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You got to love Florida
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ISLAMORADA, Fla. — Sheriff’s dispatchers didn’t know what the problem was when they got a frantic 911 call at 1:20 a.m. All the caller could do is yell his address and tell them he was “crushed.”
According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, deputies rushed to the scene, a residence at the 88-mile marker of U.S. 1.
When they got inside, they found the man who’d apparently fallen asleep in his recliner.
He was abruptly awakened when the head of a water buffalo that had been hanging on the wall next to him fell onto his lap.
According to Deputy Don Dalton, the head was so heavy the man couldn’t move, but his cell phone was close enough to his hand that he was able to call for help.
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Call this delayed karma. The water buffalo was shot a decade ago and was given to its present owner.
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ISLAMORADA, Fla.
I wondered about the name of the village, half expecting to see sort of a little Arabia, LOL.
http://www.islamoradachamber.com/restaurants.cfm
Guess not. :)
If the silly twits hadn't...
...run the two words together -- trying to be cute -- if illiterate -- and left them separate, as they should have done, there'd be no question, although "isla morada" is still slightly ambiguous, since "morada" can either be the color purple used as an adjective, or a synonym for "home" or "place." La última morada isn't the deepest purple, but one's final dwelling place, but seen not as the grave but rather Heaven.
Cheers,
Puddin'
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Cheers,
Puddin'
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Good job
he didn't live in Buffalo; or if the horns had got him - gore blimey! They do say water buffalo are amongst the most dangerous animals on the planet, or is that a load of bull?
Angharad
Angharad
I believe you might be
I believe you might be thinking of Cape Buffalo when you say "among the most dangerous animals on the planet". Thousands of years of selective breeding have domesticated water buffalo, and now they are widely used in South East Asia as draft animals. They are derived from wild water buffalo, which are on the endangered animal list.
The Cape buffalo is distantly related to water buffalo, but it's like comparing the family dog to a great gray wolf. The best description I've heard of a Cape buffalo is "a rabid weasel brain in a body built like a Panzer tank".
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