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BRodda The Feature Creep Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 990	El Chupacabra Captured! 08/30/2005 10:53 AM
	A Texas man claims that he has caught el chupacabra, the legendary goat sucker of Mexico. Reggie Lagow was having problems with some of his chickens and turkeys getting killed and laid out traps and caught something that looks like a cross between a hairless dog and a kangaroo. He has handed it over to Texas Parks and Wildlife. __________________ "The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." -William Gibson
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Chris Leonard Friend of CR4 Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1776 Good Answers: 35	#1 Not very threatening 08/30/2005 10:46 AM
	I guess I thought El Chupacabra would be a bit more frigthening (not that I really believed it existed). So is this really El Chupacabra? Is it a new species? Is it a hoax? Who knows? It is interesting that Lagow turned the corpse over to Parks and Wildlife, so it's probably not something he sewed together. __________________ Off to take on other challenges. Good luck everybody! See you around the Interwebs.
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Boonying Trapurso Associate Join Date: May 2005 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 28	#3 In reply to #1 Re:Not very threatening 08/30/2005 10:26 PM
	Yeah - El Chupacabra looks more like a gentle, skittish Taco Bell dog than anything else. I think it's just a smokescreen so we will all stop asking questions about Karl Rove. No, wait - that already happened. __________________ Boonying Trapurso - People's Institute for Synthetic Studies
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BRodda The Feature Creep Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 990	#7 In reply to #3 Re:Not very threatening 08/31/2005 11:50 AM
	I wish there was more information on the size of it. I would laugh though if the fearsome El Chupacabra turns out to be a previously unknown type of Chiwawa. __________________ "The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." -William Gibson
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Chris Leonard Friend of CR4 Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1776 Good Answers: 35	#8 In reply to #7 Re:Not very threatening 08/31/2005 4:52 PM
	Chihuahua __________________ Off to take on other challenges. Good luck everybody! See you around the Interwebs.
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Steve Melito Guru Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 2969 Good Answers: 33	#2 Absolutists 08/30/2005 12:06 PM
	I hope that the captured critter is a new species - even it's not El Chupacabra. It will be fun to watch the absolutists battle over whether such a discovery supports "evolution" or "intelligent design".
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mgaulin The Architect Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: GlobalSpec, Troy NY Posts: 386 Good Answers: 5	#4 In reply to #2 Re:Absolutists 08/31/2005 8:39 AM
	That depends on whether or not "God" likes goats. __________________ Mark Gaulin
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push_til_it_moves Active Contributor Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 23	#5 The Beast of Glyndon 08/31/2005 8:47 AM
	A few years back they thought there was some new critter here in Maryland, turned out to be a fox with mange...I would bet this is going to be the same. http://home.fuse.net/rschaffner/Glyndon%20Creature %20Compilation.pdf#search='the%20beast%20of%20Glyn don
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BRodda The Feature Creep Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 990	#6 In reply to #5 Re:The Beast of Glyndon 08/31/2005 11:47 AM
	If you look at the video of the fox with mange it looks WAY different than this. They did have an animal that looks like this shot near the beginning of the year; DNA tests were inconclusive. If this one matches up with the last one though they will have a definitive new species though. __________________ "The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." -William Gibson
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Howetwo Power-User Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 394 Good Answers: 1	#9 El Chupacapra 09/01/2005 10:53 AM
	I hope for the farmer's sake it is just a deformed dog. If it is a rare and endangered species, he could lose his farm.
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geomech Power-User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Melbourne, DownUnder Posts: 283	#10 In reply to #9 Re:El Chupacapra 09/07/2006 11:05 PM
	Struth. Haven't any of you Hyper intelligent people ever seen a Kangaroo before? It looks about 1 year old and as harmless as a savage turtle. Ask the Farmer if the 60's were good for him? LSD was very common back then. Cheers __________________ If you don't laugh, you cry.
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