This is all kind of bullshit and has got me into being a ecowarrior big time - that is if ecowarrior means I get to kill abominations that are living in the ECO I am in. Seven tenths of the Earth is water and these boneless bastards think they can just walk around our land like they are George Clooney himself. Well I will NOT have it. You allow this and they will be wanting their own seats in Parliament and special washrooms. Well that is too far. This little excursion of those was a test run for a longer attack. And aren't they suppose to die on land. They seemed to be doing pretty fucking swell to me if the eye witness is to be believed. Wales is PERFECT for a first strike location. Those tentacles bastards could decimate the whole country before Trump figured out that it was a actually country and not the name of a foreign golf course. This is bad. Like forced evolution or something which is JUST the kind of science their space alien buddies would have on board their ships, which conveniently sit on the bottom of our oceans where the octopus love to be....when they are not making with the evil voodoo on the land. Where is my compressed air needle gun when I need it?
Your typical doomsday scenario might begin with an apocalyptic swirl of clouds, harrowing images of Guy Fieri, and the transmission of unquestionably hostile radio waves emanating from aliens in outer space. Or, if you live in coastal Wales, the undoing of all life heretofore begins with a good ole' fashion octopus stampede.
Earlier this week, residents of the small coastal village Ceredigion in western Wales were confronted with a group of 25 cephalopods, all of which ambled ashore from the ocean and decided to go for an impromptu scuttle on New Quay beach. The octopus march occurred three nights in a row, prompting chin scratches and apocalyptic musings from local man Brett Stones, who runs a dolphin watching business in the area.
He told the BBC: “It was a bit like an End Of Days scenario. There were probably about 20 or 25 on the beach. I have never seen them out of the water like that.”
The general curiosity of land-roving cephalopods stretched far and wide in the ensuing days, but experts later weighed in, adding scientific heft to the intrigue. Jenny Hofmeister, a postdoctoral scholar at San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, told National Geographic that the cephalopods could have been forced out of the ocean because of a swelling octopus population.
She also said that recent storms, such as Hurricane Ophelia, may have influenced their march on land, but evidence supporting that stance is anecdotal at best: "There's some anecdotal evidence of animals being susceptible to big storms, but it really hasn't been tested. It's not out of the realm of possibility," she said. Meanwhile, Dr. Jennifer Miller of University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, told Mashable that the octopuses looked “disoriented and washed around," surmising that their breeding rituals were disrupted by recent storms.
Stones, who is wise in the ways of cephalopods and the sea in general, elaborated on the bizarre sight to the Telegraph, saying, "They were coming out of the water and crawling up the beach. I’ve lived here my whole lifetime and have never seen anything like it."
Although possibly telling of a dark omen, the sight of the octopuses didn't send Stones screaming into the darkened waves: he decided to pick up as many as he could and put them back in the ocean, so they could be in a more hospitable environment. Despite his best efforts, though, some of the creatures were found dead on the beach the next morning. Though weird, the slithering octopuses are a grim reminder that the ocean is vast and horrifying, and what you see on the surface often pales in comparison to what lives at the bottom.
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Octopus stampede! Gawd, they're ugly things.
This one reminds me of how the Martians were described in War of the Worlds (the novel).
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