I love the zoo (574 hits)
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Submitted by Butterball <Cosmo788.at.hotmail.com> (View user info) at 2004-08-06 02:40:37 EDT
I was at the zoo in the cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul, for all you non-midwesters), and we had decided to make a day of it. Accordingly, me and the few friends that came with all brought lunches we could eat, as the food sold there is hideously overpriced. Anyway, we all did the usual things you do at a zoo. We went and looked at all the animals sit there. Now...I don't know about the rest of you, but I find sleeping animals rather boring. So, after we checked out the exciting sleeping raccoons and the exciting sleeping bear, we got into the cold habitat, which is home to all the polar bears and penguins and seals.
Now, the seals were pretty cool. There was a guy in the seal pen, or whatever it's called that they live in, giving them fish. Best thing today. As we were getting ready to leave the zoo entirely and go do something fun like swimming in the crystal clear Mississippi river, we went by the penguin place. At this point, it was about 2 o'clock and we had already eaten our lunches, but I still had a large bag of corn chips that I had brought and not eaten at all. Looking around and not seeing any staff, I 'accidently' dropped the open bag of chips into the habitat for penguins. There were about 20 of the birds total, and at first the commotion of a falling bag scared them all away.
Anyways, eventually they all came to the bag and started eating the chips slowly. In the blink of an eye, they all must have realized that they love them, and a feeding frenzy started, and they made a loud commotion trying to get them. Attracted by the sounds, a zoo worker ran over, and when he saw the bag of chips, said, "My god, what have you done?? They could die from eating so much salt!" And promptly climbed over the fence and down the ladder into the penguin area. By now there was a large crowd gathered, and the heroic zoo worker went to pick up the bag of still mostly full chips. As he tried, though, the penguins must have decided that they didn't want to give them up quite yet. I hadn't seen an enraged penguin up until that day, and I really hope I'm never in the position of that unfortunate worker. That said, though, it was funny as hell as he tried to fight off 20 some penguins, while having a fear of actually hurting them, so all he did was kind of lightly try to brush them away. To no avail. When he finally got out of the fray and climbed back up, he had numerous cuts and scrapes all over him and his pants were in tatters. Needless to say, we got kicked out.
Bottom line, don't get between a penguin and his chips.
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Submitted by Beer_bong (user info) at 2004-08-06 04:02:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
PENGUINS KICK ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Penguin=+2
Submitted by Siren (user info) at 2004-08-06 03:27:32 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I love the zoo too!
Submitted by oddzandendz (user info) at 2004-08-06 03:19:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I used to take girls on first dates to the zoo and everytime id act like i hadnt been there in years. Chicks love it.
Submitted by butterball (user info) at 2004-08-06 02:53:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I wish
Submitted by Slapshot99 (user info) at 2004-08-06 02:52:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Are you that girl in the "Polar Bear Attack" video?