Posted on 02/18/2005 2:31:09 PM PST by SmithL
Two former employees of the Gorilla Foundation, home to Koko the "talking" ape, have filed a lawsuit contending that they were ordered to bond with the 33-year-old female simian by displaying their breasts.
Nancy Alperin and Kendra Keller, both of San Francisco, are taking on the Woodside nonprofit and its president, Francine "Penny" Patterson.
Their lawsuit, filed Tuesday in San Mateo County Superior Court, alleges sexual discrimination, wrongful termination in retaliation for reporting health and safety violations, and failure to pay overtime or provide rest breaks.
It seeks more than $1 million total in damages for the two women.
The suit follows complaints filed by Alperin and Keller in January with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, in which they gave identical reasons for why they were fired: "I refused to expose my breast to perform acts of bestiality with one of the gorillas."
The lawsuit goes into more detail.
One example: "On at least two incidents in mid-to-late June 2004, Patterson intensely pressured Keller to expose herself to Koko while they were working outside where other employees could potentially view Keller's naked body
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Gorillas Gone Wild!
Oh, the humanity.
Well, kinda.
Yawn. Like we haven't seen this headine a thousand times before.
I can relate to Koko. I have trouble getting girls to show me their nipples, too.
It's a very touchy subject..
Why would it surprise anyone that a San Francisco [vis-a-vis, lesbian] gorilla would want to see nipple?
"I refused to expose my breast to perform acts of bestiality with one of the gorillas."
As though things are different at Hooters?
Nothing like a little a story about simmering simian sex to spice up a Friday afternoon.....
NeverGore :^)
'Nuff said.
I hate to imagine what bonding with male gorillas involves
I gotta believe the gorilla is a male. It it were a female, the local lesbos would be going balistic.
Why didn't the two honeys have a wrestle off to see who got the monkey?
Oprah wants to know if any obe has considered the monkey's feeling in this.
Does the monkey consider the term, well, monkey to be offensive?
Speaking off the record, Koko replied "Acts of bestiality? These Frisco girls sure cop a 'tude, don't they? Jealous, too. For two cents I'd sue 'em until their eyes bleed."
Sounds like a vindictive law suit....tit for tat, so to speak.
Hooters has their own laywers and can put up a better fight.
Scorned women rejected by a gorilla. Not a pretty picture.
Gorilla my dreams...
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