Platypus

[slothbag]

If you want someone to smuggle it down their pants they'll probably ask more than 800BTC.. the venom from a male platypus spur is excruciatingly painful.. apparently.

[guruvan]

800 BTC?!?!!?

that's not gonna pay for the wall of bricks of coke....

[MemoryDealers]

This guy already bought a Platypus for Bitcoins:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgrnD3FAKlY

[sunnankar]

What do you do with a platypus? Do you smoke them or snort them or something?

I think you eat them.

[silverbox]

This is starting to sound expensive..


1000 BTC???

[rjk]

This is starting to sound expensive..


1000 BTC???

Here: http://www.stuffedark.com/platypusft.htm

I'll order it for you, and you can send me 1000BTC. Sound good?

[silverbox]

I already made this suggestion to my friend, no dice!

He said it might make a good prop to build the habitat around till the real deal could be acquired.

[evoorhees]

scanners?  Just put a wall of bricks of coke around the Platypus cage, they can't find the coke, they can't find the Platypus

That is hilarious

[silverbox]

do I hear 1200 BTC??

[RodeoX]

do I hear 1200 BTC??

For 1200 BTC I could make one. Just sew a ducks bill and rattlesnake fangs to a beaver.

[silverbox]

Has to be real!! My friend will accept no substitute!!

[silverbox]

I wonder how much money my friend has for this project..


1500 BTC??

[tarrant_01]

I think 10,000 or so BTC should do.  Not sure it would survive the boat trip though.

[silverbox]

10k seems a bit high.. 

Does anyone think 2k BTC might be enuf?? 

[eroxors]

10k seems a bit high.. 

Does anyone think 2k BTC might be enuf?? 

No, I think 10k is probably about right. It's highly illegal (for good reason) and it would be extremely difficult to do. Perhaps you could convince your friend that a duck and a groundhog would suffice? Those are readily available.

[miscreanity]

Got my vote for Bitcoin mascot. I don't even want to try thinking up a name, though.

[Satori]

ProTip: Platypi hatch from eggs, which are much easier to ship.  The eggs take 10 days to hatch.

Sure you could label it some other species and pay for whatever Super Awesome Ultra Deluxe Shipping they have.

So, a little more research and you can just post for someone in Australia to obtain and ship the egg for a bounty.

Have you given any thought to how you'll get it inoculated against the various germs and viri in the air where you live that it's surely not going to have an immunity to?  You probably won't be able to take it to the vet.  That means that if it turns out to be male, you won't be able to get it de-venomed either.  You'll have a very cute, poisonous mammalian duck freak waddling around your house.  Has your friend thought this through?

[The LT]

scanners?  Just put a wall of bricks of coke around the Platypus cage, they can't find the coke, they can't find the Platypus

I loled so hard... 

[Cablez]

ProTip: Platypi hatch from eggs, which are much easier to ship.  The eggs take 10 days to hatch.

Sure you could label it some other species and pay for whatever Super Awesome Ultra Deluxe Shipping they have.

So, a little more research and you can just post for someone in Australia to obtain and ship the egg for a bounty.

Have you given any thought to how you'll get it inoculated against the various germs and viri in the air where you live that it's surely not going to have an immunity to?  You probably won't be able to take it to the vet.  That means that if it turns out to be male, you won't be able to get it de-venomed either.  You'll have a very cute, poisonous mammalian duck freak waddling around your house.  Has your friend thought this through?

QFTFT!!!!!!!

[eroxors]

I thought about the egg idea, but I'd imagine that it needs constant regulated temperatures and conditions in order to not die... air-mail is often sent in depressurized cargo bays, which would certainly kill a platypus in an egg.

Also, I already feel bad for whatever creature your friend gets his/her hands on.