armadillos - any relation to squirrels? (ToM stage 2)

[bdbafh]

>From the Velonews feed:

11:26 AM Crash
In the truth is stranger than fiction department, we've just
gotten word that there was a significant pile-up at mile 3 that was
caused in part by a wayward armadillo. Among those hitting the deck
was Missouri native Dan Schmatz who has been reported as an abandon.
One racer who saw the incident said Schmatz actually hit the oversized
rodent. Wow...

 

[Howard Kveck]

In article <[email protected]>,
bdbafh <[email protected]> wrote:

> >From the Velonews feed:
>
> 11:26 AM Crash
> In the truth is stranger than fiction department, we've just
> gotten word that there was a significant pile-up at mile 3 that was
> caused in part by a wayward armadillo. Among those hitting the deck
> was Missouri native Dan Schmatz who has been reported as an abandon.
> One racer who saw the incident said Schmatz actually hit the oversized
> rodent. Wow...

Any news on the condition of the armadillo?

--
tanx,
Howard

Fabergé eggs are elegant but I prefer Fabergé bacon.

remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok?

 

[[email protected]]

On Sep 12, 6:05 pm, Howard Kveck <[email protected]> wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
>
> bdbafh <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >From the Velonews feed:
>
> > 11:26 AM Crash
> > In the truth is stranger than fiction department, we've just
> > gotten word that there was a significant pile-up at mile 3 that was
> > caused in part by a wayward armadillo. Among those hitting the deck
> > was Missouri native Dan Schmatz who has been reported as an abandon.
> > One racer who saw the incident said Schmatz actually hit the oversized
> > rodent. Wow...
>
> Any news on the condition of the armadillo?
>
> --
> tanx,
> Howard
>
> Fabergé eggs are elegant but I prefer Fabergé bacon.
>
> remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok?

The armadillo was probably tits-up. I've seen plenty of dead ones
alongside the road here in the midwest, but never a live one. One of
the funniest things I've ever seen was alongside a backroad south of
here. It was a dead armadillo on its' back and someone had balanced a
Busch beer can on its' belly.

Smokey

 

[Bill C]

On Sep 12, 9:23 pm, [email protected] wrote:
> On Sep 12, 6:05 pm, Howard Kveck <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > In article <[email protected]>,
>
> > bdbafh <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >From the Velonews feed:
>
> > > 11:26 AM Crash
> > > In the truth is stranger than fiction department, we've just
> > > gotten word that there was a significant pile-up at mile 3 that was
> > > caused in part by a wayward armadillo. Among those hitting the deck
> > > was Missouri native Dan Schmatz who has been reported as an abandon.
> > > One racer who saw the incident said Schmatz actually hit the oversized
> > > rodent. Wow...
>
> > Any news on the condition of the armadillo?
>
> > --
> > tanx,
> > Howard
>
> > Fabergé eggs are elegant but I prefer Fabergé bacon.
>
> > remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok?
>
> The armadillo was probably tits-up. I've seen plenty of dead ones
> alongside the road here in the midwest, but never a live one. One of
> the funniest things I've ever seen was alongside a backroad south of
> here. It was a dead armadillo on its' back and someone had balanced a
> Busch beer can on its' belly.
>
> Smokey- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Squirrels taste like chicken, how about armadillos?
Bill C

 

[Mike G]

In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] wrote:

> The armadillo was probably tits-up. I've seen plenty of dead ones
> alongside the road here in the midwest, but never a live one. One of
> the funniest things I've ever seen was alongside a backroad south of
> here. It was a dead armadillo on its' back and someone had balanced a
> Busch beer can on its' belly.
>
> Smokey

My brother is unfortunately not the killer that I am, and would live
capture armadillos and raccoons at his house, then take them 10 miles up
the road to a park and release them. Became a nightly project if he
wanted to keep the lawn.

The last state time trial championships I moto-reffed there were five
carcasses on the 30 k's of Texas Farm to Market road I patrolled. Three
'dillos, a 'possum and a coyote.

Felt it was my duty to clear the course of livestock, so my first pass
over the route was spent heaving road kill into the bar ditch.

I suppose I could have posed all the critters just for fun, but once you
get a whiff of a dead 'possum - all plans other than getting far, far
away go by the wayside.

Coyotes can get pretty big close to town, too. This one probably weighed
15 pounds...

Armadillos move in an extremely unpredictable way, and have a habit of
jumping two feet in the air when surprised.

Wouldn't want to hit any one of them, dead or alive, let alone subject
400 riders to smelling the dead ones coming and going.

Mike G.
-

 

[Jay Hill]

bdbafh wrote:
> One racer who saw the incident said Schmatz actually hit the oversized
> rodent. Wow...

They aren't rodents: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillo_World_Headquarters

 

[Scott]

On Sep 12, 10:42 am, bdbafh <[email protected]> wrote:
> >From the Velonews feed:
>
> 11:26 AM Crash
> In the truth is stranger than fiction department, we've just
> gotten word that there was a significant pile-up at mile 3 that was
> caused in part by a wayward armadillo. Among those hitting the deck
> was Missouri native Dan Schmatz who has been reported as an abandon.
> One racer who saw the incident said Schmatz actually hit the oversized
> rodent. Wow...

That's nothing. Some years ago I was competing in a race in
southeastern LA (the state, not the city) that had a much freakier
accident than hitting an armadillo.

Coming through a particular area on the second of three circuits, we
noticed a rather large blood splatter that wasn't there on lap one.
Asking around after the race to see if anyone knew what happened, I
was told that when the elite field was passing through there earlier,
a deer spooked and crossed the road right in front of the pack. It
missed all the riders, but wasn't so lucky regarding the pickup
heading in the opposite direction. From what I was told, no riders
went down but there was massive blood/guts strewn across much of the
pack.

I can't imagine how they continued without lot's of puking. The
carnage left behind was pretty nasty.

 

[Hobbes@spnb&s.com]

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:42:08 -0000, bdbafh <[email protected]> wrote:

>>From the Velonews feed:
>
>11:26 AM Crash
> In the truth is stranger than fiction department, we've just
>gotten word that there was a significant pile-up at mile 3 that was
>caused in part by a wayward armadillo. Among those hitting the deck
>was Missouri native Dan Schmatz who has been reported as an abandon.
>One racer who saw the incident said Schmatz actually hit the oversized
>rodent. Wow...

In the last two years I've had two armadillo incidents and no squirrel attacks.
They know me, that I"ll hold my line and have 32 spokes on all my wheels. But
the armadillos have both shot across my path, off the back of the front tire,
under the chainring and bumping the back tire before getting to the other side.
One just wandered back across the trail and resumed browsing.

Ya know the noise of fingernails on a blackboard? Nothin' compared to aluminum
chainring on armadillo armor.

A vet who does wildlife work tells me the armadillos can take a lot more than
that and should be fine. Other source remind us that these are indeed the
stupidest animals that evolution could permit.

Anyway, the network of wildlife that is out to get us is highly compartmented -
seperate cells, covert communications, all that. The squirrels and armadillos
don't even need to coordinate their efforts. They share the same goals of
causing carnage and embarassment, but don't share leadership or fundraising.


Ron

 

[Michael Press]

In article
<[email protected]>
,
bdbafh <[email protected]> wrote:

> >From the Velonews feed:
>
> 11:26 AM Crash
> In the truth is stranger than fiction department, we've just
> gotten word that there was a significant pile-up at mile 3 that was
> caused in part by a wayward armadillo. Among those hitting the deck
> was Missouri native Dan Schmatz who has been reported as an abandon.
> One racer who saw the incident said Schmatz actually hit the oversized
> rodent. Wow...

Not a rodent. They have their own family.
They share an order with sloths and anteaters.
Rodents comprise their own order.

--
Michael Press

 

[Donald Munro]

Michael Press wrote:
> Not a rodent. They have their own family.
> They share an order with sloths and anteaters.

Like the Bushes.

 

[datakoll]

well, I've camped with aramadilla. Aramadilla jabber thru the night in
distinct, well formed sounds at differing frequencies and intonations.
Barring a serious ear, nose throat problem, aramadilla sound
intelligent. Like Ligget and uh wahtisname?
Like,,,, the Dutch, far fewer aramadilla are found roadside than
Procyon lotor. Butbubut like motorists, are a terrible judge for
relative speeds and danger having noooo experience it whatsoever.
The aramadillas' "coat" is integral: torn shell equals mortally
injured aramadillo.