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2009-10-27 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Boca Raton grapples with exploding iguana population

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Posted by Mike 2009-10-27 16:47|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1
Exploding iguanas, eh? That can get messy.

Try this instead: "Exploding population of iguanas".

You're welcome. {8^)

Posted by Parabellum 2009-10-27 17:00|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/] 2009-10-27 17:00|| Front Page Top

#2 I understand they taste a lot like chicken.

Just in case anyone might want to reduce the population with a Good 'Ol BBQ.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2009-10-27 17:15|| 2009-10-27 17:15|| Front Page Top

#3 I understand they taste a lot like chicken

Rubber chicken. I had Goanna once. Tough, but not unpleasant. Would make an interesting sausage.

Posted by phil_b 2009-10-27 17:53|| 2009-10-27 17:53|| Front Page Top

#4 "Exploding iguanas" Headline = Journalism Major

No need for grammar or spelling, or common sense

Posted by Mullah Richard 2009-10-27 18:33|| 2009-10-27 18:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Guanaworst? Pass the pretzels bitte.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-10-27 18:34|| 2009-10-27 18:34|| Front Page Top

#6 .410 Shotgun with Birdshot cartridges.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-10-27 18:39|| 2009-10-27 18:39|| Front Page Top

#7 When the iguanas come back to Boca Raton
That's the day you promised to come back to me
When you whispered, "Potrzebie", in Boca Raton
Twas the day the lizards leaped out at me.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-10-27 18:47|| 2009-10-27 18:47|| Front Page Top

#8 .410 Shotgun with Birdshot cartridges.

I do believe that a platoon of Boy Scouts armed with air rifles might be a better solution.

Give 24 hrs and I doubt you will find any live iguana in the area.

Posted by Jame_Retief 2009-10-27 19:08|| 2009-10-27 19:08|| Front Page Top

#9 IIUC, SCEINCE says the various CLOVIS CULTURES prob had wipes out the MASTODON, MAMMOTH, GIANT SLOTHS, GIANT BEARS, GIANT DEER/ELKS, GARFIELD'S SABRE-TOOTHED FELINE ANCESTORS, NEW ZEALAND EMUS, + AUSSIE GIANT RODENTS, etc.

Prob safe to say DITTO for BIGFOOT'S ANCESTORS and NOT-A-FEW ZILLA-SPECIAS we haven't discovered yet.

D *** NG IT, THE MOON AND "IGUANA SAUSAGES" ARE NEXT!

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-10-27 19:17|| na]">[na] 2009-10-27 19:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Comment #7, interesting but puzzled on meaning. Other options include redeem iguanas for cash like returnable cans at participating farmer/meat packers.

Posted by GirlThursday 2009-10-27 19:28|| 2009-10-27 19:28|| Front Page Top

#11 Wall of Voodoo:
"wish I was in
Tijuana
eating BarBQued Iguana...
I'm on a Mexican Radio...."

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-10-27 19:43|| 2009-10-27 19:43|| Front Page Top

#12 Have family in the area. They say on the golf courses some of the lizards have grown to the size of small alligators (5 to 6 ft from nose to end of tail). Problem is that there are no natural predators to keep them in check and they're evolving to fill the old alligator niche. The animal control folk aren't up to it. Time to license some authorized hunting.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-10-27 19:43|| 2009-10-27 19:43|| Front Page Top

#13 Well this about dumb, bring back some alligators. Talk about blood sport.

Posted by notascrename">notascrename 2009-10-27 22:13|| 2009-10-27 22:13|| Front Page Top

#14 Time to bring back the alligators.

Posted by Skunky Glins****">Skunky Glins**** 2009-10-27 22:21|| 2009-10-27 22:21|| Front Page Top

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