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Kangaroo in Wisconsin

kittynh

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050106/ap_on_re_us/brf_escaped_kangaroo


tells about a kangaroo that was found wandering around in the Wisconsin winter. People didn't want to report it as they would be thought "fools".

I had to same feeling when long long ago I believed in the Loch Ness monster. (Trust me, I hadn't researched it). When I went to Loch Ness there was this dread, that if I did see it people would laugh. I even took a picture of an odd wave (which was later explained to me) that looked like the wake of a large object. To be honest, the resulting picture was better than many monster pics. I never showed it to anyone before JREF just because I didn't want laughter.

This makes me wonder about people who do report UFOs and Loch Ness monsters.
 
They don't know where it came from.... Sheesh, this is an animal that can easily make 30+mph for good distances. In a one or two days it can be over a hundred miles away. More likely it escaped from a local zoo, at which the fences were too low (they can clear 8ft fences no problem too).

I sure hope they didn't try wrestling it to the ground - that's a great way to be disembowelled by it (truly!). Just feed it, and it will probably follow you like a puppy.
 
Wouldn't you notice if you were missing a kangaroo?

And report it to someone?

Pool Boy's mom once found an Emu. It was just walking down the road. She put ads in the paper, she did everything to try to find it's home.

Now she owns an Emu.
 
Maybe a new unidentified species related to Kangaroos.
As for the Monster ... I'll be in Inverness tomorrow !!!
I'll keep an eye open.
Last time I was there all I saw was the leopard man.
 
jambo372 said:
Maybe a new unidentified species related to Kangaroos.
As for the Monster ... I'll be in Inverness tomorrow !!!
I'll keep an eye open.
Last time I was there all I saw was the leopard man.
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While you are in Inverness, see a doctor.
 
Zep said:
Just feed it, and it will probably follow you like a puppy.
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Looks like they stop everything for something to eat :D


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Hey, I've lived in Wisconsin. To be honest, the Packers are a REAL football team. Green Bay is this small little town, and they have a professional football team! When Green Bay won the Super Bowl, there weren't any riots. They threw a parade and everyon came out.

So, if they dress a little nutty it's ok. They are just having fun.
 
Hey, I've lived in Wisconsin. To be honest, the Packers are a REAL football team. Green Bay is this small little town, and they have a professional football team! When Green Bay won the Super Bowl, there weren't any riots. They threw a parade and everyon came out.
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Wildcat is just sore that his beloved Bears turned in another clunker of a season. Even though the Pack spotted them a game earlier in the season.

As a Wisconsin native, I proudly wear one of my 4 cheese-heads (when I go back home) while sitting on my parent's porch feeding the many wild kangaroos native to Door County.

:p
 
I LOVE Door County! We used to zip up there to bike during the summers! I loved driving through Alaska, Wisconsin!

Wait, wasn't there a Kangaroo Lake there? Hmmm.....

I totally wanted to buy a place there, but we moved before we got rich:(
 
kittynh---I am from the Eau Claire, Wisconsin area. On two occasions, about one year apart, I thought I saw a cheetah run across the road. I never reported it because I figure all I'd get were laughs. But, I did read some accounts after that where people were reporting sightings of possible mountain lion type cats, which go by several different familiar names. Hmmm.

When I ran down four deer at once a few years back, doing 55, I got the local cop to laugh out of disbelief. I took him back to the site where two were dead outright...but I knew I hit all four.

Good ol Wisconsin. Home of Jeff Dahmer and good ol Ed Gein, who made lampshades out of his victims. And, Elmwood ,Wisconsin that has some shrine to UFO's/aliens, which draws fruitcakes from around the country. :D

Green Bay vs. Minnesota this weekend. Go Green Bay! (They already beat them twice this year...but *this* is the game for all the marbles.)
 
I know!

Pool Boy is going to pull out the cheese head from the closet to wear whilel watching the game.

At school this week I was trying to get some of the 1st graders to wear their gloves. They informed me that Bret Farve didn't wear gloves, and his hands were ok!

ggrrrr!!!!
 
Starrman said:
Wildcat is just sore that his beloved Bears turned in another clunker of a season. Even though the Pack spotted them a game earlier in the season.

As a Wisconsin native, I proudly wear one of my 4 cheese-heads (when I go back home) while sitting on my parent's porch feeding the many wild kangaroos native to Door County.

:p
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That first guy is you, isn't it? ;)

Yes, it was a disastrous season for the Bears. But I'm not sore! Okay, maybe a little bit. :(
 
Did you see the new Wisconsin quarters? They feature a wheel of cheese, a cow, and an ear of corn. No kangaroos though.
 
One unusual claim will hardly get you laughed at. It's more like one unusual claim repeated a hundred times supported by ambiguous evidence and/or bad reasoning, claims of evidence repeated without showing it, or anything else of that nature. That's more likely to attract laughter.


Usually when it goes on too long and the likes of Penn and Teller get a hold of it, now that is going to attract laughter. Even if it's just Penn's.
 
Wildcat---No. I haven't seen one of our state quarters yet! aaargh. Even my bank says they have a hard time getting ahold of them. I bet all the people up in Greenbay got ahold of them and are hording them! :D

Let's see, guys and gals. ..We had better try to make something paranormal out of this thread before we get booted into some other topics forum.:wink8:
 
c4ts said:
One unusual claim will hardly get you laughed at. It's more like one unusual claim repeated a hundred times supported by ambiguous evidence and/or bad reasoning, claims of evidence repeated without showing it, or anything else of that nature. That's more likely to attract laughter.


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Is that when one person makes hundreds of claims or can this apply to one hundred people making one (goofy) claim?...like sighting UfO's, and calling them alien encounters. Really now...we all must realize, seriously, that alien-type UFO's aren't going to be flying around with lights on. Why would they have lights? If they want us to see them, they would land. If they don't want us to see them, they would energize some high tech warp shield that would prevent even our radar from seeing them, as surely, if they got here from some planetary system that requires many years (from our current technologies) to get here...then they would be advanced enough to not have lights going.

And why would it just so happen that the aliens crashed at Roswell of all places, where secret testing of US made flying saucers have been tested? This UFO stuff is nutty. Some people don't even realize that when it just turns nighttime, that any object up in the sky can reflect the sun and shine super bright. Unusual changes of directions can be a matter of perspective, such as a plane turning while in a holding/landing pattern. The glowing object (the plane) will apear to stop in the sky, and then go bacxkwards...when in reality, it was circling. People just don't understand all the laws of physics and are being fooled.

Where is all the evidence of UFO's if they are really there? There is no real concrete proof of them.

Now.. . we return you back to your kangaroo story. ......
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kittynh said:
I never showed it to anyone before JREF just because I didn't want laughter.
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I live on a peninsula in the middle of Lake Champlain (see "Location" under my avatar if you want exact info). There have been recorded reports of a monster living in the lake ever since it was first seen by white men (Samuel Champlain, the lake's European discoverer, made that first report some 400 years ago). Believe me, you might get a little laughter, but even a fuzzy photo will get you a lot of interviews, as well. In fact, copies of your fuzzy would sell like hotcakes in the Burlington "science" museum, so I strongly suggest you get it copyrighted before showing it.

BTW, the monster's name is "Champ." Cute, huh? There's another monster in Lake Memphromagog, ~50 miles to the east, but its name is downright silly.
 
Iamme said:
c4ts said:
One unusual claim will hardly get you laughed at. It's more like one unusual claim repeated a hundred times supported by ambiguous evidence and/or bad reasoning, claims of evidence repeated without showing it, or anything else of that nature. That's more likely to attract laughter.


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Is that when one person makes hundreds of claims or can this apply to one hundred people making one (goofy) claim?...like sighting UfO's, and calling them alien encounters. Really now...we all must realize, seriously, that alien-type UFO's aren't going to be flying around with lights on. Why would they have lights? If they want us to see them, they would land. If they don't want us to see them, they would energize some high tech warp shield that would prevent even our radar from seeing them, as surely, if they got here from some planetary system that requires many years (from our current technologies) to get here...then they would be advanced enough to not have lights going.

And why would it just so happen that the aliens crashed at Roswell of all places, where secret testing of US made flying saucers have been tested? This UFO stuff is nutty. Some people don't even realize that when it just turns nighttime, that any object up in the sky can reflect the sun and shine super bright. Unusual changes of directions can be a matter of perspective, such as a plane turning while in a holding/landing pattern. The glowing object (the plane) will apear to stop in the sky, and then go bacxkwards...when in reality, it was circling. People just don't understand all the laws of physics and are being fooled.

Where is all the evidence of UFO's if they are really there? There is no real concrete proof of them.

Now.. . we return you back to your kangaroo story. ......
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Actually, it's not the UFO that is the absurd claim. UFO just means you don't know what it is. It's the claim that the UFO must be an alien spacecraft because it can't be identified that's nutty.
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