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COCONUT CRAB ZOMGWHISKEYTANGOFOXTROT!!!!!!

this thing is real?

[ Mic Dundee ] The coconut crab ate my baby...horse [ /Mic Dundee ]

I hate islands

Are they edible?

It is now believed that the Coconut Crab carried off Amelia Earhart's bones after she crash landed on a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean.

In reply to lewbud:

They taste like lobster and are prized for being an aphrodisiac.

I think one of those damn things leapt out of the ocean and snatched her plane out of the air

spriteracer wrote: In reply to lewbud: They taste like lobster and are prized for being an aphrodisiac.

wikipedia rulz y0!

Mmmmm crab. Now I have to go to the seafood shop. Thanks for that.

HOLY @#$%#$ you warned me......damnit man! Runs away screaming like a little school girl. gah

That looks... delicious.

Its a terrestrial cousin to this guy...

That's gross. The garbage spider is way cool though.

I want one as a pet! I'd take it on walks and everything!

GI_Drewsifer wrote: I want one as a pet! I'd take it on walks and everything!

I want one on my table, with me holding a hammer and vice-grips... Oh, and some melted butter with a little garlic.

looks related to the common tree or "hermet" crab

Nothing a little Old Bay wouldn't fix. Oh, and throw in some sausage, potatoes, and corn on the cob. What are we talking about again?

Awesome!

Internets said: It can grow to one meter in leg span and live for 60 years.

I couldn't eat a creature that's lived for 60 years, no matter how delicious.

From what I learned from anthony bourdain, the coconut crab has a delicious pocket of coconut fat in its abdomen. If I kicked ones ass in a knife fight or something I would eat it. I wouldnt ask anyone else to attempt to kill one for me though. A bastard that big deserves the respect and honor of hand to hand combat.

Luke wrote: Awesome! Internets said: It can grow to one meter in leg span and live for 60 years. I couldn't eat a creature that's lived for 60 years, no matter how delicious.

I agree, but if one of them somehow got lost and wandered up onto my deck, he'd be on the grill immediately... That would be the humane thing to do.

He wouldn't live long in Lake Erie, and it wouldn't do much good to just pick him up and point him towards the nearest ocean.

Im jussayin...

Any idea where that pic was taken?

my guess is thats Lucifers trashcan, and instead of racoons getting into your garbage, in Hades you have giant, man eating radioactive crabs from hell

spriteracer wrote: In reply to lewbud: They taste like lobster and are prized for being an aphrodisiac.

Why does it seem like all the really cool animals have some douchebag in some douchbag culture somewhere think that it's an aphrodisiac? Really? You need to eat a 60 year old sea-bug to get a boner? Cmon. Maybe it's just you.

Joey

Some people get boners by having a yard full of Miata and Escorts...I heard the count was three and three? I am just saying

John Brown wrote: Some people get boners by having a yard full of Miata and Escorts...I heard the count was three and three? I am just saying

Werd.

Joey

If I kicked ones ass in a knife fight or something I would eat it.

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