Man finds lizard taped to his car door
The bad news: some idiot in Australia taped a live lizard to a man's car door while he was out taking photos. The good news: he was able to save the lizard by taking it home and using scissors to cut off the tape.
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The horror. What kind of sick world do we live in?
I'm glad it wasn't whacked or drained.
That it was stuck to a knob against its will is not so gladdening.
I do not object to freeing the lizard; in the right circumstances, of course.
a six year old? A psychopathic android? Anyone from a place where lizards are food? A particularly intensely ivory-towered collector? Any $cientologist? An obscure aboriginal mafioso warning? ("he sleeps with the lizards"), Dick Cheney?
*Sigh* Crazy BDSM lizards will try anything once.
One time, I found a plastic bag from Target on my doorstep with one uncooked blue crab in it. It may have been alive at some point, but it wasn't when I found it. We asked all our friends who were likely suspects to play such a joke about it, and they all denied it. I checked the internet to see if it was some sort of common prank we just hadn't heard about, but didn't find anything. We never did figure out what it was about.
But taping up a live lizard is much worse. I'm glad the lizard lived.
"One time, I found a plastic bag from Target on my doorstep with one uncooked blue crab in it. It may have been alive at some point, but it wasn't when I found it."
One of the many failed second comings of Christ.
I leaned a dead skunk against my roommate's door once, but I swear that it was dead when I found it.
Poor critter. At least the guy had a camera along to get a picture of the.. um. Installation?
From the article it sounds like someone's screwing with the cars fairly regularly. Sounds like a good chance to get on with your business and also set up a remote camera to catch the bastards.
if it's sexual it doesn't count.
what solvents are safe and will work on tape and sticky traps? I know at least one person who spent guilt-stricken hours trying to free a deer mouse enmeshed in a sticky trap intended for insects. It was the little screams that did it.
There was a cockroach in my new Ben Sherman jacket.
This is sorcery.
There was a roach in a car I rented a while back.
Don't know what happened to it.
@TAKUAN: Alcohol or acetone, something in the methyl ethyl ketones. Should free the mouse before it dies of liver rot.
I've heard that cooking oil works on sticky traps, although that might be only the kind intended as catch-and-release.
I'll remember that and pass that on. One day, a little mouse will show his gratitude to me by giving me Hanta virus.
Antinous: Isn't your roommate's door, kinda, you know, by definition, your door too? Did you lean a dead skunk against your own door? That sounds like a poorly thought-out prank to me.
When you're dealing with a dead skunk, you kind of have to give up any attempts at risk management.
and how did this mephitidid come to pass away?
I was digging through some flotsam in the garage and found a lizard who had gotten stuck on loose strip of duct tape and had neatly mummified. Poor guy had gotten most of his body stuck trying to wriggle off, I gather.
Frogs being married in a large ceremonial wedding-NOT CRUEL.
Lizard taped to a car-EXTREMELY CRUEL.
Wait, how did they get the frogs to stand still at that wedding? Was it the weight of their little groom hats? I kid. I kid.
Poor lizard. I'll bet from this point on he avoids cars, tape, and sorcerers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZxjDic4P7I
I am stunned, Takuan. That was strangely historically accurate.
heh!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Jodorowsky
Are we sure it's not just some odd Australian version of the Godfather horse head scene?
Well, at least it was electrical tape. Fortunately it's only marginally sticker than the average rock. If the moron had used tyvek, he'd probably have had to skin it.
There will be retribution.
Countdown to reptile attack...
electric tape is carcenogenic!
Bizarre.
I found a bird stuck to a fence on the weekend:
http://shotwildlife.blogspot.com/2009/01/rosella-rescue.html
whoever rescues a wild bird earns one less millennium in hell.
@ #28 desiredusername
electric tape is carcenogenic!
Really? Oh shit.
As a kid I once found a whole bunch of starfish in garbage cans - still alive. So some other kids and I covered our bodies in star fish and walked them back to the ocean.
starfish: two millennia.
Australia: Where we can easily take wildlife for granted and abuse it. 'Cause hell! there's so much of it.
I've stapled two baby Koalas to my ear lobes for the day. Tres fashionable!
Takuan: you can get "organic" citrus compounds that aren't too dangerous to get on skin. They're very useful for removing sticky tape residue from delicate objects, clothes, my cat's fur.
Insert: Americans use "roommate" to mean "flatmate" or "housemate". So the "roommate" probably had a different bedroom within the shared house.
What #13 said. It was successful sorcery too--the photographer said he wasn't coming back.