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Bridget ([personal profile] bugshaw) wrote2007-08-20 12:27 pm
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A pet camel? What a great idea!

Or maybe not. From the BBC news -

Pet camel kills Australian woman.

It knocked her to the ground, lay on top of her and displayed what the police delicately described as possible mating behaviour.
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God bless the BBC

[identity profile] cleanskies.livejournal.com 2007-08-20 12:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Thought this one sounded dodgy and it was -- no-one witnessed the attack, she was found trampled and covered with camel hair in the camel's pen. Theories about what happened include the much less exciting theory that she had a heart attack (she was 60) and the camel came to investigate her while she was incapacitated.

Re: God bless the BBC

[identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com 2007-08-20 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh. I was relying on the BBC to do my fact-checking for me.

can't resist

[identity profile] wag-9393.livejournal.com 2007-08-20 12:48 pm (UTC)(link)
WHERE'S THE CAMEL?!

[identity profile] surliminal.livejournal.com 2007-08-20 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
OT: happy Birthday!

[identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com 2007-08-20 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!
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[personal profile] yalovetz 2007-08-20 01:31 pm (UTC)(link)
It pleases me that there are feral camels in Australia. And it does sound like they're better off feral than domesticated...
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[personal profile] redbird 2007-08-20 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
IIRC, it's the only significant healthy population of feral camels on the planet, having been imported before some virus got into the population this group descended from.

[identity profile] 1ngi.livejournal.com 2007-08-20 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooo - yes - Happy Birthday to yooooooooooo! x
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