Cool. I hope they make it to Northern California. Them's good eatin'!

Good. Maybe they'll catch up with the Asian beetles, Africanized bees, and fire ants, and eat 'em.

Hasn't anybody thought that mabye these animals are just trying to go on vacation?

I've seen them dead in the road in lower South Carolina already. Oh noes! Possums on the half-shell!

My dog likes to chase them around & bite them on the ass.

/nature's soccer balls

So what happens when the seals and armadillos meet?

Anyone remember that made for TV movie on Fox about 10 years ago, about killer bees? Comedy gold.

I for one welcome our Armadillo overlords.
//Had to be done

I want them to come up to jersey. That would be farkin' awesome to have an armadillo hanging out in the back yard.

I blame Global Warming.

Or it might be part of Intelligent Design.

Cuz' God loves Road Kill.

Armadillos taste best when baked, and served with spinach in a bag.

Kiss My Ass when your done...

They're tired of all the Mexicans too.

kiethldick

LOL @ "I bet he's never kicked any arse... He probably just sits around chewing bubblegum all day."

/funny stuff

They carry plague.

/plague sucks

let go of the 'EVERYBODY PANIC' button, for awhile, hey?

It didn't say if they crawled to their new homes or just rolled along like tumbleweed.

"They stink, and they urinate and defecate like any animal does when they're stressed," he says. "They're kind of nasty creatures if you ever get close. They're interesting and marvelous biologically, but the smell ..."

I wonder what they think of you? Leave em be. They're very nocturnal and hell to catch and damn intersting critters. They will die as pets quickly. Leprocy comes only from the "illegal ones". :)

A stingray could SO totally take an armidillo.

thinks_on_feet

I thought it was leprosy.

/checks wikipedia
//yep, leprosy - not plague
///probably hard to get from them, though

MURPHYSBORO, Ill. - For years, Lloyd Nelson laughed off as myth reports that armadillos - those armored critters with the big claws and bigger nose.



People moving from Israel up north nooooooooooooooo.

EVERYBODY PANIC!!!

we're running out of original headlines!!!

EVERYBODY PANIC!!11!!

Was I the only one who read the headline as "Armored Dildos?"

/hopefully Kevlar based
//Steel would be really cold

I can vouch that they're in Missouri. I'm hoping they get into some sort of huge race war with the possums.

They are a good 'pioneer' species. Spreading far and wide is what they do. Shoot they are STILL slower then opossum, which got to michigan a LONG time ago. As I recall they only 'officially' arrived in florida back in the late 80's early 90's.

Natures' little 'speed demons'.

They're pretty harmless. Funny thing, though, was one time while camping, my dog saw one & started chasing it. It ran right towards me, so I poked at it with a stick, and it changed directions. Right towards my girlfriend, who PANICKED (you can thank me later, submitter) - she screamed & ran away. It was hilarious.

Not to mention that I think their top speed is about 5mph.

But, believe it or not, they can jump. Straight up in the farking air, about 3 or 4 feet (tops), if startled. And it's easy to startle them - their vision sucks.

Armadillos are harmless. It's the damn raccoons that mess your shiat up. I was camping recently, and thought I had a good solution for my trash. I suspended it about 5 feet off the ground, and it hung about 5 feet below a tree branch. I woke up and a raccoon was on the branch, pulling the rope (and the trash) up to him. I caught him before he could make a mess, fortunately.

Give a woodland critter a set of thumbs, and they think they're smarter than everyone else.

The armadillos are moving north to meet the advancing army of seals that are moving south.

Any other questions?

I have nothing but I think that Armadillo Overlords is a great band name, if a little hard to say.

Obscure?
/and yet the first thing I thought of.

Armadillos are the dumbest animals. One time, I was at my parent's house in Oklahoma. We were sitting outside at dusk, and here comes this armadillo across the yard. My 3 sons got their paintball guns, and literally got 5 feet from him, and let go.

First time I've ever seen an armadillo jump 3 feet in the air and do a back flip.

Since they arrive into Texas until the 1860's this is hardly news.


\cue our favorite reporter Rick Romero

Anyone else tired of the "EVERBODY PANIC" cliche?

Tons of 'em where I live. If you see one in your lane while driving and don't want to kill it, don't try to straddle it between your tires. They get startled and jump up underneath your vehicle every time.

learn2fly

Armadillos aren't dumb. Your children are.

Florida is chock full of them. I heard "Way Back When" they were imported as pets and got loose. Never heard to the contrary but it could have been Old Wives Tale.

Heh. Yesterday, there was one in the gutter just outside the entrance to the Fort Worth Zoo.

"Well, looks like they turned all the animals loose and killed them, kids" - Psycho Dad

2006-09-17 10:02:56 AM SecretAgentWoman


I don't think there's need for panic unless the site of a dead one on the highway would cause an accicent...I've never seen one alive, and I live in Texas. I thought they were born just to crawl to the nearest road to go belly up.

They get hit all the time cuz they have poor eyesight. If you walk up to one quietly, you can pick it up. Hold on tight though, cuz it freaks them out.

Oh man, my one trip to Florida, the one stretch of road I went down was just littered with dead ones. Pretty depressing actually.

So are their shells actually hard like a turtles, or just leathery? Must be a hell of a sound when you hit one if the former.

During WWII when German POWs being kept in South Texas encountered armadillos, they called them "panzerschwein"

here in alabama..........

they dig yur lawns up....
and like choc lab said theyll jump up and bust yur oil pan
if you straddle one with yur car...

need to use some kentucky windage if yur gonna shoot one since they jump like a mo fo

unless yur using a 308..........colt 45 requires windage

bellhalla

During WWII when German POWs being kept in South Texas encountered armadillos, they called them "panzerschwein"

Or possibly the germans who settled the state called them that.

5. Do people really eat armadillos?

Yes. In many areas of Central and South America, armadillo meat is often used as part of an average diet. I have heard that some peoples of South America keep small varieties of armadillos as edible housepets. During the Depression, armadillos were often eaten by hungry people. They were called "Hoover hogs" by people angry with then-President Herbert Hoover's broken promise of a chicken in every pot. The meat is said to taste like fine-grained, high-quality pork.

http://www.msu.edu/~nixonjos/armadillo/faq.html#03

Tastes like chicken, not pork. :)