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Anything is possible. Could be aliens did it Oh sure. Blame the aliens why don't ya. 
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Datwasntme
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was just reading about it on RT news lol had me thinking about it again http://www.rt.com/usa/311341-armadillo-gun-man-hospital/ An East Texan man is in hospital – and no doubt, in shock – after he attempted to gun down an armadillo, and ended up with at least one bullet in his jaw instead. The man went outside his home in Marietta, southwest of Texarkana, at about 3am Thursday, noticed an armadillo on his property and tried to shoot the animal, according to Cass Country Sheriff Larry Rowe. "His wife was in the house. He went outside and took his .38 revolver and shot three times at the armadillo," Rowe added. But it didn’t go according to the plan: at least one of the three bullets ricocheted and hit the man, who was airlifted to a medical facility, and his jaw wired shut. The location of the armadillo, in its turn, remains unknown. "We didn't find the armadillo," the sheriff said. It’s not the first time that armadillos have their revenge: in April, a man’s elderly mother-in-law was wounded in the back after he attempted to kill the animal in Lee County, Georgia. In the south of the US, armadillos are considered a pest by some people, as they dig lawns, plants and crops. |
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apparently also Carriers of Chagas-Disease among other Animal-Species!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagas_disease |
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Uh, they do a a lot of drinkin in east Texas.  A Texas armadillo.  No, he doesn't have a Lone Star Beer.
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My sister lives next door to what used to be the armadillo leprosy research station in Texas. It was run by her neighbor and friend, Jalapeno Sam, now deceased. She took some trips with Sam to promote armadillos and jalapeno candy. Here is his story ... Samuel Thomas Howze "Jalapeno/Armadillo Sam" Lewis, the Texas-sized promoter who created jalapeno-flavored peanut brittle and bred armadillos for racing and facing off movie stars like Kevin Costner in "Tin Cup," has died. He was 80. Lewis died of cancer Jan. 10 at his home in San Angelo, Texas. Mississippi-born but Texan from the tip of his boots to the top of his Stetson, Lewis liked jalapeno peppers, but he liked armadillos first and probably better. He was still a kid when he originally encountered one of the nocturnal burrowing mammals with the bony plated skin and grandly told "Uncle Slug," his seen-it-all relative, "We have a prehistoric animal on our hands." From that time on, Lewis always had at least one or two armadillos around his house, though he conceded, "They don't respond very well to humans. They pretty much have a mind of their own." The only armadillo-free years were those he spent as a B-29 tail gunner during World War II. Lewis helped operate a bakery and managed a pizza place before he finally figured out how to make a living with his favorite things -- jalapenos and armadillos. He added the peppers to lollipops, peanut and pecan brittle, jelly, guacamole, salsa, relish, olives, ketchup and mustard. Never lacking boldness, Lewis asked the giant Texas-based UniMark Foods Inc. to help distribute his concoctions. Instead, UniMark bought the Jalapeno Sam company and the rights to his products, then hired Jalapeno Sam. Lewis regularly crisscrossed Texas and the U.S., with a couple of armadillos to accompany him, touting jalapeno foods and giving away samples at discount and grocery stores. He always drove, he said, because armadillos don't like flying. They apparently don't like much else either, but Lewis became their champion anyway. After all, he began making money -- through bets, at least -- with armadillos a long time before he started selling jalapeno-laced candy. He first raced an armadillo in 1951, against a horned toad. Nobody could remember which animal won. Then he paired one against a duck, and the armadillo lost badly. Before too long, he settled on armadillo against armadillo, with the human tenders following behind along a six-foot by 24-foot course. Rules precluded physical contact, but the humans were allowed to encourage the armadillos verbally or by blowing on the hair on the backs of their legs. Lewis, who staged races at 40 or 50 fairs and other events annually and even in Las Vegas, set up one for the Tracy Dry Bean Festival in California's Central Valley in 1990. "The people in Tracy wanted something to liven up their festival, and they called me," Lewis told the Modesto Bee at the time, although he added that armadillos would rather eat insects and lizards than beans. Armadillo Sam, who proudly asserted he had "known 'em and loved 'em since 1937," became an expert on the armadillo and shared his knowledge with such writers as James Michener, author of the epic historic novel "Texas." Lewis caught them in the wild and shipped them to zoos, rented them to movie and television producers and such rock groups as the Rolling Stones, and provided them to scientists for research on childbirth defects, skin cancer and leprosy. It was one of Lewis' armadillos that proved a hazard of sorts to Costner's run-down golf pro as the character tried to win the U.S. Open to impress a girl in the 1996 film "Tin Cup." The armadillo breeder and wrangler was president of both the World Armadillo Breeding and Racing Assn. and the International Armadillo Appreciation Society. So it was only natural that he browbeat the Texas Legislature until it finally, in 1995, accepted the armadillo as its official small state mammal. (The longhorn is Texas' official large state mammal, and the Mexican free-tailed bat is its official flying state mammal.) During the battle for passage, certain legislators derided the creature as "a god-awful animal" or "lowly, mudslinging and cowardly" and said it was unfit to symbolize the state. Lewis fired off a letter to the state officials, countering: "The armadillo is determined. Once it makes up its mind to move, nothing will stop it. It will run over anything it can and tunnel under anything it can't. If it can't do either, it will jump straight up in the air. Now ain't that just like a Texan?" A widower, Lewis is survived by one daughter, Kathleen Maxwell; one son, Samuel Jr.; six siblings and two grandsons. Yes, I met this guy years ago at the rattle snake roundup in Sweetwater, Texas. He had a Armadillo race pen set up there. He drove a motorhome and carried a big wad of money. He told us that he used to own Shakey's Pizza in Dallas and I think Houston. We used to go to the Shakey's in Dallas. He was an interesting guy, Carried a big wad of money. |
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