Man Allegedly Beat Woman With Frozen Armadillo
18 Oct 2011, by Lynn Kawano, Fox 4 News
DALLAS -- A man used a frozen armadillo to attack a 57-year old woman, Dallas police said.
The incident happened on 29 Sept in an apartment complex parking lot.
According to investigators, the altercation occurred when the suspect was selling the carcass to the victim, who planned to eat the animal. The pair apparently began arguing over the price of the item when the man twice threw the armadillo at the woman.
The animal first struck the woman in the leg and then in her chest. She was reportedly bruised by the attack.
Detectives have been unable to find the man, who could face assault charges
Here's the link:
The link above has a picture of an armadillo. I went online to look for pictures of frozen armadillos (heh) -- but no luck. You can find lots of picture of live ones on the Net but I wanted, alternatively, to find something showing the animal and a human, to put them in perspective. I found this blog with a poster though:
Gail Collins of the New York Times, tickled by the story, wrote a commentary ("Day of the Armadillo"). Here's an excerpt:
Is frozen armadillo illegal?
Or is it a sort of sidewalk-vendor novelty item, like frozen custard? Are armadillos tasty? Are they endangered?
No to the last one. “They’re not in any short numbers,” said Scott Vaca, the assistant chief of wildlife enforcement at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. He added that it was illegal to sell a live armadillo, but not a dead one.
This seemed a little strange. I’m sure the armadillo, for one, would prefer the live route. But Vaca was really not interested in debating the matter. “I’m telling you the law,” he said. “It’s illegal to sell a living armadillo. By statute. Dead armadillos you can sell parts of them. Make a curio of a little armadillo on his back drinking a bottle of beer.”
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I gotta visit Dallas if I go to Texas. But, then again, the man-who-had-the-frozen-armadillo is still at large!
This seemed a little strange. I’m sure the armadillo, for one, would prefer the live route. But Vaca was really not interested in debating the matter. “I’m telling you the law,” he said. “It’s illegal to sell a living armadillo. By statute. Dead armadillos you can sell parts of them. Make a curio of a little armadillo on his back drinking a bottle of beer.”
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I gotta visit Dallas if I go to Texas. But, then again, the man-who-had-the-frozen-armadillo is still at large!
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