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NikolaiFyodorov  ·  1352 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: August 5, 2020

I wondered for far too long what fauna in the US might have tusks. I was at narwhals and walruses before I even remembered wild boars are a thing.





kleinbl00  ·  1352 days ago  ·  link  ·  

They were elephant tusks. Someone tipped him off to their location so he stole them. Then SWAT stomped him. It was undoubtedly part of something bigger.

NikolaiFyodorov  ·  1351 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm surprised there's still a market for ivory, even an illicit one.

kleinbl00  ·  1351 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh I wouldn't assume there's a market for ivory. GR is not the kinda guy who ends up on profitable schemes.

I'm fully willing to believe that someone had some ivory etc. that they discovered they couldn't fence, so they got someone to tip the village idiot off. The village idiot grabbed the goods and then attempted, from scratch, to divine the market in rural New Mexico.

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