Nice sunny day stroll in Lagos a while back

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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:48 am

Vets here will recognize this hyena pet link from our allies at scamorama. And a tip of my hat to them on this.
http://scamorama.com/hyena.html

For those newbs who haven't see the pix, they are quite shocking. For those like myself who have--I'm still at a loss. Which is worse--pissed off muzzled hyenas or free-roaming angry baboons?

cheerz--and gasp--jervis tetch

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:52 am

<br>Goats are just sooooo 2006 darhling. Very Happy

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:12 am

Hi TOMMO^ top o' the mornin to ya--

Gosh 'n begorrah, you can bet the farm--crop circles and all--that it will be new to newbs! Still, no matter how you slice it, the pix are reasons #1+ why one should think twice about a Lagos vacation. Try walking down THAT street with a fanny-pack on with your ID and negotiables inside just screaming out--"rob me".

cheerz--jervis

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:15 am

And people complain about pit bulls here...

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:01 am

@JT

Do you reckon they have special tying up points for their exotic pets outside whilst they are 'working'? A bit like the ones we have outside supermarkets here in the UK for the pit bulls and the like.

Lagos internet cafe manager : "Mr Bello, can you please go and sort out your snow leopard it's just savaged Mr Soludo's cheetah to death and buggered my goat." Very Happy

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:22 am

Hi Tommo--

You're thinking of cowboy movie horse-hitchin' posts, sounds like-- LOL!

I've done a fair amount of traveling in my life, but W. Africa scares the bejeezus out of me especially now from what I know. And I shouldn't wash the entire slate with one sweep, but so be it..

Even if I left my valuables in my Lagos hotel, [hoping for no theft], if I was to stroll down the boulevard in Lagos and these lads set their hyenas upon me to give up my money & ID--or die-what could I do? What would you do? Hyenas have THE most powerful bite-crush in all the world. And it must make them even meaner to be muzzled with a Lad from Lagos beating them with a stick.

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:28 am

<br>^^^Maybe we should start insulting them as hyena feltchers, and give their goats a rest. That will dent their machismo even further... the lads I mean, not the goats. Laughing

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:13 pm

baboons i thought those were their chldren !

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:16 pm

How can one ever have a hyena as a pet..? Rolling Eyes

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Actually guy these are members of a traveling circus

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:49 pm

^^^^Billy 'Not So' Smart? Laughing

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Stolen from the net.

Quote:

Those guys with Hyenas and Baboons.

Entertainment: I wondered what was the real story behind this other than the Nigerian money collectors legend, it was a lot less than that and kinda sad.
A South African photographer Pieter Hugo spent 10 days in Nigeria with 10 men, four baboons, three hyenas, and two rock pythons. He was responsible for taking this photograph of the Baboons and Hyenas during this visit.

Apparently the men catch the hyenas in their burrows when they�re puppies, then drug them over a period of time in order to sedate them. It takes away a bit of the hyena�s edge apparently, which is unfortunate but understandable.

They use muzzles more for effect than for actual protection, and as long as the animals have eaten, they�re apparently stay quite calm.

The men are very much like travelling minstrels. They go into the ghettos outside cities and march down the street with their hyenas until crowds start gathering. They have baboons that do tricks and beg until people put money in their hands.

The men take the muzzles off and wrestle with the hyenas, and afterward they�ll scare the crowd with rock pythons.

People pay money for all of this, and they also pay the hyena guys for fetish charms they believe will guard them against wild animals.

People assume the fact that these men can walk down the street with such beasts must mean that the charms offer some kind of protection. The long association between witchcraft and hyenas will also probably help here

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Not quite a Newb Joined: 16 Jun 2007 Posts: 31

Pardon a newb... but what does this have to do with scam-baiting?

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:22 pm

Nothing at all. The general chat section is just for people to let of steam and talk about different stuff Wink

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:25 pm

^^^ Damn, i thought we were coming up with a new modality involving hyenas and a lads genitalia.

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:34 pm

maybe the baboons can substitute for the lads in internet cafes-remember the 10,000 monkeys at 10,000 typewriters gig

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:48 pm

Quite funny actually these pictures... the last one of the hyena pics was used in the CD booklet of the Gorrilaz latest Album

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 6:11 am

@dgloryhole--I know of the 10 thou monkeys-theorem pounding away incessantly at keyboards 24/7--rather than a new Hemingway emerging, you are more likely to wind up with a room full of 'monkey-stink', to phrase it that way.

Hi Bombardier^

Still scary in any event. I'm not about to argue with you about a man holding on to a beast that looks like it wants to tear me to shreds on his mere say-so. Would you?

Traveling circus or whatever, it's scary s**t that hopefully a newb will see and gain a better perspective on what is going on. Make no mistake about it, ALL the Lagos Lads in the pix are thoroughly modern scammers or know all about it. They might be that sweet loving ladette on the other end of the emails enticing you to fly to Nigeria but as you well know you'd fast find out the cold hard facts of life once there.

cheerz--jervis tetch / mad hatter

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