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    Wal-Mart Sued For Housing Giant Swamp Rat
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    Image of southernbitch southernbitch
    05/11/09

    In reply to Wal-Mart Sued For Housing Giant Swamp Rat
    i think in orleans parish you can still get 10 cents a nutria tail. not 100percent on that, but pretty sure.
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    Image of southernbitch southernbitch
    05/11/09

    @southernbitch: clarification: 10 cents per tail if you turn them in to a police station. my boyfriend's father used to do this to supplement his income.


    from a 2004 state report:
    This program is funded by the Coastal Wetlands Planning,
    Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA). The objective is to increase the harvest of nutria in order to reduce damage to vegetation. A total of 332,596 nutria tails, worth $1,330,384 in incentive payments, were collected from 346 participants.

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    Image of Addie Webster Addie Webster
    05/11/09

    In reply to Wal-Mart Sued For Housing Giant Swamp Rat
    Thanks for the excuse to watch this video again:


    [www.comedycentral.com]


    Just let Dave Attell at em.

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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    05/11/09

    @Addie Webster: I was thinking about Dave Attell earlier when I was reading this!
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    05/11/09

    In reply to Wal-Mart Sued For Housing Giant Swamp Rat
    I love the two-step music in the background as the chef describes the nutrition properties in a filet of nutria..
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    05/11/09

    In reply to Wal-Mart Sued For Housing Giant Swamp Rat
    You know they make lovely coats, if you don't mind wearing what is essentially large rat fur: [www.nutria.com]
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    Image of Lizawithazee Lizawithazee
    05/11/09

    @bytememehard: Have you ever seen a mink wearing its own coat? Long, skinny rats with better PR.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    05/11/09

    In reply to Wal-Mart Sued For Housing Giant Swamp Rat
    climate change in action: nutrias in the subways next
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    Image of gerbilsoutofexile...is cheap and easy gerbilsoutofexile...is cheap and easy
    05/11/09

    In reply to Wal-Mart Sued For Housing Giant Swamp Rat
    Little bastards are eating their way through the Chesapeake Bay and destroying our habitats.


    I say, shoot em' on sight. Nothing a little barbecue sauce won't fix.

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    Image of MsMuffinMcGuffin MsMuffinMcGuffin
    05/11/09

    In reply to Wal-Mart Sued For Housing Giant Swamp Rat
    Eh, put a leash on it.


    Hiya, Captain! I'm enjoying your new gig.

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    Image of WindowSeat WindowSeat
    05/11/09

    In reply to Wal-Mart Sued For Housing Giant Swamp Rat
    The local WalMart has a sparrow problem, they've learned how to set off the door sensors and they head for the bird seed displays. This necessitates bringing in a sparrow hawk now and then to kill them.


    Maybe they need a panther in this store to keep down the Nutria?

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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    05/11/09

    @WindowSeat: the local home depot just accepts that sparrows are part of the Garden Department
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    05/11/09

    @WindowSeat: that panther would help with the free-range children issue, too.
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    Image of WindowSeat WindowSeat
    05/11/09

    @Hydroceph: Real crocodiles in the Crocs displays.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    05/11/09

    @WindowSeat: are there any North American crocodiles, or am i overthinking this?
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    Image of WindowSeat WindowSeat
    05/11/09

    @Hydroceph: Plenty of them in Florida. It's unpossible to overthink wild animals loose in a retail environment.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    05/11/09

    @WindowSeat: Not gators, you said crocodiles. There's a difference, i just can't remember what it was. I once went to an alligator farm while i lived in FL, you know, for the kitsch factor. With my luck, i found the one educationally redeeming alligator farm in the entire stinking state. Not that any of it penetrated. I was too distracted by the shellacked baby gator heads.
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    Image of ChillbearLatrigue ChillbearLatrigue
    05/11/09

    In reply to Wal-Mart Sued For Housing Giant Swamp Rat
    Maybe if Walmart would just stop their corporate bastardry - paying employees the minimum wage with no benefits, trading with China, vicious competitive practices, sexism and a decidedly anti-green policy, they wouldn't have a giant rat in one of their stores. It must be liberal karma, right?


    Wake up. Every Walmart has a store nutria. Sam Walton wanted it that way.

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    Image of Awesome X Awesome X
    05/11/09

    @ChillbearLatrigue: The employeees were keeping the nutria around to eat after it fattened up on Ben & Jerry's and Lay's.
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    Image of SaraRueful SaraRueful
    05/11/09

    @ChillbearLatrigue: Whoa, whoa, whoa! You're starting to sound like a bleeding-heart liberal there, Chillbear! Did someone slip you some Kool-Aid? :)
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    05/11/09

    @ChillbearLatrigue: I believe it. I mean, my office has a swamp witch (aka, my supervisor), so why not a swamp rat?
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    Image of Awesome X Awesome X
    05/11/09

    In reply to Wal-Mart Sued For Housing Giant Swamp Rat
    Those actually are just giant effin' rats in New Jersey, not nutria. Don't let New Jersey fool you with its wishful thinking.
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    Image of son of spam son of spam
    05/11/09

    In reply to Wal-Mart Sued For Housing Giant Swamp Rat
    Was the Walmart nutria obese or is that just assumed?
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    05/11/09

    @son of spam: Probably a shabby dresser, too.
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    05/11/09

    In reply to Wal-Mart Sued For Housing Giant Swamp Rat
    Wait until the customers meet Bobby the Bat!
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    Image of SarahHeartburn SarahHeartburn
    05/11/09

    In reply to Wal-Mart Sued For Housing Giant Swamp Rat
    When things get really rough on the Upper East Side, look for a NYT Styles section piece on Poodle Soufflé.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    05/11/09

    @SarahHeartburn: Have you checked out index in The Joy of Cooking? It's probably already in there. Those broads can cook anything.
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    05/11/09

    In reply to Wal-Mart Sued For Housing Giant Swamp Rat
    I can just see that cookbook 20 Ways to Cook The Creature From the Black Lagoon
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    05/11/09

    @Oy Veh (Informality Reigns): Swamp Thing Fricassee.
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