02 August 2006 20:05

Humans 246976, Dolphins 1

Here in Florida, we take our aquatic-creature attacks very seriously. I mean, let's face it - between the sharks and the alligators, our backs are pretty much against the wall. You go through life from one day to the next never knowing when you're going to get it.

Although i've also seen roaches here that could take on one of those alligators any day. I'm not sure about the sharks.

Actually, that's a killer idea. How cool would that be? Alligator versus giant cockroach. The shark could fight the winner. Best cage match EVER. Hmm....do roaches actually bite or anything? Maybe it could just kind of crush its opponents to death or something. You'd have to have half of the cage underwater, too, to give the shark a decent chance. They could have it over at the Plush Leopard, right after Patron Fight Night on Fridays.*

But i digress.

*(see under Special Events)

In any case, it looks like the dolphins are finally getting on the scoreboard.

Can't blame them, either. What would you do? If you were highly intelligent but could communicate only through a series of squeaks and whistles, and these two-legged land animals kept you penned up and fed you raw fish and let their six-year-olds poke you in the eye all day? Really, it's enough to push any sane, peace-loving marine mammal over the edge.

Fortunately, it seems to have been an isolated incident.

But wait! Or was it?

Snopes, the authoritative debunker of urban legends, thinks there are "probably not" trained killer dolphins (see above link) actually loose in the Gulf of Mexico at this moment. But they don't rule it out.

I rest my case.