Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 16, 2015

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 9 years ago

    I’m from Washington and I never heard of such a sport as Puget Sound octopus wresting. How can you even tell YOU have won?

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    therese_callahan2002  about 9 years ago

    Send that guy to the Heart Attack Grill, and see what happens.

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    Charlie Fogwhistle  about 9 years ago

    Nebraska only has 77,353 square miles, so that thing with the locusts spreading across 198,600 square miles of Nebraska? Believe it or not? I’m going with not.

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    aimlesscruzr  about 9 years ago

    Saying it’s just Nebraska is an incorrect statement, here’s a quote from one story “Dakota Territory, Montana Territory, Wyoming Territory, Colorado Territory, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) and Texas”

    There are plenty of other stories and articles as well….

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    CeeJay  about 9 years ago

    Good old Charlie! There’s a certain beauty in deep frying low cal food.

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    Old Texan75  about 9 years ago

    This particular locust (grasshopper to us un-washed) was last identified in Canada, sometime in the 1930s. It’s breeding grounds were the prairies east of the Rockies.The farmer’s plow disturbing the breeding grounds completely eradicated the grasshoppers in just a few years.In Texas locusts are grasshoppers and cicadas are locusts and a june bug ain’t what you think it is.

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    yangeldf  about 9 years ago

    sheesh, 2/3 of this strip is about hilarious ways to kill yourself…

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    ClarkSavageJr  about 9 years ago

    Born & raised in Seattle, started diving in 1955 and used to wrestle octopus regularly. They’d live in cracks and crevices like those under sewer outfall pipes. We’d squirt some blue toilet chemical in the hole until the octopus got ticked off and came out. Then grab him and have at it. One, with 30 foot tentacles, was a bit too big, so we skedaddled! Yes, he would have been 60’ tip to tip.

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    JastMe  about 9 years ago

    This one doesn’t have many links, but following the links it does have is interesting.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus_wrestling

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    spaced man spliff  about 9 years ago

    Sheesh !! That’s over 62 million locusts per square mile, or two per square foot.

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    Goblinopolis  about 9 years ago

    There wouldn’t be much challenge to octopus wrestling anywhere else but underwater, I should think.

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    Tarredandfeathered  about 9 years ago

    I really don’t see much “Imagination” in Deep Frying everything.That whole thing sorta Jumped the Shark at Deep Fried Butter. Everything added to the list since then has been Downhill..I admit it’s gotten Tougher for them to come up with “New” ideas for odd food combinations.Lets Face it, Ben & Jerry have cornered the market on “Adding Things to Ice Cream” and Yogurt just doesn’t flip enough “Widgets”….

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    Tarredandfeathered  about 9 years ago

    Ah. I’ve got it..Next year:

    Chocolate covered Turkey Legs,

    Chocolate covered Buffalo Wings,

    Chocolate covered Deep Fried Butter,

    And, the Winner:

    Chocolate covered Beef Wellington.…

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    boldyuma  about 9 years ago

    I have heard the deep fried mars bars are a favorite at fairs in England(never had one myself)

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    english.ann  about 9 years ago

    Old Texan75,In one of her books, Laura Ingalls Wilder describes millions and millions of grasshoppers destroying her father’s crop. They may have been living in one of the Dakotas at that time. Just thinking how what she called “grasshoppers” may have been locusts. I know, in another book she describes how blackbirds ate most of another crop her father planted. We usually don’t read about blackbirds being farmers’ pests like we do of locusts.

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    BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member about 9 years ago

    I read an account of locusts trying to eat the green pinstripes on a woman’s blouse

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