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Baja Sierras: Chupacabra and Cattle mutilations?

RandyMacSC/SO - 3-4-2004 at 04:07 AM

Okay. What gives with all the dead cattle in the Sierra Del Lagunas that look like the complete insides of the cattle have been sucked out of the carcass, including major bones?

I've been sorting through thousands of my digital photos from my 2002-2003 Baja trip and I came across this one photo that I took at the top of the Sierra Del Lagunas on the plateau of a dry lake bed. The photo reminded me of all the strange occurrances of dead cattle that I found while on my 6 day hike up, across the dry lake bed, and then down the Los Zorros Canyon to Santiago.

While hiking in the Sierra Del Lagunas in early February 2003, I saw many live cattle, but what was really weird was that I found 6 dead cattle that looked like the complete insides had been sucked out of them. There appeared to be no obvious reason for these cattle deaths; and it didn't appear to be coyotes, mountain lions, or animals of prey that killed them, nor falls from cliffs etc. The cattle didn't appear to have died from old age, and nor had the insides been ripped out through any major holes in the skin as if eaten by an animal of prey. I could find no apparent major flesh wounds, but I did find puncture wounds in various places on most of the dead cattle. Hagi, my Japanese friend that came with me was freaked out by all these dead cattle. He didn't sleep for 2 nights. He told me stories about some rat like beast that kills cattle in Japan and would always sleep next to the firepit with a big sharp stick each night.

I remember taking this photo (below) and after looking at it, I made a quick search on Yahoo tonight to find out about animal mutilations in Baja. I found some information on something called a Chupacabra or goatsucker. Never heard of it before.

Anyone else hear of anything like this happening in other parts of the Baja before or in the Todos Santos area?

RandyMac

[Edited on 3-4-2004 by RandyMac]

Dead cow with insides sucked out

RandyMacSC/SO - 3-4-2004 at 04:13 AM

This is the photo of one of the 6 cattle that appeared to have their complete insides sucked out. Too strange!!!!

RandyMac

RandyMacSC/SO - 3-4-2004 at 04:17 AM

This angry little cow charged me in Los Zorros Canyon. I've had many interesting experiences while hiking, but I had never been charged by a small cow before, until my 6 day Sierra Del Laguna trip last year. It was a bit of a Baja standoff until we let each other pass by in a small rocky narrowing in Los Zorros canyon.

I wonder how long this one lasted without having it's insides sucked out?

TMW - 3-4-2004 at 10:08 AM

When you say sucked out, was there a hole or somekind of opening that the insides came out? I have heard stories about Mexican monsters from time to time like the goatsucker you mention. I also seem to recall an incident in the Todos Santo area of this in the late 80's or early 90s, but I just passed it on as folklore or some kind of trick someone was playing.

David K - 3-4-2004 at 10:15 AM

Chupacabras (goat suckers) are a Mexican myth (?)... Tim Walker saw one (?) run across Laguna Salada. Go to timsbaja.com, it's in one of his original trip reports (Guadalupe Canyon). If you do a search you will see a lot on chupacabras, including photos! I will dig some up after my appoinments today...

[Edited on 2-6-2013 by David K]

Mexican monsters? Goat suckers?

RandyMacSC/SO - 3-4-2004 at 04:30 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by TW
When you say sucked out, was there a hole or somekind of opening that the insides came out? I have heard stories about Mexican monsters from time to time like the goatsucker you mention. I also seem to recall an incident in the Todos Santo area of this in the late 80's or early 90s, but I just passed it on as folklore or some kind of trick someone was playing.

First off: I'm no UFO conspiracy buff or believer in monsters. The only monsters I believe exist in this world are evil people. I like to hike, and expect to come across dead animals from time to time that die of natural causes. That's nature. But what was puzzling, was so many dead cattle, on or close to the path that we were taking while hiking. If you use simple math, and deductive reasoning to calculate how many possibilities of other dead cattle there could be within the Sierra Del Laguna range, it might be closer to 50 or more. That's alot of dead cattle. Too many if I was the ranchero who owned them.

There appeared to be no apparant gash or flesh wound openings large enough to get the insides out. There were puncture wounds in the neck area, kind of like that of a small butcher knife would make if plunged into the neck, but there is no way the complete insides could be vacuumed out those small holes. It took covering my face with a bandana, and the smell was about as desireable as spending the night in an overfuilling outhouse, but I did manage to take a nearby log and flip two of the dead cattle carcasses over to see if the major wounds were on the bottom side.
Nothing but beef pelt and cattle fur.

Could it be poisonous RATTLE SNAKE BITES or other poisonous naturally occurring creatures that are killing them? Then the ants, worms, magots and bugs eating them from the inside out? It's over 4,000 feet up, and on the plateau of Sierra Del Laguna it is closer to 6,000. Too cold for rattlesnakes and other poisonous reptilia, and how do you explain the puncture wounds on the necks? That's a big leap for a snake, or one big ant with sharp teeth. Most of the 6 dead cattle were near or on the Sierra Del Laguna plateau.

Have you ever seen the top of Sierra Del Laguna area? It's like a big egg shaped plateau (huge wild grass field) with small mountain bluffs on all sides and 2 narrow canyons dropping to the northeast corner and southeast corners. Los Zorros is the canyon we hiked down to Santiago and I forget the other Canyon name. I'll dig out a photo or two and post them later.

RandyMac

[Edited on 3-5-2004 by RandyMac]

Virgin of Guadalupe shrine on Sierra Del Laguna Plateau?

RandyMacSC/SO - 3-4-2004 at 04:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by David K
Chupacabras (goat suckers) are a Mexican myth (?)... Tim Walker saw one (?) run across Laguna Salada. Go to timsbaja.com, it's in one of his original trip reports (Guadalupe Canyon). If you do a search you will see a lot on chupacabras, including photos! I will dig some up after my appoinments today...
[Edited on 3-4-2004 by David K]

David. I'll check it out at Tim's site. Perhaps he knows why there is a religious catholic shrine at the top of the plateau?

Another strange thing was finding a Virgin of Guadalupe shrine up on top of the Sierra Del Laguna plateau (photo below). Okay, perhaps it is used by the rancheros who look after their cattle all over the mountainous range in the Sierra Del Lagunas, but it does seem to be an odd place to have a religious shrine. Maybe there is alot more to this story than is being made public? After coming down from the hike last year, I heard of pilgrimages by mexican people from the Todos area and La Paz all the way up to the Sierra Del Laguna plateau to visit this shrine during the Easter week. That's one long hike up to pray, but there has to be a reason why it is up on the plateau. Did a local(s) witness an apparition of the Virgin up there?

We even found a Telmex pay phone powered by a solar panel hung on a small cabin wall up on the Sierra Del Laguna plateau. And there were tire tracks (a dirt road) on the field but no way to get a truck or vehicle up to the plateau, other than airlifted in. We did not see or find any vehicles, just an empty well maintained log and wood structure cabin.

RandyMac

Virgin of Guadalupe shrine in northwest corner of the Sierra Del Laguna plateau, found nestled in the rocks and trees just off the main trail up to the plateau from Todos Santos.

Telemex pay phone on cabin wall...

RandyMacSC/SO - 3-4-2004 at 04:57 PM

When we arrived on top of the plateau last February 6, 2003 after a full day hike, it was getting dark. A friend and I slept in our bags under a large pine tree. In the morning we checked things out and found the cabin. I noticed the card type phone on the wall powered by a small solar panel on the roof. Makes sense to have one for use by rancheros or biology station workers.

I'm wondering if the rancheros and biology workers get flown into the plateau, which could account for the tire marks in the field. This is too weird to think of, but perhaps somebody is experimenting with the cattle up there?

Virgin of Guadalupe shrine, dead cattle that looked like their insides had been sucked out!!!!

Starting to sound like an X-Files exisode in southern Baja.

[Edited on 3-5-2004 by RandyMac]

Los Zorros Canyon: spectacular hike

RandyMacSC/SO - 3-4-2004 at 05:08 PM

That morning, I found another dead cow in the northeast corner while searching for firewood and a further cow carcus in the northwest corner. After spending a full day on the south side of the plateau, we headed west across the field and picked up the trail that went along the southwest ridge of the plateau. This is where I found two more cattle corpses. It was like they were placed offerings, two in each corner of the plateau.

On the west plateau ridge I could see out past the trees to see a stretch of beach at Los Cerritos. The west to coast dirt road is at kilometer 67 heading into the camp that I stayed at for 5 months.

If you ever want to go on a great hike and aren't afraid of mexican monsters (Baja Chupacabra) then this is a fantastic trip.

Beautiful pool in Los Zorros canyon...

RandyMacSC/SO - 3-4-2004 at 05:13 PM

There were many beautiful natural water pools all the way down Los Zorros Canyon from the top of the Sierra Del Laguna plateau.

We stopped to dive into the pool from the rock bluff on the left. It was approximately a 35 feet jump off the wall into the pool below. It took 4 days to hike 5 kilometers down this canyon or shall I say huge boulder field canyon.

A photo of one of the many canyon pools.

I'm convinced...

dbrooks - 3-4-2004 at 06:00 PM

the Chupacabra lives! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!

Please...it's a bunch of dead cattle...in Mexico...what else is new?

RandyMacSC/SO - 3-4-2004 at 07:51 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by dbrooks
the Chupacabra lives! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!

Please...it's a bunch of dead cattle...in Mexico...what else is new?

Please...?

Dead cows in Baja. You don't say. Yes of course. Happens all the time; dead cattle are a part of everyday life down in the Baja. Most everyone that has driven down the 1000 mile stretch of Baja or lives in the Baja and travels the roadways has witnessed dozens upon dozens of dead cattle, probably hundreds, not to mention dead cats and dead-dead road pizza dogs. Generally beside the road after being moowed down by a large semi trucks barrelling down the highway at 80 miles an hour.

In fact, I ran over a squashed cow 10 miles north or Catavina early one evening while heading to my destination of Catavina. Of course, it was already crunched by a semi-truck, but the blood and guts were a b-tch to hose off my rig, especially after it all baked onto my rig. The semi driver highbeamed me moments after he mushed it down and dragged it for a 1/4 mile, and within a short 10 seconds, I had slowed down well below the speed limit, and then rumble rumble, crunch, munch as my 21 foot motorhome with 4x4 in tow bounced over the leg side of the poor beast.

Now if the highway or heavily traveled roads ran through the Sierra Del Laguna plateau, I would think nothing of dead cattle being spread all over up there. THERE'S NO SEMI TRUCKS, or cars, or trucks up there to run mow them down.

After reading Tim Walker's story on his web site,
http://www.timsbaja.com/strange.html it is very interesting, as from what I have heard of Tim, he is a well known respected Baja traveller. After reading the story, I am convinced that he might have seen a larger than normal Baja dwelling Coatimundi. And as far as many of these so called reports of some fierce creature (Chupacabra), it sounds nothing more than a northwestern living Coatimundi to me.

I hike and trek into the wilderness of Mexico and in Canada alot and have witnessed many strange sites. I don't hike in the US. Too many people with guns, just waiting to shoot something that moves. Not that there aren't some idiot hunters in Canada.

I spent time living in the Yucatan Mexico and came across some (fear for your life situations) while on treks into the jungle. Stalking jaguar being the most fearful. I'm well aware of all the creature myths and dead cattle are nothing new.

As far as hiking in the Baja, I hike alone on many occassions. Not much to worry about, and I do understand the risks of hiking alone. Other than being jumped from behind by a mountain lion, which I have never had to worry about, the only concern I have is breaking a leg or snake bites.

While hiking in the Yucatan jungles, there is nothing more concerning than being stalked by a jaguar, or running into a overly large pack of hungry Coatimundi looking for anything to eat. I had a pet Coatimundi (2 Beer Fred) living in the attic of my palapa in the Yucatan. Photo below.

From all the reports that I have read today on the Web concerning this mythical Chupacabra, most seem to be far fetched hysteria, but then again, I wasn't there. TO ME for what that is worth: it appears as though some people may be seeing what is known as a Coatimundi. They generally live in the jungles of southeastern Mexico and Central America, but they have been reported as far north as Arizona and generally live in small groups of about four to 20 animals with the exception of mature males that live solitary.

The Coatimundi is generally an adorable little mammal, 2 feet long, darkly colored, with brownish-red fur and weigh between 8 and 12 pounds and have know to grow to over 25 pounds. They have long snouts, powerful feet with large claws for leaping, climbing, and digging.

Their natural range extends from South America to as far North as Arizona and inhabit mountain canyons.

I've seen some strange animals in the Baja, and liken the experience to that of a Baja dwelling Coatimundi.

Has anyone seen an animal or mammal in any part of the Baja that looks something like this Coatimundi pictured below? This little guy took up residence in my palapa in the Yucatan. 2 Beer Fred was quite tame, but got a little ugly if anyone went into my beer fridge without me being home. I used to tell people. No half full bottles. Fred shouldn't drink beer. Thus naming him 2 Beer Fred. He got real ugly on beer.

Coatimundi sigtings in Baja. Perhaps!!!

RandyMac

2 Beer Fred

RandyMacSC/SO - 3-4-2004 at 07:53 PM

I like half full SOL beer. No Corona please.

Such a okay I'm sorry grin...

RandyMacSC/SO - 3-4-2004 at 09:12 PM

I took the above photo of 2 Beer Fred after giving him sh*t for drinking my beer again! Couldn't leave a full beer on the table to go to the can. He'd jump down, grab it and start chugging. One day I thought I saw him guzzling my beer and flipping through the channels with my TV remote.

They do look tame and cuddly, but I have seen the results of what a pack of them can do to a larger animal.

I have seen chupacabras in Baja twice.

BajaVida - 3-4-2004 at 10:01 PM

I saw one in Catavina just north of La Virgen over the hill from the small concrete block shrine just south of the highway.

The other time was on the road to San Borja.

They scared the living daylights out of me.

Seen one of these?

David K - 3-4-2004 at 11:17 PM

This is a Baja creature... a babasuri on Isla San Jose... Beautiful, huh? Photo from Alejandra de Baja, 2000.

[Edited on 3-5-2004 by David K]

You found 2 Beer Fred's cousin in the Baja...

RandyMacSC/SO - 3-5-2004 at 03:03 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by David K
This is a Baja creature... a babasuri on Isla San Jose... Beautiful, huh? Photo from Alejandra de Baja, 2000.

[Edited on 3-5-2004 by David K]

Looking at the great photo of babasuri, it definitely looks like a close cousin of 2 Beer Fred. What a beautiful long tail.

Coatimundi (pronounced keh-wat-i-mun-deh) They are definitely an affectionate, amazingly smart little mammal that can make an excellent pet. I think Fred came with my palapa.

If there is ONE, there are more in the Baja. They are good at exterminating ferral cats.

more of 2 Beer Fred

RandyMacSC/SO - 3-5-2004 at 03:34 AM

Fred made more holes in my palapa roof than I care to remember, but he was definitely a ham for guests.

Fred's bed (hammock) with an unwanted guest in it...

RandyMacSC/SO - 3-5-2004 at 03:36 AM

Fred was easy going, but I could do without the howling monkeys swinging in 2 Beer Fred's hammock.

Fred's favorite snack. Pink bouganvillas...

RandyMacSC/SO - 3-5-2004 at 03:38 AM

I think this is why 2 Beer Fred adopted my palapa. He loved to eat the pink flowers and drink my SOL beer.

Ring tailed cat

richard nauman - 3-5-2004 at 09:46 AM

Hey guys - the animal in David Ks picture is a ring tailed cat (Bassariscus astutus). It is a close relative of the coatamundi. They are both in the same family as racoons (Procyonidae).
Randy - I spent a summer living on a ranch between Todos Santos and Cabo San Lucas and from my observations on how cattle are managed I think the dead cattle you saw died of starvation or other neglect and were subsequently eaten by insects or other small scavengers. I think they accept a fairly high loss of range animals in Baja. Before the August rains came I never saw such skinny cattle in my life. There were many cattle in varying states of distress with injuries, cactus spines in them, one with a sharp stick horizontally through its nose, etc... I think desert life is hard on an animal that is adapted to riparian areas in Asia.

RN

JESSE - 3-5-2004 at 12:25 PM

I saw Sasquatch near Catavi?a once

I drank with a Yeti at La Fonda

The Gull - 3-5-2004 at 01:14 PM

...but that is another story, before my last marriage, after mucho Tres Generaciones.

:no:

chupa crapa ringtail cat

jide - 3-5-2004 at 02:12 PM

I remember my first encounter with a ringtail cat. We were camping on a beach on the banks of the colorado river during a 2 weeks boat trip, when one night, strange noises woke me up. I popped my head out of the tent, and a strange creature with 2 glowing eyes were looking straight @ me!! I swear I would've had a heart attack if it wasn't for all the booze we swallowed that night... I zipped the tent closed and decided to deal with that vision in the morning. I asked my group of friends that following morning, only to find out that the monster I saw was a close relative to the raccon called ringtail cat.... I'll never forget those glowing eyes though...

[Edited on 3-5-2004 by jide]

shrink visit

jide - 3-5-2004 at 02:24 PM

I also recall an encounter with some strange tribe in that remote part of the grand canyon. For some strange reasons, my hat wouldn't fit me afterwards....

[Edited on 3-5-2004 by jide]

[Edited on 3-5-2004 by jide]

jide: I'll have you know...

RandyMacSC/SO - 3-5-2004 at 06:06 PM

You are responsible for me pi$$ing my pants with so much laughter. That has to be the BEST ONE in a very long time.

Since I'm in such a happy mood, I think I'm gonna dig myself out and go to the REX HOTEL for a few frosty Kokanees tonight.

RandyMac

chupa crapa

jide - 3-5-2004 at 06:51 PM

See why the National Enquirer is my biggest client?

Mexitron - 3-5-2004 at 07:25 PM

You might have seen a Badger.....we've seen them in mid-peninsula....they can get pretty big and they walk funny too, but don't know how big the tail is.

Its an interesting thing, these paranormal/monster stories.....Carl Sagan referred to most of the UFO encounters as "mass hallucinations".......

gonetobaja - 3-6-2004 at 02:01 PM

Chupacabras are a biogeneticly enginererd vampire bats that were created by "El Hombre" (The Man) to attack and kill tourists in the baja area. The cows are offered by the local population to attract tourists to the chupacabra feeding areas on the road and in remote canyons and to keep the roving packs of bloodthirsty chupacabras away from heavily populated areas. In the day they all retreat under taco stands which are the secret entrances to and underground network of tunnels that connect the entire baja to El hombres lab.

Chupacabras can be sighted by waiting by tacos stands at dusk and drinking a 12 pack of pacifico.

This year I have only heard of 15 babies being snached out of the arms of their mothers, down from last year.....

By the way Im selling a bridge down here if anybody is interested...

GTB
http://www.gonetobaja.com

For real, the scary thing is sunburn....

Bridge

The Gull - 3-6-2004 at 02:31 PM

Where is the bridge?

Is it a strong bridge?

chupa CRAPA

jide - 3-6-2004 at 05:37 PM

Quote:

Hey,
I think what Tim saw was a desert hog:

http://www.desertusa.com/magnov97/nov_pap/du_collpecc.html

What was it?

Tim - 3-7-2004 at 06:52 PM

Quote:

David K. wrote:
Chupacabras (goat suckers) are a Mexican myth (?)... Tim Walker saw one (?) run across Laguna Salada. Go to timsbaja.com, it's in one of his original trip reports (Guadalupe Canyon).

I'm really not sure what it was that we saw, but I'm more than willing to bet it was a dog of some sort. It definitely wasn't a coyote, because it was too fat. But it still looked a lot like a very husky dog.

Now, the questions I have to ask is, what the heck was a dog doing way out in the middle of the desert? And where did it disappear to? Unfortunately, I'll never know the truth.

But I do know one thing -- it was NOT a chupacabra!

dogs in the desert? Ferral dogs all over Baja.

RandyMacSC/SO - 3-7-2004 at 08:05 PM

Tim. While camped at kilometer 67 Los Cerritos I had a ferral dog come by my camp at night. I checked with a number of people a few kilometers up and down the beach to see if it was their dog but everyone said it was wild and lived in the arroyo off in the distance.

This dog was so-so skinny. It was obviously very hungry and would drop by my camp at night to see if it could find any food. At first I started feeding her my left overs, and then some tins of tuna from my rig. The female dog was an off white and all ears. I would watch her perk her ears up and listen, then bound around in the scrub bush chasing and catching small rodents and lizards. It's probably what she ate before I showed up to feed her and give her fresh water.

One day an older gentleman pulled in and camped beside my rig in his small motorhome. He asked me about the ferral dog and I told him it was harmless and lived in the arroyo. We named her Mama. One day we went into Todos and bought a big bag of dog food and fed this female dog for a few weeks to fatten her up. Finally she became used to us and would come closer to us. One day she seemed to want to lead us somewhere, so we followed her back to the arroyo. We sensed that she had something important to show us, but couldn't find her den.

Within a week, she brought 3 beautiful puppies one by one thoughout the day back from the arroya and placed them into a large bush between our rigs at camp. We were curious, but she wouldn't let us get near them for another week. I have all of this on digital video. Finally she trusted us with her new family, and we were able to see the puppies. Beautiful dogs. Three fat little playful puppies, but mama had taught them to run into the bush when we came to close.

We finally found a person that worked in Todos Santos for the winter (bookstore) and she helped us to get shots for the dogs and then took time to find adoptive families from San Fransisco area for all the puppies including the mother. This was my first and most incredible experience with a ferral dog and puppies. Her instincts told her that she needed to feed her puppies more than just rodents, and that required trusting humans.

From what I have heard, these puppies and the mother ferral dog have made the most trusting of a human's best friends that anyone could ask for. I plan to edit the video over the next few weeks and will post some photos here.

I have been told there are many wild dogs in the Baja, but most are fairly skinny from lack of proper food nutrients. If your creature was fat, I'm sure it was some other animals besides a ferral dog.

RandyMac

Great story

Tim - 3-7-2004 at 09:19 PM

Beautiful story, RandyMac. Thanks for sharing.

I may sound a little naive, but what is the difference between a ferral dog and a regular dog? I guess I could just look on the Internet, but I'm lazy right now. It's Sunday!

The creature I saw was husky and, if I can recall correctly, was a bit hairy, too. Almost like a bear. Didn't walk like one, though -- pranced just like a dog.

Chupacabras

Herb - 3-8-2004 at 12:40 AM

You know that at Fox Studios you can actually take a picture with one (sort of)...

Feral Dogs

Herb - 3-8-2004 at 01:17 AM

Tim,

a feral animal is a normally tame creature that has become wild again. Baja is full of them.

One comment that I heard maybe just a little too often when traveling with JR in some of the remote villages and Fish camps about his dogs was:

Estan muy gordas para las carnitas!

When you hear a joke like that once or twice, you just laugh and think it silly. When you hear it 3 or 4 times, it makes you say, Hmmm!

Here's Andi(sp) and Big:

bajalera - 3-8-2004 at 11:33 AM

Randymac, in my Freshman English class we had to read library books at 4 points apiece, and I piled up over a hundred points--almost all of it in dog books by Jack London, Albert Payson Terhune and James Oliver Curwood. That dog story of yours is the best one I've ever read since (and that was over half a century ago). A great read!

bajalera

TMW - 3-8-2004 at 12:51 PM

Tim, I think you may have seen a badger as someone else suggested. I've seen some pretty big badgers in Baja. As I recall their tail is small if they have one at all. They can be big and husky looking animals.

gonetobaja - 3-8-2004 at 07:31 PM

As you can see by the picture the poor girl is about to be eaten by a clearly rabid and bloodthirsty Chupacapra or Chupascabrisas Locas Cabasus as noted in my harvard biology book. By the way Gull, The bridge I am selling is very strong and goes from San Felipe to La Paz. It was built by the mexican army to move dairy cows by railroad into La Paz quickly in case of a milk shortage. It is solid brass and plastic and is the color blue so its very hard to see from shore. I am taking deposits......

GTB

Im going to have trouble sleeping on the beach this weekend after seeing that poor little blonde girl geting eaten by that monster Chupacabra.........

Nothing a 12er wont fix

Old familiar face

The Gull - 3-8-2004 at 08:18 PM

That blonde looks alot like the Yeti I drank with at La Fonda...but that's another story!

That bridge has possibilities. Is there an honest PEMEX station on it? Are there Mexican Police patrolling it? Is there a Panaderia and a place to buy Carnitas on it? Is there a llantera? Careful how you answer, the price I am willing to pay is affected by your response.

:yawn:

[Edited on 3-9-2004 by The Gull]

Herb - 3-10-2004 at 11:43 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by The Gull
That blonde looks alot like the Yeti I drank with at La Fonda...

Careful! That's my daughter you're taking about! :mad:

Actually, she gets mad when I show that picture to anyone. She even admits that she looks absolutely hideous. Her face was made up to look like she had been in a ship explosion as part of one of the "activities" there. :lol:

Spelling

The Gull - 3-10-2004 at 04:37 PM

Herb, can you spell patricide? You are really living dangerously. Daughters can get revenge on fathers.

:fire:

power on an email...

RandyMacSC/SO - 3-10-2004 at 09:07 PM

A couple from Portland Oregon decided to go to the Baja for a long weekend to thaw out this past winter.

They planned to stay at the same little hotel in Cabo San Lucas Baja that they spent their honeymoon 14 years earlier. Both had jobs, but they found it difficult to coordinate their travel schedules, so it was decided that the husband would fly to Cabo on a Thursday, and his wife would follow and meet up with him in Cabo the next day.

Upon arriving in Cabo as planned, the husband checked into the hotel. In his room there was a computer, so he decided to send his wife an e-mail back in Portland Oregon to let her know he arrived.

However, when sending the email he accidentally left out one letter in her email address and the e-mail was mistakenly sent to a recent widow in Toronto Canada without realizing his error.

In Toronto Canada, the widow had just returned home from her husband's funeral earlier that day. The Dearly Departed husband was a Minister who had been called home to Glory following a sudden heart attack.

Later that evening, the widow from Toronto checked her e-mail, expecting messages of condolance from relatives and friends. Upon reading the first message, she fainted to the floor. Her son heard the fall and rushed into the room, finding his mother on the floor, and saw the email message on the computer screen which read:

To: "To My Loving Wife:
Subject: I've Arrived.

You're probably surprised to hear from me so soon. You wouldn't believe it, but they have computers down here now, and you are allowed to send e-mails to your loved ones.

I've just arrived and checked in, and I see that everything has been prepared for your arrival tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing you then!

Hope your journey is as uneventful as mine was.

PS: It sure is hot down here!"

Your loving hubby.

Scientific Proof for Enquiring Minds?

RandyMacSC/SO - 3-11-2004 at 04:01 AM

Oh no! It has to be aliens.