Even more dangerous than emus are the similar-looking cassowary, a spiteful giant bird that always reminded me more of a velociraptor dinosaur than any existing reptiles. Those birds will disembowel you and not think twice about it!
Yep, there were camels in “Pyramids” and they tended to be terribly clever, entertaining themselves through boring times with enormous mathematical calculations, and one of them, previously mentioned somewhere in this thread, was named"You Bastard", because, of course, they were very nasty camels. And of course, they lacked knowledge of correct protocol.
Replace “cat” for “camel”, and “that lady over there” with “person allergic to cats”, and you might get a little closer to commonly experienced problems.
Oh, I’m not objecting to the humor–one can imagine being serrepitiously sat upon by a camel being a great premise for a Monty Python skit (“And now for something completely different…a man being sat upon by a camel!”)[sup]*[/sup]–but I just wanted to interject a note of reality that, in fact, these creatures are both quiet enough to sneak up on someone and malicious enough to do intentional harm, rather than this being merely a “killed by a falling whale while popping blackhead” type of event.
Actually, I just wanted to get a dig in at camels, which are thouroughly nasty creatures that deserve to be strafted by fleets of trained attack pigeons which will be subsquently destroyed in an orbital nuclear bombardment. (It’s the only way to be sure.) Adaptatively fascinating animals, but utterly vile in their disposition, not to mention the smell.
Stranger
Camels, eh? Maybe we should send a couple of moose down there to really mess with your minds… 
(That is pure gold. Where in sweet Og would the camel come from?!?)
Oh, it doesn’t sound so bad in this article:
http://wvgazette.com/section/News/2005051932
A little weird still, but not so bad.
I just want to say, I love this thread. Just when I get over the laughter, someone goes and posts the 911 “transcript” or advice on ridding the world of this menace. And when I get over that, I go back to the original image and start laughing again.
Not that I don’t feel bad for the woman - it can be a painful experience having my 26-pound toddler sit on me, so I can’t imagine what a camel must feel like. However, if this happened to me, once I got better I would be the first one to bring up the story at cocktail parties and roll on the floor with laughter at the absurdity of it all.
Assuming the lawsuit went my way, of course.
Why should she have been surprised? After all, Wednesday IS hump day.
Heck, that makes it sound downright overblown. Thanks for ruining the fun romansperson. 
First we get moose and squirrel….
Stranger, I think Kipling says all that’s needed here.
And, I, too, want a copy of the 911 call.
From the above link:
:dubious:
I had to think about this for a bit. then I realised, they probably use him as part of the Nativity scene.
Or he just wants to do a novena or two. Either way.
Nativity scene? What? Oooooh, the other above link. 
(snort!)
Alternatively;
Op: 911, what’s your emergency!
Caller: I’ve been sat on by a camel! I can’t breathe!
Op: I beg your pardon?
Caller: I’ve been sat on by a camel.
Op: Ma’am, 911 is for life-threatening emergencies. Being pooped on by a camel, albeit disgusting and smelly, is not a life-threatening emergency.
Caller: Not shat on! Sat on! Sat on! wheeze
The last one was sighted in 1941, given that that’s about the last time anyone saw an ivory billed woodpecker until recently (officially, anyway), then it’s possible that there might still be some running about.
Apparently, the ones in Oz are causing real problems and are being killed.
This film is loosely based on that experiment, which happened to have been approved by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, who would become president of the Confederate States of America about a decade later.
According to this site, there were authenticated sightings of wild dromedaries and Bactrians in the western USA as late as the early twentieth century. Of course, there are probably cryptozoologists who insist that descendants of the quadrupeds recruited for the Camel Corps roam Utah and Nevada to this day…
Australia is populated by about 700,000 feral camels, and controversy is raging over how (or indeed whether) to cull the herd.
Well, if the film has Slim Pickins in it, it must be true.
“Well, boys, I reckon this is it - nuclear combat toe to toe with the Roosskies.”
(Okay, it was just an excuse to sneak a Dr. Strangelove quote in here.)
Stranger
Well, considering the subject matter, shouldn’t it be, “Well, boys, I reckon this is it - nuclear combat camel toe to camel toe with the Rooskies.”