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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 549867, member: 5833&quot;]LOL.&nbsp; There was an awful episode, many years before that, when a couple of boys said another boy had fallen in with a bear at another of the city&#039;s zoos.&nbsp; There was an article of this third boy&#039;s clothing in the enclosure &amp; the bear was put down.&nbsp; The 2 had lied; no such thing had happened.&nbsp; I was so ready to use more than the bowl brush on them.&nbsp;&nbsp; Grrrrrr!</p><p><br /></p><p>Later in the same summer, on a Wednesday when thunderstorms had been correctly predicted, visitors who take advantage of the &#039;pay what you wish&#039; policy for that day of the week flocked in anyway.&nbsp; They subsequently removed the metal grates that protected the tree wells of the beautiful trees around the great lawn.&nbsp; Some idiot who had sheltered under one of them got blasted out of his trainers.&nbsp; He survived, but must have had a spectacular burn.</p><p><br /></p><p>Before Tiger Guy was even out of the hospital, zoo preemptively sued him for trespass, maybe endangering animals.&nbsp; In September I came in one morning and found a man wearing a suit &amp; a zoo ID around his neck whistling at the jay thrushes I always whistle at, &amp; doing a better job of it.&nbsp; When I asked what he did there, he told me he was Zoo Counsel (lawyer).&nbsp; I said, Boy, have you had a year!</p><p><br /></p><p>A very long time ago they had an episode when a gibbon they thought would stay in an open enclosure simply out of distance &amp; shyness, swung out onto the shoulder/neck of a man who freaked out with undesirable, although non-fatal, results.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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