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octobot
Sep 22nd, 2006, 05:56am
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Glasgow Daily Record, UK - 49 minutes ago
SQUIRT, a giant octopus at a Cornwall aquarium, has learned how to crack safes with increasingly difficult locks. Squirt's keepers ...


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tonmo
Sep 22nd, 2006, 06:08am
This may be the shortest and most uninformative article of all time, but it would be of interest to anyone in proximity of the Cornwall aquarium, if only because they could go there and try to get more info. Is "Squirt" the same octopus that has gotten PR from the latest round of "shrimp in a jar" experiments?

erich orser
Sep 22nd, 2006, 06:17am
Probably one of my greatest desires ever for a captive octopus would be to utilize it this way in some "Crime of the Century", but I frankly, just don't buy it. Has anybody heard anything else? I really, really doubt this one.

ob
Sep 22nd, 2006, 08:39am
I find your lack of faith disturbing

tonmo
Sep 23rd, 2006, 05:09am
To restate my first post, I am guessing that this article *is* in reference to the "shrimp in a jar" experiements, with obligatory sensationalization.

erich orser
Sep 23rd, 2006, 05:52am
Ah, sh***y journalism triumphant, once again. I love how this just keeps going around and around indefinitely.

erich orser
Sep 23rd, 2006, 05:52am
Boy I wish they could crack safes. I'd start raising them immediately.

jc45
Sep 23rd, 2006, 11:32pm
Original title of article: "Octopus Cracks Jar"

Then sensationalistic editing reared its ugly head...

Joey