Gorilla on the loose - London Zoo
Discussion
FlyingMeeces said:
They had police marksmen there, they could potentially have put a vet up in a chopper with the tranq if they'd needed to - obviously you don't wanna play hide and seek with the thing, but the ultimate success in tranquilising it clearly shows it could be safely done, they (rightly) wouldn't have even considered it if they didn't know they could do it without getting the vet dismembered...
Vet in a helicopter? It's London zoo, not the bloody Congo.Just when you thought this poor Gorilla's week couldn't get any worse the Beeb have now mistaken him for a lunatic.
http://metro.co.uk/2016/10/14/bbc-introduced-nicol...
http://metro.co.uk/2016/10/14/bbc-introduced-nicol...
Edited by BlackLabel on Friday 14th October 11:03
Well, marksman with dart gun, whatever. Doubt that anything outside the gorilla enclosure (which it turns out he hadn't technically left at all) is designed to contain a gorilla or keep humans safe from one, 29 stone of freaked out pissed off and confused solid muscle - tranq from up high seemed at the time like one of the more plausible non-lethal options! A little less so in the light of day, and thankfully irrelevant. 
Boosted LS1 said:
Could have just feed it doped bananas and waited half an hour.
Yes, I can see the Met's finest feeding the sod a load of doped bananas, and then half an hour later....Inspector Trumpet: "Hells teeth, that's not what we were expecting. Fumble, what exactly did you put in those bananas?"
Sergeant Fumble: "Well Sir, we had to improvise, and make do with what was in the evidence locker down at the local nick.....so, a fair quantity of PCP, some crack cocaine, a bit of methamphetamine, ooh, and a load of moody Viagra they seized last week. Ground it all up, stuffed it in the fruit, and the big fella has scoffed the lot. Seemed to like it, too. Mind you, I will grant you that he's looking a bit, well...er...frisky, Sir."
Inspector Trumpet: "Oh, Jesus Christ..."
So after all that it was just a Gorilla that got out of his enclosure into a non-public secure keeper area and it's turned into a major news story requiring armed police units and lots of people in florescent vests.
And didn't even have the opportunity to go up the OXO tower and be buzzed by drones.
And didn't even have the opportunity to go up the OXO tower and be buzzed by drones.
Mr Snrub said:
hedgefinder said:
davepoth said:
Because a gorilla, especially an angry full grown male silverback, could tear a man in two quite easily. If I was going to shoot one I would not want it to have a minute or two after being shot before it fell over.
well, its pretty obvious you wouldnt just stand in front of the bloody animal..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-377104...
"A gorilla that escaped from its enclosure at London Zoo drank five litres of undiluted blackcurrant squash before being returned to his den, a report has found".
I'm a nine pint man myself, but I drink Vimto neat. Pftt.
Southern lowland shandy drinking primates....
"A gorilla that escaped from its enclosure at London Zoo drank five litres of undiluted blackcurrant squash before being returned to his den, a report has found".
I'm a nine pint man myself, but I drink Vimto neat. Pftt.
Southern lowland shandy drinking primates....
Gandahar said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-377104...
"A gorilla that escaped from its enclosure at London Zoo drank five litres of undiluted blackcurrant squash before being returned to his den, a report has found".
I'm a nine pint man myself, but I drink Vimto neat. Pftt.
Southern lowland shandy drinking primates....
Looks like Ribena has got its next 5 years of advertising campaigns sorted."A gorilla that escaped from its enclosure at London Zoo drank five litres of undiluted blackcurrant squash before being returned to his den, a report has found".
I'm a nine pint man myself, but I drink Vimto neat. Pftt.
Southern lowland shandy drinking primates....
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