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(UPI) Weird Porcupines may lose their protection in Pennsylvania, prompting state residents to go on a quilling spree   (upi.com) divider line 44
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2010-09-08 03:52:01 PM
it is their teeth and appetite for salt that have made them a pest, chewing into everything from log houses and backyard sheds to the brake lines of cars

While those are outstanding points, this should be handled carefully, it's a prickly situation.
 
2010-09-08 04:00:12 PM
Approves!!!
upload.wikimedia.org

/trolling
 
2010-09-08 04:12:41 PM
residents to go on a quilling spree

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2010-09-08 05:24:21 PM
I hope they get a few brake lines before they start getting popped.
 
2010-09-08 05:25:01 PM
Whats the difference between a porcupine and a Ferrarri? Porcupines have pricks on the outside.
 
2010-09-08 05:25:21 PM
Subby's a prick?
 
2010-09-08 05:26:36 PM
Also approves
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2010-09-08 05:33:08 PM
nothingyet: Whats the difference between a porcupine and a Ferrarri? Porcupines have pricks on the outside.

ba dum tssh..
 
2010-09-08 05:33:16 PM
Did you know that the spikes on a porcupine is actually their hair? :-D
 
2010-09-08 05:34:52 PM
Wait a second- Did I read that article right?

FTFA:
"Wildlife officials say very little is known about porcupine numbers or their range in Pennsylvania. Anecdotal information suggests they are spreading."

But they also say:
"The Pennsylvania Game Commission is considering an open season on porcupines because of complaints about their voracious chewing."

Shouldn't they hold off on declaring open season until after they understand how many there are???

This doesn't make any sense to me at all.
 
2010-09-08 05:36:37 PM
Thank you SOMATICASUAL. I'll be here all ze veek, I just flew in and boy are my arms tired!
 
2010-09-08 05:46:19 PM
www.metalobsession.net

Advocates for the rights of porcupines.
 
2010-09-08 05:48:45 PM
go2sa.co.za

yummy !!!
 
2010-09-08 05:50:08 PM
images3.wax.fm


not so yummy
 
2010-09-08 05:51:10 PM
MBooda: Also approves

That picture never fails to give me the shivers. Owch.
 
2010-09-08 06:02:13 PM
Do the same Farkers who rack up the insane submission counts come up with these stupid puns?
 
2010-09-08 06:02:35 PM
I hate the little pricks. At my cabin, we have a standing death warrant for any porc that comes near. Hundreds of thousands of trees in the woods they can choose to gnaw on, but they attack my door frame instead. It's the glue in the plywood they like.

The only good porc is a dead porc. The bastards.
 
2010-09-08 06:05:03 PM
blazemongr: MBooda: Also approves

That picture never fails to give me the shivers. Owch.


It just makes make me think, "wow, pitbulls are as dumb as rocks."
 
2010-09-08 06:07:07 PM
I don't know about other parts of the state. But around here drivers are doing their damndest(sp/realword?) to keep the population down.
I see at least one or two dead every week.
 
2010-09-08 06:07:08 PM
lo quilty: Did you know that the spikes on a porcupine is actually their hair? :-D

No! They is?
 
2010-09-08 06:07:21 PM
These are a huge problem. Thankfully, they're relatively easy to kill...they're kind of slow and stupid, so chasing one down with a baseball bat or two-by-four is not difficult.
 
2010-09-08 06:10:12 PM
fjordboy: These are a huge problem. Thankfully, they're relatively easy to kill...they're kind of slow and stupid, so chasing one down with a baseball bat or two-by-four is not difficult.


But they are so cutesy wootesy ! Look at those little ... AAAKK

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2010-09-08 06:11:05 PM
Lorenzo Von Matterhorn: I hate the little pricks. At my cabin, we have a standing death warrant for any porc that comes near. Hundreds of thousands of trees in the woods they can choose to gnaw on, but they attack my door frame instead. It's the glue in the plywood they like.

The only good porc is a dead porc. The bastards.


You can always eat them afterwards
http://www.helium.com/items/1771060-how-to-clean-a-porcupine (new window)
 
2010-09-08 06:13:22 PM
aim57: lo quilty: Did you know that the spikes on a porcupine is actually their hair? :-D

No! They is?


I know! It's so weird. :-)
 
2010-09-08 06:32:50 PM
Lorenzo Von Matterhorn
2010-09-08 06:02:35 PM

I hate the little pricks. At my cabin, we have a standing death warrant for any porc that comes near. Hundreds of thousands of trees in the woods they can choose to gnaw on, but they attack my door frame instead. It's the glue in the plywood they like.

***
You have a plywood door frame?
Maybe their just critiquing your shoddy cabin.

/i kid
 
2010-09-08 06:33:38 PM
lo quilty: aim57: lo quilty: Did you know that the spikes on a porcupine is actually their hair? :-D

No! They is?

I know! It's so weird. :-)


Did you know they are called quills, not spikes?

/and they are hollow too!
 
2010-09-08 06:40:04 PM
How much protection does something that can kill a dog with a couple of swipes of its tail need? Seems like they are protected enough already.
 
2010-09-08 06:44:31 PM
curtainsmatchcarpet: lo quilty: aim57: lo quilty: Did you know that the spikes on a porcupine is actually their hair? :-D

No! They is?

I know! It's so weird. :-)

Did you know they are called quills, not spikes?

/and they are hollow too!


I feel like I'm learning so much today! :-)

Thanks!

p.s. I thought quills was the spanish word for spikes.
 
2010-09-08 07:11:23 PM
I want to know what sort of protection they were provided in the first place.
Must've been some industrial strength condoms.
 
2010-09-08 07:36:24 PM
Keywork99: Advocates for the rights of porcupines.



First thing I thought of. Hopefully, trees are safe.
 
2010-09-08 07:52:10 PM
Yep, them porcs are dangerous Link (new window)
 
2010-09-08 07:52:57 PM
Quilling BEE.
 
2010-09-08 07:55:07 PM
2.bp.blogspot.com
 
2010-09-08 08:05:07 PM
Coelacanth: Yep, them porcs are dangerous Link (new window)

Apparently, they even cause server errors. Cunning little things..
 
2010-09-08 08:12:33 PM
Damn you Steven Wilson!
 
2010-09-08 08:19:04 PM
Lorenzo Von Matterhorn: I hate the little pricks. At my cabin, we have a standing death warrant for any porc that comes near. Hundreds of thousands of trees in the woods they can choose to gnaw on, but they attack my door frame instead. It's the glue in the plywood they like.

The only good porc is a dead porc. The bastards.



from what i've understood it seems that killing a few or many porcupines isn't likely to really harm the population significantly, so this all may not be much of a big deal ... but read between the lines of what you've just typed.

you built a cabin out in the middle of the woods where there are thousands of trees, out in the middle of nature, like where natural things like porcupines live. and because you've put something there they find interesting enough to chew on, then you feel it's a good idea to shoot one anytime you see one near your cabin? so you having a cabin out in the middle of the woods is so important that any living creature that interferes with that should just be annihilated? and choosing a different door frame, like maybe a metal one is just not an option? it's just a freakin door frame, right?

i just don't get why so many people are so arrogant toward nature. is it all possible to live with nature as opposed to on top of its buried corpses?
 
2010-09-08 08:49:56 PM
SonikTooth: Lorenzo Von Matterhorn: I hate the little pricks. At my cabin, we have a standing death warrant for any porc that comes near. Hundreds of thousands of trees in the woods they can choose to gnaw on, but they attack my door frame instead. It's the glue in the plywood they like.

The only good porc is a dead porc. The bastards.


from what i've understood it seems that killing a few or many porcupines isn't likely to really harm the population significantly, so this all may not be much of a big deal ... but read between the lines of what you've just typed.

you built a cabin out in the middle of the woods where there are thousands of trees, out in the middle of nature, like where natural things like porcupines live. and because you've put something there they find interesting enough to chew on, then you feel it's a good idea to shoot one anytime you see one near your cabin? so you having a cabin out in the middle of the woods is so important that any living creature that interferes with that should just be annihilated? and choosing a different door frame, like maybe a metal one is just not an option? it's just a freakin door frame, right?

i just don't get why so many people are so arrogant toward nature. is it all possible to live with nature as opposed to on top of its buried corpses?


You obviously don't know a damn thing about living more than two miles from a StarbucksTM.
 
2010-09-08 08:50:24 PM
Keywork99: Advocates for the rights of porcupines.

Someone should just find them a tree.
 
2010-09-09 12:41:16 AM
Lorenzo Von Matterhorn: I hate the little pricks. At my cabin, we have a standing death warrant for any porc that comes near. Hundreds of thousands of trees in the woods they can choose to gnaw on, but they attack my door frame instead. It's the glue in the plywood they like.

The only good porc is a dead porc. The bastards.


Go to Petsmart and get a bottle of bitter apple spray for chewing dogs. Soak the wood twice and then again every six months.
 
2010-09-09 02:22:01 AM
libertarianporcupine.org

They must not like Libertarians there either.
 
2010-09-09 03:20:47 AM
OregonVet: SonikTooth: Lorenzo Von Matterhorn: I hate the little pricks. At my cabin, we have a standing death warrant for any porc that comes near. Hundreds of thousands of trees in the woods they can choose to gnaw on, but they attack my door frame instead. It's the glue in the plywood they like.

The only good porc is a dead porc. The bastards.


from what i've understood it seems that killing a few or many porcupines isn't likely to really harm the population significantly, so this all may not be much of a big deal ... but read between the lines of what you've just typed.

you built a cabin out in the middle of the woods where there are thousands of trees, out in the middle of nature, like where natural things like porcupines live. and because you've put something there they find interesting enough to chew on, then you feel it's a good idea to shoot one anytime you see one near your cabin? so you having a cabin out in the middle of the woods is so important that any living creature that interferes with that should just be annihilated? and choosing a different door frame, like maybe a metal one is just not an option? it's just a freakin door frame, right?

i just don't get why so many people are so arrogant toward nature. is it all possible to live with nature as opposed to on top of its buried corpses?

You obviously don't know a damn thing about living more than two miles from a StarbucksTM.


why reply by actually making a point when you can try to fill your hollow ego by simply insulting someone? even if i knew little of wildlife (some of which might even nest in the eaves of a few starbucks), my comment is plenty reasonable, certainly not obvious of much. you really think the ONLY way to live amongst problematic wildlife is to shoot it?
 
2010-09-09 05:46:09 AM
Show us your Marx: upload.wikimedia.org

Uh, Sonic is a hedgehog not a porcupine.
 
2010-09-09 08:35:26 AM
thesubliminalman:

But they are so cutesy wootesy ! Look at those little ... AAAKK


those are hedgehogs. Which, I agree, are pretty cute.
 
2010-09-09 09:31:26 AM
fjordboy: thesubliminalman:

But they are so cutesy wootesy ! Look at those little ... AAAKK

those are hedgehogs. Which, I agree, are pretty cute.


WHAT ? GIS lied to me, I want a refund!
 
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