Animals know stupid when they see it (Max the hero-Gorilla)

Reuters Via Yahoo ^ | 01-03-06 | Ed Stoddard

[emiller]

Max, a 200 kg (440 lb) gorilla, won fame in 1997 after being wounded by a terrified gunman who jumped a moat into his space in Johannesburg's zoo while fleeing police.

Max pinned the fugitive against the wall of his enclosure and guarded him even after being shot until police arrived, making him an instant folk hero in crime-ridden South Africa.

Other people don't realize that you shouldn't get between a mother and her offspring -- especially when dealing with the world's largest land mammal.

In April of this year, an elephant gored a tourist

[emiller]

You should always have a cat or a 440 pound gorilla at your back.

[teenyelliott]

Strategically placed animals culling the stupidity from our herd.

[EveningStar]

Other people don't realize that you shouldn't get between a mother and her offspring -- especially when dealing with the world's largest land mammal.

In April of this year, an elephant gored a tourist to death in a Ugandan national park after the man, carrying an 8-year-old boy in his arms, approached the animal's calf.

Some people can be soooooooooooooo %$&^ing stooooooopid! You NEVER get near a baby animal in the wild!

[Names Ash Housewares]

"Once were ye apes, and even yet man is more of an ape than any of the apes."

[R. Scott]

Lions mauled a South African teen-ager in March who came too close to their enclosure while trying to impress his girlfriend.

Hold ma beer?

[Past Your Eyes]

And they're seeing more and more of it all the time. Maybe I'll have to go back to one of my previous tag lines and modify it a little bit.

"Most (as opposed to 'some') people are too stupid to be ashamed."

[GovernmentShrinker]

the South African robber who made the mistake last month of taking refuge in an enclosure which turned out to be home to a pair of unimpressed tigers

Oh, the tigers were plenty impressed . . . with the size of the tasty between-meals snack that had just arrived :-)

[GovernmentShrinker]

Some people can be soooooooooooooo %$&^ing stooooooopid! You NEVER get near a baby animal in the wild!

Presumably, stooooooopid's 8 year old son is clear on that point now. Heck of a way to get the message though.

[MeanWestTexan]

Just weeks ago, also in South Africa I believe, a robber fled and ended up in a Tiger cage --- and ended up Tiger Chow.

They've got regularly vigilante wildlife there in SA.

[teenyelliott]

We need more vigilante wildlife.

[Dawggie]

Famous last words........"Hey Buba, ya'll aint gonna believe this shit......" Help keep our pool clean; support stupid acts by idiots.

[EveningStar]

I know. :(

[arthurus]

when dealing with the world's largest land mammal.

WOW! bigger even than that 727 kilo bear in Alaska! They must use different size kilograms.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Read carefully. Elephants are bigger than bears.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

WOW! bigger even than that 727 kilo bear in Alaska! They must use different size kilograms.

They were talking about the elephants which weigh in the neighborhood of 6,800 kilos.

To wit:

Other people don't realize that you shouldn't get between a mother and her offspring -- especially when dealing with the world's largest land mammal.

In April of this year, an elephant gored a tourist to death in a Ugandan national park after the man, carrying an 8-year-old boy in his arms, approached the animal's calf.