[Ironcandle]

I bet this looked like a jousting contest...


Rhino gets amorous with car

Thursday, April 22, 2004 Posted: 9:16 AM EDT (1316 GMT)


LONDON, England (Reuters) -- A rampant rhinoceros gave a group of visitors a glimpse of nature in the raw at a British safari park when he tried to have sex with their car.

Sharka, a two-ton white rhino, got amorous with Dave Alsop's car when he stopped with three friends to take pictures of the animal mating with his partner Trixie at the West Midland Safari Park.

The 12-year-old rhino tried to mount the Renault Laguna from the side, denting the doors and ripping off the wing mirrors before Dave drove away with a puffing Sharka in pursuit.

"He was a big boy and obviously aroused," Alsop told the Sun newspaper on Thursday. "He sidled up against us. The next thing I know he's banging away at the car and it's rocking like hell."

A spokeswoman for the park, which says "rhinos are not particularly intelligent animals" on its Web site, said Sharka was a hit with the female rhinos and had fathered two calves in the last five years.

"He's got a bit of a reputation this lad and he was obviously at it again," she added

Rhino Plasti

[halfasleep]

I am surprised that none of the ladies have yet to jump in and say "Just another guy!!"...

[Ironcandle]

Don't fuck with Granny, she don' play 'dat.


Florida Woman Survives Alligator Attack

Thursday, April 22, 2004

SANIBEL, Fla. — A 74-year-old woman survived an attack by a nearly 10-foot-long alligator (search) that bit her on the leg and arm and dragged her into a lake. Jane C. Keefer was stable and in good condition at HealthPark Medical Center (search) early Thursday, hospital officials said.

Police said Keefer was attacked at about 8 p.m. Wednesday as she was gardening near the bank behind her home. Bitten first on the leg, Keefer was able to fight the alligator off, Sanibel Police Chief Bill Tomlinson said.

The reptile lunged at her a second time, biting her arm and dragging her into the water, before her husband, William, was able to help her get away, said Lar Gregory, an investigator with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (search).

Authorities captured the alligator at 10:45 p.m. behind Keefer's home. It will be destroyed. "This is the kind of gator that will kill you," said trapper John French.

[halfasleep]

To: the croc
From: Granny
Subject: Lunch