I just try to avoid supporting them in any way, including channel views.
Is that over the top?
I misread that as “monkey laundering” which led me down a rabbit hole involving some nasty smuggling of primates. What a world . . .
Those unintentional rabbit holes that we end up in because of others … well … there should be recompense for the lost time, no?
TL;DR - I want my silver back.
Funny you mention that - Israeli police has been tracking a wildlife smuggling ring that apparently got (so far) a Nile crocodile, four lion cubs, and sixteen monkeys across the border using drones.
The way that sentence is written I am imagining people smuggling a crocodile with drones.
…that’s what the sentence was supposed to mean. Bedouins along the Israel-Egypt border have been using drones for smuggling, including by carrying animals across the border.
Well, now I feel dumb.
Now I don’t feel dumb anymore!
Well, it was still a little crocodile.
I believe this article is outdated, it’s up to 16 grivets
Okay, that makes sense.
Now I’m picturing a tiny crocodile surfing on a drone and having the time of its life.
(Yes, I know the reality is a lot darker, let me live in my fantasy world.)
That’s not dark and depressing (tiny crocodile surfing on a drone), but THIS is mind obliterating!
A teen-age girl tries to help a small, purple, jive-talking alligator escape the clutches of a greedy carnival owner as well as as an assortment of characters so he can be reunited with his owner.
So whatever you do, don’t mention your mental image to the ghost or heirs of Donald G. Jackson or we’ll have more brain-melting-drivel to damage ourselves with.
So…why are they smuggling lions and monkeys and crocodiles? I wouldn’t have thought there was much of a market for live crocodiles in Israel.
Maybe people with moats? A good moat needs crocodiles.
And put the baby lions between the moat and the entrance and feed them well to get big and strong, and the monkeys on top of the walls and teach them to fling poo at potential attackers. No one will intrude this building.
Crap. I know that’s a really common mnemonic for something. Is it for tuning a ukulele???
“A Good Moat Takes Crocodiles” is almost a mnemonic for the 4 proteins in DNA, that’s all I could come up with. (Adenine, Guanine, Thymine, Cytosine.) Maybe the “M” for “moat” stands for “mnemonic”.
Pet trade. About half the monkeys and 2 or 3 of the lion cubs were found in Bedouin camps in the Negev - maybe they thought they were “off the grid” enough that they wouldn’t get caught.
On the other hand, a guy in a much more central town was the one busted with the croc, as well as an anaconda, poison dart frogs, and a bunch more reptiles he wasn’t supposed to have.
The various animal rescue groups are pretty frustrated because no one involved has gotten a very harsh sentence yet. They’re arguing that this is what makes animal smuggling attractive to criminals - if you make tens of thousands of dollars running drugs or weapons, you might spend your life in prison if you’re caught. But if you’re caught running monkeys, that can go for quite a bit of money, you don’t get nearly as serious a sentence.
Dammit, there goes Spider-Man’s next nemesis, the Rep-Tamer.
(Cue the web-slinger quipping, "You really skink!)