No winners - only losers

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. Mar 4, 2005 — A couple's plans for a birthday party for their former pet chimpanzee turned tragic when two other chimps at an animal sanctuary escaped from their cage and attacked. The man was critically injured with massive wounds to his face, body and limbs, and the attacking animals were shot dead.

The couple is 64 and 62 years old (she's older) - and they were there visiting a chimp they'd had since their early twenties. The chimp is now 39 years old, and they had brought him back with them from Africa after poachers had killed the mother.

They were attacked when chimps from a neighboring cage got loose -

He's at Loma Linda, trying to get his face put back together. He's lost a foot - and his testicles, from all reports. (Ewwwwww.) Critical condition - and get this, they had lived like this in West Covina until last October. One little happy family.

I have to give them credit for tenacity. But in all honesty, their devotion (and arrogance) is extremely misplaced.

Wild animals are wild animals. They are not pets - and - they are not replacements for offspring. Everyone is done a disservice in cases like this.

Poor people. Poor, poor everyone.

No winners - only losers

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. Mar 4, 2005 — A couple's plans for a birthday party for their former pet chimpanzee turned tragic when two other chimps at an animal sanctuary escaped from their cage and attacked. The man was critically injured with massive wounds to his face, body and limbs, and the attacking animals were shot dead.

The couple is 64 and 62 years old (she's older) - and they were there visiting a chimp they'd had since their early twenties. The chimp is now 39 years old, and they had brought him back with them from Africa after poachers had killed the mother.

They were attacked when chimps from a neighboring cage got loose -

He's at Loma Linda, trying to get his face put back together. He's lost a foot - and his testicles, from all reports. (Ewwwwww.) Critical condition - and get this, they had lived like this in West Covina until last October. One little happy family.

I have to give them credit for tenacity. But in all honesty, their devotion (and arrogance) is extremely misplaced.

Wild animals are wild animals. They are not pets - and - they are not replacements for offspring. Everyone is done a disservice in cases like this.

Poor people. Poor, poor everyone.

No winners - only losers

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. Mar 4, 2005 — A couple's plans for a birthday party for their former pet chimpanzee turned tragic when two other chimps at an animal sanctuary escaped from their cage and attacked. The man was critically injured with massive wounds to his face, body and limbs, and the attacking animals were shot dead.

The couple is 64 and 62 years old (she's older) - and they were there visiting a chimp they'd had since their early twenties. The chimp is now 39 years old, and they had brought him back with them from Africa after poachers had killed the mother.

They were attacked when chimps from a neighboring cage got loose -

He's at Loma Linda, trying to get his face put back together. He's lost a foot - and his testicles, from all reports. (Ewwwwww.) Critical condition - and get this, they had lived like this in West Covina until last October. One little happy family.

I have to give them credit for tenacity. But in all honesty, their devotion (and arrogance) is extremely misplaced.

Wild animals are wild animals. They are not pets - and - they are not replacements for offspring. Everyone is done a disservice in cases like this.

Poor people. Poor, poor everyone.

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Never heard of it before today.

However. If anyone cares to remember, my first post went something along these lines:

Whoo-hoo, the first entry. Boy, won't some folks be shocked.

Note to self: this is a party line. No posting about anything that party of the first part will not know about party of the second part. And so on and so forth.

I've stuck pretty close to that.

Honest to the point of painful, yessir.

And no, I don't think secrets are cute. Never have.

So - if you use this service, are on my friends list and something leaks that you didn't want to - you got nobody else but the reflection in the mirror to blame.

Drive through....

Friend-whatsit

Never heard of it before today.

However. If anyone cares to remember, my first post went something along these lines:

Whoo-hoo, the first entry. Boy, won't some folks be shocked.

Note to self: this is a party line. No posting about anything that party of the first part will not know about party of the second part. And so on and so forth.

I've stuck pretty close to that.

Honest to the point of painful, yessir.

And no, I don't think secrets are cute. Never have.

So - if you use this service, are on my friends list and something leaks that you didn't want to - you got nobody else but the reflection in the mirror to blame.

Drive through....

Friend-whatsit

Never heard of it before today.

However. If anyone cares to remember, my first post went something along these lines:

Whoo-hoo, the first entry. Boy, won't some folks be shocked.

Note to self: this is a party line. No posting about anything that party of the first part will not know about party of the second part. And so on and so forth.

I've stuck pretty close to that.

Honest to the point of painful, yessir.

And no, I don't think secrets are cute. Never have.

So - if you use this service, are on my friends list and something leaks that you didn't want to - you got nobody else but the reflection in the mirror to blame.

Drive through....