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I'm glad she wasn't badly hurt. I had a similar experience maybe 10 years ago. Hubby and I were standing at the gorilla enclosure along with some young adults we didn't know when a gorilla picked up a large stick, about firewood size, and threw it. Fortunately I saw it coming and ducked.
Zoo personnel couldn't give an explanation. No one was teasing the animal but the people in the other group were a bit loud.
In any case, maybe the zoo needs to install some type of barriers to avoid such incidents in the future. I know I haven't been back.

The Red Sox need a new pitcher. Let's get the scouts down here and see about signing him.
(In the mean time, Go Sox!!)

I visited the decrepit Hot Springs Alligator Farm back in the early 80s while attending a friend's Filipino wife's naturalization service. And boy, that was hard to type.

Anyway, the alligator farm or zoo whatever it was called had some monkeys in cages and one masturbating fellow must have decided we were not paying enough attention to his well formed erection because he suddenly started pelting us with his feces. Which has to hurt a whole lot less than if he was throwing rocks or sticks. An afternoon I'll never forget.

Funny, for the last 5 and 1/2 years I have nearly uncontrollable urges at times, to throw my feces at one particular group of people that have banded together to ruin our country........perhaps I'm regressing rather than evolving?

One look at Melanie Masino and I felt a few animal urges myself. Some people are too attractive and at all times should have someone going ahead and following behind them with big signs saying Wonderful Looks or Instant Lust Alert or Cover Your Husband's Eyes. Bless her heart.

What in the world was a rock doing in the enclosure? I've never seen anything in there they could throw, except their excrement & food.

Apparently that five game sweep left a mark on the BooSox...

Go Yankees!

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Click on my name, Starbuck...log in and do your stuff...

While I don't condone random violence like this, I think we need to look into the motive of the chimp. Maybe she had made a documentary which offended the monkey.

Maybe the chimp saw the "Seinfeld" episode in which one of his kind spat on Kramer and the zoo demanded an apology from Kramer, but Kramer didn't want to apologize until the chimp apologized. I think the chimp got the last laugh.

Yes, Barry the Chimpanzee.

Read the script at:

http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheFacePainter.html

Seinfeld references are part of our culture. Might as well bookmark seinfeldscripts.com

Hah!

Last Friday a friend told me that while at the zoo the week before one of the chimps threw a rock at her young daughter (10) and hit her on the leg (she wasn't hurt). She did, however, pick it up and throw it back before her parents could stop her...no she didn't hit the chimp. But then the chimps proceeded to mate so the family hurried away thinking this was the reason for the rock throwing.

It was the first time I'd heard about chimps at the LR zoo tossing stuff at people...now this. Maybe they're trying to tell people something.

That's funny.....as my wife has gotten older she's started throwing rocks at me when I try to mate with her.

How old are these monkeys? Maybe a little monkey estrogen would be helpful. Does Doctor Phil do monkeys?

I've been to zoos where there is a solid transparent barrier between the people and the critters that can throw things. Maybe that is why they have that.

The rest of your comments are too funny! lol

At a visit to the Knoxville TN zoo a couple years ago, my toddling son and I approached a very large, male gorilla just on the other side of a plexiglass barrier. After a few uneventful moments of him sitting quietly as we merely studied him, out of the blue he lunged at the window and let out a blood-curdling shriek.

I'm convinced he scared us for his own sport because he seemed to laugh when I flew away, white.

Creationism my hind end.

Sounds like so many males I have known. lol

Yep, we are a lot like 'em.