# Giraffe organises mass breakout **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 3, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-organises-mass-breakout/455186 "2008-07-03T13:52:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-organises-mass-breakout/455186/1 "2008-07-03T13:52:50Z")
[Story here](http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/world/circus-break-no-tall-order/2008/07/01/1214678004747.html) > [@](#): > > Amsterdam police say 15 camels, two zebras and an undetermined number of llamas and potbellied swine briefly escaped from a travelling Dutch circus after a giraffe kicked a hole in their cage. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-organises-mass-breakout/455186/2 "2008-07-03T13:57:05Z")
Will he be stripped of his Mod status? ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-organises-mass-breakout/455186/3 "2008-07-03T14:02:41Z")
OMG. _Madagascar_ was real! ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-organises-mass-breakout/455186/4 "2008-07-03T14:27:39Z")
What are they doing bedding all those animals together? ---
**Author:** ![Svejk\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@Svejk\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Svejk_1)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-organises-mass-breakout/455186/5 "2008-07-03T14:29:08Z")
In anticipation of global warming causing all of the Netherlands - nearly half of which is under the sea level - to be submerged, they were building an ark. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-organises-mass-breakout/455186/6 "2008-07-03T14:29:51Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] What are they doing bedding all those animals together? [/QUOTE] Trying to breed a llazebrapigiraffe, obviously. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-organises-mass-breakout/455186/7 "2008-07-03T14:30:01Z")
So _that’s_ why **Giraffe** missed the mod meeting. He was orchestrating a jail break in Amsterdam. ---
**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-organises-mass-breakout/455186/8 "2008-07-03T17:22:34Z")
[QUOTE=InvisibleWombat] So _that’s_ why **Giraffe** missed the mod meeting. [/QUOTE] Mods have meetings? What exactly goes on during those? And don’t tell me you just peruse through the goat catalog together. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-organises-mass-breakout/455186/9 "2008-07-03T17:33:51Z")
[QUOTE=Cornelius Tuggerson] Mods have meetings? What exactly goes on during those? [/QUOTE] Jackboot fashion show. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-organises-mass-breakout/455186/10 "2008-07-03T17:54:42Z")
Woot! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-organises-mass-breakout/455186/11 "2008-07-03T18:21:45Z")
I first read that as having briefly escaped from a travelling Dutch oven. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-organises-mass-breakout/455186/12 "2008-07-03T18:28:25Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] I first read that as having briefly escaped from a travelling Dutch oven. [/QUOTE] Wonder what giraffe stew tastes like. Hey, with potbellied pigs in there, too, we might not even need to add bacon salt. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-organises-mass-breakout/455186/13 "2008-07-03T19:57:56Z")
“Police spokesman Arnout Aben says the animals wandered in a group through a nearby neighborhood for several hours after their 5.30am breakout.” _“Okay, guys. Try to look nonchalant.”_ ---
**Author:** ![horsetech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dec6dc/32.png) [@horsetech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horsetech)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-organises-mass-breakout/455186/14 "2008-07-03T20:13:13Z")
[QUOTE=PunditLisa] “Police spokesman Arnout Aben says the animals wandered in a group through a nearby neighborhood for several hours after their 5.30am breakout.” _“Okay, guys. Try to look nonchalant.”_ [/QUOTE] \*Pssst. Zebras. I told you to change out of your stripes! We’ll never blend in now. :smack: \* ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-organises-mass-breakout/455186/15 "2008-07-03T20:25:45Z")
[QUOTE=PunditLisa] “Police spokesman Arnout Aben says the animals wandered in a group through a nearby neighborhood for several hours after their 5.30am breakout.” _“Okay, guys. Try to look nonchalant.”_ [/QUOTE] “Remember, if we get stopped, we’re the Village People.”