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orleans

(34,068 posts)
Mon Jan 11, 2021, 11:26 PM Jan 2021

"florida manatee has "trump" etched into its side; officials seek information"

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/animal-news/florida-manatee-has-trump-written-its-side-officials-seek-information-n1253781

some replies to another tweet (not the one below) are saying that algae was scraped off the manatee's back, and the word was not "carved" -- either way--

fed. authorities are investigating




(sorry for not copying some of the article--i'm new at using a laptop, don't have a mouse, and can't figure out how to copy and paste anything besides links)
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"florida manatee has "trump" etched into its side; officials seek information" (Original Post) orleans Jan 2021 OP
I don't give a shit whether it was scraped or carved into that creature. JanMichael Jan 2021 #1
Could be a birth defect, emphasis on the defect . . . Journeyman Jan 2021 #2
yes, and not on the part of the manatee n/t orleans Jan 2021 #3

JanMichael

(24,890 posts)
1. I don't give a shit whether it was scraped or carved into that creature.
Mon Jan 11, 2021, 11:29 PM
Jan 2021

People that do that, or other cruel things like tossing firecrackers to seagulls or pelicans, to animals are the lowest of humans.

I could take a nice baseball bat and give it back to the criminals 1,000,000,000 times worse.

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