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re: How One Texas County Is Fighting 43,000 Monkeys
Posted on 1/2/24 at 11:53 pm to SuperOcean
Posted on 1/2/24 at 11:53 pm to SuperOcean
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If they aren't wild and carrying herpes ... Then it's nothing to worry about
solid advice
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Posted on 1/2/24 at 11:57 pm to SpotCheckBilly
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One "good" hurricane and Texas has a monkey problem.
Or a solid F3 rip through there.
Posted on 1/3/24 at 2:42 am to rickgrimes
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I thought this would be a place to get away from everything,” said John Stern, a retired veterinarian who built a retreat on about 900 acres for his family and grandchildren. “Now a monkey farm is my neighbor.”
Was he barred from purchasing the land neighboring his? He could’ve done anything he wanted with it.
Posted on 1/3/24 at 4:33 am to rickgrimes
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“How much racket does 43,000 monkeys make?” asked Jason Robert, a shrimper
Wuuurrrrldstahhhhhh
Posted on 1/3/24 at 4:48 am to rickgrimes
Boy did I have a great joke. Not today........ 
Posted on 1/3/24 at 5:34 am to Mr Sausage
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Most of that area is low palmetto type woods. Lots of pigs and deer. And I know the vet. Guy made a fortune in the little town he worked in.
Ok it’s swampy land. That doesn’t change the fact that the only people who can own that much land in Brazoria are multi millionaires.
Vets are well off but again im not buying it. And 1100 acres for a shrimper? Nope
Posted on 1/3/24 at 6:35 am to rickgrimes
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How One Texas County Is Fighting 43,000 Monkeys
Louisiana been fighting way more than that.
I think there's a farm in New Iberia.
Posted on 1/3/24 at 7:32 am to rickgrimes
There are much worse things to live next to than monkeys.
Posted on 1/3/24 at 7:44 am to Oswald
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Is this the one we can say, or the one we can’t say?
I think we are ok to say culture but not culcha.
Posted on 1/3/24 at 7:45 am to rickgrimes
I'm amazed that tens of thousands of monkeys are needed for research. I would have thought a few hundred at most.
Posted on 1/3/24 at 8:50 am to saintsfan1977
Yes there are just under 7000 animals there for research.
Posted on 1/3/24 at 9:24 am to rickgrimes
"Not in my backyard". Folks are all about a lack of regulation and free enterprise until some sumbitch comes along with 40,000 monkeys and all of a sudden some regulation is needed and right quick....
Posted on 1/3/24 at 9:33 am to AwgustaDawg
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But Stern and other neighbors, concerned about their property values
Sounds about right
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Robert and Stern said they learned of the plan in September when landowner Ron Koenig called a meeting to discuss maintenance of the private road he and the other neighbors share.
“I called it for association business,” said Koenig, who had heard about the monkeys from the previous property owners. “It was mostly monkey business.”
This post was edited on 1/3/24 at 9:34 am
Posted on 1/3/24 at 9:37 am to rickgrimes
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John Stern, a retired veterinarian who built a retreat on about 900 acres for his family and grandchildren
Vets don't make enough money to buy a 900 acre plot of land and build a retreat. Something else is going on here...
Prop over $10 mil for something like that
A shrimper owning 1100 acres?
Both gotta have daddy's money bc their professions aren't paying for that.
This post was edited on 1/3/24 at 9:40 am
Posted on 1/3/24 at 7:06 pm to Saunson69
You are mistaken on a vet.
Posted on 1/3/24 at 7:15 pm to rickgrimes
Monkey gotta live.
Posted on 1/3/24 at 7:26 pm to TCO
Is it me or are those 500,000.00 homes next to the primate facility in Covington?
Posted on 1/5/24 at 10:30 am to Mr Sausage
Lets say this vet mae $300k over average course of his entire career (which may be high considering he'd have start in 70s or 80s), let's say after taxes and take home he can pocket 125-150, works for 35 years. 35 X 150k is $5 mil. That'd get him to maybe half or less than half for a nice retreat house on 900 acres. Even if he had pulled in 2 to 3x that. One is not going to put 100% of their entire life savings in a retreat ranch when you have to survive into retirement.
I don't buy it. Especially not a shrimper.
I don't buy it. Especially not a shrimper.
This post was edited on 1/5/24 at 10:33 am
Posted on 1/5/24 at 10:32 am to wallowinit
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How One Texas County Is Fighting 43,000 Monkeys
I'm just here to see what the ban/warning count is.
Posted on 1/5/24 at 11:12 am to rickgrimes
Sounds like I have 43,000 monkeys living next store to me. My neighbors are a bunch of 0 IQ stooges.
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