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(AFP)   You're a South African BMW owner who finds a whole family of Cape Hyrax living under your hood. Do you: C. Drive across town at high speed to the dealership and abandon the car there with no explanation?   (news.yahoo.com) divider line
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thalassatx
2008-01-03 2:51:12 PM  
That is one cute little varmint!!
 
TerpLndyHpr
2008-01-03 3:15:25 PM  
I thought it was cute... until they mentioned they can grow as big as a cat.
 
FlashHarry [TotalFark]
2008-01-03 3:30:25 PM  
i think it's south africa where bmw dealers offer a side-projected flame thrower as an option to deter carjackers.
 
abnormalstationcode
2008-01-03 3:53:31 PM  
Hyrax. I love that word. Hyrax hyrax hyrax.

/hyrax
 
No Pain No Gein
2008-01-03 4:26:20 PM  
Hyrax, awesome.
 
tuna fingers
2008-01-03 4:26:57 PM  
Subby,
Hyraxes aren't real!

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fappomatic
2008-01-03 4:27:04 PM  
Hyrax...aluminum foil...BBQ sauce.

What can't a BMW do?
 
gorgor
2008-01-03 4:29:02 PM  
I Vant To Suck Your Blud! (new window)
 
Englebert Slaptyback
2008-01-03 4:31:00 PM  

SAfrican BMW owner finds animals living in her engine


Apparently it's more likely than she thinks.
 
PirateKing [OhFark]
2008-01-03 4:31:20 PM  
Fun Fact: Hyraxes are closely related to elephants.
 
tuna fingers
2008-01-03 4:31:43 PM  
YIS for "high racks" yields this NSFW gem: Did I say "NSFW" (disappointing new window)
 
MissMia
2008-01-03 4:32:00 PM  
"When we opened the bonnet the dassies were running about the engine and chassis plate, under the engine and inside the bumpers of the car," he said.

goshdarned furiners
 
Jness
2008-01-03 4:32:23 PM  
I absolutely love and condone the headline format that excludes choices A and B!

Time to RTFA and see what a hyrax is!
 
erewhon
2008-01-03 4:32:48 PM  
I knew a guy that had a rock hyrax as a pet.

Sort of like a gregarious rabbit, or an easy-going squirrel.
 
The_Sponge [TotalFark]
2008-01-03 4:32:50 PM  
That thing looks like Stitch from the Disney movie.
 
foxbrook78
2008-01-03 4:34:36 PM  
Little bastards are lucky they stayed clear of the fan and belts while she drove across town. I had a cat that lost a tail that way when I was little. One of my first memories is of my father trying to stop the cat from bleeding, while the cat was trying to start my dad bleeding.

/old ford truck with a cat on the warm engine + fan blades = horror show
 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark]
2008-01-03 4:34:44 PM  
Wouldn't you just take the hyraxes OUT?
 
blkhwk86
2008-01-03 4:34:47 PM  
I thought it was a whole human family until i clicked on the link. Thanks for the let down. I really needed it.
 
Allen. The end.
2008-01-03 4:35:18 PM  
"Cutie Critter, Dumbshirt Driver".

Look for it on cable this spring!!
 
Gamer Grrrl
2008-01-03 4:35:38 PM  
thalassatx: That is one cute little varmint!!

The San Diego Zoo has hyraxes, but they're the ugly kind. Come on zoo, get the CUTE kind instead!
 
mandyer
2008-01-03 4:35:40 PM  
We went to Cape Hyrax one year for spring break and got wasted for like, a week, dude.
 
Accent
2008-01-03 4:35:42 PM  
I'd hit it with my car
 
Simia Saturnalia
2008-01-03 4:37:01 PM  
FlashHarry: i think it's south africa where bmw dealers offer a side-projected flame thrower as an option to deter carjackers.
Yes indeed. (new window)

/And you thought you were rough on the squeegee kid
 
Graystone2000
2008-01-03 4:37:07 PM  
How can we import them here as pets only to let them get loose and muscle out the squirrels and racoons as yet another suburban uber critter with no predators? I'll take 3 please...
 
kickoutthelights
2008-01-03 4:37:10 PM  
was in capetown a few years back and there were some Hyrax hanging out at the Table Mountain restaurant area at the top. Pretty cool buggers, just walking around looking for scraps, pokin' out from the rocks..
 
LadyMech
2008-01-03 4:37:26 PM  
Stupid idiot woman. Why didn't she call a service station before she tried to drive somewhere? It's lucky the little things only ended up with burns instead of getting torn to bits.
 
drake113
2008-01-03 4:37:57 PM  
"I call the big one Bitey."
 
juniorjohns
2008-01-03 4:38:26 PM  
Haven't had a Hyraxe in me motor, but have had a possum, not so cute, big as a cat.
 
jonewer
2008-01-03 4:38:40 PM  
The Hyrax can be pretty damn vicious.

Tastes pretty good though.
 
Goggles_Pisano
2008-01-03 4:39:24 PM  
How can she be sure that perhaps Chris Bangle didn't design it that way, huh?
 
ElegantGoose
2008-01-03 4:39:31 PM  
I guess that depends on what the hell a hyrax is.

/DRTFA yet.
//BRB
 
loki see loki do
2008-01-03 4:40:36 PM  
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I thought they were extinct.
 
Kyrgan
2008-01-03 4:40:39 PM  
From Wikipedia:
Cape Hyraxes produce large quantities of hyraceum (sticky mass of dung and urine) that has been employed by people in the treatment of several medical disorders, including epilepsy and convulsions.

Methinks the cure is worse than the disease.
 
justanotherfarkinfarker
2008-01-03 4:40:58 PM  
I think someone should do a DNA splice with that cute thing with the big ears from yesterday. That would be a hell of a cool pet
 
cgraham
2008-01-03 4:41:40 PM  
Is it Cape Hyraxday yet?

[image from d.yimg.com too old to be available]
 
joeflood [OhFark]
2008-01-03 4:42:51 PM  
First thing I thought of:

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Allen. The end.
2008-01-03 4:43:25 PM  
Kyrgan: From Wikipedia:
Cape Hyraxes produce large quantities of hyraceum (sticky mass of dung and urine) that has been employed by people in the treatment of several medical disorders, including epilepsy and convulsions.

Methinks the cure is worse than the disease.

"It's supposed to be a cure...for being an axe-weilding, homicidal maniac!!"

Sorry, first thing I thought of...
 
politech
2008-01-03 4:43:26 PM  
The engine of a BMW

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Just as I suspected!
 
bdogthehog
2008-01-03 4:43:30 PM  
"When we opened the bonnet the dassies were running about the engine and chassis plate, under the engine and inside the bumpers of the car," he said.


At what point did the Hyraxes become "dassies"?

/wtf are dassies?
 
Allen. The end.
2008-01-03 4:44:05 PM  
I mean 'wield'. Heck.
 
coprolite
2008-01-03 4:44:26 PM  
mother cat with seven kittens + 1958 oldsmobile = terrible noises
 
politech
2008-01-03 4:46:22 PM  
bdogthehog: "When we opened the bonnet the dassies were running about the engine and chassis plate, under the engine and inside the bumpers of the car," he said.


At what point did the Hyraxes become "dassies"?

/wtf are dassies?

FTFA: "Hoping to shake off the short-eared, short-tailed creatures known locally as dassies "

/They are not all that cute.
//good as stir fry?
 
thehypercube
2008-01-03 4:48:07 PM  
No mor mutpl chce hdlnz plz
 
remnant
2008-01-03 4:48:35 PM  
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damiangerous
2008-01-03 4:49:47 PM  
bdogthehog: "At what point did the Hyraxes become "dassies"?

In the second sentence. "Hoping to shake off the short-eared, short-tailed creatures known locally as dassies..."
 
ThusSpokeKayvon
2008-01-03 4:50:22 PM  
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/Unavailable for comment
 
Thosw [BareFark] [OhFark]
2008-01-03 4:50:45 PM  
Gay Pirates?
 
mycatisposter
2008-01-03 4:51:00 PM  
fappomatic: Hyrax...aluminum foil...BBQ sauce.

What can't a BMW do?

I heard that they taste like chicken.

/a lesbian dassie/Hyrax told me so.
 
loki see loki do
2008-01-03 4:51:16 PM  
Cape Hyraxes produce large quantities of hyraceum (sticky mass of dung and urine) that has been employed by people in the ineffective treatment of several medical disorders, including epilepsy and convulsions.

As in:

"Thus far, the hyraceum(piss/shiat) therapy has been ineffective. Try a smaller penis gourd."

-Witchdoctor Today, Journal of the African Witchdoctor Association (JAWA)
 
bdogthehog
2008-01-03 4:51:27 PM  
politech: bdogthehog: "When we opened the bonnet the dassies were running about the engine and chassis plate, under the engine and inside the bumpers of the car," he said.


At what point did the Hyraxes become "dassies"?

/wtf are dassies?

FTFA: "Hoping to shake off the short-eared, short-tailed creatures known locally as dassies "

/They are not all that cute.
//good as stir fry?

Ahhh, thank you... the eyes, they deceive me sometimes

/still perplexed by dassie=hyrax
 
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