ummm…that’s three words. 
I think they should have taken their time and looked for other solutions. Chances are the problem might have solved itself…
grem0517: Sometimes the law says the wrong living being (notice I avoided the use of “sentient”) must be sacrificed.
“the law is an ass…”
I once saw a zookeeper in Seattle go absolutely NUTS when someone stood on the base of the fence at an enclosure to get a better look at a hippo. It didn’t strike me as a particularly idiotic thing to do–the person wasn’t teetering on top of the fence or anything.
I asked the ZK about it later and she said Hippos are responsible for (some impressive statistic of zoo and natural human fatalities) and that while that particular individual posed no immediate threat to himself (she wasn’t too worried about the hippo’s safety in an ensuing altercation), she was enforcing basically a 0-tolerance policy for breachimg the fences…yaddayaddayadda…I wanted to hear more about how hippos maul people. Couldn’t be pretty…do they eat 'em when they’ve had their fun or are Hippos stict veggies?
Hippos are generally accepted as the most dangerous wild animals there are. They’re very big, very territorial and very grumpy.
“Foolish Americans…you threw the wrong bitch out the window.”
Oh, man, about three weeks ago, we watched a docmentary of hippo BULLS. Holy crap! Were they impressive and we got to see several impressive and very bloody hippo battles.
Their pudgy lips hide sabre-like tusky-fangs and they look like they shred you faster than a wild boar! They were shockingly fast too.
Here I thought they were cute, rotund beasts that chewed on grass. Waaay cool program! (We don’t have cable, so we watched a lot of the cool nature channels when we’d stop for the night.)
Er… the last part of my above post won’t make sense if you didn’t know that we were travelling at the time. Hence we got cable in the hotels. We don’t have it at home.
Made perfect sense the way it was, EC. Why else would you be stopping for the night?
Yeah, you don’t want to get too close to the Rhinos either - ever since I watched a poor couple get drenched - and I mean drenched - at the San Francisco zoo by a Rhino that liked to spray his urine, I give the Rhino exhibit a wiiiiiide berth.
They can spray their urine up to 20 feet and rather enjoy doing so…as I imagine I would if I could. 
Do you know of any rhino exhibits in the L.A. area?
Anyplace else I wouldn’t have made the reference, but who am I going to fool here? Cryogenics are funny, cremation isn’t.
Neither is Glendale, but that’s a subject for another day.
Anyplace else and you might have gotten away with that explanation. :rolleyes:
In Yellowstone, they show some impressive (and entertaining) film taken when tourists wanted family members to film them right next to the nice buffalo.
“Well it looked like a big old cow. Now help me down out of this tree…”
We were on one walk and a huge bull was lying down right in the middle of the boardwalk. We walked back the other way, amazed as people went up to pet it!
People are cool
Cool? , is that an acronym for idiot?
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Been trying to hook up “Carnivore” & “Lunch” this was the best I could do though. Guess MENSA will have to wait.