Leave those turtles alone!

They don’t screw around with turtle poachers in Florida:

The owner of the truck identified himself as Ramon Puente (DOB 8/1/65) of Miami.  Officers asked Puente if he had fish or other marine life in the cooler, and he said no.  As officers were opening the cooler, Puente advised them he had caught a sea turtle and was going to take it to a rehabilitation facility.  Officers opened the cooler and found a live, endangered green sea turtle inside. Puente was charged with unlawful possession of a marine turtle, a third-degree felony.  He was booked into the TGK Correctional Center.

I would love to know what this guy was going to do with the turtle.  Do they eat them?  Do they sell them for use in some voodoo magic?  Whatever it is, I’m sure it’s not worth taking a felony for.

I found this while researching regulations for an upcoming “It’s a Keeper – Florida Edition”, which has been requested by phone and on the It’s a Keeper support forum.

Kingdom of the Crystal Skull returns in 2012 and we’re all gonna die or something!

From “The 2012 Apocalypse — And How to Stop It“

Worse yet, the next period of intense solar activity is expected in 2012, and coincides with the presence of an unusually large hole in Earth’s geomagnetic shield. But the report received relatively little attention, perhaps because of 2012’s supernatural connotations. Mayan astronomers supposedly predicted that 2012 would mark the calamitous “birth of a new era.”

Pirate Overboard!

An American crew has seized back control of a container ship that was commandeered by pirates in the Indian Ocean today, according to the Pentagon.

The military official said the crew was holding one pirate in custody while the others were reported to “be in the water”. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, would not confirm how the Somalis found their way into the ocean.

Biggest Sandworm Ever

What is a sandworm, you ask?  And how does it relate to Falesafe?  Well, a sandworm is a nasty fanged invertebrate which is an excellent bait for any number of the fish you’ll find in our It’s a Keeper series of iPhone applications, including striped bass, porgy, fluke, blackfish, and flounder.

Today I stumbled across the daddy of all sandworms:

A 4-foot-long giant sea worm has been discovered at an aquarium in the U.K. Workers at Newquay’s Blue Reef Aquarium unearthed the creature while they were trying to figure out what was attacking a coral reef and prize fish…

The System is Down

The System is Down

Originally uploaded by doug_fales

Even OS X is feeling this recession.