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#1 of 28 Posted 10/19/08 9:34 PM

From b123456h Posts 124 Last Oct-31
To All [Msg # 34447.1 ]

i know the picture is captioned, but is the creature in it real?
if so what is it and where does it live?

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#2 of 28 Posted 10/19/08 10:04 PM

From Nancy Crays Posts 1474 Last Jun-8
To b123456h [Msg # 34447.2 34447.1 ]

What critter? I don't see one attached nor do I see a link.

Nancy C.
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#3 of 28 Posted 10/19/08 10:43 PM

From b123456h Posts 124 Last Oct-31
To Nancy Crays [Msg # 34447.3 34447.2 ]

blast, i forgot to attach it

here it is

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#4 of 28 Posted 10/20/08 1:16 PM

From Mike Campos / Sysop Posts 2534 Last Nov-21
To b123456h [Msg # 34447.4 34447.3 ] (Unread)

Seems fake and the web site listed on the bottom of the image seems to be about funny pictures.

Mike

Mission Viejo, CA

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#5 of 28 Posted 10/20/08 2:18 PM

From Ron Wrucke-VA Eastern Shore Posts 770 Last Nov-21
To Mike Campos / Sysop [Msg # 34447.5 34447.4 ]

<<Seems fake ... >>

.. you move to California and your memory goes kaput!! You should know that's a Jersey City Sand Crab (JCSC) which is a well-known evolution anomaly ... somehow when the seas receded a few eons ago, they got left behind and learned how to subsist on dry land which was OK since they really didn't bother anybody (there wasn't anybody to bother .. ). Even the advent of man in the form of the fearsome Lenni-Lenapi, the Indian terrorists of the Jersey Coast, didn't screw up their evolution as they generally remained no bigger than the palm of your hand. Then came the White Man, followed by civilization ... then toxic dumps appeared in the Meadowlands, and nature went nuts and gave rise to the Jersey City Sand Crab (some people think nature went nuts when Jersey City arrived on the scene, but that's a story for another day) - you think NYC rats are tough critters, they don't stand a chance against the Jersey City monsters .. the story goes that the NYC sewer system is now alligator-free thanks to the JCSC (they swam across the Hudson) .. New York is currently in a panic, since the crabs are now feasting on those fancy-schmancy dogs prancing around Central Park .. for some reason, they prefer poodles .. !!

.. word has it they are getting bigger, and in search of warmer surroundings .. they have been spotted in small numbers west of the Mississippi and are expected to reach CA in about eight years. They are immune to poison, and very hard to trap .. the only way to kill them at this time is with an AK47 loaded with armor piercing shells. Supposedly, the crab's shells are growing harder on a geometric scale, and it is feared that by the time they reach the west coast, they may be immune to man's attempts to control their growth.

There is a rumor that the CIA is trapping as many as they can catch, and turning them loose on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border in an experiment to stop the flow of terrorists roaming the mountains over there ... Supposedly, after a couple of days crawling around the barren landscape with no food, they really get mean and turn into man-eating fiends .. Go Crabs!!!

Hey, you think property values are down now, wait till the JCSC's arrive on your doorstep ... they'll be pretty hungry after crossing the Rockies .. :-)

Ron Wrucke
Eastern Shore Imaging

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#6 of 28 Posted 10/20/08 2:26 PM

From Jon Woolf Posts 731 Last Nov-20
To b123456h [Msg # 34447.6 34447.3 ] (Unread)

The critter is real, although the photo as a whole might well be a photoshop job. ICanHasCheezburger.com generally allows people to upload pictures from any source, real or fake, so long as they have permission from the copyright-holder. Then they add the caption using ICHC's own image-changer.

Anyway, the critter in the picture is a Coconut Crab, a kind of gigantic hermit crab that's found on any of a bunch of islands and atolls in the tropical Indian and Pacific oceans. Biggest land-living arthropod in the world, and one of the biggest arthropods of any kind. Compare your picture to the crab on the left in this picture; the similarity is obvious.

-- JSW

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#7 of 28 Posted 10/20/08 2:57 PM

From Mike Campos / Sysop Posts 2534 Last Nov-21
To Jon Woolf [Msg # 34447.7 34447.6 ]

You are no fun, I like Ron's story better <g>.

I stand corrected.

Mike

Mission Viejo, CA

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#8 of 28 Posted 10/20/08 3:43 PM

From Mike Hughes Posts 630 Last 4/29/09
To Jon Woolf [Msg # 34447.8 34447.6 ]

Jon

What a wonderful creature! I had not heard of them. I thought it was remarkable that they can't swim and will drown if they fall in the water. Since they do moult, that could be an empty shell which someone attached to the garbage can as a joke but it certainly could be a Photoshop job.

Mike

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#9 of 28 Posted 10/20/08 4:40 PM

From Ron Wrucke-VA Eastern Shore Posts 770 Last Nov-21
To Mike Campos / Sysop [Msg # 34447.9 34447.7 ]

<<You are no fun, I like Ron's story better <g>.>>

.. you won't after one of those suckers start ringing your doorbell ... :-)

Ron Wrucke
Eastern Shore Imaging

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#10 of 28 Posted 10/20/08 5:18 PM

From Jon Woolf Posts 731 Last Nov-20
To Mike Campos / Sysop [Msg # 34447.10 34447.7 ]

Now, now, don't go all crabby on us.

Coconut crabs are one of those critters that are funny without embellishment. I mean, a crab that can't swim but can climb trees? Proof positive that the Universe has a sense of humor, and ain't above a real old-fashioned bender on occasion.

-- JSW

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#11 of 28 Posted 10/21/08 12:26 PM

From Cristen Posts 2304 Last Nov-21
To Ron Wrucke-VA Eastern Shore [Msg # 34447.11 34447.5 ]

We did a lot of nuclear testing in the South Seas. Your documentary is no doubt true, and these New Jersey cousins of the Bora-Bora Coconut crab will arrive in CA just as half the state will have broken off from the mainland in an earthquake and I will be living on a beach where crabs belong.

Cristen

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#12 of 28 Posted 10/21/08 12:29 PM

From Mike Campos / Sysop Posts 2534 Last Nov-21
To Cristen [Msg # 34447.12 34447.11 ]

Goody, I haven't had a good crab cake since moving to CA.

Mike

Mission Viejo, CA

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#13 of 28 Posted 10/21/08 3:39 PM

From Ron Wrucke-VA Eastern Shore Posts 770 Last Nov-21
To Cristen [Msg # 34447.13 34447.11 ]

<<these New Jersey cousins of the Bora-Bora Coconut crab will arrive in CA just as half the state will have broken off from the mainland in an earthquake and I will be living on a beach where crabs belong>>

... pray that earthquake hits before the crabs arrive ... :-)

Ron Wrucke
Eastern Shore Imaging

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#14 of 28 Posted 10/21/08 3:43 PM

From Ron Wrucke-VA Eastern Shore Posts 770 Last Nov-21
To Mike Campos / Sysop [Msg # 34447.14 34447.12 ]

<<I haven't had a good crab cake since moving to CA.>>

.. I'm having crab cakes tonight - picked the big old blue crabs myself; no filler .. nothing but lump crab.

I'll have a cold brew (or two) and give you a little toast as I sprinkle a little Old Bay here and there ... :-)

Ron Wrucke
Eastern Shore Imaging

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#15 of 28 Posted 10/21/08 3:46 PM

From Mike Campos / Sysop Posts 2534 Last Nov-21
To Ron Wrucke-VA Eastern Shore [Msg # 34447.15 34447.14 ]

Yeah rub it in, the Old Bay that is.

Mike

Mission Viejo, CA

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#16 of 28 Posted 10/21/08 5:25 PM

From Jeff Peterman Posts 5373 Last Nov-21
To Mike Campos / Sysop [Msg # 34447.16 34447.15 ]

Have yuo tried New Bay seasoning, so-called because it is extracted from foam on New Jersey beaches?

Jeff Peterman
"What we got here, is . . . failure to communicate."

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#17 of 28 Posted 10/21/08 7:25 PM

From Ron Wrucke-VA Eastern Shore Posts 770 Last Nov-21
To Jeff Peterman [Msg # 34447.17 34447.16 ]