A Human-Sized Giant Lizard Is Currently Terrorising a Florida Town

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  • sharpiefan
    Pro-metric Space Cadet
    • Aug 2013
    • 5267

    A Human-Sized Giant Lizard Is Currently Terrorising a Florida Town


    Image: Maria Lieberman via Storyful


    "I'm pretty sure he ate Rocky the raccoon."

    The Lizard King cometh. No, not Jim Morrison. The REAL Lizard King - an Asian water monitor named "Bamboo" that's been chilling in a South Florida neighborhood and appears to be unstoppable, or at least untrappable.
    The 6-foot, 100-pound (1.8-metre 45-kilogram) monstrosity has been thwomping around in the Broward County town of Davie since Monday and has thwarted all attempts at capture, including hooks, hunting dogs and human hands.
    Experts have identified it as an Asian water monitor, a breed of gargantuan lizard native to Southeast Asia. It is the second-heaviest lizard species - a runner-up to the Komodo dragon.

    They have an outstanding sense of smell, and have even been used in Asia for missing persons and death investigations.
    Bamboo first appeared in the backyard of the Lieberman family on August 27 and has returned several times since. At first, the family thought it was an alligator because he was so massive.
    Then he flicked his skinny, forked tongue.
    "It looked like a dinosaur," homeowner Maria Lieberman told WSVN 7News.
    "My kids were screaming. We just watched 'Jurassic Park', so it was insane."

    A Human-Sized Giant Lizard Is Currently Terrorising a Florida Town.
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    Hope the voyage is a long one.
    May there be many a summer morning when,
    with what pleasure, what joy,
    you come into harbors seen for the first time...

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    (Keeley - Sherrard translation)
  • Rigadog
    Senior Member
    • Apr 2007
    • 4514

    #2
    Re: A Human-Sized Giant Lizard Is Currently Terrorising a Florida Town

    Very cool! People need a little excitement that doesn't involve guns now and then.
    If he ever drinks the brew of 10 tanna leaves, he will become a monster the likes of which the world has never seen


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    • Art Haberland
      Fluent in Typo
      • May 2015
      • 10190

      #3
      Re: A Human-Sized Giant Lizard Is Currently Terrorising a Florida Town

      Originally posted by Rigadog
      Very cool! People need a little excitement that doesn't involve guns now and then.
      It might come down to guns if they can't capture it
      "If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito"

      -Dalai Lama

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      • Boston
        Senior Member
        • May 2009
        • 4525

        #4
        Re: A Human-Sized Giant Lizard Is Currently Terrorising a Florida Town

        Once it eats enough dogs and cats it'll be easier to catch

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        • carioca1232001
          Senior Member
          • Nov 2003
          • 5142

          #5
          Re: A Human-Sized Giant Lizard Is Currently Terrorising a Florida Town

          Originally posted by Art Haberland
          It might come down to guns if they can't capture it
          Guns firing (anesthesising) darts should enable the capture.

          Should a hunt using live ammo (bullets) ensue, am keeping my fingers crossed for minimal collateral.

          Lizards can be lightning fast and an evasive target, so hunters beware.

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          • Art Haberland
            Fluent in Typo
            • May 2015
            • 10190

            #6
            Re: A Human-Sized Giant Lizard Is Currently Terrorising a Florida Town

            Originally posted by Boston
            Once it eats enough dogs and cats it'll be easier to catch

            maybe some bait with something in it to make it lethargic?
            "If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito"

            -Dalai Lama

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            • carioca1232001
              Senior Member
              • Nov 2003
              • 5142

              #7
              Re: A Human-Sized Giant Lizard Is Currently Terrorising a Florida Town

              Originally posted by Art Haberland
              maybe some bait with something in it to make it lethargic?
              Definitely, yes.

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              • LeeG
                Senior Member
                • May 2002
                • 72803

                #8
                Re: A Human-Sized Giant Lizard Is Currently Terrorising a Florida Town

                At least a Florida man isn’t involved, yet.

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                • Garret
                  Hills of Vermont
                  • Apr 2005
                  • 48655

                  #9
                  Re: A Human-Sized Giant Lizard Is Currently Terrorising a Florida Town

                  But what happens if the lizard stands his ground?
                  "If it ain't broke, you're not trying." - Red Green

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                  • carioca1232001
                    Senior Member
                    • Nov 2003
                    • 5142

                    #10
                    Re: A Human-Sized Giant Lizard Is Currently Terrorising a Florida Town

                    In such circumstances, all hell is let loose !

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                    • Ian McColgin
                      Senior Member
                      • Apr 1999
                      • 51646

                      #11
                      Re: A Human-Sized Giant Lizard Is Currently Terrorising a Florida Town

                      Those monitors are exploited ferociously both for high end leather and exotic 'pets'. And the crazy people of Florida have had a record - ever since the early 1500's when the Spaniards began seeding swine around the Americas where ever they might want to come back to settle - of introducing invasive bits of agriculture most anywhere but especially Florida.

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                      • Art Haberland
                        Fluent in Typo
                        • May 2015
                        • 10190

                        #12
                        Re: A Human-Sized Giant Lizard Is Currently Terrorising a Florida Town

                        to be fair, Ian. I doubt anybody back in the 1500s knew what introducing an invasive species would do to the environment it was unleashed into. There is no excuse today.
                        "If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito"

                        -Dalai Lama

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                        • carioca1232001
                          Senior Member
                          • Nov 2003
                          • 5142

                          #13
                          Re: A Human-Sized Giant Lizard Is Currently Terrorising a Florida Town

                          Originally posted by Art Haberland
                          to be fair, Ian. I doubt anybody back in the 1500s knew what introducing an invasive species would do to the environment it was unleashed into. There is no excuse today.
                          A fair point. Most likely, zero knowledge of the species in its´own domicile/habitat, a great many species of plants and animals having changed location for the novelty factor alone.

                          Nevertheless, the Iberians in the 1500s went unchallenged as masters and charters of hitherto unknown sea routes, discovery

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                          • sharpiefan
                            Pro-metric Space Cadet
                            • Aug 2013
                            • 5267

                            #14
                            Re: A Human-Sized Giant Lizard Is Currently Terrorising a Florida Town

                            Originally posted by garret
                            but what happens if the lizard stands his ground?
                            B B Q!

                            Hope the voyage is a long one.
                            May there be many a summer morning when,
                            with what pleasure, what joy,
                            you come into harbors seen for the first time...

                            Ithaka, by Cavafy
                            (Keeley - Sherrard translation)

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                            • wsgilliam
                              Senior Member
                              • Jul 2015
                              • 262

                              #15
                              Re: A Human-Sized Giant Lizard Is Currently Terrorising a Florida Town

                              Apparently he has been scratching at the door to get in. Even he wants A/C in florida.
                              Originally posted by isla
                              It's difficult to explain virtue signalling, as I was just saying to my Muslim friends over a fair-trade coffee in our local feminist bookshop.

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