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Title: Tortoise Suspected of Helping Baby Alligator Flee the Zoo
Source:
Takepart.com
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/tortoise-susp ... ;_ylt=A0LEVwwhLtVTSSYA3w1XNyoA
Published: Jul 26, 2014
Author: Kristina Bravo
Post Date: 2014-07-27 13:13:34 by Buzzard
Keywords: None
Views: 1489
Comments: 20
A baby alligator named Carlos has broken out of a Michigan zoo, thanks to a large tortoise that regularly strolls around the area. Gary Moore, who runs the GarLyn Zoo in Mackinac County, suspects that the 12-inch hatchling was able to sneak under the double fence because the tortoise wore the dirt away from the bottom of the railing. Moore didn’t notice that Carlos was gone until a state police trooper stopped by the zoo last Sunday to ask if a gator was missing. Turns out someone saw Carlos along the highway where the 30-acre facility is located, but no one wrangled him, so he’s still on the loose. The alligator isn’t dangerous, but Moore thinks the young reptile won’t survive in the outside world past October, when much of Michigan ices over for winter. “I’m asking people, if they see a little alligator holding a sign on U.S. 2 that says ‘Florida or bust,’ to call us,” he told MLive. “I hope we could spot him here soon.” Carlos is the first animal to escape in the 21 years that the zoo has been open, according to Moore. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed the American alligator from the endangered species list in 1987 after the reptile bounced back from being hunted to near extinction decades before. Today more than a million alligators freely roam the waters of Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas— where hunting is regulated. Poster Comment: These Alinsky-like shelled creatures are truly the Khazars of the animal kingdom. Whom else would insidiously seek to weaken a border over time so that their Hispanic-named fellow reptiles could remove themselves from their permitted living space and roam freely in areas where they have no natural right to exist? Right-thinking American mammals should never fully trust a Testudinidae of any sort.
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#2. To: Buzzard (#0)
Grammar check: Who else?
Grammar check: Who else? Prove it.
www.grammarbook.com/grammar/whoVwhom.asp Use whom when the relative pronoun takes an objective form, e.g, "I saw her." "Whom did you see?" "I saw Jane." — Jane is the object. What are relative pronouns? www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/relative_pronouns.htm What is the objective case? www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/objective_case.htm
Look, you're grammatically correct; but socially wrong. We don't have punctuation or grammar police here...just saying.
I was sticking up for Turtle in my own way. It was meant to be funny but the humor missed its mark. I don't mind being a social outcast for the sake of a good cause. I don't want it to be said that when they came for the turtles, I did nothing. After all, it's turtles all the way down. In any case, I'm a member of a special, independent unit of grammar enforcers. We correct at will, without permission, and we are ruthless. We welcome education when we ourselves are wrong. But we are seldom wrong. Hail grammar, the structure of communication, and the essence of language meaning!
Thoughts, put into words and strung together effectively can be most powerful, no matter the incorrect spelling, grammar, or punctuation. I look past those shortcomings to find the poster's message and find my reward there. It profits me nothing to hammer a member here for any grammatical error - nothing at all.
such as I ain't ne er gonna think twice about showin youse whater happen ta trespassers.
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#6. To: Deasy (#2)
Whom else
#9. To: Buzzard (#6)
Use who as the relative pronoun in place of a noun in action, "Who saw Jane?" "I just said that I saw her."
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#12. To: Lod, Turtle (#11)
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#13. To: Deasy (#12)
#18. To: Lod (#13)
Thoughts, put into words and strung together effectively can be most powerful, no matter the incorrect spelling, grammar, or punctuation.
#19. To: IRTorqued (#18)
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