Miss Piggy's Grocery Store Checkout Headlines

[Tajin]

We're as depraved as always, its more public now is all.

[Churchill]

[Qalbert]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...90N0OT20130125

(Reuters) - South Africa has called out the police to join the hunt for as many as 10,000 crocodiles on the loose after escaping from a farm during floods and being washed into one of southern Africa's biggest rivers, officials said on Friday.

Crocodile farmers, locals and police have trapped thousands of the reptiles, using plastic bands to tie their legs behind their backs and then piling them into pick-up trucks.

The flood gates at the Rakwena Crocodile Farm close to the Botswana and Zimbabwe borders were opened on Sunday because it was feared that rising flood waters would crush the reptiles, releasing some 15,000 crocodiles into the Limpopo River.

"At night time we have more success. It is much easier to see them," Zane Langman, whose in-laws own the farm, told news channel ENCA.

Most of the crocodiles are less then two meters (78 inches) long. The area is home to several farms that supply crocodile skins to the fashion industry.

"We are working as a team with the stakeholders," police spokesman Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi said on Friday. There have been no reports of injuries caused by the escaped reptiles.

Police in Zimbabwe, on the other side of the Limpopo, also issued warnings to people to avoid going into the water because of the crocodile threat.

Heavy rains and flooding have claimed at least 20 lives in Mozambique and South Africa and led to the evacuations of thousands.

[Fievel]

I wish I owned a crocodile farm.

[Mazmaz]

What's the purpose of raising crocodiles anyway?

[Qalbert]

making alligator clips

[Mazmaz]

I googled that. Consider me trolled.

[Tricen]

Well you can do some weird thing with blood or some shit with certain animals, and they are one. I forget what it's called, but they do it with bunnys and goats and other stuff probably. I highly doubt that's what it was for, but someone who worked with goats said they had an alligator farm in FL doing that. You inject an animal with a thing, and the animal builds anti bodies for it and then you bleed the animal (you don't kill it, they live and it's very professionally done and safe for the most part.) to get said anti bodies and then you do some other shit. Someone who worked for it explained it to me but then I forgot moments later.

[Cyn]

Am I wooshing or are you two somehow forgetting how much crocodile skin products cost? It even said in his quote that they were raised for skin.

People eat gator and croc meat too.

[Mazmaz]

Should just hunt them then.

[Salodin]

Croc skin for fashion, the meat cause its awesome when you eat it like popcorn chicken. There's even a show on tlc I think about american alligator hunters. There's apparently mad money in the hunting and sales of alligator corpses.

[Stumblingdrunk]

What's the purpose of raising crocodiles anyway?

A question for the ages indeed

The area is home to several farms that supply crocodile skins to the fashion industry.

its not even a long article. its right fucking there

[Kerberoz]

Tastes like (dark meat) chicken. Honestly, it does; you could probably use it in all the same recipes.

[Salodin]

I honestly prefer it over chicken as a snack. Is a little tangy, but same texture as chicken. Really wish it was sold more often in super markets.

[Cyn]

Should just hunt them then.

Yes, because that's so much more efficient and more likely to yield you a nice scarless, intact skin.

[Mazmaz]

You guys done?

[Qalbert]

Depends on how long you keep saying stupid shit, I imagine.

[noblemountain]

I think we'll have a lot more fodder to work with then, Qal.

[BaneTheBrawler]

Only 47% done.

[Milkster]

A FATHER in North Korea is reported to have been executed by firing squad after murdering his two children to eat them during a "hidden famine" that may have killed more than 10,000 people last year.
In a litany of horrors documented by undercover reporters, another man dug up his grandchild's corpse for food and a third, driven mad by hunger, boiled his own child and ate the flesh.

The stories were collected by Asia Press, a specialist news agency based in Osaka, Japan, which has a network of "citizen journalists" inside North Korea and is regarded as credible.
Dozens of interviews and clandestine reports have led it to conclude that "considerable numbers of people" - probably more than 10,000 - have died in North and South Hwanghae provinces, south of Pyongyang, the capital.

North Korea has not officially confirmed any deaths. A government-supervised mission by the UN last September reported a food surplus in both provinces, yet the clandestine reporting depicts a pattern of misery and death while Kim Jong-un, the country's leader, spent lavishly on banquets and missile tests. One informant, an official in South Hwanghae, said: "In my village in May, a man who killed his own two children and tried to eat them was executed by a firing squad. Digital Pass $1 for first 28 Days
"While his wife was away on business he killed his eldest daughter and, because his son saw what he had done, he killed his son as well. When the wife came home, he offered her food, saying: 'We have meat.'
"But his wife, suspicious, notified the Ministry of Public Security, which led to the discovery of part of their children's bodies under the eaves."

In its detailed 12-page report, Asia Press identifies reporters and sources by pseudonyms. "Particularly shocking were the numerous testimonies that hit us about cannibalism," said the agency's Jiro Ishimaru.
Gu Gwang-ho, one of the reporters in North Korea, wrote: "There was an incident when a man was arrested for digging up the grave of his grandchild and eating the remains."
In May in Haeju, South Hwanghae's main city, a man who had killed 11 people and sold the meat as pork was executed by firing squad.

"In a village in Chongdan county, a man who went mad with hunger boiled his own child, ate his flesh and was arrested," said a mid-ranking official of the ruling Korean Workers Party.
These incidents reportedly took place as Mr Kim, 30, marked his ascent to power with a new image, a glamorous wife and two costly rocket launches.
Last week, he followed these with a defiant pledge to retaliate against the latest UN sanctions by staging a third nuclear weapons test "aimed at the United States".

Early last year, officials confiscated food from farm collectives in North and South Hwanghae to supply the army and reward the privileged residents of Pyongyang for their loyalty to the Kim dynasty, the undercover reporters say.
But then a drought struck and, from April to June, farmers and their families in these "breadbasket" provinces began to die.
"One family was completely wiped out, everyone died of starvation, while another family gave up hope of living and killed themselves," said Gu.

A hospital administrator said there was no wood for coffins or cremations, so the dead had been wrapped in straw mats and tipped into an unmarked common grave.
"The farming villages I visited from May to June were in such a tragic state that I had to cover my eyes," the party official added. "There was no food at all. Casting out elderly parents or abandoning children was nothing rare."
"Political waste" on celebrations and extra rations for Pyongyang were key factors, according to the reporters.

Mr Kim, a plump, beaming figure, ordered new apartment blocks, imported equipment for a fairground and a dolphinarium, staged lavish festivities and appeared at a pop concert with his pregnant wife.

"The smooth transfer of power . . . was the top priority," according to the reporters. The famine in the Hwanghae provinces has passed its peak, the reports say. It is probable that when the UN team visited the area in the autumn, it was shown no evidence of it.
Japanese government sources say North Korea has developed a compact nuclear weapon that can fit on to a missile capable of reaching the US's west coast. The device may be equal in force to the atomic bomb that destroyed the city of Nagasaki in 1945, the sources told the Asahi Shimbun newspaper.

As Mr Kim celebrates his first year in power, it is clear thousands have paid for his adventures.
Additional reporting: Shota Ushio, Tokyo

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/...cle1202322.ece