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(Free Press) Interesting Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox has sued for the right to close off waterways leading to the Great Lakes to stop Asian Carp (with bonus pic of shocked and appalled fish)   (freep.com) divider line 185
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rmz [TotalFark] 2009-12-21 04:36:27 PM  
homepage.mac.com

 
cryinoutloud [TotalFark] 2009-12-21 05:06:46 PM  
Maybe they'll eat all the lampreys. And the zebra mussels.

/It's too late for us to quit farking things up. We're way too good at it.

 
shaft6969 [TotalFark] 2009-12-21 05:20:44 PM  
Mike Cox? Seriously? That's awesome

 
namatad [TotalFark] 2009-12-21 05:41:47 PM  
BKITU: Mike Cox goes here.

/hot like Mike Cox


well, that worked. brb, need to clean my keyboard.
welldone

 
xanadian [TotalFark] 2009-12-21 06:12:49 PM  
That article is carp.

This thread is carp.

This post is carp.

I *knew* something fishy was going on...

 
BKITU [TotalFark] 2009-12-21 06:21:23 PM  
namatad: BKITU: Mike Cox goes here.

/hot like Mike Cox

well, that worked. brb, need to clean my keyboard.
welldone


Thanks. Too bad the damn hotlink got zapped. =(

 
ultraholland [TotalFark] 2009-12-21 08:07:18 PM  
penis goes there

 
blazemongr 2009-12-21 08:07:49 PM  
Local headline was something like "Cox brings Asian carp suit to Supreme Court." I thought, "Boy, wearing that suit must look weird and smell worse."

 
blazemongr 2009-12-21 08:08:40 PM  
ultraholland: penis goes there

Not Mike Cox, nossir.

 
Mentat [TotalFark] 2009-12-21 08:08:42 PM  
xanadian: That article is carp.

This thread is carp.

This post is carp.

I *knew* something fishy was going on...


Suck Mike Cox.

 
TheOther 2009-12-21 08:09:00 PM  
Cox blocking is always sad.

 
The All-Powerful Atheismo 2009-12-21 08:09:10 PM  
Shut up Mike, you Cox

 
amazing_live_seamonkeys 2009-12-21 08:09:24 PM  
rmz


t1.gstatic.com
I do say, "nice work old chap." Well done. And in one even. Good heavens.

 
skaetur 2009-12-21 08:10:36 PM  
/LOL !!!! His name is Mike!

 
whatshisname 2009-12-21 08:13:01 PM  
I went to school with a guy named Mike Hawk

 
drjekel_mrhyde 2009-12-21 08:13:29 PM  
Is it really sideways

 
AverageJoe77 [TotalFark] 2009-12-21 08:14:44 PM  
That's no Asian carp, the eyes are too round

 
Half Witt 2009-12-21 08:15:13 PM  
This is why you don't car pool with Asians.

 
Dinjiin 2009-12-21 08:16:44 PM  
The government needs to do one of two things:

1) Put a $50 bounty on every Asian carp caught in the Mississippi River system and let the fishermen go to task

2) Poison the entire system several times over, then re-release native species held in captivity back into the system

 
whatshisname 2009-12-21 08:17:47 PM  
Dinjiin: The government needs to do one of two things:

1) Put a $50 bounty on every Asian carp caught in the Mississippi River system and let the fishermen go to task

2) Poison the entire system several times over, then re-release native species held in captivity back into the system


3) Not listen to you

 
dstanley 2009-12-21 08:19:49 PM  
I ask, nay *demand* that fish be chargin' his lazer.

/plzkthxbai

 
Ironclad2 [TotalFark] 2009-12-21 08:19:49 PM  
dl.dropbox.com

/q&d

 
Ringshadow [TotalFark] 2009-12-21 08:20:21 PM  
When I worked at a local power plant for a while, I was told that they didn't make any real effort to return fish caught in the cooling intake because they'd get fined for returning most of them as it was "littering".

/at least an attempt is being made to stop this one

 
gravy chugging cretin. 2009-12-21 08:22:13 PM  
whatshisname: I went to school with a guy named Mike Hawk

I do know a poor schmuck named Michael Hunt. He's 53 years old and truly hates his parents.

 
prometa 2009-12-21 08:22:44 PM  
i989.photobucket.com

/quick and dirty

 
Kona_Bean 2009-12-21 08:22:59 PM  
Pleased as peaches when I got the email. Me and Cox don't see eye to eye on anything. This might be the first and only issue.

Asian carp seriously need to stay out. Zebra mussels and lampreys have caused problems, but if asian carp get in and established they will be the *only* fish in the great lakes.

media.northjersey.com

 
Quantum Apostrophe 2009-12-21 08:23:43 PM  
First thing that popped into my mind when I saw that silly fish:

www.militaryfactory.com

 
Ryker's Peninsula 2009-12-21 08:23:46 PM  
I think they prefer the term "Chinese Fish".

 
mreuther 2009-12-21 08:24:20 PM  
Something something subby's mom.

 
drjekel_mrhyde 2009-12-21 08:26:50 PM  
Bow fishing for Carp

Link (new window)
Action around 2:30

 
dstanley 2009-12-21 08:27:25 PM  
dstanley: I ask, nay *demand* that fish be chargin' his lazer.

/plzkthxbai


images.cheezburger.com
moar funny pictures

/that's why I asked somebody else to do it

 
Farzx 2009-12-21 08:29:08 PM  
Ironclad2: /q&d

super win!

*Mike Cox nods approvingly*

 
sparkeyjames 2009-12-21 08:29:27 PM  
Say goodbye to salmon and trout fishing in the great lakes. The foot dragging idiots will have there way and the great lakes will be the worlds largest carp pool. Way to go idiots.
They have had at least 4 or 5 years to figure out a method to prevent this from happening and even now when the reaper is at the door they still won't do anything. Just incredible. Not only will this totally destroy commercial and sport fishing in the great lakes but darn things leap out of water when frighted posing a hazard to recreational water craft users as well. Good luck water skiing through that.

 
astrotri 2009-12-21 08:31:43 PM  
This is subject rife with humor, but a carp invasion would be an environmental disaster.

These farkers eat everything in sight and literally breed to the point of clogging waterways. Once they take over a lake, there is nothing left but carp and carp shiat.

/one-time Great Lakes resident
//saw the carp destruction first-hand in Ill

 
Bacchus-ette 2009-12-21 08:31:58 PM  
Came for the Cox jokes.
Left marginally satisfied, but wanting more.

 
The Snack 2009-12-21 08:32:02 PM  
While carp have infested every major waterway in North America, this type of carp is especially devastating. They can consume more than their weight in plankton per day. Plankton is what smaller organisms need to eat to survive/grow. All that would be left are fish who jump out of the water every time a boat is near, possibly injuring said boaters.

 
whatshisname 2009-12-21 08:32:09 PM  
Can those things live through a Canadian winter?

 
studebaker hoch [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-12-21 08:32:19 PM  
Won't work.

All it will take is for some asshole to load up a couple coolers full of these fish and stock the lakes himself.

Happens all the time.

/Guy gets a ticket from the game and fish warden and later "gets even with the man".

 
Balchinian 2009-12-21 08:33:16 PM  
This is the only worthwhile thing he has done as AG.

Too bad Chicago has the pull in Washington, this will go nowhere and the largest body of fresh water on the planet will end up totally farked.

 
Day_Old_Dutchie 2009-12-21 08:34:13 PM  
img96.imageshack.us

This is entirely appropriate.

 
Englebert Slaptyback 2009-12-21 08:35:24 PM  

sparkeyjames


darn things leap out of water when frighted posing a hazard to recreational water craft users as well. Good luck water skiing through that.


I see a combined sport in the making...

boat: rrrrRRRRRRRR

[water skier pops up]

[fish jumps]

guy w/ Mossberg*: "PULL!!"

[fish experiences catastrophic failure]

[judges hold up ratings]



* Substitute Benelli if you prefer.

 
ZAZ [TotalFark] 2009-12-21 08:35:46 PM  
Dinjiin

(4) Poison the EPA and ACE offices and let the state close off the rivers.

 
Nick Nostril 2009-12-21 08:35:54 PM  
Like most Farkers, I'm not usually judgmental, but holy shiat that is one ugly fish.

 
Mentat [TotalFark] 2009-12-21 08:36:43 PM  
skaetur: /LOL !!!! His name is Mike!

If my parents had cursed me with a name like Mike Cox, the first thing I would do on my 18th birthday would be to legally change my name to something less embarrassing, like Dick Cox.

 
bmb_789 2009-12-21 08:37:07 PM  
Dinjiin: The government needs to do one of two things:

1) Put a $50 bounty on every Asian carp caught in the Mississippi River system and let the fishermen go to task

2) Poison the entire system several times over, then re-release native species held in captivity back into the system


$50 bucks? Ha, I catch em for fun. Those biatches pull hard. Its a lot of fun fighting them. Give me a buck or two a fish and I'd quit my day job.

 
Johnny Swank 2009-12-21 08:37:24 PM  
My wife and I paddled 2000 miles down the Mississippi River in 2005. We saw these damn things all the way down below Minneapolis. I'd be fine with putting a bounty on every one of this demon fish. They're doing a hell of a number on the entire Mississippi and Missouri river system.

http://www.sourcetosea.net

 
SuperNinjaToad 2009-12-21 08:37:40 PM  
is his cousin mike hunt?

 
BasqueBastard 2009-12-21 08:37:55 PM  
gravy chugging cretin.: whatshisname: I went to school with a guy named Mike Hawk

I do know a poor schmuck named Michael Hunt. He's 53 years old and truly hates his parents.


Best friend from 3rd grade was named Mike Hunt. What's even worse was his father was named Howard Hunt and this was at the height of Watergate. Then my folks moved to California. Last I heard he was a pilot.

/cool story bro

 
Elmo Jones 2009-12-21 08:39:48 PM  
Can you eat them?
Can you make them into pet food?
GO GO Free Market!

 
jaytkay 2009-12-21 08:40:13 PM  
The carp can fark the lakes' shiat up. And closing the canals is like closing I-80 to all truck traffic.

This is a lose-lose situation.

 
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