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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\nIt is my confirmed belief that there are really no such things a Coincidences.
\n Everything in this universe is connected, its just that some of the connections
\n are obvous and some are obscure and indecipherable. Like why a worldwide icon like Arnold Schwartznegger
\n would even want to BE Governor of California. Look, for example, at the
\n Saga of Little Joe.<\/p>\n
Little Joe is a 300-pound gorilla, until recently happily enscounced Most of us had forgotten about the Saga of Little Joe until yesterday, Well, great. It’s good to see that the zoo was taking Little Joe seriously, Appearantly, however, the drugs aren’t working or Little Joe is tired "The gorilla escaped just before the zoo’s 6 p.m. closing time. According Now, I don’t know if yesterday’s article inspired or pissed Little Joe Little Joe was finally subdued by FOUR shots of a powerful tranquilizer, from the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is my confirmed belief that there are really no such things a Coincidences. Everything in this universe is connected, its just that some of the connections are obvous and some are obscure and indecipherable. Like why a worldwide icon … Continue reading
\n in Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo, or as happily as any sentinent creature
\n restrained
\n against its will and put on display before a voyeuristic public can be.
\n Then, this past August, as reported in the
\n Dow Brigade<\/a>, Joe escaped his
\n enclosure
\n briefly until he was scared by some random Roxbury teenagers at the zoo
\n for a summer work\/study program (who wouldn’t be) and promptly returned
\n to his enclosure. <\/p>\n
\n when the Boston Globe came out with a front page story under the title
\n "Restless
\n Gorillas<\/a>," resurrecting the escapade and wondering how it could
\n have happened. "The
\n gorilla exhibit at the Franklin Park Zoo was supposed to be escape-proof..
\n Its 12-foot-wide,
\n 12-foot-deep moat was intended to prevent even the most agile ape from
\n leaping across to the human side of the divide. Little Joe, a 5-foot-tall,
\n 300-pound adolescent gorilla who, like human teenagers, was increasingly
\n restless with life at home, was able to scale a steep wall
\n and cross the moat because he has not yet gained the weight to fill out
\n his long arms and body. Though no one was hurt, the incident alarmed zoo
\n staff since there had never been a successful gorilla escape before."<\/p>\n
\n although slightly unnerving to find that the zoo was using drugs
\n to control his agressive behavior."Linehan said that the Franklin Park Zoo
\n experimented with low dosages of antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications."
\n Well, that’s something else we have in common.<\/p>\n
\n of being grounded for life, because yesterday, THE SAME DAY the Little
\n Joe follow-up appreared in the Globe, the darn guy escaped again! Today’s
\n headline ran
\n "Franklin
\n Park gorilla escapes, attacks 2<\/a>" and describes a much more serious
\n incident. <\/p>\n
\n to witnesses, the ape attacked 2-year-old Nia Scott and 18-year-old Courtney
\n Roberson, a family friend and off-duty zoo employee who was with her. The
\n animal bit Roberson and deeply scratched the toddler before attempting
\n to attack other zoo workers huddled in fear inside an enclosed ticket booth."<\/p>\n
\n off. Maybe he had issues with the Globe and was heading to Morrissey Blvd.
\n to discuss the matter with reporters and editors. Perhaps he was upset
\n to read in yesterday’s article that "Linehan said that the exhibit groups
\n might change or Joe may have to be moved to a new zoo in the future." Maybe
\n he just wanted to see Mary J. Blige at the College Fest at Hynes Convention
\n Center. But my bullshit detector is ringing off the wall when they try
\n to tell me it
\n is just a "coincidence" that the Globe publishes a front page article on
\n this incarcerated gorrilla and he makes a break for freedom THE SAME DAY.
\n How dumb do they think we are? What are they trying to hide?<\/p>\n
\n and returned to his pen. That party animal! He gets all the good drugs.<\/p>\n