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Revenge Of the Apes [link]
by ScrvpvlvsJun 27, 2004 3:09 PM–
The apes at Lincoln Park Zoo are finally getting a chance to take their revenge on people who for years have been pounding their palms against the glass walls of the primates’ old home. At the zoo’s new Regenstein Center for African Apes, chimpanzees can touch a panel hidden from public view that will shoot harmless bursts of air at unsuspecting visitors.
The story calls this revenge, but SCRVPVLVS observes that escaped primates typically take their revenge by escaping to attack their keepers and the public, particularly women and children (perhaps because they are the most common patrons). Consider the attacks in the United States alone within the past ten years:
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11/29/1998, Dallas Zoo. Hercules, gorilla, escapes, mauls 25-year-old keeper Jennifer McClurg, tormenting her for nearly an hour. - 5/30/2000, The Zoo Gulf Breeze. Sara, orangutan, escapes, inflicts multiple bites on a female keeper.
- 7/24/2000, Dallas Zoo. Chimpanzee escapes, injures a keeper, and is electrocuted grabbing for a power line.
- 9/28/2003, Franklin Park. Little Joe, gorilla, escapes, jumps on 2-year-old Nia Scott and bites 18-year-old zoo volunteer Courtney Roberson – and heads for bus stop.
- 3/18/2004, Dallas Zoo. Jabari, gorilla, escapes, injures 26-year-old Keisha Heard and critically injures her 3-year-old son Rivers Noah; also injures Cheryl Reichert and her 4-year-old son Logan – shortly after being teased by some youths.
SCRVPVLVS thinks the Lincoln Park chimps would rather be able to touch a hidden panel and trade places with unsuspecting zoo visitors. And evidently the Dallas Zoo keepers are to be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes.
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