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Subj : Re: OT - Giant squid photographed.
To   : alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise
From : Fozzi
Date : Thu Sep 29 2005 17:06:01

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise


"Al Smith" <invalid@address.com> wrote in message 
news:1VT_e.98493$Ph4.3097947@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
>>> The idiots managed to tear off one of its arms while taking its picture. 
>>> Japanese can't even be eco-friendly with a camera!
>>
>>
>> They said on the news tonite that the poor thing struggled for 4 hours
>> before pulling away finally, and ripping it's tentacle off--won't kill
>> it, won't regrow it, but I bet it still hurts! :*(
>>
>> First time I ever felt sorry for a squid.
>
> That's what I was thinking. Here's this giant squid, the better part of a 
> mile under the ocean surface, and it encounters something it's never 
> encountered before it its life, some kind of metal squid lure baited with 
> fish. No wonder it has trouble handling it. It was like those poor sharks 
> that bash their mouths into the steel bars of shark cages. I bet the squid 
> finally had to cut off its own arm to get free.


admittedly i have woken up next to people and seriously thought of doing 
that just to avoid wakeing them up.

cheers
fozzi

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