Giant Badgers Terrorize Iraqi City, Eat Humans

[matcom]

<snip>

THE Iraqi port city of Basra, already prey to a nasty turf war between rival militia factions, has now been gripped by a scary rumour – giant badgers are stalking the streets by night, eating humans.

The animals were allegedly released into the area by British forces.

Local farmers have caught and killed several of the beasts, but this has done nothing to dispel the rumour.

Iraqi scientists have attempted to calm things down. However, the story has spread like wildfire in the streets of the city and the villages round about.

Mushtaq Abdul-Mahdi, director of Basra's veterinary hospital, has inspected the corpses of several badgers and tries to reassure Iraqis that the animals are not a new post-war arrival in the region.

“These animals appeared before the fall of the regime in 1986. They are known as Al-Ghirayri and locally as Al-Girta,” he told AFP. “Talk that this animal was brought by the British forces is incorrect and unscientific.”

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22056684-5001028,00.html

[AllegroRondo]

1. I was once terrorized by a giant hedgehog

named Spiny Norman.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. I pity you.

It turns out you're not vicious at all.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. "It weighs up to 14kg"! Run for your lives!

So it's basically like a vicious dog.

[mainegreen]

4. Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger,

mushroom, mushroom.

;)

[xmas74]

15. Did you see

a snake?

[meegbear]

17. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com

[RetroLounge]

18. OMG! I Hate You!

:rofl:

RL

[jobycom]

5. We are the Boogeyman. They will tell tales of us to frighten children for generations to come.

There is no winning. We have already lost.

[mike_c]

6. this story reminds me of a girlfriend I once had....

Hmmmm.... :freak:

[DS1]

11. That was a Beaver

big difference

[CatholicEdHead]

7. Send them all to Wisconsin!!

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

14. We'll sic 'em on Jim Sensenbrenner...

...but we may have to starve them a little first.

[LeftyMom]

8. King Arthur and company are trying to invade Basra?

Oh noes!

[Shakespeare]

9. Well, at least they're not out sodomizing toddlers.

:hide:

[RetroLounge]

19. ...

:spank:

:rofl:

RL

[DS1]

10. They also fucked a lot of screaming babies in the ass, and then stole their

incubators.

But you don't hear about that




because they're badgers

[AllegroRondo]

12. Badgers? We dont need no stinking Badgers!

:woohoo:

[Tyler Durden]

13. Oh thank you. I needed this.

Life is so fucking weird.

[xmas74]

16. Here's your chance to invade GD!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2913050

Same article.

Now go and do some damage!

[triguy46]

20. Well, weasels ripped my flesh.

[Richard Steele]

21. Our "giant rabbit" scheme was a bust- giant badgers are just Plan B. nm

[underpants]

22. Bear sized badgers with monkey heads and claws that run like deer

They wanted freedom and we brought them giant badgers. Someone screwed up on the invoice apparently.