Two angry camels in a car

Just for some background, those camels were packed into the car by their Beduin owner in Israel's Negev, to be driven to the west bank to be slaughtered.
source: http://www.irintech.com/x1/blogarchive.php?id=4462
Hebrew version: http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3679096,00.html

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#8 posted by The Unusual Suspect, March 4, 2009 11:02 AM

Some people will do anything to ride in the high-occupancy vehicle lanes.

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#9 posted by Takuan, March 4, 2009 11:05 AM

so they WERE screaming for help.

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#10 posted by tim, March 4, 2009 11:07 AM

Zoe? Zoe, is that you?

www.sluggy.net

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#11 posted by mdh, March 4, 2009 11:07 AM

Camel Cash Cab.

(anyone remember Camel Cash?)

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#12 posted by Lauren O, March 4, 2009 11:09 AM

Ahh I am just about to start revising an assignment that discusses Bedouins and their camels! This is a glitch in the matrix or something.

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#13 posted by Phikus, March 4, 2009 11:10 AM

I've heard of walking a mile for a camel but this...

It is harder for a rich man to get into heaven than to stuff two camels into a... oh nevermind!

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#14 posted by mindysan33, March 4, 2009 11:16 AM

Actually, this is totally how I feel about the world right now... I feel like a camel stuffed in a car, about to be taken to the slaughter and screaming about it.

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#15 posted by mdh, March 4, 2009 11:18 AM

It is harder for a rich man to get into heaven than to stuff two camels into a...

bwahahahahah

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#16 posted by igpajo, March 4, 2009 11:24 AM

Denkbert said

"Two angry camels in a car"

... sounds like the title of a cool B-movie ^^

It would star Samuel L. Jackson of course!

I'd like to see the video of the guy putting the camels into the car!

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#17 posted by demidan, March 4, 2009 11:28 AM

They sound a bit like drunken frat boys.

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#18 posted by Anonymous, March 4, 2009 11:38 AM

I'm wondering two important things:

1) How the hell do you stuff two (apparently) fully-grown camels into a Toyota Corolla? Don't give me "very carefully" -- I'm amazed nobody died in the attempt.

2) How the hell do you get two very pissed off (apparently) fully-grown camels OUT of a Toyota Corolla? Without incurring gross bodily harm?

Okay - the back story about going to the butcher helps, but I'm wondering who got slaughtered.

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#19 posted by Drhaggis, March 4, 2009 11:55 AM

Two camels, one car. Hot.

Too soon?

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#20 posted by arkizzle / Moderator, March 4, 2009 12:01 PM

Igpajo

"I have had it with these motherfucking camels in this motherfucking car!"

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#21 posted by Patrick Dodds , March 4, 2009 12:05 PM

I'd like to see the Bedouin drive the car.
Going for slaughter eh? I love how there is apparently no end to the cruelty and stupidity of man.

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#22 posted by ROSSINDETROIT, March 4, 2009 12:06 PM

I mourn the end of intentional Absurdism. How could you invent something like this?

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#23 posted by Takuan, March 4, 2009 12:10 PM

you vegan, Patrick?

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#24 posted by palindrome, March 4, 2009 12:18 PM

Can't wait for the Parry Gripp singalong version!

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#25 posted by Patrick Dodds , March 4, 2009 12:20 PM

I'm not Tak - fish and dairy I eat. And wear leather.

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#26 posted by Takuan, March 4, 2009 12:26 PM

it's just that eating camels there is like eating cows in the USA, say. Or horses.

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#27 posted by Patrick Dodds , March 4, 2009 12:30 PM

Perhaps the video could be called "two distressed camels in a car". Not so funny then though.... Maybe they are tied up? Perhaps their legs have been broken - they don't seem to be trying to get out the open doors on the other side.

Oh and Tak: wild fish, not farmed - makes me feel better though sure, there is a degree of hypocrisy there. And leather - there isn't really an alternative for shoes, least not in cold climes. If there were and I could afford it I'd give it a go.

Compromise - it's a bugger.

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#28 posted by Teller, March 4, 2009 12:32 PM

"I got shotgun!"

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#29 posted by Takuan, March 4, 2009 12:38 PM

the damage fish farming does outweighs eating wild stock. Unless of course ALL the wild stock gets eaten. Yeah, I can't imagine how he jammed the camels in there. I understand them to be usually so ill tempered though, that perhaps the screaming was just normal annoyance.

Nothing wrong with compromise when it reduces evil.

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#30 posted by rasz, March 4, 2009 12:38 PM

all i heard was WAZAAAAAAAAAAAAAp

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#31 posted by Xydexx, March 4, 2009 12:40 PM

What a great sound. I could listen to that all day.

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#32 posted by dbarak, March 4, 2009 12:44 PM

I don't know why frat guys think belching is so funny.

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#33 posted by eideal852, March 4, 2009 12:45 PM

^^damn straight RASZ^^
1:"whazaaaaa.."
2:"aaaaaa.."
1:"aaaaa.."
2:"aaaaaP!!!"

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#34 posted by dbarak, March 4, 2009 12:49 PM

@ #17 posted by demidan

Argh. I read your post AFTER I posted mine. Sheesh. ; )

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#35 posted by stanfrombrooklyn, March 4, 2009 12:59 PM

Is this in Dearborn?

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#36 posted by deysale, March 4, 2009 1:32 PM

is this Obama's Iraq withdrawal plan? does the military have enough armor-plated Corolla's to send in 200k angry camels?

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#37 posted by Darren Garrison, March 4, 2009 1:40 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJTowD_ZJic

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#38 posted by Teresa Nielsen Hayden, March 4, 2009 1:40 PM

Rasz, Eideal, count me as the third vote on that one.

Deysale, please don't drag politicians into threads where they don't belong.

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#39 posted by mdh, March 4, 2009 1:47 PM

But Indy, you asked me for a Bedouin camel driver!!!

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#40 posted by Trent Hawkins, March 4, 2009 1:47 PM

to #38:
8 years later

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq8Uc5BFogE&feature=

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#41 posted by V, March 4, 2009 2:04 PM

So I go to Circuit City and buy a car security system, but they won't let me check the box before I purchase...

Damn you Circuit City!

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#42 posted by fnc, March 4, 2009 2:28 PM

I will name them Harold and Kumar. No, Herod and Kumar.

I cannot even begin to imagine how one accomplishes this feat, the feat of driving the car, or the feat of getting them out of the car at your destination. We know the first one can be done, the second one could have taken place before the video was taken, the third we may never know.

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#43 posted by Anonymous, March 4, 2009 4:06 PM

That'd make a great ringtone.

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#44 posted by Bevin, March 4, 2009 4:23 PM

Haha #30 Rasz... that was my first thought too.

My 9-year-old daughter's first thought was that they had road rage. Hmm... is that what I sound like while driving?

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#45 posted by ridl, March 4, 2009 5:41 PM

V (@ 31) for Victory!

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#46 posted by daemonsquire, March 4, 2009 8:01 PM

For what it's worth, #18, I don't think these camels are very "(apparently) fully grown", unless they grow 'em a lot smaller in Palestine. The few camels I've seen, around Rajasthan, looked freakishly other-worldly, by how much they dwarfed the horses they crossed paths with. I don't see how you'd fit one in a car. Which begs the question: why would you sell a juvenile camel for meat? In the story ethan1701 links to above, @ #7, there's not much sense to be made of it:
Abu Jamma said that the car's driver explained to him that he was smuggling the camels to the Palestinian territories to be slaughtered and sold for meat. "It is less expensive than lamb. For the price of four sheep, you can buy one camel," he explained.
Doesn't that mean it's more expensive? ...oh, I guess, if there's a lot more meat on the camel than there are on four sheep, then it makes sense. But again, these look like, uh, rather compact camels.

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#47 posted by Avi Solomon, March 4, 2009 8:01 PM

Pack Animals are routinely tortured, slaughtered or abandoned in the Holy Land. Former British Airways hostess Lucy Fensom operates a shelter for these unfortunates in Moshav gan Yoshiyya.

Safe Haven For Donkeys In The Holy Land:
http://www.safehaven4donkeys.org/about_us/index.php

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#48 posted by randee, March 4, 2009 9:31 PM

Well, you can't say that's not truth in marketing.

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#49 posted by dainel, March 5, 2009 5:46 AM

On the http://www.irintech.com/x1/blogarchive.php?id=4462 post pointed out by #7 Ethan1701, the first and only comment by Ted Newsom says it's a fake. I think he is right. There's just not enough space in that car for the camels.

Even if the car had no seats, it would be hard to squeeze in that camel in front. Unless the car had no floor either, and the camel's backside was half out of the left rear door. As for the camel behind, there's only enough space in the car for the head and neck alone. Are we looking at a two headed camel, or is the body of the second camel in the car's trunk?

If I had to guess, I'd say somebody lifted the shell of a car and placed it atop these two camels. Either that, or some real fancy video editing. Or Doraemon's 4D pocket really do exist.

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#50 posted by Cupcake Faerie, March 5, 2009 8:44 AM

I wouldn't deny that this is amusing and very unusual, to me it seems unspeakably cruel as well.

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#51 posted by TroofSeeker, March 5, 2009 9:27 AM

Thanks to the wonderous new Camel-To-English translator, we now know what the camels are saying.

Front seat camel: "Fries! I want fries with that!"
Back seat camel: "No cheese on mine! You know how that blocks me up!"

You're right, Cupcake Faerie. Feeding them cheap fast food is cruel.

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#52 posted by waugsqueke, March 5, 2009 10:36 AM

Are they on their way home from the dentist?

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