Posted on 06/05/2014 10:28:51 AM PDT by billorites
Frantic zoo keepers in Tenerife rushed to call an ambulance after a vet shot a tranquilizer dart at a man dressed as a gorilla.
Police on the Spanish island received a call from a panicked member of the public, who said that a gorilla had escaped from its pen in Loro Park zoo, and was seen running around the theme park.
A vet was called, and on spotting the creature fired a tranquilizer dart at its leg with enough sedative to fell a 200kg beast.
But to his horror, the vet - who had only been in the job for two months - realised that the creature was in fact an employee of the zoo, dressed in a gorilla suit, who was staging a mock escape to practise their emergency routines.
The 35-year-old man was taken to the island's University Hospital after the shooting, which happened after the call to the police was made at 11.40am on Monday, according to La Opinion de Tenerife.
He was said to be in a serious condition, having suffered an allergic reaction to the tranquiliser, but was expected to make a full recover
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Panic of the Apes
Did you miss the part where it said it was A MAN in a gorilla suit?
sounds like their emergency routines work
Darwin nominee?
LoL - great scene
LOL
This is what happens when you monkey around.
That should teach him to stop monkeying around!
Told you not to take the brown acid, maaaaaan.
Now useful idiots are going to head to Colorado to take the Dowd Challenge and see how long they can handle the chocobar experience...
Where’s Beaks?”
I was having coffee the other morning and saw a gorilla in my back yard. I called the zoo to see if it belonged to them and they said “yes” and would send a man over to get it.
A few minutes later a truck pulled up a guy got out with a pit bull, a pair of handcuffs and a shotgun. I asked him how he was going to capture the gorilla, which by now had climbed into the Live Oak tree. He said he would need my help and explained his plan.
“I’m going to climb the tree and shake the gorilla out. When he hits the ground, this pit bull is trained to bite his testicles which will immobilize him long enough for you to put the handcuffs on him.”
I said that sounded like a good plan, but what was the shotgun for. He said, “In case the gorilla shakes ME out of the tree, you shoot that damned dog.”
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