.
If I had a dog and it was eating a
snake and it tossed it towards me, I would lose
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my mind. All right, you are gonna love this story.
A massive mountain lion made itself right at home in
an Oregan woman's living room. It took a six hour
nap behind her sofa and until she says she telepathically
got it to leave. Lauren Taylor of Ashland, Oregon, was
shocked to find this large cat in her home in July.
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She thinks that the cat probably wandered in through an
open back door after drinking from a pond in her yard.
She chronicled the whole experience on her Facebook account, which
has received thousands and thousands of reactions. She says the
door was open and the room has huge plants and
stairs built around a real tree, so she likely the
cat didn't likely realize it was walking indoors until it
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was inside. The mountain lion initially tried to leave the room,
but got scared when Taylor's roommates screamed, so it ran
behind the couch, where it then fell asleep. Taylor bliezs, sir,
this is where it gets good. Taylor believes her extensive
experience working with energy and animals made the meeting a
peaceful and pleasant one. She says that she does not
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recommend seeking out encounters with wild animals, but she says,
when I made noise, the cat woke up and looked startled,
so I consciously raised my frequency, gazed lovingly into the
cat's eyes, and communicated using feline speak eye blinking to
calm her. She wrote cuckoo. When it came time for
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Taylor's new pile to leave, she says she played a drum.
She says, and the telepathic pictures of routes out of
the house via open doors and the route out the
back yard, across the creek, through an open field, and
into the hills. The cat did leave, so Taylor believes
she telepathically got this mountain lion to leave her home.
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Not the kind of guy typically to root for the
mountain lion to attack someone I might be on the
Mountain Lions. This might be the first time we've had
an Animal Thunderdome's story where I've thought, you know what,
the animal, I wouldn't blame it at all if it
decided to attack this person. Yesterday on the Animal Thunderdome
we had a story of deadly hippo's. Hippo's killing people
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in uh. I believe it was Kenya. If I'm not mistaken, Well,
there are hippos in the l A Zoo and a
man I'm not making this up decided to jump into
the hippo enclosure and touch a hippo. They are looking
for him in Los Angeles. We have live video and
audio of this. I'm not making this up. This really
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happened in l A. Play it, boys and Jeff, this
is really disturbing video what this guy did here at
the l A Zoo. As you said, he snuck into
the habitat and then hit this hippopotamus. Video posted to
Instagram shows a man crossing into the l A Zoo's
hippo enclosure and sneaking up on two hippos. The man's
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approach is very cautious. Finally close enough he slaps one
of the hippos on the rear, takes a moment to celebrate,
and then runs off. The l A p D confirms
they got a report of trespassing at the zoo and
are investigating. The zoo says the hippos are Rosie and Mara.
You can see the hippo who was slapped does not
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show much of a reaction, but the other hippo seems
a bit startled and looks up as the guy is
still in the enclosure. It's not clear if the man
knows he's being re or did, but clearly he's showing off.
And while hippo's at the zoo do have human interaction,
this kind of treatment can create an unpredictable situation. Unbelievable.
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That's CBS l A. How much would you have to
be paid to climb into the hippo enclosure and touch
a hippo? All in l A. He smacked the hippo's
asked how much would you have to be paid to
slap a to touch a hippo to climb into the
First of all, I can't believe you can even climb
into the enclosure that like that easily. We are highly
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educated being part of the OutKick army because we paid
attention yesterday to those statistics. You read people a year
are killed by hippos and now, so this is obviously
a non OutKick listener. Bad job by him, that's gonna take.
I'm saying two d and fifty thous dollars at least
to get in there quick and smack one. What about you, Roberto?
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How much do I have to pay you to climb
into a hippo enclosure and touch the hippo? Nothing. I
wouldn't do that. I was just there two weeks ago.
The furthest thing from my mind. You were there? So
is this crazy to you that somebody would climb into
the enclosure? I can't believe. I was there two weeks
ago on a Sunday and I was like, furthest thing
from my mind. When I saw the video, I'm like,
oh my god, this guy is an idiot. We had
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the Harambe situation right where the kid got into the
guerrilla enclosure and they had to kill Harambe. I think
that was in Cincinnati. I can't believe that you can
even climb into enclosures for highly dangerous animals. Still, I
can't believe that's even possible. That, leaving aside the fact
that the guy is an idiot who climbs in and
touches the hippo, I can't believe you can do that. Yeah,
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it's not that hard. Really, this enclosure is not well
because I think when they designed these zoos years ago,
they were not thinking people would be stupid enough to
get that through close to dangerous animals. It's unbelievable to me. Um,
So what about you, Eddie Garcia? How much money to
climb into the l a zoo and touch the hippo.
I saw a video of a hippo biting a crocodile
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in half because because he was annoyed with the crocodile.
So there's no amount of money I'm getting into slap
a hippo on the ass. This is like the most
territorial animal, they say, in terms of danger in the
entire world, Like the hippo kills more people because that
not to eat right, because I think the hippo is
basically a vegetarian. The hippo is just angry when people
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come in its area. This is one of the all
times stupid moves. I also, by the way, so we
got the hippo story. We also have this story which
a bunch of you tweeted to me and I thought
was amazing. Uh. In Oklahoma City. In Oklahoma, Oklahoma City
police say a wild bull escaped from the stockyards overnight.
They later found out that it was a bull from
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a zoo. I think, I mean, sorry, from a circus
or something. I don't know. Anyway, a wild bull was loose.
It chased several people downtown. One person even jump in
the river to avoid it. While you talk about just rough,
rough luck, we talked about the mountain lion getting in
the house in Colorado. Can you imagine walking through Oklahoma City.
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Next thing you know, there are bulls. There's a wild
bull chasing you, and you have to dive into a river,
uh to escape. But we need the video by the
way of the guy who dove into the river to
escape the wild bull. That's tough luck. Like one one minute,
you think you're just walking to work the net and
you're like, man, this is tough. It's gonna be a
rough day of work. Next minute, there is a wild
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bull pursuing you in the streets of Oklahoma City and
you have to dive into the river there in the city.
It makes you wonder about the thousands of people who
go to the Running of the Bulls every year because
they're they're going, they're running towards it to do it
on purpose. Yeah, I have a buddy. I'm trying to
remember who was saying they were gonna do it. Uh,
They're going to Pamplona to run with the bulls. And
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I just can't think of anything more insane now watching
the running of the bulls, you know, like from outside
of the enclosure can make a lot of sense, but
running along with the horns and everything, and the fact
that you could get trampled or or or gored. Uh no,
thank you. That's one of those deaths on the shortlist, Clay,
where if you died that way, God would just chuckle.
I say, like, my general rule in life is don't
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be a pussy willow, right d bap. The other aspect
of this, though, is sometimes be a pussy willow, s bap.
You gotta know when it's smart to be a pussy willow.
And when there are bulls chasing you, I think it's
smart to dive in the river, not gonna run with him.
And here's another snake story quickly. Residents in a Pennsylvania
town in East Greenville being warned to keep an eye
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out for a runaway Boa constrictor that has been missing
for weeks. Seven foot snake named Vinny sounds like a
guy you calling eight hundred number to get gambling tips
from reported missing in the town. Although investigators said they
quote consider the matter closed after determining that the reptile
hasn't been seen in about four weeks unquote four weeks
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that they've closed the matter and slip around. He's sliving
around town and take down a dog. Pretty soon. All
he did was lie low for the investigation to die down.
The owner says there's a chance his ten year old
snake is hiding somewhere in his house, but locals are
still being urged to keep an eye out for the snake.
How big is the house where you can't find a
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seven foot snake in your house? That's a really good point.
A big house and I can find a seven foot
snake in my house? How about a seven foot snake
named Vinny? That's a Boa constrictors perfect looking for your
football season coming up. I feel like there's a joke
that Kim be made here, but it's a family program.
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California woman checks her home security camera two days ago
after hearing strange sounds around twelve thirty am. Her son
told her he heard strange noises outside their home. She
didn't give it to much thought. The boy said, Mom,
I hear noises. They shrugged it off. She said, you're
gonna hear noises there are animals. That's what she told
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the local television station in California. So she goes and
checks her security camera footage. The next morning discovers that
the sounds had come from not one, but two mountain
lions that walked up to her front door as if
they were trying to sell her something. Just stood next
to each other at the front door. Not one but
two mountain lions outside her house hung around for fifteen minutes.
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Motion detector lights and sounds came on, and the mountain
lions did not flinch. So these cougars were going to
try and get into this house. So yeah, maybe you
should pay attention when your son says you hear noises outside.
I'm not saying the mountain lions we're going to be
able to get into the house, but if you had
to take out the garbage. That would not have worked
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out well. All right, Danny, we had this story sent
to us, no sort of, I would say somewhere around
seventy thousand over the last few days. Tell us about
this alligator. In case you missed this, a woman walking
her dog on Monday was killed when an alligator attacked
her and dragged her into a lagoon where not Florida,
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South Carolina dangerous, South Carolina, Yeah popular. Beaufort County Sheriff's
office received a call around nine thirty am about a
possible alligator attack near a lagoon in Sea Pines Plantation, Racist,
a resort community at Hilton Head Island. Officers discovered, unfortunately,
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that the woman was dead inside the lagoon. According to witnesses,
the unidentified woman was walking her dog when an alligator
about eight feet long attacked and pulled her into the water.
Security staff also viewed surveillance video of this attack. South
Carolina Department of Natural Resources spokesman Captain Robert mccola told
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the Post and cur Yar authorities began to search the
lagoon for the alligator. An autopsy is going to be
conducted to determine the exact cause of the woman's death.
I think we know what it is, her dog. The
story says this her dog was not harmed. Well, thank god,
that's good that I don't understand. This is a good
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time it ran about this. I don't understand. And I
love dogs. I am a huge dog fan. I like
the phenomena. I had a cat. I don't understand this
obsession we have with dogs or humans. She should save
herself and get another dog. I don't. I don't know
why that's so difficult to understand. If an alligator is
attacking my pet, I would try to maybe send him
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off for a second, and once it has the dog,
it has the dog. I'm not like giving my life
up for the dog. I don't understand its mentality that
humans have. I do now, Jeff after a vet Bill
that I got a couple of years ago, because unfortunately,
our pets are charged as uman's when we take them
to the hospital, the animal hospital. So that's why, Yeah,
it's why people say it's like a kid. It really
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is like a kid, because they By the way, McCulla
said that the woman was only the second person to
ever die from an alligator attack in South Carolina history. Well,
remember that story I told a few months ago about
alligators in South Carolina and police and wildlife officials saying,
please stop throwing carrots at alligators in South Carolina. And
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there were photos of the shamed alligators that had like
baby carrots stuck to their eyes and stuck to their faces,
and it just said, look, it's gonna make them aggressive,
and it's shaming them like, it's hurting their feelings and
making them upset, hurting their self esteem. So I don't know.
I don't think that this woman had anything to do
with that, but she could be a hapless victim and
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a consequence of what was happening in South Carolina was
shaming these alligators. Headline that you don't want to see
and that you certainly don't want to be involved in.
From the Daily Mail. Jamaican man not so bad so far,
has not so bad. His not going in the right direction.
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Penis bitten off by his neighbor's dog as he spoke
to her over the gate. Now about you, man, that's terrible.
That's a rough way to go. Jamaican man has his
penis bitten off by his neighbor's dog as he spoke
to her over the gate. Opening sentence of the story
hospitalized and then they tell us it's a little bit better.
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People have children only people have his penis. Children in
the car alert right now, please say Dick Cheney. Uh
I can't say penis. You can, but okay, it makes
the story more gruesome. I feel we need to have
stories all the time about people being killed. You had
like a five year old get killed by a cheetah,
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directly from the Daily Email. It's important for everybody to
know the truth. The man, named locally as Nellie, Oh man,
that's a tough bro. Wait, sorry, Neelie, I read it
as Nellie. He's known as Neelie, had been chatting to
his neighbor over her Gate and Stony Hill, north of Kingston, Jamaica,
when her dog attacked. The man has been interviewed. He
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told the Jamaican newspaper the dog pushed its nose through
the metal bars of the gate and snapped its jaws
around his genitals. Maybe don't put your genitals close to
the gate. Just an idea. Hey, the man was quoted
as saying, and I can't but this is a real
life quote. I will not be going near those dogs again.
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So if you think you're having a rough start to
your morning. It could be worse. You could have been
in Jamaica and had your pinis bitten off by a
dog while you were trying to talk to a girl.
Let's go to South Africa that this is kind of
a theme, I guess. Former soccer sty Are says a
rat ate his foot while he was sleeping, the whole foot.
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Former English soccer star Gary my Boot said Monday he
was forced to end his South Africa trip early after
a rat nod his foot and chewed his big toe
down to the bone he was sleeping. Wake up, I'll
tell you here. My Boot, the former Tottenham Hotspur captain,
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told the BBC Monday that the gruesome incident happened about
six weeks ago while he was visiting his daughter, who
works at Krueger National Park. I went to sleep and
during the night a rat came into the bedroom, climbed
into the bed and decided to chew on my foot.
My Boot said. It's made quite a big hole in
my toe down to the bone and ate underneath my foot.
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My Boot fifty seven said he didn't feel the rat's
teeth sinking into his flesh because he has a little
feeling in his feet because he has Type one diabetes.
He says, it's like the rat new the rat actually
was a second time offender. It had already bit his
daughter's thumb first in the other bedroom, and then she
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came into me and said, Dad, something's bitten me. Being
in Africa, you think of snakes or scorpions. Boot told
the BBC. He went back to sleep about an hour later,
woke up when the rat bit his thumb as well.
He looked down and saw his foot also covered in blood,
and that's when he noticed his toe was down to
the bone. I gotta be honest with you. I am
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anti rat, an anti snake, you know, in a big way.
When I was in college in d C, there rats everywhere,
and these rats, like you're walking through the streets and
they would like square up on you. Like the rat
wouldn't run, you know, Like you'd be walking down the
street and this huge rat would come out of the
bushes and like you'd be like, hey, rat, I'd like
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to walk on the sidewalk, and the rat would just
be like, what what's up down? And I'm not I'm
not walking on the sidewalk. You walk out in the street,
and the rat wouldn't even be like, this is my sidewalk,
it's after dark, this is where I live. Like, you
want to come, you want to roll? I'm like, no,
I I you. I don't want to square up with
a rat. I've had to fight a rat before down
the Virgin Islands, one of those tree rats. I'll tell
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you this. My wife has been telling me this is
this is an animal thunderdome come to my house. That
we have like three snakes in our yard now. She
says that she has seen them. I am anti snake
more than anything, and I don't know what to do
about this, Like she says, they're not poisonous snakes. But
this is uh, this is alarming in its own respect.
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By the way, my boot flew back to the United
Kingdom right away, where he underwent surgery and spent a
week in the hospital. He's still receiving treatment. Man, I
don't I don't know. In general, like every time we
have the animal thunderdoor, I would like to go on
an African safari, right but every time we do the
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animal thunder home, it feels like we have a story
coming from Africa where an animal is as taking advantage
of someone, And it makes me think, how much different
is a real safari from the Disney Animal Kingdom safari
where I just get to ride around on a bus
for like twenty minutes. Uh, driving through in Orlando, Florida
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looking at all the animals. Isn't that basically the same
thing and a lot cheaper. A lot of you reaching
out about the uh the lizard it's now been in
described as a seven foot lizard. I'm reading from the
Let's see the Sun Sentinel down in South Florida, and
this is a crazy way to start a story. The
seven foot lizard terrorizing a South Florida family is a
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species that can be legally purchased online for less than
two hundred dollars. And I'm looking a picture of this lizard.
I would shoot him. I don't think there's any doubt
I might go buy a gun just to shoot this lizard.
The Asian water monitor is popular among exotic pet enthusiasts,
and you can buy a baby one with a credit
card from snakes that sunset of Miami for a hundred
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and seventy bucks, with the live lizards shipped to your
home by fed X. I didn't know they did that. Uh.
You can also get them for seventy but anyway, they're cheap.
According to Reptiles magazine, young ones require a diet of fish, frogs,
and an occasional newborn wrote it Uh and I I
just I don't understand why you can. This seven foot
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a hundred and fifty pound lizard has been turning up
around the home of Zachary and Maria Lieberman when their
two young children. They called trappers, but so far no
one has been able to catch it. State Wildlife officials
say it's probably a pet that escaped or was released. Uh.
And I gotta tell you, I don't know why you
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wouldn't just shoot it. But in the past two years,
there you go, cock the gun. There has been fourteen
different calls about these lizards running loose in different parts
of Florida. Uh and uh. We consider this species a
high priority for rapid response because it could start to
breed and become a menace. Uh and uh and and
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this is crazy. Uh. This is just so there were
a bunch of them together, would they move around in
a pack? A lizard pack? I mean that's pretty scary. Actually,
I again, I think you just solved this problem by
shooting it. I don't know why you wouldn't just shoot it.
I mean, is anybody opposed to my idea of just
if I were the dad here, dad has to make
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the decision. If you're not good with guns, then inevitably
you have a relative or you have somebody at work.
There's always a gun guy, right, There's always somebody out there,
and maybe a surprise guy. You're like, oh, you're you're
you go out and you shoot at the range. Yeah,
and then this guy's like, yeah, I got forty five
guns and a gunlocker. Like, you never have any idea
who gun guy is gonna be. But there's always a
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gun guy. And there's nothing that gun guy would love
more than being able to go kill a seven foot
lizard that's terrorizing the backyard. Why does this not happen?
Is anybody in disagreement on the show right now that
this dad should take charge of this and find somebody
to kill the lizard. Well, I'm actually a fan of reptiles.
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I don't I wouldn't have a lizard I've had. I've
had other reptiles that's not native to South Florida. So
you're opposed to killing it? I think that the trappers
should get it and then they figure out what to
do with it, Like you're killing it. I don't know.
Maybe gonna release it in the woods, or he's gonna
kill it. I don't think they'd release it. I think
they'd put it to sleep, wouldn't they. I don't put
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it to sleep. I'm gonna put a gas mask on
the lizard, thing they do to dogs. Yeah, I just
I kill the lizard. What about it? In the Roberto
or Eddie Garcia who was with me here to just
the dad takes charge and gets the lizard shot. I
would pour gasoline on the lizard. You can't get close
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enough to get the gasoline on the lizard. We're finding
out a lot about any right now, going going medieval.
I'm not it's just a lizard. Roberto, you have a
little just a liard. It's a seven foot lizards. What
about you, Roberto, you have a little extra. I'll call
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the see to come pick it up, give it a
bit the city, like what are you gonna call it?
The city? Send waste management to your house, Roberto, Animal
Animal Services. They'll pick it up. And then I'm gonna
get Jimmy, who has forty guns, and Jimmy's gonna show
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and we're gonna set up like a lizard hunt and
Jimmy's taken out. The only reason I wouldn't call Jimmy
with forty guns to do it is if you live
in a neighborhood where if Jimmy missed, the bullets might
hit your neighbor. You can't do that. So I don't know,
like how much, But if this is terrorizing this Clay family,
in all fairness, we should use rubber bullets on the
person that ordered this and got it that big and
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then released it. This happens a lot to tortoises in
our country, where people love him as little babies. They
raise them, but then they get so big and eat
so much. People don't know what to do with them,
so they release them out of park. And so this
happens with snakes. This is the thing with snake guy.
So the people releasing it's not the poor reptile's fault
that he got the reptile. You kind of are by
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blowing his head off. What you're saying you want him
to be put to sleep because it's more humane. How
is it more made to trap? Would you rather have
your head shot off by a shotgun, or put to
sleep Clay asleep. Yes, I don't think it would make
very much difference. I don't want to die, no what
neither does the poor reptile. But the reptile is going
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to be stressed when you catch it. You're gonna put
it into a vehicle. You're gonna drive it somewhere. You're
gonna put it on an operating You can put a
cast mask. No, it's not a gas mask. You give
him an injection and you go to sleep forever. That's
better than Eddie pouring gasoline on him. Is an extreme
example in lighting the lizard on fire, because then inevitably,
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like a house would get burned up or something. But
I'm saying that the way to get it is just
to shoot it. Like I don't know. I mean, if
there's a seven foot lizard terrorizing my two and four
year old, there's no way I'm letting that. First of all,
the lizard might harm them. It's a it's a predator.
I'm killing the lizard. I don't even see it as
a tough call. Pretty sure the lizard would run away
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from people. I don't know, I don't have you're pretty
sure you're an expert on seven foot lizards. I've had
lizards before I grew like I said Theresa. In southern California,
in the Inland Empire. When I was a little kid,
there were lizards running on the lizards lizard clay. We
were looking for the biggest lizards we could find. Yeah,
I know. I lived at the Caribbean. I saw iguanas
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all the time, and iguana is like a two foot lizard,
and it's pretty overwhelming to suddenly see a two foot
lizard when you're not expecting one. If I saw a
seven foot lizard, I'm taking it out. I'm sorry, I'm
wiping it out. No, no questions asked.
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Do you the music, boys, ladies and gentlemen. I'm just
glad I was scaring boys and I thought he thought
I was like this enormous piece of chicken dime times
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here my space. This is Animal Thunderdog. I feel like
the hippo is underrated on this segment because hippos kill
five hundred people a year they say in Africa right now,
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and this was a tough break. A tourist from Taiwan
was taking pictures at a lake in Kenya on Sunday
and he was attacked and killed by a hippo. Just
hours before, a local fisherman was also mauled to death
in the same area by another hippo. The uprising is real,
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Chang Ming Chwang and his friend Woo Peng Tee were
at the edge of Lake Nevasia in Kenya's Rift Valley
when a witness said they got too close to a
hippo and were attacked. Uh. Chang was pronounced dead. I
don't know how this happens. His friend was treated for
minor bruising. I'm just gonna toss this out there. If
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your buddy is dead and you got minor bruising, you
didn't do much to try to save your buddy. Uh.
They are not sure what led to the attack. But
then later, just a little bit further down the same lake,
a hippo another different hippo also killed someone. Don't mess
with the hippo's people. They are deadly. What you got
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for me, Danny G agree with me. You find bruising,
your buddy dies. You probably didn't do very much to
save his life. Yeah, you weren't a good wingman when
he was alive, probably either. Yeah, that's horrible. Closer to
home Boulder, Colorado, a mountain lion became trapped inside a
Colorado home killed the family's house cat before police and
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wildlife officers were able to chase it out of the home.
Boulder Police say that the homeowner came back to the
house last Thursday night they found the mountain lion inside.
It appears that the mountain lion pushed through a screen
and he couldn't get back out of the home once
he was in the big cat roam throughout two levels
of this house for more than an hour before officers
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used non lethal rounds to scare it out the front
door and away from the neighborhood, which is just southwest
of downtown Boulder. The Boulder Police Department tweeted a photo
of the mountain lion inside next to the couch, along
with a remindered residents to keep ground level doors and
windows closed and locked. So imagine your cat, Fiefie Clay,
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and you come home and your cat shredded to a
hundred pieces by a mountain lion. Well, the cats rough.
You know. The other thing that would happen there is
like somebody would have like a little poodle, and the
poodle would think, oh, this is my house to protect, thinking, oh,
the mountain lion is not gonna go mountain lion on me,
because you know, they don't know probably what one of
those things is. But yeah, that's probably tough to explain
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to the kids that the kid cat got killed by
the much bigger kitty cat. And imagine the last few
seconds of that poor cat's life on the run from
a mountain lion. That can you imagine that would be
a tough It's a tough break for a house cat
to go that way. The housecat probably thinks, I'm set here,
I'm gonna have a twenty year life, nothing really that dangerous,
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gonna kill some mice hang out. Next thing you know,
house cat comes face to face with the mountain lion
and that expectation goes out the window in a hurry.
I just I can't get over my guy, Wayne two
or whatever his name was. We want. I gotta I
think I might have just deleted that, but I gotta
be honest with you if you're it said, like, if
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your buddy gets killed by a hippo and you just
have some bruising, what does that mean You're not even
remotely there nearby while the hippo just goes to town
and kills your buddy. This is like we had that
issue where the guy got killed by the mountain lion, right,
and then the guy left him behind to me if
you're on a dangerous safari like this. First of all,
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do you think they were taking selfies? Because the number
of people getting killed taking selfies these days is out
of control. I bet they were trying to get the
hippo in the background of their selfie, and the hippo
is just like I don't want to take a picture
of day and I'm gonna kill you. And uh, this
is just a lesson. Animals are wild. That's why wild
animals where the adjective isn't out of the animal, don't
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try to get too close to him. I'm gonna be
honest with you. I'm terrified to go on these safaris
because everybody ends up dying. Clay, what would you do
if you had your family out on a boat in
the lake and a poisonous timber rattlesnake came slithering up
onto the boat. This happened to a Knoxville, Tennessee family
as they were vacationing in western North Carolina on Fontana Lake.
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Their fourteen year old daughter, of course, had her phone
going as this timber rattlesnake made its way onto their boat.
Check out this audio. Oh my god, by the way,
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that is this is amazing audio. Also, what it sounded
like when I was trying to ask girls to go
to problem with me? Just just f y, I is
exactly what it's sounded like when I tried to walk
up to girls in high school and ask him to
go to prom. They have been on Fontana Lake. Oh yeah,
it's a great lake in western North Carolina. Um, I
have not seen a rattlesnake there. I would lose my
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mind if a rattlesnake was charging my boat. Yeah. You
could also see the video so Google that the dad
was quoted as saying I was going to whack him.
You can see him too in the video getting ready
to hit the snake. But the snake was smart enough
to know, yeah, I probably shouldn't be here. All this
screaming scared it away, so it made a U turn
and went back into the water, so they avoided having
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to uh try to hit the snake in the head.
I love also that even in moments of extreme peril,
people keep their phones running. Now, yes, it's like we
have to share. I mean, how many times do you think?
And this happens all the time now where where people
are trying to take selfies and they die, you know,
Like I, I can honestly say this, I don't believe
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I've ever taken a selfie in my life, Like I
I just I mean, I don't know why somebody. And
I've been in pictures obviously, but taking a picture of myself.
I mean, I'll take pictures of things, but I don't
feel the need to put myself in it. But people
are getting killed by animals. They're falling off cliffs to
take selfies. I wonder how often people die and like
they are recording their death right. I mean, it's unbelievable
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to me that as an as a rattlesnake is approaching you,
you'd be like, oh, I've got to make sure I've
got this. And you have to ask yourself, is that
somebody you want on your squad that they're more interested
in filming it than having your back? I don't know.
I would definitely want somebody to have my back there
on the Great Rattlesnake Pursuit? What else we got? All right?
Tell this woman in uh Pitts Grove, New Jersey. Her
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name Tammy Dubash. She's fifty two. She uh had an
encounter with a rabid fox it was biting her leg.
She reached down with one hand to hold shut its mouth,
and with the other hand she strangled it. She She's
quoted as saying, I don't like to kill anything, but
I couldn't do anything to get it away from me.
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The attack occurred July. She heard rustling in some bushes
in her backyard garden. She says. The fox ran out
bitter leg multiple times, puncturing her skin, and that's when
she reached down and smothered it. She cleaned and bandaged
herself her leg, and then called her husband, who took
her to the e er, where she began a two
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week series of rabies treatment. So she choked out the
She choked it out. Animal control officers retrieved the dead
fox and sent it to the state for tests, confirming
last Monday that it indeed had rabies. Dubois the only
human attack by rabbit animals so far this year in
Salem County. Officials say so share her name is what
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Tracy du Bois. Let's see, Tammy du bois the most
famous du Boa? Does anybody know the most famous Dubois?
No bland stu Boi. I believe I'm correct about that.
From a street car. No, no, no, no, a street
car named Desire. I think why somebody look up and
see if Blanche du bois if I'm correct, in that
street Tennessee Williams play a street car named Desire. That
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woman had a little bit of brass e spunk tour.
This woman just choked out, choked out the fox. This
is like the grandma we had in Georgia who choked
out the mountain lion or something. Right, remember that story? That?
Uh that that's incredible. By the way, I love the
number of people that are gonna be late going into
work because they're like sitting in their car right now.
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They were like supposed to be Animal Thunderdome last segment,
I set through all the commercial breaks to make sure
I didn't miss it. I think you're gonna enjoy it.
Where should we go to first, NYG Let's go ahead
and go with the audio first. Uh, this comes from Tennessee.
This poor woman was faced with trauma recently when she
discovered a snake in her backyard. Now, yesterday on Animal Thunderdome,
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if you were listening or go to the podcast, you
should hear it. We had controversy over a seven foot
lizard that was tormenting a family in South Florida in
their backyard. Clay in this lady's backyard in Tennessee, your
home town, your home state. There rather, she's dealing with
a snake in her backyard and her dogs decided to
protect her. And there is audio as her husband took
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out his phone and filmed this. No, no, no, no no.
I don't know what to do. I don't want it
to get in the house. George ain't gonna do it,
because I'm telling you he's gonna go in the house.
You've got to get a stick. I don't know what
they're gonna He's gone, George, No, no, I know what
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it's gonna do. It's gonna go out. So George the dog,
the dog grabs the snake and throws it on her. Yeah,
he tosses his head and you just see him coming
towards her and her freaking out. So that's actually people
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are gonna make fun of that, lady. That's the exact
same way I sound when I see a snake. I
saw a snake. We were down at the beach and
this past this past weekend, we were walking headed to
the beach. Tiny little snake lost my mind. My wife
told me we've got a couple of snakes in the yard.
I'm like, we may have to move. I don't know.
I don't know about this thing. I am so anti snakes.
I am a snake is That's exactly what I would do.
If I had a dog and it was eating a
snake and it tossed it towards me, I would lose
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my mind. All right, you are gonna love this story.
A massive mountain lion made itself right at home in
an Oregan woman's living room. It took a six hour
nap behind her sofa and until she says she telepathically
got it to leave. Lauren Taylor of Ashland, Oregon, was
shocked to find this large cat in her home in July.
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She thinks that the cat probably wandered in through an
open back door after drinking from a pond in her yard.
She chronicled the whole experience on her Facebook account, which
has received thousands and thousands of reactions. She says the
door was open and the room has huge plants and
stairs built around a real tree, so she likely the
cat didn't likely realize it was walking indoors until it
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was inside. The mountain lion initially tried to leave the room,
but got scared when Taylor's roommates screamed, so it ran
behind the couch, where it then fell asleep. Taylor bliezs, sir,
this is where it gets good. Taylor believes her extensive
experience working with energy and animals made the meeting a
peaceful and pleasant one. She says that she does not
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recommend seeking out encounters with wild animals, but she says,
when I made noise, the cat woke up and looked startled,
so I consciously raised my frequency, gazed lovingly into the
cat's eyes, and communicated using feline speak eye blinking to
calm her. She wrote cuckoo. When it came time for
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Taylor's new pile to leave, she says she played a drum.
She says, and the telepathic pictures of routes out of
the house via open doors and the route out the
back yard, across the creek, through an open field, and
into the hills. The cat did leave, so Taylor believes
she telepathically got this mountain lion to leave her home.
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Not the kind of guy typically to root for the
mountain lion to attack someone I might be on the
Mountain Lions. This might be the first time we've had
an Animal Thunderdome's story where I've thought, you know what,
the animal, I wouldn't blame it at all if it
decided to attack this person. Yesterday on the Animal Thunderdome
we had a story of deadly hippo's. Hippo's killing people
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in uh. I believe it was Kenya. If I'm not mistaken, Well,
there are hippos in the l A Zoo and a
man I'm not making this up decided to jump into
the hippo enclosure and touch a hippo. They are looking
for him in Los Angeles. We have live video and
audio of this. I'm not making this up. This really
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happened in l A. Play it, boys and Jeff, this
is really disturbing video what this guy did here at
the l A Zoo. As you said, he snuck into
the habitat and then hit this hippopotamus. Video posted to
Instagram shows a man crossing into the l A Zoo's
hippo enclosure and sneaking up on two hippos. The man's
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approach is very cautious. Finally close enough he slaps one
of the hippos on the rear, takes a moment to celebrate,
and then runs off. The l A p D confirms
they got a report of trespassing at the zoo and
are investigating. The zoo says the hippos are Rosie and Mara.
You can see the hippo who was slapped does not
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show much of a reaction, but the other hippo seems
a bit startled and looks up as the guy is
still in the enclosure. It's not clear if the man
knows he's being re or did, but clearly he's showing off.
And while hippo's at the zoo do have human interaction,
this kind of treatment can create an unpredictable situation. Unbelievable.
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That's CBS l A. How much would you have to
be paid to climb into the hippo enclosure and touch
a hippo? All in l A. He smacked the hippo's
asked how much would you have to be paid to
slap a to touch a hippo to climb into the
First of all, I can't believe you can even climb
into the enclosure that like that easily. We are highly
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educated being part of the OutKick army because we paid
attention yesterday to those statistics. You read people a year
are killed by hippos and now, so this is obviously
a non OutKick listener. Bad job by him, that's gonna take.
I'm saying two d and fifty thous dollars at least
to get in there quick and smack one. What about you, Roberto?
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How much do I have to pay you to climb
into a hippo enclosure and touch the hippo? Nothing. I
wouldn't do that. I was just there two weeks ago.
The furthest thing from my mind. You were there? So
is this crazy to you that somebody would climb into
the enclosure? I can't believe. I was there two weeks
ago on a Sunday and I was like, furthest thing
from my mind. When I saw the video, I'm like,
oh my god, this guy is an idiot. We had
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the Harambe situation right where the kid got into the
guerrilla enclosure and they had to kill Harambe. I think
that was in Cincinnati. I can't believe that you can
even climb into enclosures for highly dangerous animals. Still, I
can't believe that's even possible. That, leaving aside the fact
that the guy is an idiot who climbs in and
touches the hippo, I can't believe you can do that. Yeah,
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it's not that hard. Really, this enclosure is not well
because I think when they designed these zoos years ago,
they were not thinking people would be stupid enough to
get that through close to dangerous animals. It's unbelievable to me. Um,
So what about you, Eddie Garcia? How much money to
climb into the l a zoo and touch the hippo.
I saw a video of a hippo biting a crocodile
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in half because because he was annoyed with the crocodile.
So there's no amount of money I'm getting into slap
a hippo on the ass. This is like the most
territorial animal, they say, in terms of danger in the
entire world, Like the hippo kills more people because that
not to eat right, because I think the hippo is
basically a vegetarian. The hippo is just angry when people
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come in its area. This is one of the all
times stupid moves. I also, by the way, so we
got the hippo story. We also have this story which
a bunch of you tweeted to me and I thought
was amazing. Uh. In Oklahoma City. In Oklahoma, Oklahoma City
police say a wild bull escaped from the stockyards overnight.
They later found out that it was a bull from
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a zoo. I think, I mean, sorry, from a circus
or something. I don't know. Anyway, a wild bull was loose.
It chased several people downtown. One person even jump in
the river to avoid it. While you talk about just rough,
rough luck, we talked about the mountain lion getting in
the house in Colorado. Can you imagine walking through Oklahoma City.
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Next thing you know, there are bulls. There's a wild
bull chasing you, and you have to dive into a river,
uh to escape. But we need the video by the
way of the guy who dove into the river to
escape the wild bull. That's tough luck. Like one one minute,
you think you're just walking to work the net and
you're like, man, this is tough. It's gonna be a
rough day of work. Next minute, there is a wild
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bull pursuing you in the streets of Oklahoma City and
you have to dive into the river there in the city.
It makes you wonder about the thousands of people who
go to the Running of the Bulls every year because
they're they're going, they're running towards it to do it
on purpose. Yeah, I have a buddy. I'm trying to
remember who was saying they were gonna do it. Uh,
They're going to Pamplona to run with the bulls. And
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I just can't think of anything more insane now watching
the running of the bulls, you know, like from outside
of the enclosure can make a lot of sense, but
running along with the horns and everything, and the fact
that you could get trampled or or or gored. Uh no,
thank you. That's one of those deaths on the shortlist, Clay,
where if you died that way, God would just chuckle.
I say, like, my general rule in life is don't
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be a pussy willow, right d bap. The other aspect
of this, though, is sometimes be a pussy willow, s bap.
You gotta know when it's smart to be a pussy willow.
And when there are bulls chasing you, I think it's
smart to dive in the river, not gonna run with him.
And here's another snake story quickly. Residents in a Pennsylvania
town in East Greenville being warned to keep an eye
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out for a runaway Boa constrictor that has been missing
for weeks. Seven foot snake named Vinny sounds like a
guy you calling eight hundred number to get gambling tips
from reported missing in the town. Although investigators said they
quote consider the matter closed after determining that the reptile
hasn't been seen in about four weeks unquote four weeks
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that they've closed the matter and slip around. He's sliving
around town and take down a dog. Pretty soon. All
he did was lie low for the investigation to die down.
The owner says there's a chance his ten year old
snake is hiding somewhere in his house, but locals are
still being urged to keep an eye out for the snake.
How big is the house where you can't find a
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seven foot snake in your house? That's a really good point.
A big house and I can find a seven foot
snake in my house? How about a seven foot snake
named Vinny? That's a Boa constrictors perfect looking for your
football season coming up. I feel like there's a joke
that Kim be made here, but it's a family program.
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California woman checks her home security camera two days ago
after hearing strange sounds around twelve thirty am. Her son
told her he heard strange noises outside their home. She
didn't give it to much thought. The boy said, Mom,
I hear noises. They shrugged it off. She said, you're
gonna hear noises there are animals. That's what she told
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the local television station in California. So she goes and
checks her security camera footage. The next morning discovers that
the sounds had come from not one, but two mountain
lions that walked up to her front door as if
they were trying to sell her something. Just stood next
to each other at the front door. Not one but
two mountain lions outside her house hung around for fifteen minutes.
(21:31):
Motion detector lights and sounds came on, and the mountain
lions did not flinch. So these cougars were going to
try and get into this house. So yeah, maybe you
should pay attention when your son says you hear noises outside.
I'm not saying the mountain lions we're going to be
able to get into the house, but if you had
to take out the garbage. That would not have worked
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out well. All right, Danny, we had this story sent
to us, no sort of, I would say somewhere around
seventy thousand over the last few days. Tell us about
this alligator. In case you missed this, a woman walking
her dog on Monday was killed when an alligator attacked
her and dragged her into a lagoon where not Florida,
(22:15):
South Carolina dangerous, South Carolina, Yeah popular. Beaufort County Sheriff's
office received a call around nine thirty am about a
possible alligator attack near a lagoon in Sea Pines Plantation, Racist,
a resort community at Hilton Head Island. Officers discovered, unfortunately,
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that the woman was dead inside the lagoon. According to witnesses,
the unidentified woman was walking her dog when an alligator
about eight feet long attacked and pulled her into the water.
Security staff also viewed surveillance video of this attack. South
Carolina Department of Natural Resources spokesman Captain Robert mccola told
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the Post and cur Yar authorities began to search the
lagoon for the alligator. An autopsy is going to be
conducted to determine the exact cause of the woman's death.
I think we know what it is, her dog. The
story says this her dog was not harmed. Well, thank god,
that's good that I don't understand. This is a good
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time it ran about this. I don't understand. And I
love dogs. I am a huge dog fan. I like
the phenomena. I had a cat. I don't understand this
obsession we have with dogs or humans. She should save
herself and get another dog. I don't. I don't know
why that's so difficult to understand. If an alligator is
attacking my pet, I would try to maybe send him
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off for a second, and once it has the dog,
it has the dog. I'm not like giving my life
up for the dog. I don't understand its mentality that
humans have. I do now, Jeff after a vet Bill
that I got a couple of years ago, because unfortunately,
our pets are charged as uman's when we take them
to the hospital, the animal hospital. So that's why, Yeah,
it's why people say it's like a kid. It really
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is like a kid, because they By the way, McCulla
said that the woman was only the second person to
ever die from an alligator attack in South Carolina history. Well,
remember that story I told a few months ago about
alligators in South Carolina and police and wildlife officials saying,
please stop throwing carrots at alligators in South Carolina. And
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there were photos of the shamed alligators that had like
baby carrots stuck to their eyes and stuck to their faces,
and it just said, look, it's gonna make them aggressive,
and it's shaming them like, it's hurting their feelings and
making them upset, hurting their self esteem. So I don't know.
I don't think that this woman had anything to do
with that, but she could be a hapless victim and
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a consequence of what was happening in South Carolina was
shaming these alligators. Headline that you don't want to see
and that you certainly don't want to be involved in.
From the Daily Mail. Jamaican man not so bad so far,
has not so bad. His not going in the right direction.
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Penis bitten off by his neighbor's dog as he spoke
to her over the gate. Now about you, man, that's terrible.
That's a rough way to go. Jamaican man has his
penis bitten off by his neighbor's dog as he spoke
to her over the gate. Opening sentence of the story
hospitalized and then they tell us it's a little bit better.
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People have children only people have his penis. Children in
the car alert right now, please say Dick Cheney. Uh
I can't say penis. You can, but okay, it makes
the story more gruesome. I feel we need to have
stories all the time about people being killed. You had
like a five year old get killed by a cheetah,
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directly from the Daily Email. It's important for everybody to
know the truth. The man, named locally as Nellie, Oh man,
that's a tough bro. Wait, sorry, Neelie, I read it
as Nellie. He's known as Neelie, had been chatting to
his neighbor over her Gate and Stony Hill, north of Kingston, Jamaica,
when her dog attacked. The man has been interviewed. He
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told the Jamaican newspaper the dog pushed its nose through
the metal bars of the gate and snapped its jaws
around his genitals. Maybe don't put your genitals close to
the gate. Just an idea. Hey, the man was quoted
as saying, and I can't but this is a real
life quote. I will not be going near those dogs again.
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So if you think you're having a rough start to
your morning. It could be worse. You could have been
in Jamaica and had your pinis bitten off by a
dog while you were trying to talk to a girl.
Let's go to South Africa that this is kind of
a theme, I guess. Former soccer sty Are says a
rat ate his foot while he was sleeping, the whole foot.
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Former English soccer star Gary my Boot said Monday he
was forced to end his South Africa trip early after
a rat nod his foot and chewed his big toe
down to the bone he was sleeping. Wake up, I'll
tell you here. My Boot, the former Tottenham Hotspur captain,
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told the BBC Monday that the gruesome incident happened about
six weeks ago while he was visiting his daughter, who
works at Krueger National Park. I went to sleep and
during the night a rat came into the bedroom, climbed
into the bed and decided to chew on my foot.
My Boot said. It's made quite a big hole in
my toe down to the bone and ate underneath my foot.
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My Boot fifty seven said he didn't feel the rat's
teeth sinking into his flesh because he has a little
feeling in his feet because he has Type one diabetes.
He says, it's like the rat new the rat actually
was a second time offender. It had already bit his
daughter's thumb first in the other bedroom, and then she
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came into me and said, Dad, something's bitten me. Being
in Africa, you think of snakes or scorpions. Boot told
the BBC. He went back to sleep about an hour later,
woke up when the rat bit his thumb as well.
He looked down and saw his foot also covered in blood,
and that's when he noticed his toe was down to
the bone. I gotta be honest with you. I am
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anti rat, an anti snake, you know, in a big way.
When I was in college in d C, there rats everywhere,
and these rats, like you're walking through the streets and
they would like square up on you. Like the rat
wouldn't run, you know, Like you'd be walking down the
street and this huge rat would come out of the
bushes and like you'd be like, hey, rat, I'd like
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to walk on the sidewalk, and the rat would just
be like, what what's up down? And I'm not I'm
not walking on the sidewalk. You walk out in the street,
and the rat wouldn't even be like, this is my sidewalk,
it's after dark, this is where I live. Like, you
want to come, you want to roll? I'm like, no,
I I you. I don't want to square up with
a rat. I've had to fight a rat before down
the Virgin Islands, one of those tree rats. I'll tell
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you this. My wife has been telling me this is
this is an animal thunderdome come to my house. That
we have like three snakes in our yard now. She
says that she has seen them. I am anti snake
more than anything, and I don't know what to do
about this, Like she says, they're not poisonous snakes. But
this is uh, this is alarming in its own respect.
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By the way, my boot flew back to the United
Kingdom right away, where he underwent surgery and spent a
week in the hospital. He's still receiving treatment. Man, I
don't I don't know. In general, like every time we
have the animal thunderdoor, I would like to go on
an African safari, right but every time we do the
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animal thunder home, it feels like we have a story
coming from Africa where an animal is as taking advantage
of someone, And it makes me think, how much different
is a real safari from the Disney Animal Kingdom safari
where I just get to ride around on a bus
for like twenty minutes. Uh, driving through in Orlando, Florida
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looking at all the animals. Isn't that basically the same
thing and a lot cheaper. A lot of you reaching
out about the uh the lizard it's now been in
described as a seven foot lizard. I'm reading from the
Let's see the Sun Sentinel down in South Florida, and
this is a crazy way to start a story. The
seven foot lizard terrorizing a South Florida family is a
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species that can be legally purchased online for less than
two hundred dollars. And I'm looking a picture of this lizard.
I would shoot him. I don't think there's any doubt
I might go buy a gun just to shoot this lizard.
The Asian water monitor is popular among exotic pet enthusiasts,
and you can buy a baby one with a credit
card from snakes that sunset of Miami for a hundred
(31:04):
and seventy bucks, with the live lizards shipped to your
home by fed X. I didn't know they did that. Uh.
You can also get them for seventy but anyway, they're cheap.
According to Reptiles magazine, young ones require a diet of fish, frogs,
and an occasional newborn wrote it Uh and I I
just I don't understand why you can. This seven foot
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a hundred and fifty pound lizard has been turning up
around the home of Zachary and Maria Lieberman when their
two young children. They called trappers, but so far no
one has been able to catch it. State Wildlife officials
say it's probably a pet that escaped or was released. Uh.
And I gotta tell you, I don't know why you
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wouldn't just shoot it. But in the past two years,
there you go, cock the gun. There has been fourteen
different calls about these lizards running loose in different parts
of Florida. Uh and uh. We consider this species a
high priority for rapid response because it could start to
breed and become a menace. Uh and uh and and
(32:12):
this is crazy. Uh. This is just so there were
a bunch of them together, would they move around in
a pack? A lizard pack? I mean that's pretty scary. Actually,
I again, I think you just solved this problem by
shooting it. I don't know why you wouldn't just shoot it.
I mean, is anybody opposed to my idea of just
if I were the dad here, dad has to make
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the decision. If you're not good with guns, then inevitably
you have a relative or you have somebody at work.
There's always a gun guy, right, There's always somebody out there,
and maybe a surprise guy. You're like, oh, you're you're
you go out and you shoot at the range. Yeah,
and then this guy's like, yeah, I got forty five
guns and a gunlocker. Like, you never have any idea
who gun guy is gonna be. But there's always a
(32:54):
gun guy. And there's nothing that gun guy would love
more than being able to go kill a seven foot
lizard that's terrorizing the backyard. Why does this not happen?
Is anybody in disagreement on the show right now that
this dad should take charge of this and find somebody
to kill the lizard. Well, I'm actually a fan of reptiles.
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I don't I wouldn't have a lizard I've had. I've
had other reptiles that's not native to South Florida. So
you're opposed to killing it? I think that the trappers
should get it and then they figure out what to
do with it, Like you're killing it. I don't know.
Maybe gonna release it in the woods, or he's gonna
kill it. I don't think they'd release it. I think
they'd put it to sleep, wouldn't they. I don't put
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it to sleep. I'm gonna put a gas mask on
the lizard, thing they do to dogs. Yeah, I just
I kill the lizard. What about it? In the Roberto
or Eddie Garcia who was with me here to just
the dad takes charge and gets the lizard shot. I
would pour gasoline on the lizard. You can't get close
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enough to get the gasoline on the lizard. We're finding
out a lot about any right now, going going medieval.
I'm not it's just a lizard. Roberto, you have a
little just a liard. It's a seven foot lizards. What
about you, Roberto, you have a little extra. I'll call
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the see to come pick it up, give it a
bit the city, like what are you gonna call it?
The city? Send waste management to your house, Roberto, Animal
Animal Services. They'll pick it up. And then I'm gonna
get Jimmy, who has forty guns, and Jimmy's gonna show
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and we're gonna set up like a lizard hunt and
Jimmy's taken out. The only reason I wouldn't call Jimmy
with forty guns to do it is if you live
in a neighborhood where if Jimmy missed, the bullets might
hit your neighbor. You can't do that. So I don't know,
like how much, But if this is terrorizing this Clay family,
in all fairness, we should use rubber bullets on the
person that ordered this and got it that big and
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then released it. This happens a lot to tortoises in
our country, where people love him as little babies. They
raise them, but then they get so big and eat
so much. People don't know what to do with them,
so they release them out of park. And so this
happens with snakes. This is the thing with snake guy.
So the people releasing it's not the poor reptile's fault
that he got the reptile. You kind of are by
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blowing his head off. What you're saying you want him
to be put to sleep because it's more humane. How
is it more made to trap? Would you rather have
your head shot off by a shotgun, or put to
sleep Clay asleep. Yes, I don't think it would make
very much difference. I don't want to die, no what
neither does the poor reptile. But the reptile is going
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to be stressed when you catch it. You're gonna put
it into a vehicle. You're gonna drive it somewhere. You're
gonna put it on an operating You can put a
cast mask. No, it's not a gas mask. You give
him an injection and you go to sleep forever. That's
better than Eddie pouring gasoline on him. Is an extreme
example in lighting the lizard on fire, because then inevitably,
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like a house would get burned up or something. But
I'm saying that the way to get it is just
to shoot it. Like I don't know. I mean, if
there's a seven foot lizard terrorizing my two and four
year old, there's no way I'm letting that. First of all,
the lizard might harm them. It's a it's a predator.
I'm killing the lizard. I don't even see it as
a tough call. Pretty sure the lizard would run away
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from people. I don't know, I don't have you're pretty
sure you're an expert on seven foot lizards. I've had
lizards before I grew like I said Theresa. In southern California,
in the Inland Empire. When I was a little kid,
there were lizards running on the lizards lizard clay. We
were looking for the biggest lizards we could find. Yeah,
I know. I lived at the Caribbean. I saw iguanas
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all the time, and iguana is like a two foot lizard,
and it's pretty overwhelming to suddenly see a two foot
lizard when you're not expecting one. If I saw a
seven foot lizard, I'm taking it out. I'm sorry, I'm
wiping it out. No, no questions asked.
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