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-Short Attention Span Theater-

Vietnam cracks down on hamster craze

2008-03-08

Vietnam has launched a crackdown on hamsters, a wildly popular pet here in the current lunar Year of the Rat, fearing an influx of the foreign-bred rodent furballs could spread disease and destroy crops.

From next Monday, anyone possessing or trading hamsters faces stiff fines of up to 30 million dong ($1,875), the Vietnam News daily reported, citing a new agriculture ministry directive to enforce a ban imposed last month. The communist government aims to end a youth craze for the fast-breeding animals, which were previously only imported for scientific research, but which have now spawned online hamster forums and real-life hamster clubs.

Wait'll they discover the Frog in a Blender. Heh.

Posted by:Fred

#9 Laugh now Gerbil Boy, but I hear the Viets have a bounty on your a$$.

Posted by: ed 2008-03-08 18:39

#8 "Very funny assholes"

If you say so...

Posted by: no mo uro 2008-03-08 16:11

#7 revenge is best served cold..

1975: Hanoi & the NVA celebrated their takeover in the South a little too damn early.
SOG teams inserted back into South Vietnam in the Fall of 1975 and planted 30 colonies of *Humping Hamsters.

*WMD HH [WMD Hamsters] were bred on a farm in Virginia USA circa 1966.
They proved to be so dangerous that they had to be contained in Maraging steel Cages.
[so secrete it may not have been invented yet]

Posted by: RD 2008-03-08 13:58

#6 Besides, everyone knows it was a gerbil!

Posted by: Richard Gere 2008-03-08 12:28

#5 Oh hah hah hah. It's a furry little rodent story so let's throw Richard Gere's name in there for some cheap laughs. Very funny assholes hah hah hah...

Posted by: Richard Gere 2008-03-08 11:11

#4 Their money is called a Dong?
Oh, boy.

Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-03-08 09:11

#3 Richard Gere could not be reached for comment.

Posted by: no mo uro 2008-03-08 06:59

#2 "Destroying them all is really a big problem," agriculture ministry official Nguyen Thanh Son was quoted as saying. "I think the Vietnam animal health department should take some samples, conduct tests and see how dangerous the hamsters in Vietnam really are."

Heh heh, we ate the tart girl reporter AND that grotesque official right after we made them file that report!

fyi, gubmint officials are poor quality stringy eats no matter how fat they are... but Young Children.. now they are the BEST GRUB OF ALL Buwahahaha..

Posted by: Crazed Homicidal Hamster R-US 2008-03-08 06:56

#1 $30,000,000. Man, thats some loonggg dong!

Posted by: Ulavising Munster4169 2008-03-08 01:40

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