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Drive to Burning Man. Hit a badger on the road on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation.
It ran in front of us so fast I didn't know whether to turn left or right. I just yelled really loud and woke Star up. I didn't turn at all. we ran right over it. We pulled over and stopped. I thought the animal would be a mess, but it looked great. We put it in the back of the truck and kept going.
This is the first part of the Badger Trilogy, "Skinning".
It continues with "Badger Stew"
and will finish with "Tan a Badger Hide".
It ran in front of us so fast I didn't know whether to turn left or right. I just yelled really loud and woke Star up. I didn't turn at all. we ran right over it. We pulled over and stopped. I thought the animal would be a mess, but it looked great. We put it in the back of the truck and kept going.
This is the first part of the Badger Trilogy, "Skinning".
It continues with "Badger Stew"
and will finish with "Tan a Badger Hide".
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We joined the line of cars slowly creeping into Black Rock City. A drunk fratboy was walking down the line of cars, asking "Can I hide in your truck?". He wanted to get in without paying for a ticket. Probably it wouldn't work, since he was in clear view of the greeters.
When we got to the front of the line the greeters gave us the welcome, and took a quick look to see if we were smuggling fratboys. "Naked Bob", our greeter, was thrilled about our dead badger. He called over to another greeter. "Hey I think I found something, come tell me what you think." She came over and was delighted to find a dead badger instead of a drunk fratboy. The joy spread to the adjoining vehicles. When we pulled over inside the gates to stretch our legs, people stopped to see the badger.
It was truly a beautiful animal.
When we got to the front of the line the greeters gave us the welcome, and took a quick look to see if we were smuggling fratboys. "Naked Bob", our greeter, was thrilled about our dead badger. He called over to another greeter. "Hey I think I found something, come tell me what you think." She came over and was delighted to find a dead badger instead of a drunk fratboy. The joy spread to the adjoining vehicles. When we pulled over inside the gates to stretch our legs, people stopped to see the badger.
It was truly a beautiful animal.
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i shall remind you of the be nice policy, with your lack of instructables or atleast slideshows i take it you're new or at least not a contributer to the site. fair warning.
we never said everything will kill you... we werent talking bad about eating road kill. we just advised to be careful when handling it.
i started this stupid subject when i was 15 and im 17 now...
get over it.
that goes to everybody.
There is a rabies vaccine... it was discovered in 1885 by a Mr. Louis Pasteur and Miss Emile Roux, and it was gathered from infected rabbits. Additionally, there are only 1-2 deaths in the U.S. PER YEAR, and those victims only die because they usually get it from the bite of a bat, and naturally don't notice it.
And that being said, I do however, think that it's rather unnecessary to have a chain like this... hear me out, I understand the point of it, but it's not like he's going to make you do it, or saying that you HAVE to do it, it was just posted for those who might want to do it for whatever reason... you don't have to be such a flamer... and I suppose I need to specify, I don't just mean you, Javin, I mean most of the people in this chain-myself included.
You state "it was just posted for those who might want to do it for whatever reason" and this chain is no different. It's also posted to inform those that "might want to do it for whatever reason" about the risks involved.
I say again, this instructable is little more than telling people how to play russian roulette, but more dangerous because without this chain, there's no mention of the risk of a horrible, horrible death.
That being said, I think the point has been made, and there's little reason to continue the debate.
Per year, roughly 100-200 animals test positive per state in the U.S. This is an important statistic, as you have to consider which animals are sent in for testing. Only those that have a reason to have someone to pay to have a test done are sent in. How often are animals seen staggering, ill, etc. and people just avoid them? I know that's what I do. In fact, I leave near Washington, D.C. and just last year saw a raccoon that I'm quite positive was dying of "dumb" rabies. (You see enough of them, it's pretty obvious.)
So yeah, it happens. A 'lot' more than your post would suggest.
If you would take the time to rub your two brain cells together, and read my posts, you will see that I not only worked in the veterinary field, but spent years working first hand with actual rabid animals. I have more experience with rabies than I'm sure you do with medicine. I am on record as sending the first half-dozen positive rabies cases in history in upstate New York, prompting, and helping organize, a joint U.S./Canadian rabies bait drop program to prevent the spread of rabies further North.
You're a... What do you do again? I can't honestly believe you're in medicine the with the ignorance you spew.
As for "The guy didnt(sic) die did he?" do I need to spell out for you that there's a 5 out of 6 chance of surviving Russian Roulette. (Unless you play it with a clip-fed weapon, which unfortunately I now feel I need to explain to you is a bad idea.) Encouraging people to mess with road kill in any way is no different than writing an instructable on "How to Play Russian Roulette."
That the odds were in his favor and he got lucky is an utterly moot point.
If we pretend you truly are a paramedic, most people in accidents that you go to help will not be HIV positive. Do you not still wear gloves?
You also seem to have utterly missed the fact that there is a trend with the statistics you point out. 1 case in '05. 3 in '06. 8 in '08. Put this on a graph if you need a visual. The cases of rabies is on the incline, and this is *despite* the 40,000 people that are treated for rabies each year. Why do you continue to ignore the fact that 40,000 people in the U.S. are treated every year for post exposure for doing far less than skinning and eating an unknown animal. If people went untreated exactly as you're saying it's "okay" for this guy to do then rabies would claim more lives yearly than the flu.
It's called education. You should try getting some.
i would at this point like to point out that the guys skinning the badger probably werent thinking about disease, as one of the guys is depicted mainly in his briefs the entire time...
but my point being, these people who catch this fatal disease out of idiocy are performing a service to humanity by removing themselves from the genepool (darwin awrds)
if you wanna play with roadkill, go for it, this i'ble should be taken with a pinch of salt, and more for informational purposes than instructional (yes i realise the irony ¬_¬)